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WHAT CAN Student congress DO FOR You? Get an in depth look at Student Congress, page 2 Volume CX, Issue 3 ursday, October 8, 2015 Walnut Hills High School LUKE WARREN/CHATTERBOX

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WHAT CAN Student

congress DO FOR

You?

Get an in depth look at Student

Congress, page 2

Volume CX, Issue 3 Thursday, October 8, 2015 Walnut Hills High School

LUKE WARREN/CHATTERBOX

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Matthew Youkilis, ‘19

Homecoming, Adopt-a-Family and the blood drive all have one thing in common: they are run by Student Congress. The plate is full this year for this student or-ganization: according to the Walnut Hills website, “[Stu-dent Congress] deals with school policy, procedures, and improvements, allow-ing students to provide, in-put into the greater decision making process.” This year’s leaders are SE-NIORS President Ben Leon-ardi, Vice President Beatrice Newberry, Treasurer Isaac Stephani and Secretary Mer-edith Shaw. Each of them serves a major purpose as the heads of Student Congress.

Leonardi is in charge of sched-uling Student Congress events and having monthly meetings with Mr. Brokamp. “Anything that Student Congress runs, not

delegated to the classes, I’m in charge of [it],” Leonardi says. This includes Adopt-a-Family,

Ludi, a retirement party for school janitor Ronald Lane and Homecoming. Leonardi is looking forward to “proposing ideas, imple-

menting them, and seeing how they are perceived by the student body.” Some of these new ideas include adding mu-sic during Friday bell switches and improving spirit week. The Student Body Vice President is Beatrice New-berry. Her position handles scheduling school events along with Leonardi, fun-draising for all of Student Congress and overseeing each class’ production. Newberry is in her third year in Student Congress.

She says, “I have a big interest in helping the students and the school,” and decided to run so

that the students can receive guidance that does not just come from the administration. Similar to Leonardi, Newberry is anticipating “taking the stu-dents’ ideas and making them real events.” Isaac Stephani is the Student Body Treasurer this year. He described his position, saying, “Whenever we raise money for the school...for our Stu-dent Con-gress, I’m in charge of any kind of co l lect ions i n v o l v i n g that.” Stephani, in his first year in Stu-dent Con-gress, de-cided to run because he wanted to be more in-volved in the school. He hopes that the Student Body can be more unified this year and can come together as a community. Stephani says he is most looking forward to “seeing what we can get done, seeing how far we can go this year.” Meredith Shaw, the Student Body Secretary, originally ran for Student Congress because she wanted to play a part in de-cisions for the school. She says, “I want Student Congress to be more involved with the Student

Body, so we’re making more of a difference.” Shaw is looking forward to doing more than in past years. “I’ve been in Student Congress for three years, and the past three years we really haven’t done that much to make a difference.” As secretary, Shaw says, “I record all the meetings and I type up attendance for Student

Congress.” The four ex-e c u t i v e b o a r d members each have goals for the school this year. They plan to bring the Stu-dent Body t o g e t h e r m o r e than in past years. Leonardi says, “Just

be prideful about the fact that you go to Walnut Hills High School. It’s not just about sports. It’s not just about the academics. It’s about the culture here.”

“Just be prideful about

the fact that you go to

Walnut Hills High School.”

-Ben Leonardi, ‘16

“I want Student Congress to

be more involved with the

Student Body.”-Meredith Shaw, ‘16

Ibrahim Munir, ‘19

LUDI is Walnut Hills’ largest student fundraiser of the year which supports all clubs, sports and extracurricular activities. Students have the chance to win prizes based on their level of support and participation; the

more money students raise and donate, the bigger the prizes. Most of the fundraising is com-pleted online, where students can choose which club or orga-nization they want to donate to. This year, the class of ‘21 raised the most money, with a grand total of $7,756. This year’s

fundraising goal was $20,000, however, Walnut students sur-passed that goal by 59% and raised a total of $31,703. The LUDI event took place on October 2nd. There was a raffle, a live band, a bouncy house and the prestiged Stu-dent-Faculty flag football game,

among other activities. Students could win Frosh, Homecoming or Prom tickets, and multiple assorted gift baskets. The Black Ties, a student formed band, performed from 3 until 5:30 p.m. The main event of Ludi is the Student-Faculty flag foot-

ball game. Each team was com-posed of five boys and five girls, and the student team was made of only juniors and SENIORS. The final score was 28-21 teach-ers. However, there have been many complaints of bias and unfair reffing (mostly by stu-dents).

It’s masculine. It’s nominative. It’s plural. It’s LUDI.

ALL PHOTOS TAKEN BY IBRAHIM MUNIR/CHATTERBOX

Special thanks to Elise Fritts, ‘16, Isabella Pittman, ‘16 Michael Sher-man and Donald Stocker for assis-tance with the front page photograph.

THe four executive Student Congress members stand on THe Plaza overlooking the football field. Each serves a role in making decisions for the organization.

LOGAN WALTERS/CHATTERBOX

Disclaimer: Isaac Stephani, ‘16 is a member of The Chatterbox.

Walnut’s four fearless leaders

A student laughs after he pulls a flag from one of the faculty. THe student-faculty football game was a huge aspect of LUDI.

THe Black Ties, a student band, performed at LUDI. THey played for two and a half hours at the event.

THe faculty preparing to make a play. Possibly due to dubious reffing, the faculty emerged victorious.

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Walnut stands with Ahmed. Do you?Maham Usmani, ‘19 Accused of making a bomb, fourteen-year-old Muslim teen, Ahmed Mohamed, was arrested in Texas. Mohamed wanted to start off his freshman year in high school by impressing his teacher, so he introduced them to a clock he designed. Not too long after his teachers suspended him by claim-ing he brought a bomb, rather than a homemade clock, to school, the Internet exploded with posts captioned:“#istandwithahmed.” Because it is said that Mohamed was given the accusation due to prejudice against Islam and his ethnicity, many use this hashtag

to represent their unity with Mo-hamed. This event certainly affected various people, especially Mus-lims. Abdul-Rahman Smari, ‘19, is aware of what happened with Mohamed, and thought that it was “ridiculous that [people think] he’s a terrorist just because, in my opin-ion, his name. If it was anybody else that would say the same thing would happen [to someone with a different name] that’s not the case.” When asked if Smari stands with Mohamed he said, “Yes, even if you’re treated badly you can always end up doing well.” Although many see what hap-pened to Mohamed as an example

Joseph Glandorf, ‘16Vanessa Moore ‘16Morgan Kitchen, ‘17

Who do you support?Because this is Walnut Hills, odds are you’d prefer a Democrat. But, regardless of what you’ve already got in your head about the election, it’s important to look at your candidate’s stances on the issues. Here, we have listed the stances on the issues of the two most extreme candidates-- Sanders on the far left, Trump on the far right. Republicans might call out that Sanders’ positions on gun control are too radical, and Democrats have had no trouble finding prob-lems with Trump’s ideas on im-migration. But both candidates, despite their polarizing views, have found huge bases in their party. Is this a sign that American politics is polarizing, or do we just want to see some change?

Party Affiliation: RepublicanExperience: Entrepreneur Running Since: June 16, 2015On the Issues:Abortion is a woman’s right: dis-agreesSame-sex marriage rights: disagreesAbsolute right to gun ownership: agreesAdvance green energy: disagreesHigher taxes on the wealthy: agreesPathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants: disagreesPrivatize Social Security: agrees

Party Affiliation: Democrat Experience: was elected to U.S. Senate in 2006 Running Since: May 26, 2015 On the Issues:Abortion is a woman’s right: agreesSame-sex marriage rights: agrees Absolute right to gun ownership: disagrees Advance green energy: agrees Higher taxes on the wealthy: agrees Pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants: agrees Privatize Social Security: disagrees

FIRST BOOK IN THE BELLA MONSTRUM YOUNG ADULT HOR-ROR TRILOGY BY RENOWNED AUTHOR

ANN CHRISTOPHERWhen Bria Hunter and her high school classmates hop a fl ight home from their spring break in the Bahamas, they have no idea that their plane will crash into the ocean in a most bizarre and terrifying way.

Th is is just the beginning of the horrors that await them in the Bermuda Triangle.

Plucked from the water only to realize that their rescue ship is more treacherous than the open sea, they will gain an unlikely ally in the captain’s son, Cortés. Waging a desperate war for survival, they will battle an unspeakable creature spawned from the ocean‘s darkest abyss— a devious monster determined to massacre them, one by one.

With escape impossible, rescue unlikely and time running out, Bria and the others must make a last stand against this perfect killing machine…

of institutional racism and dis-crimination that should not have happened, others also see it as a positive for Muslims as a whole. Muslim freshman Nuha Syed, ‘19, said “I feel prouder as a Muslim... that someone, a Muslim... that has such great skill was invited to the White House and is recognized ev-erywhere.” #istandwithahmed symbolizes both the hatred and unity that is expressed by people across the world. Hatred may have caused this problem to arise, but unity has certainly helped address it.

Bold. Brash. Unapologetic. These worlds often come to mind when thinking of billionaire Don-ald Trump. Whether you agree with his tactics or not, Trump is definitely accomplishing some-thing: massive attention. Trump has dominated the head-lines for weeks, and his audacious approach to addressing the major issues, such as: immigration, social security and international rela-tions, is clearly gaining him popu-larity with people tired of “political correctness.”

Hillary Clinton should be shak-ing in her boots. Bernie Sanders, once a relatively unkown Senator from Vermont, has introduced himself to the national stage. Sanders is becoming the favorite of the millenials. His stance on a strong single-payer health care sys-tem, free public higher education, and raising taxes on the wealthy attracts the younger generations. Sanders has an original, down-to-earth, and approachable attitude toward politics, giving the modest senator a loyal following.

Presidential Candidate Profile: Sanders v. Trump

CARTOON BY JULIA DUELL/CHATTERBOX

PHOTO BY GAGE SKIDMORE/WIKIMEDIA PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA

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Peanuts 4

The shadow shuffle

Coming to a new school can be extremely daunting, and so it may be helpful to new students to have a day with a host at Walnut. Wal-nut is massive in both pop-ulation and the size of the building itself. When students shadow they can learn about how

the school works. In order to host a shadow, one must be recommended by a teacher. The teachers look for people who have good grades, who are social, and who the teach-ers believe will help benefit a student considering Walnut Hills. Andrea Scheper, ‘20, shad-owed here before she started

7th grade and she said that it was helpful to know how big the school is. Scheper said that she was “kind of ner-vous, but not crazy nervous about it. [I was] mostly just really excited because it was a new environment.” She also said that it prepared her a lot more for Walnut. She was able to experience what life is like at Walnut Hills. Each shad-ow is different; some are nervous or intimidated, while others are comfortable with their host. Isaac Kim, ‘20, did not have a good shadow-ing experience. Kim said he felt uncomfortable with his host while he was shadow-ing. Some people who did not like this experience said that it was awkward walk-ing with a stranger. Kim said that the people he saw were “wild.” However, Walnut Hills changed his mind once he got here. He now enjoys coming here everyday. Julian Smith, ‘20 was recommended four times to

host a shadow. He said, “I feel I helped some more than others.” He was able to help shadows who interacted with him and asked questions to him. Principal Jeffrey Brokamp said, “If a student wants to shadow here coming from a different school, then we put them with their grade [that]

they are right now, with the exception of sixth graders.” They shadow seventh grad-ers. “Teachers recommend [the students]. We train the hosts.” The host goes through basic training to understand how to help the shadows and to know what to do to con-nect them to other kids. There are not as many people who shadow in ninth grade and up. Most shadows

are sixth graders who are con-sidering Walnut Hills for the upcoming school year. Some shadows can choose, if they are in eighth or ninth grade, to shadow Honors students. However, if there is no Hon-ors student available, then the shadow can be recom-mended to one. According to Brokamp,

the lunch period is the most im-portant part of the day, because this is when they can meet other stu-dents. The shad-ows can be shy and this is the time for them to be more open with the host and with the peo-ple around them.

This is the time for them to interact with people and be-come more familiar with the environment. The experience all depends on the student who is shad-owing and their host. It can be a learning experience or it can be an awkward six hours.

Dear Piper Peanut,

I don’t have enough time to get to class. Can you give me any advice on how I can get through the halls without run-ning and still get to class on time?

Sincerely,Tardy Tina

Dear Tardy Tina,

We understand maneuver-ing the halls of Walnut can be a struggle and teachers don’t help by placing strict, no ar-gument, tardy rules. How-

ever, don’t fret because there are a lot of ways to avoid the mess of coming in after the late bell. It’s an important thing to know your schedule, because that determines what direc-tion you go to get from class to class. Often times, there are multiple routes you can take, and trying each out in-dividually can help determine which takes the least amount of time. Stairwells are often the cause of all the fuss, so taking a course that avoids an intersection like that can shave a few minutes off of your time. Avoiding major

hallways is key in making it through your classroom door on time. Try refraining from mak-ing a pit stop at your locker. The rush of having to fumble with your lock and search for the books you need can be incredibly time consum-ing. Some prime locker vis-iting periods include before and after school, as well as at lunch. Retrieve the books you need for the first set of classes before school, and switch to your second set of books at lunch. After school you can stop and collect the books you’ll need for home-

work. You should also know ahead of time what materials you’ll need to be gathering and have your locker orga-nized to obtain them easily, so you won’t have to sit there scouring your locker for that vocabulary workbook. It’s also a good idea to get packed up a few seconds before the bell rings for dis-missal. Most teachers will give their students a few minutes of time at the end of each class to gather their belongings. Spend this time wisely; instead of chatting with a mate, maybe pack up your bag and get prepared to

Tough times for tardy Tina

Emma Farrell, ‘18

leave. It shouldn’t take too long to do so, and you may still have time to finish that important conversation. If you’re still having trou-ble, you could always talk to your teacher about leaving a few seconds early so as to avoid the traffic of students between bells. Most teachers understand how massive the student population here at Walnut is, and may cut you a little slack if you ask politely.

Sincerely,Piper Peanut

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A shadow is being shown around the school by a student host. They are able to learn valuable information about Walnut during the day.

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Pumpkin spice & everything niceIngredients:2-3 tablespoons graham cracker crumbs3 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted2 tablespoons granulated sugar1 large egg1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract1/4 cup all-purpose flour2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder1/8 teaspoon baking powder1 1/2 ounces milk chocolate (chopped or morsels)marshmallow fluff This cake was not what I expected. I expected more of a moist cake with a chocolatey and marshmallowy flair. Unfortunately, it turned out rather dry and spongey. To fix this issue I recommend using a little less flour. Also, adding more wet ingredients may help moisten the cake. This cake was also a huge mess to clean up, between all the ingredients and the marsh-mallows exploding in the microwave. Try it at <http://www.howsweeteats.com>

Ingredients:¼ cup all-purpose flour½ teaspoon apple pie spice½ teaspoon baking powder3 tablespoons granulated sugarPinch of salt1½ tablespoons unsweetened applesauce2 tablespoons milk1 teaspoon vegetable oil1 teaspoon water I thought this cake would be a moist and easy to make fall treat, but I found it to be otherwise. While it was quite easy to make, it wasn’t all I expected. It turned out dry, but not so spongey. This recipe calls for no egg because the egg can typically make it spongey, but I recommend adding an egg or an egg substitute to help moisten up the cake. I really did like the flavor of this cake, it reminded me of fall bursting in my mouth. If you want to try this recipe, go to <http://www.tablefortwoblog.com>.

Ingredients:1-1/2 tablespoons butter, melted1 egg½ cup pumpkin cake mix½ teaspoon instant espresso powder1/3 cup whipped cream2 tablespoons caramel sauce

Wow, oh, wow. If you like pumpkins, you will love this cake! This was the best out of all the cakes I tried. This cake was not spongey at all. It was a little dry, however, but not too bad. It tasted just like a Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks, but in a cake form. This cake was also the easiest of them all to make. It took about 5 minutes to make, microwave time included. The best part of this cake was all the garnishes on top. The recipe only calls for whip cream but since I’m not a big whip cream fan I added caramel and a marshmallow, yummy! To try this mug cake for yourself, visit <http://www.coupons.com/thegoodstuff>

Ingredients:1 Tablespoon Butter1 Tablespoon Granulated White Sugar1 Tablespoon of firmly packed Dark Brown Sugar3 Drops of Vanilla ExtractSmall Pinch of Kosher Salt1 Egg Yolk (discard the egg white or save for different recipe)Scant ¼ of All Purpose Flour (slightly less than ¼ of a cup)2 heaping tablespoons of Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips

Do you like cookies? Do you like cups? Well then you will love a cookie in a cup! This cake tastes like a fresh warm cookie that your grandmother just pulled out of the oven. I could eat this all day long. I would recommend pairing it with a cold glass of milk or, now that it’s fall, eggnog. My favorite part about this cake was how moist it was. Even though the cake was already so chocolatey, I added more chocolate chips on top. If you want to, you could even put a swirl of whip cream on it! Try it out at <http://www.number-2-pencil.com>

5 Minute Chocolate Fudge S’mores Mug Cake

Salted Caramel Apple Spice Mug Cake

Pumpkin Spice Latte Mug Cake

Chocolate Chip Cookie in a Cup

ALL PHOTOS BY KATIE CHASE/CHATTERBOX

Katie Chase, ‘16

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Music into the futureSIX STUDENTS PURSUING MUSICAL CAREERS

The Seniors

The Juniors

The Sophomores

SENIOR Jared Bailey realized in his fresh-man year that he wanted to become a music producer. Producing music is “puzzle piecing,” Bailey says, “tak-ing stuff out and putting stuff in, in order to sound good.” Before deciding on this, Bailey already knew how to play the piano, guitar and how to use music computer programs. After thinking about what he could do as a career, he realized that producing was his passion. Soon after that realization, Bailey managed to get a private tour of Sound Images, a recording studio downtown. Next fall, Bailey hopes to attend the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music’s Com-mercial Music Production Program. In this program, students can gain practical experience in production through a co-op with Sound Images. In the future, he hopes to establish his career in Cincinnati, and then move to a bigger city. Bailey loves moments when he can sit down take a recording, mash it up and then share the finished prod-uct with a friend. To him, producing is “Being able to tell a story. Everyone has a way to express themselves,

mine is through music.”

Emily Glazer, ‘17Veronica Victa, ‘16

In the fourth grade, Gareth Evans,’17, joined his first choir and also decided that he wanted to be a teacher. Now, he has combined these interests in hopes of pursuing a career in music education. Currently, he is a member of Walnut’s Senior Ensemble and Cincinnati Children’s Choir, which is run by University of Cincinnati’s College Con-servatory of Music. Evans is also singing with oth-er students passionate about music in Ohio Music Educators Association’s District XIV Choir, which gives him the opportunity to create music with an esteemed conductor, James Bagwell, also the director of the May Festival Youth Chorus this year. It was in the ninth grade that Evans realized he wanted to teach choir. He was inspired by his choir teachers, particularly Anthony Nims, the choir direc-tor at Walnut. In Senior Choir, Evans was a section leader, meaning he led his section when it came to learning their music. “Music brings people together,” Evans says. One day, he hopes that he can share his love of music and singing with students of his own and bring them together as one voice.

Helping people through music is what Ol-ivia Barnaclo, ‘17, hopes is in her future. She wants to pursue a career in music therapy: “[A music therapist] sings and uses instruments such as piano, guitar, and the ukulele while the patient can choose to listen, draw,or play along,” Barnaclo says. Music is important to Barnaclo—she has played piano for about thirteen years, sung in choir for about nine and now plays the ukulele, the main in-strument used in music therapy. When looking for possible careers, Barnaclo found the American Music Therapy website and realized that it was what she wanted to do. “I fell in love with the concept of heal-ing and helping others through music,” Barnaclo says. Barnaclo hopes to help all kinds of people. She has taught music to children before and enjoyed “seeing their reactions to music and to different songs.” After asking music therapy students for more information, she became more interested in helping older adults and the disabled. As a music therapist, Barnaclo would help patients while doing something she loves: enjoying music.

Auggy Corder, ‘18, knows exactly where he wants to be in ten years: Broadway. The first show he watched on Broadway was Les Miserables. Accordingly, this is the musical that showed him “just what musical theater could be. [It] embodies everything I appreciate in life—ex-pression, morals and music with meaning.” This idea of expression through music is what draws him more towards musicals more than just plays. Corder has always enjoyed singing but has only seriously pursued it here at Walnut with voice les-sons and choir. But singing is not the only skill he needs. Another is acting, which he works in shows and in classes. His biggest challenge is dancing. While he readily admits that, he nevertheless takes on productions that are notoriously dance intensive such as Hairspray. “Nothing beats the rush when you just nail a dance, a hard song or an emotional scene!” Corder says The hard work is exactly what he wants to do: be in shows like last year’s production of Sweeney Todd,which was, for him, “something to be proud of, something I had to work for, and just something special!”

Weston Gilbert, ‘18 may have years before college, but he already knows exactly what

he wants to do: play the violin and compose music. Gilbert first started the violin at the age of five, when he listened to a violin CD and told his parents he wanted to learn that. Now he, a sophomore, is in his fifth year at the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music’s Preparatory Department’s Starling Chamber Orchestra, his fourth at Walnut’s Chamber Orchestra, and his second at the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra. Gilbert started composing music at age seven. He has been taking lessons since 6th grade and has won numerous regional and state awards for his work. Wal-nut’s Chamber Orchestra performed one of his works, “Fantasy in E-Flat Minor” at New York’s Carnegie Hall when he was in eighth grade. Someday, Gilbert hopes that his compositions are played by Ensemble InterContemperain, a French en-semble that performs new and contemporary works.Gilbert doesn’t doubt his future in music: “When you’ve been doing something for this long and it’s something you really love, it’s difficult to ever think

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Music has always been a key part of SE-NIOR Anna Donnelly’s life, but it wasn’t until ju-nior year that she decided that she wanted to pursue opera. One of the programs that sparked Donnelly’s interest in classical music was Musical Arts Center’s Young Artist Preparatory Program, a nine month program that allows talented high school vocalists to hone their skills and explore opera. The program culminates in an end of year per-formance where the students sing excerpts from op-eras. ”I loved it,” Donnelly says. “It’s very rare that high school students can have so much involvement performing actual opera. It’s what really put me over the edge, like ‘this is what I want to do.’” Currently, Donnelly is auditioning for music schools, where she will major in vocal performance. She has her sights set in the long run on opera, how-ever, if she could perform anywhere in ten years, she would be on the stage of the renowned Chicago Lyric Opera.

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Across4. Bring your dishes !9. abbreviation is JCL; a.k.a. Latin Club12. They're saving the world one step at a time, you may see them collecting cans during your class13. Even if you don’t take News Production class, you can still help produce our school newspaper by being in this club.14. They usually meets in January , because they need the cold to do what they do best.Down1. “Bonjour”, This club teaches about the French culture.2. This club helps and encourage a healthy lifestyle3. There is a regular and jr. version of this club. In it you can act or imitate lower court trials attorneys may use this role play exercise to test theories or experiment with each other.5. “Lights, Camera , Action.”6. Club that promotes and supports the education of African American culture.7. They try to service to underdeveloped nations.8. “On guard” you can use a sword, epee or a saber to win point against your opponent in this club.10. The bomb squad came to see their robot last year11. They raise awareness of gender equality

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Crossword PuzzleOctavia Carmen-Houser, ‘16

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Perspectives

“The pumpkins”

Link Villanueva, ‘17

“When the leaves change color.”Maddie Schade, ‘19

“The Pumpkin Spice Lattes”

Belal Hajhamed, ‘16

Tara Sales, ‘17

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Across : 4. Bring your dishes!9. They are called the JCL; a.k.a. Latin Club12. They’re saving the world one step at a time; you may see them collecting cans during your class.13. Even if you don’t take News Production class, you can still help produce the school newspaper by being in this club.14. They usually meet in January , because they need the cold to do what they do best.

Down1. Bonjour! This club teaches about the French culture.2. This club helps and encourages a healthy lifestyle.3. Attorneys may use this role play exercise to test theories. 5. “Lights, Camera , Action.” In this club members create and direct films.6. This club promotes and supports the educating people about African American culture.7. They try to service underdeveloped nations.8. On guard! You can use a sword, epee or a saber to win point against your opponent in this club.10. The bomb squad came to see this club’s robot last year.11. They raise awareness for gender equal-ity.

Answers: Across: 4. Culinary club; 9. Junior Classical League; 12. Recycling Club; 13. Newspaper Club; 14. Ski club. Down: 1. French club; 2. Health nuts; 3. Mock trial; 5. Film Club; 6. Black Culture Club; 7. KIVA; 8. Fencing Club; 10. Robotics Team; 11. Surge.

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