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District surveys Sp. Ed.by Hilary brumberg

To evaluate the Newton Pub-lic Schools’ special education program, the School Committee hired District and Community Partners (DCP) to survey the program, according to deputy superintendent Paul Stein.

“The School Committee wanted to look at the special education services the NPS provide, because it is such a big part of our schools and budget,” Stein said.

He chairs the Special Educa-tion Study Steering Committee, comprised of parents, school committee members and ad-ministrators, which helps DCP publicize and arrange times and places for surveys to be conducted.

“DCP will look for themes that emerge in our school sys-tem,” Stein said. “I suspect that during their school visits, they are reality checking.

“They are seeing if what they find matches what they were told in interviews and focus groups and learned from their statistical analysis. If it does, great. If it doesn’t, they’ll have to rethink theories of how the Newton Public Schools actually operates.

“It’s like when you have a hypothesis in science class and you need to check it in reality.

“It’s always good to have a neutral view to validate our strengths and identify our areas for improvement. I hope DCP will do both.”

According to Stein, DCP’s complete survey and analysis is nearly a full-year process.

Last spring, DCP interviewed Newton teachers and adminis-trators in small groups, Stein said. It also collected computer data regarding student popula-tion, Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) and other tests. An expert is currently looking at and analyzing the information DCP collected.

Throughout October, DCP scheduled visits at each of the secondary schools in Newton and seven elementary schools, spending one half to a whole day at each school, according to Stein.

At the same time, DCP held focus groups for both parents of students with special needs and parents of regular education students, he said.

DCP will also be conducting an electronic survey of special education educators, parents and regular educators, Stein said.

When it finishes the surveys, DCP will compile a report of its observations and the data it collected. It will become a pub-lic report and will be presented to the School Committee at a meeting in January or February, according to Stein.

“From there, the firm will make recommendations to the School Committee, who will decide what will be done and at what pace, depending on the resources available,” he said. “Sometimes you can’t do things tomorrow, but over time you can achieve them.”

Internship lets students voice opinionsby Hilary brumberg

To hear the opinions of teens, the Youth Commission for the City of Newton is starting the Community Service Internship Program, according to dean of students at the Harvard Ken-nedy School Chris Fortunato, the organizer of the program.

The Youth Commission is “a volunteer body of adults and high school students working together to empower youth,” according to its website.

It discusses “a full range of youth issues,” Fortunato said. “Everything from after school activities to drug and alcohol policies.”

He said that the Commission is made up of “a great people who want to get a lot of stuff done. But right now, adults drive the Commission, not youth. The members feel like it is lacking the voice of actual teenagers.”

To fix this, the interns will join the Commission as officially appointed Youth Commission leaders, Fortunato said. They will set the agenda for the monthly Commission meet-ings.

“What we’re doing is turning the Youth Commission on its head,” he said. “Through the in-ternship program, we’ll be hav-ing teenagers set the agenda. It’s a structured opportunity rather than just having students volunteer.

“There are a lot of mecha-nisms for adults to share in-formation, but not many for youth. You can’t really get the full-flavored discussion without talking to students.

“It’s a very different model than just giving input or feed-back—they are actually lead-ing the discussions. Youth will have a unique voice. It gives

them direct access to people who inform decisions of Mayor Setti Warren and an avenue for advocating for what they believe in. It’s leadership at its best at a very young age.

“There are a lot of mecha-nisms for adults to share in-formation, but not many for youth. You can’t really get the full-flavored discussion without talking to students.”

Students who participate in the internship program will meet Wednesday evenings for one to one and a half hours.

Fortunato said he is still se-lecting students to participate in the program and will continue selecting through November. “We are looking to grasp a di-verse group of leaders who are willing to the make the time commitment,” he said.

Stein strongly urges youth to apply for internship program

Gaby Perez-Dietz

Rehearsal: Sophomore Nick Rodriguez and senior Linda Bard rehearse for “The Skin of Our Teeth,” which will be showing Thursday, Nov. 4 through Saturday, Nov. 6 in the auditorium. See coverage on page 4.

because, “at the most basic level, having something like this in your background will help you with your future.”

Teachers can nominate stu-dents or students can self-nomi-nate by emailing Fortunato at chrismfortunato@aol.com. The email should include a list of interests and activities and a few paragraphs or bullet points about why the student would be a good candidate for the intern-ship program.

According to Fortunato, “sometimes it’s easier for people to express themselves verbally, and we’re happy to accommo-date that,” so there is an option of a phone interview over writ-ing paragraphs, he said.

After receiving and review-ing the email, Fortunato said he will set up approximately half hour interviews with the students who apply.

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Reminiscing about the spirit of the old buildingWe can rekindle our old Tiger Pride in this new facility

by Steven micHael

In the words of Benjamin Franklin, there are two things that are certain in life: death and taxes. We have little control over the former. But, over the past 200 years, Americans have been grumbling about paying the tax collector.

Due to rising resentment of the government during this recession, it comes as no sur-prise that anti-tax activists are campaigning once again

to lower taxes charged by the government.

Question 3 on the ballot in the November 2 general election proposes to lower Massachu-setts state sales tax from 6.25 percent to 3 percent. A vote in favor would decrease tax rev-enue and damage communities already fragile from budget cuts during the recession.

This initiative reignites the age old debate of small govern-ment versus big government. It begs the question of what role government should have in the lives of its citizens—of which taxes are the most visible sign.

If Question 3 passed, it would eliminate approximately $2.5 billion from the $52 billion state budget.

Lower taxes, advocates say, bring prosperity and more jobs to follow.

But this simplistic view over-looks the multitude of recipients of government funding. Tax money flows into the common-wealth’s public schools. The government contributes a por-tion of its revenue to cities and towns, which in turn earmark a portion of that revenue for education.

No one enjoys paying taxes, yet the money supports es-sential services. In addition to education, the state supports

by evan clementS

In just about every way, the new school has been an up-grade.

We are surrounded by spar-kling emerald green fields.

We now have a gorgeous patio surrounding the football field, providing us with a conve-nient spot to hang outside.

We have brand new comput-ers and high-tech whiteboards in every classroom. We have au-tomatic sinks in the bathrooms. We no longer feel as though we are trapped in a prison, thanks to the many windows.

Heck, I think it’s even the same general temperature in every room.

I so badly want to love this $200 million work of art. How-ever, in the first weeks of my senior year—and I believe I am speaking for many others when I say this—I couldn’t help but feel disappointed.

The soul and spirit of our beloved Newton North commu-nity seems to be missing. When I walk into the new building, I don’t feel the same buzz of ex-citement I felt when I stepped onto Main Street of the old building.

Where are the fabled orange bricks of Main Street that pro-vided us with a comfortable place to catch up with our friends during the day? Where is the purple tree that as freshmen we all longed to take over as se-

niors—kings of the school?Where are the red, purple,

blue, green and yellow that gave us landmarks and made us unique from just about ev-ery other high school in the country?

I almost miss sitting in 98 degree classrooms during the

coldest days of January.Part of me feels as though we

have just turned into a generic high school, and maybe that is the case.

However, part of me thinks that we just need to break this building in.

We need to make it ours. And

the authorities of the school need to give us a chance to make it ours.

When you usher us away from our spot that overhangs the main lobby (we refer to it as “the view”), realize that we are just trying to find comfort in this massive building. We are just

trying to make it our home.The City of Newton has given

us an enormous gift. However, the beautiful building is just the skeleton of Newton North High School.

It is now in the hands of us, the students, to give this skel-eton life.

Vote against Question 3 to maintain aid to citiescity services such as the fire department, police, trash collec-tion and public works.

Alliance to Roll Back Taxes, a proponent of the tax decrease, makes several of unsubstanti-ated claims in the state Voter’s Guide. The organization claims a ‘yes’ vote on question 3 will create “32,929 productive, sus-tainable jobs,” but fails to men-tion the harm a tax decrease will cause the state.

A broad cut in state revenue is not the solution. By starving the state government of much needed funds, only painful cuts will ensue. Any new jobs creat-ed by the possible tax decrease will be offset by layoffs of civil servants caused by the decrease

in revenue.While fiscal responsibility is

an admirable goal, a decrease in sales tax will not success-fully accomplish this mission. The severity of tentative cuts to social services resulting from question 3 outweighs any ben-efits.

Massachusetts Coalition for Our Communities, an opponent of the decrease, points out that $2.5 billion amounts to half the sum paid by the state to shoul-der the cost of public education. The coalition correctly asserts, “We cannot keep cutting with-out doing lasting harm to our schools, health care and the services that strengthen our communities.”

Just think about it...Go vote

If you’re of the age of 18, you should take advantage of the important opportunity to vote.

Especially in this guber-natorial election, which will have a lasting impact for the next four years in Massachu-setts, it is essential to cast your vote Tuesday.

Don’t underestimate the value of your vote. You may be one person with one par-ticular opinion, but you can contribute to the most crucial of decisions.

The future lays in your hands. You may believe that is pointless to waste time at the polls. But in fact, it is essential to make your voice heard. It is not a waste of time.

Your small, significant vote can be the very differ-ence in the future of our

Commonwealth. Give NaNoWriMo an opportunity

November is National Novel Writing Month, in which participants pledge to write a 50,000 word novel in just 30 days.

NaNoWriMo is a great opportunity to challenge yourself to create something you can really call a product of hard work.

If you have some free time this month, consider taking it on. It’ll definitely be some-thing to be proud of.Donate your used test prep books

Students at this school have organized a drive to col-lect used test prep books.

Collection boxes are in the Main Office, the House Offices, and the library.

All books are accept-

ed, including PSAT, ACT, SAT, SAT II, AMCSO, GED, MCAS, etc.

The books will be do-nated to the Boston Public Library.

It’s a great opportunity to help students who may not be able to purchase materials themselves prepare for the college admissions process.

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On the old ‘Main Street’: Throughout the years, seniors gathered around the Riley tree.

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Gloria Li

Math team: Junior Boshan Mo and sophomore Samin Panahi compare answers during practice Wednesday, Oct. 20 in 465.

Math team defeats Brookline, South with highest score ever

’14 elects officers by alex Feit

The Class of 2014 elected officers and representatives to the Student Faculty Adminis-tration.

Elections were held Monday, Oct. 19., and 20 students ran for office.

Class president is Lee Guek-guezian. Vice presidents from F.A. Day are Yankel Karasik and Jared Perlo, from Bigelow are Will Champion and Mike Schli-chting and from an independent school is Terry Altherr.

SFA representatives are Mar-ianne Engelke, Ned Martenis and Emmett McCleary, and the alternate representative is Jesse Metzger. Night to help students with college financesby gloria li

To prepare seniors for the financial aspect of the college application process, this school

will host Fi-nancial Aid Night, accord-ing to College and Career Center coun-s e l o r B r a d MacGowan.

“ S e n i o r s and their par-ents should go because the financial aid forms, such as the Free Appli-

cation for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), are timely and change every year,” MacGowan said.

The Massachusetts Edu-cation Financing Authority (MEFA) will run the event from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10 in Lasker auditorium.

According to MacGowan, the event will cover many aspects of college financing, ranging from FAFSA to the creation of Col-lege Scholarship Service (CSS)

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Senior namedsemifinalistby KriStian lundberg

Senior Mark Ingram was named a semifinalist for the National Achievement Schol-arship Program (NASP) for outstanding African American students, he said.

He qualified by having a “high score on his PSAT,” according to vice principal Deborah Holman.

Ingram is one of 1,600 semifinalists from the New England region out of the 160,000 applicants, Holman said.

Semifinalists have the op-tion to apply to become one of the 800 finalists for scholar-ships, she said.

Seven hundred of the fi-nalists are given a $2,500 scholarship. A separate 100 corporate-sponsored awards are given to finalists “who plan to pursue particular ca-reers,” or have other relations to a company, according to the NASP website.

Ingram said he applied to

the program when he marked the section on the PSAT “that allows the score to be sent to the NASP. I didn’t really think much of it at the time,” he said.

In taking the test, Ingram also applied for the National Merit Scholarship Program, a similar program that applies to all students who take the PSAT, he said.

online Profile form. It will also explain the differ-

ence between grants and loans and compare need-based and merit financial aid and scholar-ships, MacGowan said.

MEFA representative Kendra Linder-Johnson will give a Pow-erPoint presentation and lead a question and answer session, MacGowan said. Afterwards, MEFA will hand out complimen-tary college financing booklets to attendees. Also, the NNHS Scholarship Form will be avail-able.Classroom devotedto student writersby Kate lewiS

A classroom will be donated by the library to students partici-pating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), which begins Monday, according to teacher Stephen Chinosi.

The program challenges writ-ers around the globe to write a 50,000-word novel during No-vember, said Chinosi.

“The library is dedicating computers and laptops for stu-dents who are writing novels this month,” he said.

This will be Chinosi’s second year participating in NaNoW-riMo. Last year, more than 119,000 people from around the world participated, including 22,000 students, according to NaNoWriMo’s website, www.nanowrimo.org.

Chinosi said that he hopes the availability of technology will encourage more students to take a risk and participate in National Novel Writing Month.

“I love the fact that through NaNoWriMo, so many people are thinking about writing and language at the same time. People who love the art of writ-ing can use this month to have fun with language.”

in brief

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Brad MacGowan

by Kayla SHore

This school’s math team scored higher than any other league competitors in the past year.

With 93 points, the team beat three top schools in its divi-sion—Brookline, Newton South and Boston Latin—and had its “best ever score,” said senior Dong-Gil Shin, the captain.

The meet took place at Brook-line Wednesday, Oct. 12.

“Everyone on the team did their best,” he said. Five team

members participated, and Shin and sophomore Christina Chen each scored a perfect 18.

The team, which hasn’t beat-en South for “as long as I can remember,” said Shin, scored 17 points higher. “This was beyond our expectations,” he said.

Shin said that the team’s suc-cess is indicative of its future competition. The team must do well to especially make to the State competition.

“I think we will make it to the State level again this year,”

he said.Last year there were no se-

niors on the team, so the team as a whole gained experience and didn’t lose any members, according to Shin. As a result, it has improved since last year.

The team, advised by math teacher Elisse Ghitelman, com-petes four more times this year with its division in the regular season as a part of the Greater Boston Math League, Shin said. It reached the New England level last year.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning play to go up

by Kate lewiS

“The Skin of Our Teeth” by Thornton Wilder, directed by seniors Aviva Galpert and Edan Laniado, will open Theatre Ink’s 2010-2011 season.

The show will be performed Thursday, Nov. 4 through Sat-urday, Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium.

“The Skin of Our Teeth,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1943, tells the story of the Antrobuses, a family

that represents humanity and whose perse-verance and determination allow them to rebuild under adverse cir-cumstances, said Galpert.

“The show is about learn-ing from our mistakes and

refusing to allow challenges to keep us from moving forward,” she said. “It is about the won-ders of progress, such as learn-ing, art and innovation, and about the more negative things that can accompany progress, such as Social Darwinism and large-scale violence.”

The Antrobuses appears to be an average American fam-ily, but several anachronistic quirks, such as their prehistoric pet mammoth and dinosaur, make it apparent that they are not as normal as they seem. Ac-cording to Galpert, the fate of society rests upon their interac-tions with each other.

Junior Caleb Bromberg will play George Antrobus, the family patriarch, and senior Linda Bard will portray his

wife, Maggie. The Antrobus children, Henry and Gladys, will be played by junior Sam Bell-Gurwitz and sophomore Eliza Burr, respectively. The family’s maid, Sabina, will be played by Madeline Murphy, a sophomore.

Bromberg said of his charac-ter, “Mr. Antrobus is the be-all and end-all of humanity. If he cannot find a reason to keep liv-ing, the world shall end.”

According to Bard, “Mrs. Antrobus represents the sort of stereotypical mother. She’s very concerned with her children and protecting her family.

“Throughout the play, she realizes the importance of what Mr. Antrobus is doing,” she said. “She’s known it all along, but her appreciation for what he does grows from Act I to Act II.”

Galpert hopes that the au-dience will see the play and understand that our world is no less ridiculous than the world in which the characters live. “The socioeconomic disparity, mind-less violence, radical stereotyp-ing, infidelity and hunger for power that characterize their lives are very prevalent in our lives as well,” she said.

Despite the serious ideas and heavy themes that are present in the show, Galpert said that the play has several comedic mo-ments to lighten the mood.

“We love this play because it’s funny and absurd, but it’s meaningful as well,” she said. “The majority of comedies we read were insubstantial, but ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ uses hu-mor to communicate really im-portant and relevant themes.”

Amalia Sweet, a sophomore, designed the set, which operates

on wheels and rotates before each act to reveal an entirely new setting, she said.

“As a first time set designer, it was really incredible to watch what had started out as a simple colored pencil sketch change and actually appear at twelve feet tall on stage,” said Sweet. “Although I have seen a hand-

ful of other sets seem to grow overnight, it’s different when it is your vision.”

Costumes designed by senior Anna Gargas, junior Gabbi Mor-genstern and freshman Sophie Sokolov will be of 1940s style, which “makes the anachronisms like a pet dinosaur and an im-minent ice age much more ap-

parent,” said Galpert.Galpert said that both the set

and costumes will use specific colors to evoke the themes of the play, as well as the evolution of the characters.

Tickets are $7 and can be purchased online at www.the-atreink.net as well as at all lunches.

Local photography exhibit features student workby Perrin Stein

High school students, includ-ing 15 from this school, have work featured at the Massachu-setts State Transportation Build-ing photography exhibit.

The exhibit began Monday, Oct. 25 and will continue until Wednesday, Nov. 24.

“This is the second year of the exhibit,” said John Michael Gray, an event organizer with Timothy O’Connor. “It was start-ed to give Massachusetts high school photography students an opportunity to exhibit their work in a state-wide exhibit.”

Gray and O’Connor are co-directors of the New England Art Education Conference Inc., which created the exhibit with the help of the Massachusetts Art Education Association.

According to Gray, these two programs also run the Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards, an opportunity in the spring

for students to receive recog-nition for their work.

Over 400 students from twenty differ-ent schools h a v e t h e i r w o r k d i s -played at the exhibit.

“ E a c h school’s photography teacher chose the best examples of the work being completed in their school’s photography program,” he said.

“It is a cross section of pho-tography techniques all done by high school students.”

Photography teacher Ron

Morris had each photography major student submit a photo, and he chose fifteen for the exhibit.

“We submit photos because part of our curriculum is to exhibit work since it gives an opportunity to receive feedback from other people,” he said.

By submitting their work, students have to look at their work objectively and critique it, according to Morris.

“This gives people a new perspective on their work, and it can help them become better photographers,” he said.

According to Morris, the Massachusetts Transportation Building receives a lot of traf-fic, so the exhibit allows many people to see students’ work, which they wouldn’t have an op-portunity to see otherwise.

“It shows off our talent and celebrates it,” he said. “Not many high schools offer pho-tography as a class, so it brings awareness to the unique pro-gram that this school offers.”

One of the students whose work Morris chose to submit is junior Madeleine Aquilina. She submitted a double exposure

of a girl she met on the French exchange, which she printed twice: once right-side-up and once upside-down.

Although it was an assign-ment to submit work, Aquilina said it was a great opportunity “to have work recognized by the wider community.”

“I was experimenting in the dark room with double expo-sures and flipping images,” she said. “When I was finished, it looked cool because it’s differ-ent than typical photography.”

Another student, sopho-more Sophie Kaplan, had a photo chosen for the photog-raphy exhibit. Her photo is of a girl holding a fan in front of her face. “I used a special border to make the photo look

like it fades off the page,” she said.

Kaplan said she decided to submit this photo because “I liked the photo and am proud of it.”

“The Skin of Our Teeth” mixes relevant themes with comedy

Madeline Aquilina

Currently on display: Junior Madeleine Aquilina’s photo, along with 14 others from this school are shown at a state-wide photography exhibit. In this photograph, Aquilina experimented with double exposure, depicting a girl upside down and right side up.

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Aviva Galpert

Gaby Perez-Dietz

Practicing a scene: Sophomore Nick Rodriguez, as the Greek poet Homer, and junior Caleb Bromberg, playing Mr. Antrobus, rehearse for “The Skin of Our Teeth.”

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Halloween memories through the years

Visitor spent 163 days in orbitAstronaut speaks about daily life on a space station

Gabe Dreyer

Back from orbit: Timothy Creamer, an astronaut, spoke on campus about his experiences in orbit aboard the International Space Station for 163 days.

Guest speakers talk about good banking practices

Maddie MacWilliams

Some students here still enjoy Halloween.

by Fatema Zaidi

For senior Helen Gao, one of her most memorable Halloween costumes was a little bit uncon-ventional.

“I wanted to be a princess, because every five- or six-year-old wants to be a princess,” Gao said. “My mom was away on a business trip, so my dad had to come up with a makeshift cos-tume for me.

“I had this flowery dress that I decided to wear, and my dad

found a pink birthday-girl tiara from my fourth or fifth birthday.

“I wanted to wear ear-rings, because I knew prin-cesses wore earrings, but I didn’t have

pierced ears, so my dad taped teabags to my ears for ear-rings.

“So then, I went trick-or-treating with my friend. She was being a Dalmatian from 101 Dalmatians.

“When I went over her house, she was putting on facepaint to make spots.

“I decided then that I really wanted some whiskers, and so I ended up being a princess with whiskers painted on and teabags for earrings.”

With Halloween approaching this Sunday, students shared interesting costumes and stories from when they were younger.Seniors

Mike Barbone: “In fourth grade, I was Blastoise, the Poke-mon, and my mom hand made the costume. I was a giant turtle with cannons. It was kind of awesome when I look back at it, actually.”

Abby Barnstone: “I was a head of broccoli when I was a toddler. My parents dressed me up and I was like two or three, so I didn’t really have a choice.”

Suzy Bennett: “I was a cray-on…when I was 16.”

Matt Dickey: “My dad built me a Thomas the Tank Engine costume when I was six out of cardboard. All of my friends thought it was pretty cool at the time, actually. At least, I think they did.”

Juhi Patel: “Well, I dressed up as a pumpkin once. It wouldn’t

have been that bad if I was little, but I was in seventh grade. It was sort of because I lost a bet. Everyone kind of laughed when they saw me.”Juniors

Ilana Greenstein: “When I was three years old, I was the pig and my little sister was the web from Charlotte’s Web and I had a little snout and a tail and it was really cute.”

Tim Kenslea: I was Donkey and Eric Hollenberg was Shrek. Eric was really sad and one of the guys from one of the houses

said, ‘cheer up little bud, why so green?’”

Emily Schacter: “One time I dressed up as a clown and my parents painted a huge smile on my face, but I was frowning the entire time.”

Marianna Sorensen: “I was two years old, hadn’t been trick-or-treating before, and didn’t understand that the purpose was to get candy. I thought the purpose was to see all the dogs in everybody’s houses. So my friend who was trick-or-treat-ing with me would ring the

doorbells and I would stick my head in the doorways and say, ‘doggy?’”

Anthony Sposato: “When I was younger I would go out trick-or-treating with my little brother and sister.

“One year I was Pikachu, another I was the Red Power Ranger, and another I was Cap-tain Hook.”

Melissa Weikart: “Once, when I was younger, I decided to be ‘creative’ and be a table. I cut a hole through cardboard and put it over my head and put a tablecloth over it.” Sophomores

Billy Cohen: “There was a h o u s e o n c e that told us to watch out for a gorilla and then a guy dressed up in a gorilla costume began chasing us.”

Briana Ho-gan: “I was a

witch once and I had a green face and it was really ugly.”

Natalia Morgan: “When I was three, I was a candy corn.”

Devon Phinney: “I was Cin-derella once—I was pretty cute.”Freshmen

Sam Atkins: “One year, I dressed up as a clown and I wore plastic shoes and when I was walking towards somebody’s house, I slipped on the grass because of my huge shoes.”

Anna D’Alleva: “I was a rock-star once and it was really feath-ery and weird looking.”

Amber Poirier: “When I was a baby, my parents dressed me up as Barney because that used to be my favorite show.”

Preston Yong: “I was Winnie the Pooh when I was two.”

by Hilary brumberg

As part of the American Bankers Association’s Get Smart About Credit Day, Village Bank representatives presented to students in an assembly Thurs-day, Oct. 21.

Amy Corda, senior vice presi-dent of lending at Village Bank, presented with vice president of residential lending JoAnn Fer-

guson and community relations officer Susan Paley.

According to Corda, the goal of the initiative is to educate the next generation of consumers.

“You have access to the in-ternet and all sorts of things at your fingertips that we never dreamed of in high school,” Corda said.

“In 1972, consumer debt was 55 percent of the nation’s income, so there was room to save money,” she said. “The average consumer household

debt was $12,000. “Now, the debt is 120 per-

cent and the household debt is $46,000. We’re a country of spending more than we have.”

According to Corda, credit is the money a person takes out of the bank.

She said it is important be-cause it determines who will lend to a person and who will hire him or her.

Banks use the Four Cs of Credit—character, collateral, capacity and credit—to decide if

a person is credit worthy, Corda explained.

Character is a person’s will-ingness to repay the loan, col-lateral is an asset, capacity is a source of repayment and credit is a person’s credit score, she said.

Corda explained the differ-ence between debit and credit cards. “Debit is buy now, pay now,” she said. “You take it out right then. Credit is buy now, pay more later because of interest.

“Credit cards are not all cre-ated equally. When you sign up for a credit card and it says zero percent interest, you say ‘great.’ But you didn’t read the fine print that says that’s only for the first three months.”

Corda and Ferguson left the audience with these words:

“Read the fine print. Be-ware of introductory phrases. Understand all of your fees. In short, do your homework and be educated. Remember: credit is a privilege, not a right.”

by Jared Freedman When students first walked

into the auditorium, they were greeted by an image of astro-naut Timothy Creamer pro-jected onto the screen.

In the photo, he was on the International Space Station (ISS), but more importantly, he was wearing a Newton North Science t-shirt. According to Creamer, his friend,science teacher Ann Dannenberg, gave him the shirt.

Creamer visited this school Thursday, Oct. 21. He spoke about his time in orbit and an-swered questions.

December 21, Creamer lifted off for the ISS from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

He was aboard the Soyuz TMA-17 capsule, one of the Russian Federal Space Agency’s

vehicles. In Creamer’s capsule was

himself, Commanders Oleg Kotov and Soichi Noguchi. They were part of Expedition 22/23 on the ISS. The three spent a total of 163 days in orbit.

“One of the neat things you can do in orbit is float,” said Creamer. “It took me a little while to get used to space. I lost things, but I stopped after a few weeks.”

Creamer explained that if one moved slowly enough, one could easily move massive objects.

The main purpose of having astronauts aboard the ISS is to make it possible for experi-ments designed by scientists on Earth to be run in space.

Astronauts’ work includes swapping out samples when vehicles arrive from or depart to Earth, maintenance of all the in-ternal systems and cleaning the space station and all its parts.

Life aboard the ISS is not all work, Creamer said.

Astronauts have to exercise two and a half hours per day in order to prevent bone loss and weakening muscles.

Most of this exercise is done with the help of rubber bands. that provide resistance, he said.

The astronauts also take a lot of pictures out of the windows, especially with the newly at-tached cupola, which provides a 180 degree view of the earth, Creamer said.

June 2, Creamer and the rest of his crew left the ISS and landed in central Kazakhstan several hours later.

“I couldn’t walk straight for five days,” he said. “We were in rehab for 50 days after we landed.”

When asked what he would change about his time in space, Creamer responded, “I would stay longer.”

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by Jacob brunell

When it comes to politics, students at Newton North are not shy about having their ideas heard.

With Tuesday, Nov. 2 just around the corner, North students shared stories about their politi-cal involvement.

Junior Gabe Dreyer said he has worked on campaigns for candidates running for local, state and national offices.

“I campaigned for Deval Pat-rick in 2006, Barack Obama in 2008, and most recently, for mayoral candidate Ken Parker in 2009,” said Dreyer.

Dreyer said that he first be-came interested in politics at a rally at the Hynes Center in Bos-ton for Deval Patrick in the 2006 gubernatorial race.

“I stood behind the stage and shook hands with Patrick and then-junior Senator Barack Obama at the Hynes rally,” re-called Dreyer.

Dreyer said his most memo-rable experience, however, came after his work on the Obama campaign.

“I got to go to the State House to the Governor’s office, with

Newton’s State representatives and had the opportunity to for-mally meet Deval Patrick,” ex-plained Dreyer.

Sophomore Ivan McGovern said that he is helping out with the campaign of gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker.

“I first became interested in supporting Baker because I knew him as a former colleague of my mom,” explained McGovern.

After going to a campaign rally for Baker earlier this month, McGovern’s interest increased.

“I will be out there support-ing Baker and holding campaign signs on Election Day,” McGovern said.

Other North students became involved to show their support for President Obama during his elec-tion campaign in 2008 as well.

Senior Jocie Sobieraj said that during the 2008 primary in New Hampshire, she helped out at Obama’ s New Hampshire cam-paign office with fellow senior David Gore.

“We drove up there and went from house to house asking people who they were voting for. It was a pretty interesting experi-ence,” Sobieraj explained.

“Some people I felt were look-ing down on us because we were younger and they thought we didn’t know anything about politics.

“It was interesting to hear about different people’s experi-ences.

“We got to talk to so many dif-ferent people, hear their opinions and see what their lives were like, even though we didn’t know them.”

Although many North students are involved in political activism through helping support politi-cal candidates, others campaign more directly on issues that mat-ter to them.

Senior Maddie MacWilliams said that she is currently working on a campaign to get voters to strike down Ballot Question 3.

If Ballot Question 3 is passed, the Massachusetts sales tax would be reduced by over 50 percent.

“Many groups and programs in the state would lose funding because of this,” MacWilliams explained.

This past summer, MacWil-liams also worked on a campaign to keep the state from cutting funding for teen jobs in and around Boston.

“This was a campaign begun by urban groups,” she said. “How-ever, groups from the suburbs, such as Teens Acting for Social Change (TASC), began to help them out.

“In the end, we were fairly suc-cessful, as the campaign got the support of State Senator Cynthia Creem, and Representative Frank Smizik actually put more money towards youth jobs than we had originally been asking for,” Mac-Williams said.

Students share experiences from working on campaigns

Deval Patrick

Tim Cahill

Gubernatorial candidates

by eli davidow

What makes Tim Cahill, the in-dependent candidate for Massa-chusetts governor, distinct is the fact that he gives the Common-wealth a unique, middle-ground perspective, said Juli Sweeney, the campaign press secretary.

“We tried a Republican in of-fice, and that didn’t work,” she said. “Then we tried a Democrat for four years, and that didn’t work either.

“Tim would bring Massachu-setts in a different direction, crossing party lines.

“If there was a Republican leg-islative movement, for example, all the Republicans would be partial to the Republican Party. And if there was a Democratic legislative movement, all the Democrats would be partial to the Democratic Party.

“Tim, in this situation, can have an open mind and look at an unbiased perspective. He can rise above the Republicans and Dem-ocrats and look at every angle. That’s what separates him.”

Leading up to his candidacy, Cahill was a part of the Quincy City Council from 1987 to 2003.

Then in 2002, Cahill was elect-ed as State Treasurer, running as a Democrat. He was reelected in 2006.

According to Sweeney, the is-sues that define Cahill’s platform are “the economy, jobs and job creation.”

“Our focus is getting people

back to work,” she said. “We want to cut the 6.25 percent sales tax down to 5 percent, because it’s currently just too high.”

If elected governor, Cahill also would do his best to provide job opportunities for teenagers and people of all ages, Sweeney said.

“We want to engage as many in people in the Commonwealth, be-cause we know every age group is competing for jobs these days,” she said.

“Tim has a focus on job op-portunity, because it keeps kids involved and engaged in some-thing.

“We want to engage young people in something they believe in.”

courtesy Ivan McGovern

Getting ready for Election Day: Sophomore Ivan McGovern poses with Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker at a recent campaign rally.

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Incumbent and democratic candidate Deval Patrick hopes to focus on jobs, education and healthcare if elected for a second term, he said.

“We’ve passed education re-forms…but we still have a gap to close,” Patrick said. “97.5 percent of our residents have health in-surance…but it’s still too expen-sive. We are emerging from the recession…but too many people are still out of work.”

Patrick said that he is moti-vated by the people who feel as if they’re on the outside looking in. “That is why this is not about me. It is about people who are still waiting to feel like this economy and this society cares about them and is making a place for them, too.”

On the issue of education, Patrick said he would continue to support a unified public higher education system.

“I will help implement the Vision Project, a recent higher education initiative focused on goal setting, transparency and accountability, and we will con-tinue our focus on education and careers in the ‘STEM’ fields: science, math, education and technology,” he said.

“We need to connect more of our employers to our public institutions of higher education and ensure that these students

are prepared to contribute in the workplace.”

Patrick said his plan for edu-cation includes the “strategic use of federal stimulus dollars to prevent massive reductions as the state continues to manage a challenging budget spurred by the tough national financial climate.”

Another issue Patrick said is essential to his campaign is the environment. “I believe in generational responsibility, that old-fashioned idea that each of us should do what we can to leave things better for those who come behind us,” he said.

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by Kate lewiS

Two weeks ago, I experienced an eye-opening exposure to po-litical issues in our home state.

The Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO) hosted a forum Sunday, Oct. 17 at Temple Israel in Boston to share its views with the four candidates for gov-ernor of Massachusetts.

I attended the conference with a group from Youth of Massachu-setts Organizing for a Reformed Economy (YMORE) , one of many youth organizations at the con-ference. Altogether, there were over 130 teens in attendance, representing communities from all around the Greater Boston area, including many students from Newton North.

YMORE leaders explained that GBIO’s goal for the evening was to build relationships and express their vision with all of the candidates, in hopes that one candidate will enact this vision as governor.

The event aimed to use the “power of pressure,” or a room full of voters, to convince the candidates to support their views. GBIO opposes all three of the ballot initiatives, which would cut funding for important state programs, and hopes that the gu-

bernatorial candidates will agree with them.

With over 130 teenagers in attendance, the leaders said the candidates would see that the next generation is ready to as-sume political responsibility.

The auditorium was packed with more than 1,000 people representing various faith com-munities from around Boston, including leaders from Congre-gation Dorshei Tzedek, Temple Emanuel and Temple Shalom of Newton.

The diversity in the room was evident, and though all of the groups were of different faiths and backgrounds, they all sup-ported the same idea—that vot-ing “yes” on Questions 1, 2 and 3 would have detrimental effects to the state.

Senior Ned Weitzman even got a chance to speak on the negative effects that Question 3 would have, especially on teenagers.

Question 3 proposes a de-crease in Massachusetts sales tax from 6.25 percent to 3 percent.

“Cuts in funding lead to cuts in services, which lead to even more damaging cuts,” Weitzman said. “I don’t want to witness cuts to the future of my generation, because for teens, no money means no future.”

Several individuals shared heart-wrenching stories to en-

courage the gubernatorial candi-dates to take a stand on important issues like usury, the Haitian earthquake and inner-city vio-lence.

Tyree Hyatt, a teen leader of the Dorchester Bay Youth Force, shared a particularly poignant story: one day, as she was walk-ing home, she watched as two teenagers pulled a gun and shot a 14-year-old boy in the street, only blocks from her home.

I always knew that there was street violence in Boston. Just turn on the news and you’ll hear a story about a person being hurt or killed in the city. Tyree’s story really brought this serious issue close to home.

Living in a safe and strong community like Newton makes it difficult to imagine that only miles away, people our age are dying in the streets and learn-ing in sub-par conditions. At the forum, I got to hear from real people with real stories about the very real problems that exist in our state.

All the candidates said that they would use their power as governor to do something about these issues. As the candidates went on, it led me to wonder how sincere they were being. Were they really going to enact change, or were they just saying so to win a few votes?

Inspiring to see local teensso connected to state issues

Charlie Baker

Jill Stein

Gubernatorial candidates

by marena cole

As the gubernatorial candidate for the Green/Rainbow party, Jill Stein is focusing on stabilizing the economy, according to her campaign website.

“A vote for Jill is a vote to get our state government out of the hands of the insiders and the lobbyists, and to get Massachu-setts moving toward the secure, sustainable economy that our families and communities so desperately need,” it says.

If elected governor, Stein will help to protect private school funding against the state’s grow-ing interest in private and char-ter schools, according to the website.

“In Massachusetts, our public schools and colleges are the cor-nerstone of our democracy and provide the foundation for our citizens’ economic success,” the website says.

“But now, this vital system is under sustained attack from privatization interests who are undermining public schools as part of an effort to advance char-ter school interests.

“As parents, teachers and con-cerned citizens, we have to speak up now in support of our schools and our students,” it says.

Stein’s website also says that she supports letting “educators and parents decide how best to educate our children.”

Stein’s website also says that she supports letting “educators

and parents decide how best to educate our children.”

“Stop the takeover of the edu-cation agenda by private interests seeking to gain a business advan-tage,” it says.

“Stop the power grabs by state level bureaucracies seeking to impose their schemes on parents and local school districts.”

In 2008, Stein helped formu-late a “Secure Green Future” ballot initiative that called upon legislators to accelerate efforts to move the Massachusetts economy to renewable energy.

A representative from the Jill Stein campaign could not be reached for contact by press time.

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by mereditH abramS As the Republican candidate

for governor in the upcoming election, Charlie Baker is fo-cused on eliminating unnecessary spending and reforming the gov-ernment, said his press secretary Rick Gorka.

“Charlie believes cutting taxes, cutting spending and reforming state government are the most important issues facing the next governor,” Gorka said.

“Massachusetts is facing a $2.5 billion budget deficit next fiscal year and state government needs to undergo a thorough review of all agencies.”

Gorka said that Baker would begin his reforms with the “Bak-er’s Dozen,” a list of 13 changes Baker would make if elected—from reforming Medicaid to changing inmates’ room and board.

According to Baker’s website, he is focused on not cutting local aid. “I served as a member of my hometown’s Board of Selectmen and I know firsthand that these cuts force local leaders to lay off vital teaching and public safety personnel,” his website says.

Baker also hopes to maintain rigorous standards.

According to his website, “Massachusetts leads the nation in K-12 education because of the standards established by educa-tion reform.

“I believe moving away from our own standards would be a mistake—for students, for schools and for the state of Mas-sachusetts, and I will fight to make sure our education stan-dards remain our standards, not something that comes from the direction of the federal govern-ment,” his website says.

Baker became Secretary of Ad-ministration and Finance in 1994 and served in that position until September of 1998, according to his website.

Baker became CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care in 1999, the website says.

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Special education secretary Jackie O’Neil graduated from Newton High School in 1968.

In school she played both basketball and volleyball during her junior and senior year.

Also, O’Neil worked in the Barry House office and partici-pated in French club.

O’Neil said that the school was pretty strict. Girls were not allowed to wear pants, rather having to wear a skirt or dress. Housemasters would staple paper to the hems of skirts to make them longer if too short, and then get a note from the student’s mother the next day.

O’Neil said she remembers how she liked “the way the cam-pus was set up with the three

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Boys’ cross country becomes closer, looks forward to league, State meets

by Jacob ScHwartZ

Freshman Charlie Goldberg was the only golfer from the Tigers, 9-3 overall, to participate in the State Tournament Tues-day, scoring an 85.

“It was a good first try, but I believe it was a little bit under my expectations,” Goldberg said.

However, “I was glad to at-tend,” Goldberg said.

“I feel very good that I repre-sented my team in the tourna-ment.”

Coach Bob MacDougall said Goldberg “was a little disap-pointed in the score because he’s a real competitor, but it was really a great experience for him.”

The lowest individual score at the event was a 70, which was even.

At the State qualifying meet Monday, Oct. 18, the team didn’t golf well, according to Mac-Dougall.

“We just had a bad day on the golf course,” he said.

“Our shining moment was Charlie Goldberg shooting a 77.”

The top four teams in the qualifying round earned a spot in the final tournament as a team, but the Tigers did not qualify overall.

However, Goldberg’s score gave him an individual spot in the tournament, keeping the Tigers alive.

Overall, the team also scored poorly at the Bay State Confer-ence Tournament Wednesday, Oct. 20, according to MacDou-gall.

“As a team we didn’t score well enough to compete for the title, which was a little disap-pointing,” MacDougall said.

However, Goldberg and se-nior T.J. Ryan, a captain with seniors Mike Zegarelli and Eric Regensberg, earned the honor of First Team All-Star. Goldberg shot a 79 at the Tournament, and Ryan shot a 77.

“There were some good mo-ments and some not good mo-ments,” MacDougall said.

MacDougall said he thor-oughly enjoyed coaching the team.

“They’re a great bunch of guys, not to mention they’re very good golfers,” he said.

“It was great that throughout the season we were able to beat the really tough teams in our league.

“In our conference, the top four teams are classified elite teams, and we achieved one of our goals by being classified as one of these teams.”

According to MacDougall, the team also achieved a major goal by defeating the other three top competitors in the league: Brookline, Needham and Wellesley.

Goldberg said, “It was a suc-cessful season. We had a lot of great players, who widened my gaze on how teams really should play.”

He also acknowleded Mac-Dougall for “opening our minds to things we didn’t think about before.”

Gabe Dreyer

On Elm Road: Sophomores Jonny Long, David Demarest and senior Dan Ranti run toward the new school.

Girls’ cross country fights inexperience, expects success as it starts postseason

Golf sends member to States

by Jay FeinStein

Girls’ cross country, 6-5, has worked extremely hard through its challenges, according to senior Margo Gillis, a captain with senior Devika Banerjee and junior Melissa Weikart.

“We’ve definitely had some tough races, but we fought through them very well,” she said.

“We’re working really well together, and we’ve gotten through all of our meets as a team.”

According to Gillis, some individuals stand out because of their effort.

“Becca Trayner and Julia Schiantarelli have been doing well and have really stepped it up this season,” she said.

According to coach Peter Martin, this season has been a rebuilding year for the Tigers.

“Our runners are inexpe-rienced, but this season will help them perform better in the future,” he said.

“We have a lot of outstanding young players, plus there are some really good middle school runners, so we’ll do really well in the future.

“This has been a strong year in the league, and we’ve done

our best,” he said.Tomorrow, the Tigers will

run in the Bay State Conference meet at Franklin Park. “We hope to do well so that we can qualify for other meets,” he said.

Tuesday, the Tigers visited a tough a Brookline team, accord-ing to Martin, losing 26-31.

“This was our first loss to Brookline, but we weren’t sur-prised by it.”

At Walpole Tuesday, Oct. 19, the Tigers participated in a dual meet with Needham and Walpole, losing against both teams 22-36.

“It was a short course, and we

weren’t used to it,” Gillis said. “We’re good at longer dis-

tances.“Both Needham and Walpole

are strong teams, so we didn’t do our best.”

Tuesday, Oct. 12, the Tigers visited Wellesley, losing 22-33.

“Despite the score, we did really well,” Gillis said.

“We had a lot of personal records during the meet, and some people beat their times by as much as a minute and a half,” she said.

“We were strong, but they were just stronger. They are one of the best teams in the state.”

Goldberg gainsexperience from tourney

by Jay FeinStein

Boys’ cross country, 9-2, is now preparing for the postsea-son, said coach Jim Blackburn.

“We probably won’t place in anything as a team, but we hope for our runners to do well individually,” he said.

Tomorrow, the Tigers will participate in the Bay State Conference meet at Franklin Park, according to senior Ezra Litchman, a captain with senior Dan Ranti.

“We’re excited to be running against all of the teams in the league, so we need to put in a lot

of effort,” Litchman said. “I think we’ll do well, but

we’ll have to work hard.” The Tigers will run in the

State Coaches meet Saturday, Nov. 6.

“This is an individual meet, and we’ll be bringing our top seven runners there,” Litchman said.

Saturday, Nov. 13, the Tigers will run in States. “If we do well in this meet, then we could qualify for All-States,” Litch-man said.

Looking back at this season, the Tigers have become really

close as a team, Litchman said. “At the beginning, we didn’t

know much about the incoming freshmen’s strengths or weak-nesses or the strengths and weaknesses of the new mem-bers,” he said. “We didn’t know who was going to be on it.”

As the season progressed, the Tigers learned more about their teammates, Litchman said. “Now we know everyone, and we’re doing really well in our races.”

“There are seven to eight people who’ve really stepped up and put in a lot of work this

season,” he said.Tuesday, the Tigers visit-

ed Brookline, losing 19-40. “They’re number one in the state, so we didn’t expect to win,” Blackburn said.

In a dual meet Tuesday, Oct. 19 at Needham, the Tigers de-feated Walpole and Needham 28-30 and 21-34.

“We did really well, taking the top four spots,” Litchman said.

Litchman took first, Ranti took second, junior Justin Keefe took third and sophomore Jonny Long took fourth.

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Footballadjusts to new offenseby Jacob ScHwartZ

Football , 3-4, has tried switching up its offense and implementing new formations, according to senior Kevin Barisano,a captain with seniors Ben Clark and Isaiah Penn.

One new formation that Bari-sano said he believes will make a major difference in upcom-ing games is the “quarterback pronto formation.

“Basically the quarterback pronto is a formation where we put Penn at quarterback and run different running plays with him.”

Barisano said he hopes the formation will improve the team’s offense.

The Tigers are currently preparing for an away game at Norwood tomorrow. Coach Peter Capodilupo said the out-come of the game “depends on how we play. We need to have no fumbles and no blocks in order to win, and work on tech-niques,” he said.

As well as trying to improve the team in general, the Tigers are trying to achieve their three major goals, according to Capo-dilupo. These goals are “to beat Brookline, to win our next game and to have a winning season,” Capodilupo said.

“All of those goals are pos-sible, even though we’re 3-4. We still have a chance to accomplish all of these goals,” he said.

Saturday, Nov. 6, The Ti-gers host Natick, a traditional powerhouse, according to Ca-podilupo.

“We’re still going to try not to think too much about who we are playing,” he said. “Reality is that what you try to do is just make yourself better. It doesn’t matter who you play as long as you get better.”

Barisano said that Natick will be a physically strong team, similar to other opponents throughout the season.

The Tigers defeated Dedham on the road Saturday, Oct. 23, 33-15.

Weymouth and its bulletproof running back, senior Dylan Co-larusso demolished the Tigers 33-6 at Dickinson Stadium Sat-urday, Oct. 18.

Colarusso repeatedly broke free from the Tigers’ defensive line, achieving first-down after first-down.

Capodilupo said the team struggled against a tough Wey-mouth team.

“Weymouth is a team you can’t make mistakes against, and we made mistakes.”

According to Capodilupo, the team had a great practice week, but it didn’t transfer into the game.

“We couldn’t hold on to the ball enough, and every time we put the ball in their hands, we couldn’t hold on. Their time per possession was probably two-to-one compared to us,” he said.

“I was pleased with the effort, but I wasn’t pleased with the technique.”

Weymouth coach Kevin Mackin said his team executed big plays, allowing the Wildcats to win, but also commended the Tigers on their effort.

“They were very dangerous,” he said, citing Clark as “one heck of a player. I wouldn’t be surprised if they went on a run.”

Volleyball, 15-1,plays smarter

by Jacob ScHwartZ

According to senior Nensi Cukalla, volleyball, 15-1, is working on defense “in order to be smarter than the other teams in the State Tournament,” she said. “We’re also putting a lot of focus on tipping for our hitters.”

The Tigers travel to Wellesley today. Coach Richard Barton said the team now understands a lot about Wellesley, since they met at home Wednesday, Oct. 20.

According to Barton, the game was a good learning expe-rience, and the Tigers defeated Wellesley 3-1.

“We found out that they have a lot of height, along with good serving and defense,” he said. “When we played them, we won the first game easily, but the rest were close games. They should be better this time.”

Barton said the team hopes for a win, which will not be guaranteed.

“Wellesley and us are pretty evenly matched. What will matter the most is our drive, and when we we’re in the post-season, trying to get our pieces together.”

The team defeated Needham on the road for Needham’s senior night Wednesday, 3-1, making the Tigers Bay State Conference Champions.

The Tigers lost the first game, according to senior Nicole Gold-berg. “It wasn’t that Needham beat us, it was really that we beat ourselves, because the majority of the team’s hits were either out of bounds or in the net,” she said.

In the second game, Gold-berg said sophomore Deanna Cortina “made a few really good

kills, which definitely brought momentum up.”

Also, senior Tatiana Froe-hlich injured her shoulder at the match, and was only able to tip balls in the game, rather than attack.

Goldberg said she was “very impressed that Tatiana still managed to get over 30 kills, only on tips.”

Struggling at first, the Tigers defeated Framingham on the road Monday, 3-2.

All the games, with the ex-ception of the last, were close until the end, according to Barton.

The Tigers lost the first, 22-25.

“I think the pressure of play-ing who they knew was the next best team got to them, along with the pressure to maintain our standings in the Bay State Conference,” he said.

“There were about 200 peo-ple there. Some jitters were understandable.”

According to Barton, the serv-ing and attacking became much stronger later in the game.

“We really cut down on errors and made a strong statement.”

At home, the Tigers defeated Brookline Friday, 3-0.

Monday, Oct. 18, the team de-feated Weymouth 3-0 at home. “We shouldn’t have trouble against a mid-level team like Weymouth, and we didn’t,” Barton said.

At the match, the team won its 33rd consecutive game, meaning it also earned 10 con-secutive shutouts, according to Barton.

As long as the team is pre-pared for the postseason, Barton said, “the outcome of the regular season will be less important.”

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Against Weymouth: Senior Tatiana Froehlich jump serves Monday, Oct. 18, at home.

Tigers strive to put focus on tipping and defense for tourney

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At home: Lauren Smith kicks a ball downfield Wednesday, Oct. 20 against Wellesley. The Raiders won 1-0.

Girls’ soccer works on consistencyTigers, 9-7-1, qualify for tournament for first time in four years

by Jay FeinStein

After girls’ soccer, 9-7-1, qualified for the postseason for the first time in four years, the team now needs to keep up qual-ity and consistency as it finishes up the regular season, according to coach James Hamblin.

“When we’re focused we’re a good team, and we’re hard to beat,” he said. “We just need to be like that more often.”

Expecting a difficult game, the Tigers will visit Natick today, according to Hamblin.

“They’re a very, very tough team, and they qualified for tournament early,” he said. “They have strong defense and they’re really competitive.”

According to Hamblin, Natick is one of the strongest teams in the league.

“We’ll have to give it our best effort,” he said.

Wednesday, the Tigers visited Needham, losing 2-0. “We didn’t control the ball well,” said se-nior Ellen Goldberg, a captain with senior Evelyn Hurwitz.

Monday, the Tigers visited a tough Framingham team, losing 1-0. “We weren’t as intense as we usually are, and we weren’t on top of our game,” Goldberg said.

“At this point, we already made the tournament, so we let go and didn’t try our hardest,” she said. “We stepped it up a little near the end of the game,

but we were unable to score.”At home Friday, the Tigers

defeated Brookline 1-0. “Win-ning this game qualified us for the tournament,” Goldberg said.

“Brookline was a solid team, but we were aggressive and deserved the win.”

The Tigers hosted a tough Wellesley team Wednesday, Oct. 20, losing 1-0.

“During the first half of the game, we were a goal down, and we didn’t have control of the ball,” Hamblin said. “Later we picked up the game and had a great performance, but we didn’t score.”

On the road Monday, Oct. 18, the Tigers defeated Medford 3-0 in a “very, very good game,” ac-cording to Hamblin.

“We had our three goals within the first 30 minutes of the game,” he said.

“It was quite a good game because every person on the team contributed.”

Hosting South Saturday, Oct. 16, the Tigers defeated the Lions 1-0, according to Hamblin. “It was an even game,” he said. “We got our goal with just 30 seconds to go.”

At Weymouth Thursday, Oct. 14, the Tigers lost to the Wild-cats, 2-1. “We played well, but we just didn’t communicate, and we didn’t do simple things,” Hamblin said.

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Boysmake States,polishcontrolby Jacob ScHwartZ

In order to do well in the State Tournament, boys’ soccer will “need to fine tune its orga-nization,” according to coach Roy Dow.

The team, 7-4-5, “will have to make sure we’re not having two or three players moving in the same place and other things like that,” he said.

Dow said the team is also improving ball movement, try-ing to make it quicker.

“We want to have each player taking two or three touches off the ball, making it harder for our opponents to track us down.”

Winning Wednesday, Oct. 20 at Wellesley allowed for the Tigers to participate in the State Tournament. “It feels really great to qualify,” Dow said.

“It was one of our goals at the beginning of the season, and now we’ve been on this roll which is great.”

The team, at one point, had a six-game winning streak, which Dow said he is very happy about.

“It took a couple of weeks for the kids to get comfortable with the way the coaches were ask-ing them to go about playing,” Dow said.

“Now they’ve had some time to play together and they can re-ally anticipate each other better. They know defensively how to cover for each other and never let an opposing player run free at goal.”

Needham tied the Tigers 0-0 here at Dickinson Stadium Wednesday. Senior Jeremy Gurvits, a captain with Gabe Paul, said that team “definitely played better in the second half than the first. We came very close to scoring on the last pos-session.”

In a match here that re-mained scoreless until very late in the game, Framingham defeated the Tigers 1-0 Monday. During the first half, the Tigers had great opportunities, cre-ated by strong passing, while Framingham had many one on one situations, many of which ended with solid saves by senior Matt Dickey.

With seven minutes left in the game, Framingham senior Jon Silva broke free from the Tigers’ defense and shot at the Tigers’ goal. The ball got by Dickey for a goal, and the Flyers cheered in celebration.

Framingham coach Dan Av-ery said the Tigers “played solid fundamentally. They had some real close looks too. In fact, I think our team gave them too many solid chances. They’re a really good team, and they’re well-coached.”

Ending the Tigers’ six game shutout streak, the Warriors tied the team 1-1 at Brookline Friday.

At Wellesley, the Tigers won 2-0 Wednesday, Oct. 20.

“We were back on our heels a bit trying to deal with what they were doing, but we adjusted ourselves,” Dow said.

“We picked up our defend-ing, and junior Luke West-man scored two goals midway through the first half.”

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Butterfly: Junior Kayla Prior swims Tuesday against Weymouth in a home meet. The Tigers won 87-75.

Girls’ swimming focuses on freestyleby Jay FeinStein

Girls’ swimming and diving, 6-5, has continued to make ex-ceptional progress as it prepares for the postseason, according to senior Rebecca Harris, a captain with senior Daryl Choa.

This is the Tigers’ first win-ning season “in a while,” accord-ing to Harris.

“Last year we were 5-5-1, which was frustrating, because we were so close to a winning season,” she said.

According to Harris, times have been dropping this sea-son, which contributed to the success.

“Usually people are frus-trated by plateaus in their times, but we’ve really been able to overcome them this season,” she said.

Stroke events, including the 100 breaststroke, backstroke

and butterfly, along with the medley relay, have had the big-gest improvement, Harris said.

“We still need to work on the sprint freestyle,” she said.

According to coach Kirsten Tuohy, the team has many strengths across the board, but the Tigers still need to work on swimming faster with longer intervals.

Tomorrow, the Tigers will participate in the Bay State Con-ference Championship. “We’ll be competing against every team in our league, so I hope we do well,” Tuohy said.

The Tigers will swim in Sec-tionals Saturday, Nov. 13. The meet is a qualifying meet, mean-ing that swimmers need certain scores to be able to participate in it, according to Tuohy.

“We have qualified in every event, which we haven’t done

in years,” she said. Wednesday, the Tigers hosted

Perkins School for the Blind, an unscored meet. The Tigers use blacked out goggles during this competition, according to Harris.

“We look forward to this meet every year,” Harris said. “It’s a great opportunity to meet people who you otherwise wouldn’t meet. You realize that even when people don’t have abilities that seem basic to you, it doesn’t mean that they don’t have any abilities at all.”

Tuesday, the Tigers hosted Weymouth, winning 87-75. “We had three touch-outs in the 500 freestyle, which is the longest distance we swim in,” she said.

At home Friday, the Tigers lost to a strong Needham team 97-87, according to Harris.

“They’re undefeated in the

league, so we’re still happy about our result,” she said. “We were in the lead at the begin-ning, but they caught up.”

On the road Tuesday, Oct. 19, the Tigers defeated Dedham 103-75.

“Our swimmers did a really nice job,” Tuohy said. “I’m re-ally pleased with everybody’s times.”

Many individuals achieved personal records, according to Tuohy, including Harris, who swam her best time in the 100 butterfly, and sophomore Ca-rina Wallack, who achieved a personal record in the 100 yard backstroke.

Some of the Tigers did well in events that they weren’t used to, according to Tuohy.

“Daryl swam the 500 free-style even though she hasn’t swam it in years,” she said.

Field hockey clinches postseason berth

Gabe Dreyer

Against Wellesley: Junior Bobby Grimshaw fights for the ball. The Tigers have qualified for the postseason.

by eli davidow

For the first time in six seasons, field hockey, 6-3-3 Wednesday, has secured a spot in the postseason, according to senior Andrea Marzilli, a cap-tain with seniors Ali Pappas and Marissa Troy.

Because of Wednesday’s 1-0 shutout in Needham, the Tigers have qualified for the next level of competition.

Junior Bobby Grimshaw tapped in the Tigers’ game-win-ning goal after an assist from senior Michele Troy.

Concerning the difficulty of the Tigers’ opponent, Marzilli said, “Needham is a very good team that knows how to pass the ball. It’s always challenging to play them.”

To qualify for the postsea-son, the Tigers needed to finish in first or second place in the Carey Division of the Bay State Conference or earn 15 points, said coach Celeste Myers.

A victory corresponds to two points, while a tie corresponds to one point.

With the victory over the Rockets in the second-to-last game of the regular season, the Tigers earned the mandatory 15 points.

“It’s a cool feeling,” Mar-zilli said. “It’s like we’ve finally earned the postseason for all the teams that worked hard in the past years but never did. We’ll

be able to play for everyone else who didn’t make it.”

According to Myers, “Since last season, I knew that this year’s team would be a special team. But we’ll still need to work hard, because we’re in charge of our own destiny in the games to come.

“How hard this team will

work will determine their out-come, and with that determina-tion and focus, this team will fulfill its dreams.”

To succeed in the postseason, every single player will need to contribute, Myers said.

“Each part has to keep us in the game,” she said. “We never can rely on just one person. We

will either succeed as a team or fail as a team.”

In other recent action, the Tigers defeated the Flyers 3-1 at Framingham Monday to move closer to the postseason.

Grimshaw scored two of the Tigers’ goals and Michele Troy scored the other goal.

“A lot of the win was because we put in our full effort,” Mar-zilli said. “We played physically, and we made good connections and sprinted hard to the ball.”

Here at Dickinson Stadium Saturday, the Tigers defeated Brookline 1-0 for the second time this season.

“We played one of our better games of the season,” Myers said. “With 30 seconds left on the clock in the second half, Bobby put the ball in the corner of the net.”

Wednesday, Oct. 20, Welles-ley beat the Tigers here 2-0.

“In the first half, we played scoreless, but in the second half, we didn’t have the connections necessary to win.”

According to Wellesley coach Chris Molonea, the Raiders’ “plan for the game was to dis-tribute the ball with the full width of the field.”

Tuesday Oct. 19 in Natick, the Tigers lost 3-0.

Yesterday, the Tigers were to have hosted Framingham. Jacob ScHwartZ contributed to tHiS article.

For success, every team member will need to contribute, coach says