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Tower Editorial

The widespread Ebola fear is not unlike many other fears that are copius in the U.S. It is far off and out of our control. But, how do we react to our everyday controllable dangers?

Laura Danforth, a candidate for the new Head of School position, and her partner, Paula Chu, were driving up to Maine and got stuck on the Massachusetts Turnpike when they received a phone call. Edith Chapin, head of the search com-mittee for the new Head of School called Danforth to inform her that she had been selected to take on the role of the new Head of School.

“Neighboring cars could prob-ably hear us hoot and holler from all our excitement!” Chu said with a smile on her face.

Last spring, shortly af-ter Maureen Fonseca, current Head of School, announced that the 2014-2015 school year

would be her last; the search for a new Head of School began.

With a history of coaching and counseling in various indepen-dent schools, Danforth has gone through many roles that led her to administrative positions.

Danforth said she has always admired Masters from afar so when her search consultant asked her to apply to Masters, she spent a lot of time looking at the job description and all it would entail, feel-ing her strengths would fit nicely in the community.

She said she wishes to fo-cus on making sure everyone feels like they are part of this commu-nity. Danforth said, “It’s very im-portant for everyone in the com-munity to be seen or heard and to

feel like their opinions are valued.”Aisha Mohammed, the digi-

tal communications coordina-tor, had previously worked with Danforth when they were both faculty members at Miss Por-

ter’s School, an all-girls indepen-dent high school in Connecticut.

Mohammed said, “[Danforth] is open to conversations and is able to give advice back which

is a great quality for a boss to have. She is a calming presence.”

Fonseca said she is delight-ed about Danforth’s appointment because “[Danforth] is a strong leader that understands The

Masters School in all its beauty and complexity.”

Danforth will be spend-ing more time with Fon-seca on campus begin-ning in January to better familiarize herself with the culture of the school.

Danforth and her spouse will be moving into and liv-ing in Park Cottage in early July. Their three children,

Yani, Ting and T’ai, have all grad-uated college. They plan on get-ting a dog and currently have a three-legged cat named Juniper.

Danforth said she wishes to

keep Park Cottage as a place of gathering for her family and the Masters community as well.

“We are all in,” said Dan-forth. She plans on staying con-nected with the community as much as possible through games, shows, and other events at which she can have a presence in.

Sophomore Nina Hylton at-tended the prospective Head of School lunch where she met Dan-forth. Hylton said, “I think it’s so important that our new Head of School is willing to show us that she really cares about the school by making the time out of her busy schedule to support student at sports and theater events.”

Danforth said, “I am most ex-cited about getting to know what’s next in the future of the school and to be part of shaping it.”

Naomi Nivar

Fetures Editor

While the overall concept of Dis-ciplinary Committee is meant to remain the same, the size and pro-cess is changing this school year. The body of faculty and students is smaller, the meetings now include an investigative aspect, and the members have changed entirely.

History teacher and Dean of the class of ’16 Lisa Berrol was Chair of DC up until she was appointed

Class Dean. At the time, Academic Dean Chris Goulian received aca-demic cases and previous Dean of Students Priscilla Hindley received behavioral cases. They would gath-er information through a series of meetings before the case would reach Disciplinary Committee.

The members of the committee had consisted of up to six volunteer IDFXOW\�PHPEHUV��DQG�WZR�WR�ÀYH�VWX-dents, drawn from leaders in their junior or senior year. The DC would ask questions, review the student’s actions and suggest future alterna-

tives before suggesting disciplinary actions to the Head of Upper School.

Berrol talked about the restor-ative, communicative aspect of the way DC was run, in which students were not being investigated but con-versing with peers and known fac-ulty about the choices they made.

“Students could receive feed-back from representation in their community,” Berrol said. “And, WKH\� FRXOG� UHÁHFW� RQ� KRZ� WKHLU� DF-tions affected the community.”

Now, each DC hearing will be made up of two students, the co-

chair of DC, one additional faculty member and Dean of Students Jes-sica Nuñez. “I will be there as the Dean of Students to really support the committee and to provide them with extra information if needed, on a case by case basis,” Nuñez said.

On Nov. 4, Nuñez sent out an ap-plication for DC to faculty and stu-dents. Those that have applied will meet with Nuñez, the DC chair, and Head of the Upper School Matt Ives for an interview. A small chosen body of candidates consisting of six to eight students will then go through train-ing together starting in December.

Nuñez explained that the project she and Ives took under their wing was brought about by a number of students and faculty comments on the process last year. Because Nuñez has disciplinary experience at a college level she researched other independent schools’ disci-SOLQDU\� SURFHVVHV� WR� ÀQG� WKH� EHVW�possible process for this school.

Science and drama teacher Kris-ten Tregar just stepped down as Co-Chair along with Interim Head of the Art Department Cheryl Hajjar. Tregar said she understands that other schools have implemented these changes in their disciplinary ERG\�� ÀQGLQJ� WKDW� LW� ZRUNHG� IRU�them, but saying, “My response to that is, we aren’t those institutions.”

Tregar served on Disciplinary Committee for seven years and has been Co-Chair for one year with Hajjar and Director of Techni-cal Theatre Chair Jeff Carnevale.

“It was clear I couldn’t deal with processing the changes and being department chair while dealing with my personal life at the same time,” Hajjar said.

Tregar had uncertainties which

lead her to step down. “In the past students were never saddled with the decision of whether a student should be a member of the community,” Tre-gar said. She explained that now that the protocol has changed and the committee has become an investiga-tive body. Cases that come to DC can, IRU� WKH� ÀUVW� WLPH�� HQG� LQ� H[SXOVLRQ��

“I’m not someone who thinks that change is always bad, and I appre-ciate that any system should be as-sessed and reevaluated periodical-ly,” Tregar said. “I just didn’t feel comfortable continuing in that role.”

As to why changes have been im-plemented, Tregar said, “My under-standing is that there’s been feed-back that people in the past have come out of DC not feeling like the process was entirely restorative.” She added, “Those that are the loud-est are usually the most unhappy.”

Tregar explained that Hind-ley and Former Head of the Upper School Chris Frost would do the in-vestigative piece and stop before the UHÁHFWLYH�DVSHFW�ZLWK�WKH�VWXGHQW�RQ�trial, to clarify the offense. Ives and Nuñez have not limited themselves in this way. She said, “At least part of the reason for the changes is to limit the redundancy in the process.” Tregar said that by changing the pro-cess and having DC investigate they are trying to make sure students do not repeat the same conversation.

Tregar sees a vast difference in the committee between how it was run and how it will be. “By and by DC will have little resemblance to what DC has looked like in the past,” she said.

Nuñez on the other hand sees things differently. “At the core it, the Discipline Committee was work-ing well, we just needed to make some minor changes,” she said.

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Sofia LiNdeN

Editor-in-chief

Ebola enters New York City;public safety concerns remains low

In recent months the Ebola vi-rus has been causing havoc in west-ern Africa, with nine cases in the U.S. including one case in New York.

The outbreak has caused numerous stories to surface ranging from a host of miracle vaccines to rumors of zom-bies started by a video from ABC News and almost everything in between.

The most recent case reported in the U.S. is Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, a New Yorker who contracted the vi-rus after working with victims in Guinea. After showing symptoms earlier this month, Spencer was ad-

mitted to Bellevue Hospital in cen-tral Manhattan. He was listed in a “severe but stable state” before his release from the hospital last week.

Spencer was being treated with a convalescent serum made with the blood of a nurse who survived the vi-UXV�� DFFRUGLQJ� WR� KRVSLWDO� RIÀFLDOV�

Before being admitted, Spencer spent a week living in his Harlem apartment and even taking the sub-way, which has unsettled a high num-ber of New Yorkers and all Americans.

“The risk of contagion in the U.S. is reasonably low,” said Dr. Mark Silber-man, a colleague of Spencer’s at New York’s Columbia Presbyterian Hospi-tal and the husband of Upper School Mandarin teacher Lena Silberman.

Due to the incubation process, con-

tagion is impossible until the virus’s later stages when those infected be-gin to show symptoms. Even in its later stages, the virus is only con-tagious through direct contact with ERGLO\�ÁXLGV��,W�FDQQRW�ODVW�PRUH�WKDW�a few days outside of a living body, and only a few hours on a dry surface.

Even after catching the disease if a person is treated in the U.S., one’s chance of survival is very high. Out of the nine infected, only one case in the U.S. has proven fatal.

“The public health and housing sit-uations are a large part of why the disease is so devastating in western Africa” Dr. Silberman said. “At the current time, a student at The Mas-ters School has no reason to be con-cerned at all for their personal safety.”

Jake regLe

News Editor

New Head of School Laura Danforth chosen for upcoming year

It’s very important for everyone in the community to be seen or heard and to feel like their opin-ions are valued - LAURA DANFORTH

Disciplinary Committee changes the rules of the game

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DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE IS MADE up of students and faculty to deal with student disciplinary cas-es. As the school changes inside and out, DC and those who sit within its doors have also felt these changes .

NAOMI NIVAR/TOWER

COUNTRIES THAT HAVE seen ebola cases and deaths this year show a vast com-parison to the United States. As opposed to Liberia, the United States can hardly be seen on the graph.

This year’s sophomore class is the largest class in the history of the school. At 142 stu-dents, the sophomores outnumber the juniors, the next largest class, by more than 20 stu-dents.

“There was no plan to make the school as big as it is,” Matt Ives, Head of the Upper School, said. Ives explained that having it one JUDGH��VWXGHQWV�ODUJHU�WKDQ�WKH�UHVW�LV�GLIÀ-cult. In fact, it has caused all sorts of challeng-es: the school has had to hire new teachers, ÀQG� PRUH� FODVVURRP� VSDFHV�� DQG� �� IDFXOW\�members no longer have seats in the theater.

According to Chris Goulian, Academic Dean, most of these issues have been allevi-ated. The school has hired new teachers and added more sections to maintain small class sizes.

The size of the current 10th grade is part-ly due to an extremely high yield when the students were offered admission as freshmen. This means that the school accepted a pool of students and more of those students chose to DWWHQG�WKDQ�WKH�DGPLVVLRQV�RIÀFH�H[SHFWHG��,Q�addition, very few students withdrew from the school after freshman year.

This swelling of the school population is the result of a “perfect storm,” as Ives explained it. Sophomore year is a big entry year for board-ers. Last year’s senior class graduated in the neighborhood of 50 boarding students, which is around one-third of the boarding population. 7KH� VFKRRO� QHHGHG� WR� ÀOO� WKHVH� ERDUGLQJ�

spots because “it is very important to have a vibrant boarding community,” Goulian said.

In each of Maureen Fonseca’s 15 years as Head of School, there has been continuous

growth in the number of applicants and the size of the student body. Between 1999 and 2014, for example, the graduating class has grown from 66 to 108.

According to Director of Enrollment Keith Holton, the Upper School is currently at ap-proximately 490 students, up from 475 a few years ago. “The strategic plan is not set in stone, so the school size going forward has yet to be determined,” Holton said. He added that it is unlikely the Board of Trustees will call for a larger school. $OWKRXJK�WKH�ÀQDO�QXPEHU�ZLOO�QRW�EH�,YHV·�

FDOO�� KH� VDLG� ´)RXU�KXQGUHG� ÀIW\� LV� DQ� LGHDO�number. This number allows for each admin-istrator to know every student well.”

The reason behind taking about 20 more sophomores was to maintain relationships with feeder schools that send high level can-didates to Masters. Ives explained that if the school didn’t maintain these relationships, they might be lost.

“This is a good problem to have,” Ives said. He added that many schools are faced with declines in applications and enrollment and have had to lay off teachers. Masters has been able to do the opposite by hiring more teachers and adding new activities.

Many people are supportive of the school’s move. Sophomore Hannah Regele said, “I think that everyone should have the opportu-nity to attend Masters, and I love getting to meet the new kids.”

“I’m glad that this happened, you guys are a pretty awesome class.” Ives said, referring to the sophomore class.

Goulian added, “There is always a silver lining. We added some wonderful new stu-dents and activities.” New classes have been proposed and some are in the works.

After much consideration and a school-wide vote, diversity is the theme for this year. The big question has been how to address diversity effectively and respectfully. Apart from the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration, the school community does not often celebrate or recognize diversity. Head of the Upper School Matt Ives thinks this means WKH� WKHPH� ZLOO� EHQHÀW� VWXGHQWV� HYHQ� PRUH��

“We have diversity in our school and it’s time we start recognizing it and even learning from it,” Ives said.

Ives is optimistic about the theme and hopes students will relate to it.

Onyx co-president Gerson Borrero is passionate about diversity and believes that it needs to be acknowledged. Borre-ro, as part of a school project, conducted a school survey on diversity in Masters. One of the questions asked if people at Masters ‘tend to keep people of their own race as their core group of friends’. Close to 60% of the community answered yes. Borrero be-lieves these statistics speak to the impor-tance of bringing awareness to the school.

“We have diversity, but we need our differences to become a more inte-gral part of our community. I want to see more leadership positions being held by different backgrounds,” Borrero said.

Robert Cornigans, English teacher and the head of the MLK celebration, certainly believes the theme will change the school.

“As we begin to look at the differences in our community, we have to ask ourselves if we, the community, are mindful of these dif-ferences and if we include these differences,” Cornigans said. He spoke about the alienation of international students at the harkness ta-ble, and other instances in which the com-

PXQLW\� KDV� QRW� UHÁHFWHG� PLQRULW\� LQWHUHVW��Borrero, although proud of his diverse up-

bringing, fears other students will not be as open with their differences as they should be. “I feel like students aren’t going to appreciate

the theme because they feel uncomfortable talking about these things and I think that’s go-ing to take away from the experience,” he said.

Finally Joyce Lewandoski, the school’s new diversity coordinator, said, “What is

most exciting about the theme of diversity LV� WKDW� WKLV� LV� WKH� ÀUVW� VWHSSLQJ� VWRQH� WR� DQ�RQJRLQJ� GLDORJXH�� :KLOH� WKH� RIÀFLDO� WKHPH�ends by the close of the academic year, these conversations will certainly continue.”

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New theme takes diversity by the handRajan Cutting

Op-Ed Editor

RAJAN CUTTING / TOWER

NEW DIVERSITY THEME IS getting people talking about what they can do to take advantage of the diversity in the community. Clubs such as Onyx and Latinos Unidos are a few of the ways that the school can help take advantage of its diversity, along with class discussions, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and morning meeting speakers.

Sophomore grade increased

class size sparks discussion

teddy O’COnnOR

Managing Editor

MIDDLE AND UPPER SCHOOL students gather on graduation terrace for all school meeting accom-panied by faculty and CITYterm. Compared to other grades, the sophomore class was noticably large.

DEBBIE SHURE

An anonymous social media app was created by recent Furman Uni-versity graduates Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington called “Yik Yak” in 1RYHPEHU� RI� �� :KDW� GLIIHUHQWL-ates Yik Yak from other social media apps is its combination of anonymity and location-based use. To interact with a post, users must be within a 1.5 mile radius of the user who post-ed it. Sixth months after its release, Yik Yak was ranked as the 20th most downloaded app in the United States.

While Yik Yak is intended to be used by adults only and is blocked on some middle school and high school campuses, the reality is that under-age users still can access the app.

Senior Eric Passarelli has had a Yik Yak for one month, but is con-cerned with the aspect of nameless publication. He said, “By having it anonymous, no one is held account-able for their actions, which allows for harassment and bullying to hap-pen without any repercussions.”

Passarelli said, “Right now, there is a fight happening on yik yak be-tween anonymous Dobbs and Masters students, in which the Dobbs kids are threatening to come onto campus and ‘fight’ us.”

On the night of Nov. 11, some peo-ple actually did come to the circle

near Thompson dorm. According to Interim Director of Residential Life and dorm parent Tom Wethington, “Some kids drove their cars into the circle, beeped and yelled for a while, then left.”

While it is far from certain whether or not this showdown will ensue (as of press time), the police have been notified. What is certain is that Yik Yak is an open forum where students from both schools have been verbally aggressive.

Yik Yak has been banned from high schools across the country. In Ohio, Washington Court High School banned the app because of a post threatening to bomb the school, while Chicago’s Lake Forest High School has banned it for bullying.

However, Yik Yak may also be used in a helpful way. For example, on a day with heavy traffic, a Yak was sent out warning users to avoid the stand-still traffic of the Saw Mill Parkway.

In an interview with The Indepen-dent Collegian, the lead community developer for Yik Yak, Cam Mullen said, “On Yik Yak, you’re really able to share your sensitive topics and get feedback from the community around you. Which really, you haven’t been able to do before Yik Yak was around.”

When Yik Yak is used the way it was intended, it updates users on community events, allows for them to sympathize with shared experiences and gives shy individuals a chance to share their thoughts.

abigail COstigan

Editor-in-Chief

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THE POPULAR NEW APP “Yik Yak” is an anonymous social platfom. It not only informs students about snow days or traffic, but has also become a forum for slinging hateful com-ments.

Yik Yak attacks

People start washing their hands more. The subway starts to feel like a battleground for

germ warfare. Movies and books about one disease wiping out the entire planet are universal-ly popular. One thing is clear: people are scared. They bluntly say so at the mention of Ebola.

Fear is a natural emotion; it exists to keep the body alive when placed in a dangerous situation or while under in-tense stress. In reality, fear is felt most often in scenarios that are far from treacherous.

Only two people have con-tracted Ebola in America and have now recovered, but it has caused widespread fear. Yet the same people who cringe at a cough feel perfectly comfortable speeding down the highway.

These contradictions share one similarity; humans

are scared of what they can’t control, but also what is least likely to happen. Yet when giv-en the choice to make reckless decisions, humans tend to show fearlessness for dangers they can control or avoid in their daily lives. Horror mov-ies leave people wak-

ing up panting and sweat-ing in the middle of the night from nightmares, but how many people do you know who have been exorcised or brutally mur-dered by a ghost or serial killer?

According to the Center for Disease Control and Pre-vention (CDC), one in four US deaths are caused by heart disease, mak-ing it the number one killer of adults in Amer-ica. But a heart attack makes a much less interesting villain and, honestly, almost everyone enjoys a good steak or ham-burger. Cheating death with diet and exercise is less exciting than a good versus evil shootout.

For teens, the leading cause of death is accidents, pre-

dominantly motor accidents, according to Livestrong.com. Still, most teens still feel com-fortable driving or being pas-sengers. For the same teenag-ers, the thought of swimming in

shark infested waters may cause their stomachs to churn, even though National Geographic reports that sharks cause less than one death in the US ev-ery two years, while the CDC reports that motor vehicle ac-cidents claim 27,483 lives per year. And the most common fear, the fear of public speak-ing, has never killed anyone (unless someone has died from the stress it causes, which

could add a level of intensity to public speaking class).

While contract-ing the Ebola virus may be a very real threat to people in oth-er parts of the globe, the Amer-ican media has sensationalized it and caused Americans to fear something that is not a real threat. No mat-

ter how logical, statistics mean little

to people when it comes to fear. Dangers like smok-ing, drinking and driving, or common fast food binges can feel too real to be scary.

Yet these are the real ghosts and goblins of the world and should be respected as such.

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Lack of healthy snacks causes unhealthy choices

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juices of various squashed fruits, but at least the school was becoming healthier.

But this year there have been many changes to the school that have affect-ed student’s health.

Last year, the campus store gave healthy snacks such as carrots, avoca-dos, blackberries and other delicious fruits free of charge whenever the store was open.

This was a great healthy option and

encouraged students to eat healthy snacks rather than pay a dollar for snacks with no nutritional value at the vending machines.

But this year not only has the snack bar disappeared, vending machines have been moved into Masters Hall.

This change makes unhealthy snacks more accessible: they even add-ed a card reader to it so card users can also buy unhealthy snacks.

These snacks include barbeque chips, fruit roll ups and cheesy puffs.

Though there are many healthy options like granola bars in the ma-chines, usually by the end of the week I see all the chips gone and the bars untouched.� 7KRXJK� ,� FRXOG� QRW� ÀQG� VRPHRQH�

to tell me why the snack bar had been taken out, I did look into how the school is trying to become healthier.

Director of food services Andy Waild said, “I think this school is healthy as it is. But we have made some improvements this year like cage free eggs, and we always make an effort to get local and organic food. In addition to these im-provements, ninety percent of our food is scratch cooked and our veggies are always cut daily.”

The school should work to provide healthy and tasty food. The dining hall would probably require more funding, but maybe once the MAAC is complete, funding could be directed towards im-proving healthy food options in the caf-eteria.

In order to make healthy snacks more readily available, students have to make it clear that they need them. Talk to your class presidents, advisors and cochairs about making a change for better health.

HEIDI SERRANO, DINING HALL staff member, restocks the fruit in the din-ing hall. The fruit is an example of one of the healthy options at meal times.

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To fear or not to fear:

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contradictions in perceived dangers

Sports EditorLeo Psaros

4 FEATURES AND ARTS TOWER/NOVEMBER 21, 2014 FEATURES AND ARTS 5

Features & artsFormer Head of Upper School relates his experience with Shepard

The weekend of Oct. 25, parents, fac-ulty and students gathered in the the-ater to hear the story of Mathew Shep-ard, the boy who was abducted, brutally beaten and left to die for being homo-sexual when he was studying at The University of Wyoming. He died par-tially from internal bleeding and par-tially from exposure to the cold. As the audience watched the play, The Laramie Project, they learned his story from the perspective of the Laramie, Wyoming community. This is not the only perspec-tive that students and faculty are able to hear however, because former Head of the Upper School Christopher Frost

taught Shepard for a year at The Amer-ican School in Switzerland (TSASIS).

“I knew him very well because I used to lead all kinds of exciting trips,” Frost said. One of these trips involved spe-lunking in a cave in Northern Italy that had never been fully explored, during which time one of the girls dislocated her knee. The rest of the group had to help her back out of the cave, which includ-ed pulling her up small cliffs by a rope.

“Matt took care of the girl. He really im-pressed me,” Frost said. “He was just fan-tastic during the whole trip. He was a very gentle person the whole time I knew him”

Frost was also well acquainted with Shepard’s parents, who lived in Saudi Arabia. Many of the parents at TASIS lived in Saudi during this time, when Americans were doing a lot of oil drilling and teaching Saudi Arabians how to do so. Frost said he did significant travelling to

meet parents and recruit students, which is how he came to know Shepard’s parents.

Frost found out about the mur-der through Shepard’s school advisor and the news, which had widespread coverage of the story at the time.

“Because he was such a positive, ener-getic kind of person it made a huge impact by the time he was murdered,” Frost said. “He was gay, which wasn’t a big deal at the school in Switzerland, but Laramie, Wyoming was very different than that.”

Along with the play, there are multiple other efforts to bring awareness through the experience and death of Shepard. His parents started the Laramie Project Foundation and a film that opened Nov, 20 in New York, Matt Shepard was a Friend of Mine, was written and directed by Michel Josue, a friend of his at The American School in Switzerland.

Theater Director and Department

Chair Christopher Briante had already directed The Laramie Project in the past. At his previous school, the term, “That’s so gay” was frequently used, but Briante noticed more sensitivity af-ter the performance of The Laramie Project. “If that was the only thing it accomplished, I was thrilled,” he said.

Briante explained that the play seemed fitting for the school due to its coherence with the yearlong diversity theme. “I hope people will reflect on what they see and hear, because what is powerful about this play is that it’s not fiction,” Briante said.

Frost expressed his delight in the schools decisions to perform this weight-ed play. “I found it very moving myself because I had a close association with him,” he said. “My feeling is because Masters is such an accepting place, it did not have as big an impact as some-where else, but it’s a good reminder.”

Sofia Linden

Editor-in-Chief

ANAïS MAZAIC’16 ACTS OUT dialogue that includes anecdotes of Matt Shepard’s life. The Laramie Project is a play that shares the story of Matt Shepard, the boy who was abducted, brutally beaten and left to die for being homosexual when he was study-ing at the University of Wyoming.

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More underclassmen participate in high level classes

Junior Allen Miyazawa is taking three AP classes this year: AP English, AP US History and AP Chemistry. He already fin-ished two AP level classes last year, includ-ing AP Calculus BC. In fact, overall more and more students are starting to challenge themselves with rigorous classes especially in their early years of high school.

Of all academic areas, the rising level of math classes in general is especially note-worthy. Many freshmen are stepping into geometry classes and above, while some sophomores are already sitting in AP class-es.

“I just really want to use the resources here and challenge myself,” Miyazawa said. Many share this idea, with a lot of people starting to take more advanced classes as early as middle school causing a rise in the level of math classes freshmen take. For in-stance, although algebra one was tradition-ally a 9th grade class, it is now taught in many middle schools in 8th grade, which raises the bar for the average 9th graders.

“In the middle school, it all depends on the program,” Head of the Math Department Michele Dennis said. “I fully support the students who are successful, but people don’t

have to take the class just because this is be-coming a trend. And if you failed algebra one in 8th grade, you should repeat it instead of moving on.”

Sophomore Shoshana Chipman start-ed her Honors Trigonometry last year and, after teaching herself Pre-calculus during the summer, she is now in AP Calculus BC, which had three sophomores last year and two sophomores this year. Chipman said, “I feel like we are running out of classes. I mean, what should I do for my senior year? ”

This question is one faced by many stu-dents and is being adressed. Dennis said, “I’m aware of the problem, and that is why I pushed the new Multivariable class, think-ing we will carry on for a while.” She also says that it is possible for students to take classes at colleges like Columbia Universi-ty, a path that has been taken by previous high-level Masters math students.

“We want to continue to practice and design new courses where there are enough students taking it, ” Academic Dean Chris Goulian said. “We want students to take courses of our own design. ”

Overall, this phenomenon brings up various merits and problems going on the transcript and carrying along in the future. Although this happens most frequently in math, issues arise in other departments as well.

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A GEOMETRY CLASS CONSISTING of mainly freshman is typically a sophomore course. Even though only juniors and seniors can take advanced English and History classes, freshman and sophomores are consistantly taking high level math and science classes.

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Religion department, teaches AP European History and Economics. He said, “AP courses are externally assessed. You don’t control the assessment, the assessment controls you. I do things in class, like DBQ prep, for the external assessment. In Econ, I don’t have to answer to anyone.”

This year, math teacher Anna Cabral teach-es AP AB Calculus and Geometry. For math in particular, no matter what level a class is, teachers have to cover the full curriculum oth-erwise students will be at a disadvantage when they take standardized tests like the ACT and SAT subject tests.

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helpful anyway. “Even if we weren’t doing the AP curriculum, I would probably still use the AP questions because I just think they’re really good,” Cabral said.

Young also does not see having to focus on the AP test as entirely a bad thing. “In an AP, it’s like we’re all in this together, the bad guy is the test, not me,” he said. In a non-AP class, he then explained, it is a different story. “In Econ, I’m everything. When I say you should know this for the assessment, you should really know that.”:KHQ� WHDFKHUV�GR�QRW�KDYH� WKH�ÀQDO� VD\� LQ�

grading, they must alter the course to ensure their students do well on the test. This can give students less time to work on group projects, or practice any skill that isn’t geared toward the test.

“What we try to do is be as student centered as possible. The AP doesn’t necessarily allow for that because you’re on a train, and that train has a destination,” Young said. In AP Eu-URSHDQ�+LVWRU\�� WKH� ÀUVW� VWRS� RQ� WKDW� WUDLQ� LV�the Middle Ages, and the last is 1991, which may restrict the conductor.

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WILLIAM STREET’15, EMILY KHAN’15, and Hotaka Nakamura’15 listen intently during an AP Euro Class taught by Skeffington Young. Young has the perspective of teaching both AP and independant classes.

Teachers examine AP grading

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Masters offers three well-known semester away pro-grams: High Mountain Institute, CITYterm and Oxbow. Besides these, students can also apply to go to different countries for a year.

Senior Madeline Levin has the unique opportunity of heading to Israel for her second semes-ter. “I’m going to Israel for five months. I leave in January and I come back just in time for grad-uation,” Levin said. “The trip is an experience-based learning program. It teaches you all about the country. We travel to differ-ent places and we learn about the history of the country and its re-lationship with other countries.”

Levin is travelling with a program called Alexander Muss High School in Israel.

The school is not formally asso-ciated with any international se-mester away programs, but does offer yearlong study abroad trips. If students want to go on the se-mester trip, they must propose their semester away plan to the school.

“I found out about the program because one of my best friends did it,” Levin said. “To get to go on the trip, I had to present the program to Mr. Goulian and then he had to review and approve the trip.”

Academic Dean Chris Goulian helps sort out the academic side of the students’ trips.

“The school doesn’t offer any international semester away pro-grams, so if students want to at-tend one, they are only allowed to go if there is room from the oth-er semester away trips,” Goulian said.

The number of students that can take a semester away is lim-ited from the start, as the num-ber of available places comes down to how many students sign up to go on the school’s semester away programs. “We have a fixed number of students that can go to our three charter schools. If that number is not met, we can consid-er letting another student go on another semester away program,”

Goulian said. “Usually the allot-ment is six to eight students per year, but it’s very infrequent we get that many.”

In the School Year Abroad program offered by the school, students can travel to Italy, Spain or China and study there in their junior year. Unlike the se-mester away trips, there is not a set number of how many students can go away for a full year.

School offers a variety of semester away options

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Whether you are in the mood to chill out and listen to a folk tune or to get pumped up while doing home-work, The Wild Feathers can provide the full range. Songs like “Backwoods Company” and “Hard Wind” are ex-amples of songs with a rock feeling, while hits like “Hard Times” and “The Ceiling” are mixtures of both rock and

IRON�LQÁXHQFHV�WKDW�EXLOG�WKURXJKRXW�the song. The songs are new, but if you close your eyes, you can envision yourself listening to The Band, circa 1974. They have the energy and en-thusiasm of a young new band, but they have a vintage feel to them as well.

On their visit to New York City last spring, this mix all came together at the Bowery Ballroom. They played for two hours to a packed house that included a wide range of fans, from forty-year-old dads to twenty-year-old college students. This is no nostalgia act bringing back old and stale ideas! This is a new, upcoming and exciting band creating their own history with performances such as these. As they sing in “Hard Times,” The Wild Feath-ers are “a freight train humming down the line.” The band will continue their travels when they return to New York City next month for an engagement at Irving Plaza in support of their debut album. Watch out for them.

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MADELINE LEVIN’15 POINTS OUT Isreal, her next study destination. She will ex-perience first hand what it feels like to study in the Middle East for a semester.

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THE WILD FEATHERS IS is a rock band that formed in 2010 in Austin Texas. The band consists of Ricky Young, Joel King, Taylor Burns, Preston Wimberly, and Ben Dumas.

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PAULINA AUE ATTENDED MASTERS last year as a sophmore from Germany. She returned to revisit her Cole sisters but was unable to sleep in the dorms due to the strict enforcement of a policy prohibiting alumni overnight visits.

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how we teach students to transfer their learning from one domain or H[SHULHQFH�WR�DQRWKHU��:KDW�ZRXOG�happen if we were to bring litera-ture texts into science classrooms, PDNH� LQIHUHQFHV� LQ� KLVWRU\� and geometry, and engage in the hon-HVW� DQG� GLIÀFXOW� FRQYHUVDWLRQV�0U��Comforto exhorted us to not only in the classroom but also at the ta-bles in the dining hall, the halls of WKH�GRUP��DQG�WKH�VSRUWV�ÀHOGV�DQG�WKHDWHU"�7KLQNLQJ�RI�VNLOOV�W\SLFDO-ly associated with English classes, ,�ZRQGHU��:KDW�ZRXOG�KDSSHQ�LI�ZH�ZHUH�WR�UHDG�OLIH�OLNH�D�WH[W"

Morning Meeting seems to pro-vide an opportunity to try. Morn-ing Meetings are rich, complicat-ed texts, full of ambiguity and unexpected juxtapositions. An an-nouncement about a lost iPhone might follow a reminder to donate to a charity for Jeans Day; an an-QRXQFHPHQW� DERXW� 'HDQ·V� /LVW�might follow a Senior Speech about a transformational intellectual ex-perience which happened outside of the classroom. As a result of these juxtapositions, the experience of Morning Meeting is often a bewil-GHULQJ�RQH��´,�OHIW�MXVW�QRW�NQRZLQJ�what I was supposed to feel,” said one of my sophomores after a recent

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to read Morning Meeting? First and foremost, we would need to expand our notion of where learning and d i s c o v e r y can happen and who our teach-ers might EH�� :H�would need to enter the theater each day, prepared to defer judg-ment and to open our-selves to texts and experienc-HV��:H�ZRXOG�QHHG�WR�OLVWHQ�²�GHHSO\�²�WR�ZKDW�HDFK�VSHDNHU�DQG�SHUIRU-PDQFH� KDG� WR� WHDFK� XV��:H� ZRXOG�QHHG� WR� DVVXPH� WKDW� WKH� VNLOOV� ZH�are learning in our classes are es-sential to the life we are living, not preparation for a life we imagine we might live in the future. And we ZRXOG� DVN� TXHVWLRQV� RI� RXUVHOYHV�

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up for us? :KDW� DP-b i gu i t i e s exist in M o r n i n g M e e t i n g and how m i g h t we puz-zle over them?

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and loss when we feel fragment-HG� LQWR� GLIIHUHQW� LGHQWLWLHV� ²� ´2N��WKDW·V� ZKR� ,� ZDV� LQ� (QJOLVK�� QRZ�LW·V� WLPH� WR� JHW� P\� &KHPLVWU\� VHOI�ready,” “I have to be an advisor, teacher, coach, dorm parent, all in WKH�VDPH�GD\�µ�²�RU�IHHO�WKDW�ZH�DUH�merely the average of our achieve-ments, or that we are the accumu-

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down some of these walls, starting with the ones we construct around Morning Meeting, would we feel PRUH� ZKROH�� :RXOG� ZH� IHHO� RXU-selves moving through the world as whole people and whole learners? Could we be present to each other in a way that we could not before?

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in ways that were not, judgments DERXQGHG�LQ�WKH�ZDNH�RI�WKLV�0RUQ-ing Meeting; judging, in fact, rather than listening or reading, seemed to be the dominant mode of respond-ing to the Meeting. But what might we come to understand if we were WR�KHDU�6SHQFHU�DQG�0U��*RXOLDQ·V�speeches as a dialogue between one adolescent - messy as adoles-FHQWV�DOO�DUH��DV�ZH�DOO�DUH��VHHNLQJ�atonement, and the ghost of anoth-er, forever unable to?

Comparing policies between this year and last year, there are notice-able improvements.�/DVW�\HDU��WKHUH�ZDV�DQ�DGMXVW-

ment in the library policy for eve-ning study halls Sunday through Thursday. The change allowed stu-GHQWV�WR�FKHFN�LQ�DQG�RXW�RI�WKH�OL-brary at any time between 8-10pm. 6WXGHQWV�ZHUH�DOVR�DOORZHG�WR�ZRUN�in groups without special permis-sion from their teachers.

This year, the policy was changed EDFN�WR�WKH�RULJLQDO�SURWRFRO�ZKLFK�has more boundaries. Now, a stu-dent must sign into the library by 8:15 p.m. at the latest and stay through the remainder of study KDOO��$OVR��LQ�RUGHU�WR�GR�JURXS�ZRUN��the students must have permission IURP�WKHLU�WHDFKHU�WR�ZRUN�WRJHWKHU�/DVW�\HDU·V� OLEUDU\�SROLF\�FDQ�EH�

summed up as disruptive. Instead RI�VWXG\LQJ�TXLHWO\��VWXGHQWV�ZRXOG�use the library during study hall to socialize. :LWK� WKH� QHZ� SROLF\�� VWXGHQWV�

need a pass from their teachers in RUGHU� WR� GR� JURXS� ZRUN� LQ� WKH� OL-brary. This minimizes attendance, reducing both noise levels and so-cializing.

Madame Raabon, French teach-er and library proctor, said, “This \HDU·V� SURWRFRO� LV� YHU\� XVHIXO�� EH-cause it serves students that wish WR�ZRUN�TXLHWO\�LQ�WKH�OLEUDU\��µ

The new library policy also al-lows the library proctors to have FRQWURO�RYHU�WKH�ERDUGLQJ�VWXGHQWV·�safety. Since the policy states that

students must now all sign in and out at the same times, it strength-ens communication between the dorm parents and the study hall proctors and ensures students re-turn to their dorms safely.

Michele Dennis, Math Depart-ment chair, as well as a study hall proctor said, “The study hall proc-tors can set the tone of a study hall VHWWLQJ�ZKHUHDV�ODVW�\HDU�ZLWK�NLGV�ZDONLQJ�LQ�DQG�OHDYLQJ�DW�GLIIHUHQW�WLPHV�LW�EHFDPH�GLIÀFXOW�IRU�WKHP�WR�settle down”.

Yet, there are complaints about this new policy. For instance, re-strictions on when one is allowed to leave creates a problem for some students. Students do not feel they should have to stay in the library

for the entirety of study hall if they only have to print or meet with a tu-tor for a short amount of time.

Junior boarder Aliya Schneider VDLG�� ´,� IHHO� OLNH� ZKHQ� \RX� KDYH� D�good reason, you should be able to leave.”

The school has addressed many of these complaints. Students are now allowed to go to the library just to print a document and return to the dorm right after.

Adam Gimple, college counselor, library study hall proctor, and dorm SDUHQW� LQ� 0F&RUPDFN�� VDLG�� ´7KLV�\HDU·V�JRDO�LV�WR�WU\�WR�PDNH�WKH�XVH�of the library effective.”

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Rise in population leads to decrease in class participation

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BOARDER ISAAC SAMPSON STUDIES in the library during study hall. Because students can’t come and go freely, there are fewer distractions while he studies.

English teacher challenges the community to “read the text”

Envisioning a different way of being in the world and of be-ing a school, I’ve been think-ing a lot about how we teach students to transfer their learning from one domain or experience to another. - Darren Wood

Tower wins the NSPA Pacemaker Award

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member of the NAA or by other jour-nalism professionals.

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Tower ZRXOG�OLNH�WR�WKDQN�WKH�0DV-ters community for all of their support. :LWKRXW� \RXU� LQWHUYLHZV�� SKRWRV�� FRO-umns and letters to the editor, it would not be able to put out the paper it does. Tower� DSSUHFLDWHV� WKH� FRPPXQLW\·V�engagement and hopes to continue representing the students, faculty and staff to the best of its abilities.

2013-14 EDITOR -IN- CHIEF Teerin Julsawad with the Newspaper Pacemaker Award for Overall Excellence. Currently, Julsawad is studying Journalism at New York Uni-versity and writes for NYUlocal.com.

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Fans and coaches take their seats as the referee blows his whistle. The game of picking recruits commenc-es. Athletes participate in intense programs outside of school to play the game they love, and most ju-niors and seniors start the recruit-ment process. There are always spe-cial exceptions, however, who begin the college process freshman year. Sophomore Samantha Coffey is one of these exceptions.

Since she was four years old, Coffey has been playing competi-WLYH�VRFFHU��)URP�WKH� WLPH�VKH�ÀUVW�tapped a soccer ball, Coffey fell in love with the game. “There’s never a time where I’m not enjoying it,” Coffey said.“I knew that it was just what I wanted to do.” After partic-ipating in a soccer camp over the summer for Boston College, Coffey was approached by the head coach, who showed an interest in having her on the college team. Ever since, Coffey has been in touch with the college. As of this October, Coffey is already verbally committed to Bos-ton College.

´,�KDG� WR�ÀW�DOO� WKHVH� FDPSV�DQG�all these schools into a very short amount of time because I needed to decide so early,” Coffey said. Her older siblings, who are in college now are shocked that she already

knows where she is going to college so early in her high school career. +RZHYHU��WKHUH�DUH�VRPH�GLIÀFXO-

ties in choosing a college so early. Head of the school’s college counsel-LQJ� RIÀFH��.DWK\�:RRGV�� VDLG�� ´<RX�

have to be careful to think that’s where you’re going, because who you are as a ninth or tenth grader, and who you are as a senior could be different.” $QRWKHU�SUREOHP�:RRGV�KDV�VHHQ�

in the past is the school actually ac-cepting the student in their senior year. Some students believe they are already accepted, which is not always the case. She said, “If a coach KDV� ÀYH� VORWV� RSHQ�� KH·V� QRW� MXVW�WDONLQJ� WR� ÀYH� SHRSOH�� KH�PLJKW� EH�talking to 25 people… Often times I’ve seen kids who feel the coach is telling them they are in and that is not what happened.”

Coffey understands that the school can retract its offer and she must keep her grades high. At the end of the day, passion is one of the deciding factors for recruits. Coffey’s passion lies in the game.

“Although I’m passionate about history and English, especially writ-ing, soccer is what I’m going to do after college because it’s my passion and my life, and I wouldn’t want to be doing anything else,” she said. :KHQ�VKH�YLVLWHG�%RVWRQ�&ROOHJH�IRU�a weekend program with the other recruits, Coffey said she “just knew” and “had the gut feeling” it was the place for her.

In some respects, being recruit-ed by a college is like a sports game itself: points are scored, points are lost; recognition is the outcome of hard work.

The Rusoff sisters, Jordan ’16, Samantha ’16 and Ariella ·�� WHDPHG� XS� DQG� WRRN� WKH� ÀHOG�RQ� WKH� YDUVLW\� ÀHOG� KRFNH\� WHDP��Spending time with each other in this new context has given them a better understanding of each other and improved their game.

Freshman Ariella joined the team this fall season. “It was real-ly nice coming into the team hav-ing the support of my sisters and knowing some of the other girls from watching their games last year,” she said.

“Both of my sisters help me be-FRPH�D�EHWWHU�ÀHOG�KRFNH\�SOD\HU�because I see when they mess up and I know they’ll always give me honest feedback because they don’t KDYH�WR�EH�QLFH�WR�PH��:KHQ�WKH\�play, I keep a closer eye on them, because Sam is my role model, and so is Ariella!” Jordan said. This experience allowed them to gener-ally learn more about each other and grow closer. Jordan said, “I also learned Ariella could draw!”

Adding this layer of team-mate WR� WKHLU� UHODWLRQVKLS� KDV� LQÁX-enced their home lives. “Since joining the team, we have more to WDON�DERXW�QRZ��DQG�ÀJKW�OHVV�µ�6D-

mantha said, “Our mom also loves it because she can pick all three of us up from one place.”

However, the Rusoff sisters ar-HQ·W�H[HPSW�IURP�VTXDEEOLQJ��´:H�VWLOO� ÀJKW� DW� KRPH�µ� -RUGDQ� VDLG��´EXW� RQ� WKH� ÀHOG� ZH� SOD\� IRU� WKH�game and mostly put everything else aside.”

Senior Olivia Gibson is a cap-WDLQ�RI� WKH�ÀHOG�KRFNH\� WHDP�DQG�plays with all three sisters.

She said, “They’re clearly very bonded, you can tell they feel each

other’s pain. After one game, Jor-dan got sick on the bus and threw up. Ariella was so upset she cried because of it. “

Going to school with each oth-er, living together, and playing together is a lot of time spent to-gether, and can be a challenge for the Rusoffs.

“I’ve learned patience from play-ing with my sisters. Even when I’m frustrated with them, we still have to work together as a team,” Sam said.

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On October 20th, one of the greatest SOD\HUV� LQ�1%$�KLVWRU\��.REH�%U\DQW��was absolutely and utterly scathed by VSRUWV�ZULWHU�+HQU\�$EERWW��:ULWLQJ�IRU�ESPN the Magazine, Abbott explored LQ�GHSWK�WKH�YDULHW\�RI�ZD\V�.REH�KDV�been toxic to his own franchise, the Los Angeles Lakers. The article made bold FODLPV� LQVLQXDWLQJ� WKDW� .REH·V� UHOXF-tance to appease others and his tremen-GRXV� HJR�KDYH�EHHQ� VLJQLÀFDQW� FDXVHV�of the recent demise of both Laker tal-ent and subsequent Laker wins.

The article was without doubt very well written. However, I was angered by Abbot’s use of the anonymous source, which I feel is indicative of a widespread problem throughout sports journalism.

The current Associated Press Style-book deems that: “Anonymity is a last resort.” Mr. Abbott clearly does not feel this way. He backed up claims that SOD\HUV� GRQ·W� ZDQW� WR� SOD\� ZLWK� .REH�using “an agent who has had numerous NBA stars” and when asserting that .REH�LV�WKH�´SULPDU\�UHDVRQµ�WKH�/DN-ers have fallen off, he quoted “sources both in and around the Lakers' orga-nization.” The vagueness of Abbott’s sources verges on absurd. Journalists have a responsibility to their readers

to provide interesting stories, however the juicy headline should not be prior-itized over the credibility of a source. It shouldn’t be easy to acquire incred-ulous information because the impact of such statements can denigrate some-body’s reputation.

Imagine if you had the anonmity to say whatever you wanted about your least favorite teacher or student. Most likely, you would say things with reck-OHVV� DEDQGRQ� DQG� KDYH� QR� VLJQLÀFDQW�UHJDUG� IRU� WKH� GHJUHH� RI� WUXWK�� <RXU�words would not merely be based on IDFW��EXW�RQ�HPRWLRQV�DV�ZHOO��.REH�%U\-ant is often described as one of NBA’s hardest working stars, yet without any consequence his reputation can be assailed from behind the cloak of ano-nymity.

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AS THE COLLEGE SPROCESS countinues to get more snd more competitive, student athletes are under more stress to decide if they want to play in college and begin the recruiting process earlier.

THE RUSOFF SISTERS POSE for a photo after a home game. Jordan ‘17 ( middle) wears “star beads,” necklaces awarded to players after each game who have played especially well. Ariella (left) and Sam (right) sport their basic field hockey apparel.

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ATHLETIC DIRECTOR KEVIN VERSEN smiles as he watches the team celebrate their recent victory. Team members gather to receive the FAA championship trophy.

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SENIORS CELEBRATE WITH THEIR championship trophy. This is the last game they played with each other and the rest of their team. The final score was 1-0 against Green Farms Acadamy.

The championship game against Green Farms Academy was tied at 0-0 until the 83rd minute, when sophomore Geoffry Foxhall tapped in an assist from Levyant ’15. Everybody was in awe, the crowd was exhilirated.

“I had no doubt in my mind this was a cham-pionship team.

-Captain Max Ishmael ’15

“This year we played as a team, we all shared the common goal of a championship.

-Issac Sampson ’15

“This was our first year winning a championship but we look forward for the repeat next year.

- Karl Hirt ’16

“We knew all we had to do was stick to our game plan and execute.

-Richard Franklin, Head Coach “I’m very proud of the boys’ team, they were able to bond and play hard together.

-Kevin Verson, Athletic Director

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