Is Early Decision the right decision?Thirteen percent of senior class applied ED to a college

by Kira Thompson and CuneyT dil Class of ‘14

To commit, or not to commit? This was the question Washington Latin se-niors mulled over before deciding wheth-er to apply Early Decision to a college.

Early Decision is a binding agree-ment with the student and the college stat-ing that if the college accepts the student, the student must attend that college. Stu-dents may only apply to one school Early Decision, and must withdraw applications from other schools if they are accept-ed. Director of College Counseling Crys Latham famously dubs it as “marriage.”

One potential benefit of applying Early Decision is that it increases a stu-

by CuneyT dil

Class of ‘14

A Washington Latin emergen-cy sprinkler was triggered during an af-ter-school physics experiment involving sugar and potassium chlorate on January 8. No one was hurt, and there was no serious water damage, the school reported.

Physics teacher Howard Alpert and two other students were creating a “smoke bomb” science fair experiment in the phys-ics lab when the chemical reaction heated too quickly and ignited, causing one sprin-kler to activate, according to Alpert and school officials.

The school’s fire alarm also activat-ed, which prompted the fire department to arrive, and the school followed standard fire drill protocol to evacuate everyone from the building.

“We had to turn off the electricity to a portion of the building which affected the security, and the alarms system, and so on,” said Head of School Martha Cutts.

“[The experiment] was not some-thing I had done before, so that was a mis-take on my part,” said Alpert. “The instruc-tions called for you to heat it gradually and we wanted to speed it up, which was anoth-er bad idea, and it ignitied. With the igni-tion, it set off the sprinkler, which is what the sprinkler is supposed to do.

Physics experiment breaks badHeat sets sprinkler off

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INSIDE JANUARYMore trees around campus? news, page three

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Poetry Club poem submissionsstyle & arts, page nine

Coach Jamaal Clark profilesports, page five

Rugby to debut in springsports, page six

The recycling bin conundrumnews, page two

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28Number of seniors who have received at least one college acceptance

37Number of total acceptance letters received by seniors

89Days until May 1, the date most colleges require students to choose the college they will attend(as of 1/31/14)

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by sarah Wu

Class of ‘17

Christopher Richard-son, Geometry and AP Cal-culus teacher, was riding his motorcycle on Connecticut Avenue when a confused driver “made a left turn from his lane to [Richardson’s] lane, right in front of [him],” according to himself.

Unable to react to the sudden turn, Richardson swerved into another driver’s car and flipped off of his mo-torcycle. He bounced off of the

hood of a car before landing in the street.

Richardson broke his tibia and dislocated his right ankle, and had to wear a brace for over a month.

The accident occurred on November 20 at about 6:15 PM, during rush hour when “there are four lanes in one di-rection and two in the other.”

After the motorcycle accident, Richardson swiftly returned to his concerned class, smiling.

“[Michael] Davis, [the substitute teacher], wasn’t spe-

cific to what kind of accident it was, so I was shocked,” said freshman Maggie Dalzell. “The ominous way he said ‘Mr. Rich-ardson had an accident’ seemed like a delicate way of saying it was fatal. When we were in-formed he only broke his leg, I was relieved.”

Students were further relieved when Richardson re-turned to class with his normal, buoyant attitude.

“He seems to be the same...You can always tell if he is okay if he starts making bad puns,” said freshman Harry

Warren.Richardson did indeed

continue with his puns, even joking on his first day back that he had a “good ‘Thanksgiving break.’”

“Richardson is tough in spirit and body,” said assistant principal Laurel Seid, who is an old friend of Richardson from their teaching days at Edumnd Burke School. “Did you know he and his family [went] sailing during the winter vacation in Guadeloupe? Guess who [was] the Captain!”

Mr. Richardson’s Thanksgiving break

by samanTha anderson

Class of ‘17

Fifteen recycling bins are positioned throughout Washington Latin’s hallways, corners and intersections. They all bear the well-known recycling symbol, along with the words “paper,” “plastic,” “cans” and “glass”

This year, for the first time, students have an im-proved access to recycling bins. However, although the bins are clearly marked with the classic interlocking arrows, students use the bins to deposit non-re-cyclable trash and food waste.

Simply put, the school’s recycling bins are being used as trash cans.

There are three trash cans near the main entrance, which say “waste,” yet also display the recycling symbol. Adding to the disorganization, each recycling bin indicates all three mediums of reusable by-products.

“It’s kind of confusing,” said freshman Sophie Collier. “Some say ‘recycle’ all over,

but are filled with trash.”“I think we need more

waste bins,” said freshman Car-maya Humble. “We only have a few, and it’s not enough. We’re trying to get people to recycle, but it’s not working; everyone puts trash in the recycling bins.” Humble, a member of the Envi-ronmental Club, believes that the recycling bins “have not been used to their capacity”.

“We need to supplement our trash cans with more re-cycling opportunities in class-rooms, offices, hallways and on the school grounds,” said Peter Findler, Upper School History teacher and an advisor to the Environmental Club. “I usual-ly make my own by taking the tops off of copy paper boxes to use for recycling in my class-room.”

The Environmen-tal Club recently launched a pro-recycling media campaign, putting up hand-made posters that advise students to properly use the recycling bins.

According to Findler, our school needs recycling bins like “Santa needs elves.”

Washington Latin’s recycling bin conundrum

One of the recycling bins (Photo by Emily Hall ‘15).

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Sprinkler set off

“I got my fire extin-guisher, and before I could turn it on, [the heat] already set [the sprinkler] off and put out [the fire],” said Alpert.

Only one sprinkler was set off as a result of heat from the experiment, in a corner of the physics lab.

The science lab fume hood was not used for the ex-periment because “the quantity was too big,” said Alpert. “The fume hood is good for small quantities and small reactions.”

“I felt good about the fact that we were able to com-municate successfully with parents and the neighbors, the board of governors and the charter board,” said Cutts. “I am just very glad that no one was hurt.”

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by alex CruTe

Class of ‘17

If you look around out-side the Washington Latin cam-pus, you won’t see many trees. However, this may change by April 9, if Casey Trees donates trees to the school.

Casey Trees is a Wash-ington, D.C., nonprofit that aims to improve D.C.’s tree canopy. If everything goes ac-cording to plan, on April 9 stu-dents from Latin will be able to plant ten Black Gum trees at the front of the campus, as part of the Casey Trees’ school trees program.

Approximately 40 stu-dents and ten adults will be needed on the planting day. Planting day will happen only after a number of preliminary steps. These steps include a

site visit by Casey Trees to the Latin campus and volunteer training. After the planting day, students will need to water the trees once a week for the next two years.

Deborah Moss, a par-ent who is helping to lead the project, said, “the trees will be provided free by Casey Trees.[Students] will be involved in planting the trees and taking care of the trees.”

“The only way we should get trees should be if students are involved,” said Rickey Torrence, AP Environ-mental Science teacher.

“I feel like people would enjoy it and want to help the community, but that might be my goody two-shoes side talking,” said freshman Sarah Wu.

Torrence agreed, “I

teach Environmental Science, so I could teach a number of lessons [about the trees]”

A greener landscape at Washingtion Latin?Freshman class could partner with Casey Trees to plant ten trees in spring

Image from Casey Trees facebook

by Emily Hall

class of ‘15

Film and Drama Club hosted its second performance of the year, Student Theatre, an event where students write, direct and act in their very own short plays.

The performance, held on January 18, included eight original plays and one segment of improvisation.

Unlike the 24 Hour Plays, which was the club’s first event of the school year, stu-dents were able to write scripts over the course of a week, rath-er than in one-day. However, one aspect that stayed the same was the one day rehearsal. The students had four hours to mem-orize lines and get ready for the performance on the same night.

“I like that it gives stu-

dents who generally do not have the time to act and per-form a wonderful opportunity that they wouldn’t normally have,” said junior Jimmy Blan-ford, a participant of both the 24 Hour Plays and Student The-

atre this year.Another Student The-

atre performance will be held later in the year.Watch the full Student The-atre on sumusleones.com. Keyword: Student Theatre

Film and Drama club hosts second performance of year

Eowyn Sherrer ‘17 (right) and Nia Miller ‘17 (left) performing “The Mirror” (Photo by Emily Hall ‘15).

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by sylvie ashford

Class of ‘17

“[The seniors] have been through a lot,” junior Ga-briella Jones said, laughing, as she glanced at a group of se-niors who, for the first time on the new campus, had ventured off-campus for lunch in ear-ly December. “They deserve this!”

It is a tradition that start-ed last year; Washington Latin seniors have the opportunity to leave the Latin premises for the cuisine of their choice, dubbed as another “senior privilege,” by the school.

The class of 2014 has had the opportunity to go off campus on Fridays during lunch since the beginning of December. The privilege is only available on Fridays because of

the complications necessary to keep the experience safe, the school reported.

However, going off campus has yet to become a routine experience, according to some seniors.

During the 45-minute lunch period, students allowed to leave campus can either stay in the neighborhood or arrange for transportation to leave. Stu-dents have made varied choic-es, from staying in school, to going to the Kennedy Street CVS, the Fort Totten 7-Eleven or driving to the Popeyes on Georgia Avenue.

Laurel Seid, the assis-tant principal, explained that this off-campus opportunity “started last year with the se-niors because [the school lead-ers] were looking for ways to let them experience privilege

based on their age and maturi-ty.”

“Off-campus lunch is a good stress reliever and having that time to be with your friends is really helpful with the appli-cation process for colleges and scholarships,” said senior Kelly Rivera.

Out of a 35 student sur-vey, nearly 80% of Latin high school students “theoretically” liked the idea of off-campus lunch. Forty-three percent, however, said that they would not want it in the school’s cur-rent neighborhood. Fifty-six percent favored the policy.

Seid stated that off-cam-pus lunch was just as fitting around the new campus as the old, as the recent in-statement was just “...a natural continu-ation of a tradition started last year.”

Latin freshman Ethan Sherman hopes the policy will remain, and possibly be extend-ed to the whole high school.

“ [ H i g h - s c h o o l e r s ] should get to experience off-campus lunch,” Sherman said.

In contrast, Latin fresh-man Clare Hall is one student who believes that the off-cam-pus lunch policy at the new campus is negative for seniors.

“There just aren’t any places to go around here...it seems like more worry than it is worth,” she admitted, while admiring the concept.

The success of the poli-cy remains to be seen as seniors adapt in the coming months. “The first few times it was a lit-tle chaotic,” Rivera said. “But it was nice to get a chance to breathe.”

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Commitment to one college turns some away from applying ED

dent’s chance of being accepted into the school.

“Initially, [the college process] was stressful because I didn’t really know where I wanted to go,” said senior Va-nessa Rodriguez, who was ac-cepted Early Decision to Mount Holyoke College. “But then I got into this program called Focus on Diversity for Mount Holyoke. I visited the school, and I fell in love with the class-

es. So, I decided to apply Early Decision.”

However, some seniors did not apply Early Decision because of the binding commit-ment.

“I didn’t apply Early Decision because I was afraid that if I did get into the school, [I would have to attend],” said senior Brandi Clarke, who originally considered applying Early Decision to Swarthmore College, but later changed her mind. “I wasn’t too familiar

with the school, and I was be-ginning to realize that it wasn’t really the place for me, so I didn’t want to be forced to go to that school.”

“I didn’t want to be tied down to one college,” said se-nior Deja Mosley.

“I decided to apply Early Decision II, but I got rejected,” said senior Marissa Johnson, who had applied to Smith Col-lege. “But I have still applied to other schools, and I have heard back from other schools.”

Johnson suggests that if “you really like the school” then you should apply Early Decision. There is also the op-tion of Early Action for many schools, which is non-binding and students can apply to as many schools as they want un-der Early Action.

“I did Early Action for some schools because I am not a patient person,” said Johnson. “I want to know where I am go-ing sooner, not later.”

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this issue’s contributors

Kira Thompson ‘14 News Sarah Wu ‘17 NewsSamantha Anderson ‘17 News, MoviesAlex Crute ‘17 NewsSylvie Ashford ‘17 NewsTyrik Dedrick ‘14 MoviesOlivia Boyd ‘15 Copyediting

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Head Coach Jamaal Clark, in red (left-center), is in his fifth year coaching at Washington Latin (photo taken from facebook.com).

Making the cutA profile on boys basketball Coach Jamaal Clark

by CuneyT dil

Class of ‘14

Even as a Head Coach with fifteen years of experience coach-ing basketball, Jamaal Clark still harks back to his 14-year-old self for inspiration, when he was cut from DeMatha

High School’s highly selective boys varsity basketball team in his freshman year.

“I remember thinking I was the best guy in the world; I could play football really well, [and] thought I was athletic enough to play basketball. But I went to DeMatha High School, which is really the best of the best. I knew from the minute I stepped on the floor that I was going to get cut,” Clark says. “I tried it anyway, but it was a devastating feeling.”

Perhaps, little did he know at the time that getting cut would vastly shape his coaching style. The experience has led to Clark dreading the same day every year—when he has to cut players that try out for his team. He sympathizes towards kids who get cut.

“No matter how many years I coach, this is the day I always hate. Had to make cuts today to trim my final roster,” reads a Face-

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book post by him. “This is the one time I hate being a Head Coach, because I feel that I owe the kid(s) the right to a face-to-face conversation. It’s honestly one of the worst feelings in the world to me.”

For Clark, his parents made sure to comfort him and cheer him up after he was cut from DeMatha’s team. Howev-er, he realizes not everyone’s family is the same.

“I had parents who went out and bought me a car and tried to cheer me up from being cut, but it was still just a hard feeling. So, even as a head coach, I think back to when I was 14 and trying out for varsi-ty basketball. That still plays a role in my head,” Clark says. “I don’t know what each of these kids’ parents are like, if they are gonna have someone to go home and try to build their con-fidence back up, or if they’re gonna go home and it’s some-one that just doesn’t care about them. I think that’s what makes it hard.”

This season Latin’s var-sity boys basketball team had eight slots for new players, seven vacated from the seniors who graduated, and one due to a student transferring out of the

school.“We run through drills,

and then let them play; [we] run a couple scrimmages because I think if we just do the drills, sometimes a kid may show you something in a game situation that he couldn’t show you in a drill,” Clark says. “Sometimes someone’s natural ability might show up in a game situation.”

Clark takes a patient ap-proach to dealing with players. This patience has proven to be the best way to teach players how to deal with adversity.

“We do [tryouts] for three days...maybe someone has a bad day, maybe someone has had two bad days, and on the third day, they know that they’re on the brink of getting cut. That helps me as a coach to show me how [a player] deals with adversity; if you can show up that third day and really work your tail off,” Clark says. “And we’ve had that [happen]. We’ve had a guy that I wanted to cut, who by the third day, he stuck it out, and then made the team.

“Last year’s team, we could only keep 15 [players]. I actually ended up keeping 18, and using the extra three as practice squad players...I want-ed to cut them the first day, but they kept coming out working

harder and harder. That part of me not wanting to cut people played a role in the part of them working hard.”

When Clark began coaching Latin’s basketball team in 2009 he had to build a program out of very little. Very little in terms of resources, a very little budget and very little wins. He began by “breaking down” a lot of the kids on the team.

Clark knows very well, from his DeMatha days, how it feels like to be young and think you are on top of the world.

However, he believes a player cannot truly improve his game until they are taken down a peg.

“The hardest part [in building a team] is trying to convince kids that they actually don’t know how to play basket-ball,” Clark says. “You have a lot of kids coming here because it’s a smaller school, and maybe they’re better than their class-mates, but they step out into the real world and find out that they’re not really as great as they think they are...Sometimes you have to break a kid down, just to build them up.”

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Latin tackles rugby: Team to debut in springby amal RilEy

class of ‘14

In early October, Jason Vanterpool, 9th grade English teacher and upper school Dean of Students, was contacted by the president of the Washing-ton, D.C., Youth Rugby orga-

nization. Vanterpool’s coaching skills had spread through word of mouth.

“The coach at Gonzaga gave him my email,” said Van-terpool. “He said he wanted to start a [rugby] team here.”

Latin’s rugby team would participate in the

Mid-Atlantic Virginia Rugby Conference, which was estab-lished a few years ago. Other teams entering the conference: Ballou, Coolidge, and Bell, added in the second division, according to Vanterpool. Latin will also start in the second di-vision.

“Our goal is to get any-where from seven to ten match-es in the fall for Latin,” he said.

Vanterpool will not be the only rugby coach for Latin this spring; he will be accompa-nied by one his friends.

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“A friend of mine [who is] an experienced player is go-ing to be my assistant coach.

“We’re in the process now [of] fundraising money for the team. We’re looking to get cones, and jerseys, and balls, and hit shields. So right now we’re doing all of the logistics in terms of prepping for the

equipment, and prepping for the schedule,” Vanterpool said.

Vanterpool believes Latin will take longer to adjust to the game of rugby. Although most of the athletes on Latin’s flag football team were already well acquainted with football, he points out that not very many kids, especially in the United States, grow up play-ing rugby. He explains the big

difference between rugby and football: Football is more about yardage, while possession and ball distribution are more im-portant in rugby.

“There will be more growing pains because rugby is more of a thinking game, as op-posed to a physical game.”

Vanterpool says he will host clinics, possibly along with the assistant coach, start-

ing in January on Saturdays and Sundays. He says the clinics are not only for Latin students but also for kids in the neighbor-hood.

“I hope it happens; I’m for it; I’m all in. I got support from Mr. Bettencourt, and Ms. Cutts,” Vanterpool said. “So it would be a travesty at this point if it didn’t happen.”

Movie Reviews“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” and “Saving Mr. Banks”

by samantHa andERson

class of ‘17

“The Hobbit: The Deso-lation of Smaug,” the two and a half hour second installment in The Hobbit trilogy is, bot-tom line, better than the first one. Where the first one was plodding, “Smaug” is rife with energy and action, and the audi-ence actually enjoys the eterni-ty spent in their seats. The mov-ie has all the makings: fighting, magic, emotions, linguistics, landscape shots and an unusual love triangle.

A huge amount of detail is displayed in the set and CGI, producing a surreal, almost trippy world of gold, iron and shadow. The major characters have well-defined personali-ties, while the minor ones have shallower, but still believable personalities.

Although there are mul-tiple story lines occurring si-multaneously, they are all well maintained throughout the film, all ending in gut-wrenching cliff-hangers. From the per-spective of a casual, every-day film-goer, it is definitely worth

seeing. However, if you want

the opinion of someone who has read “The Silmarillion” (Quenta Silmarillion, Al-kallabeth, etc.), well here it is.

The characters spoke what sounded like perfectly rea-sonable Sindarin (the tongue of the Moriquendi- those are ‘grey elves’, or those that did not follow the Gods to the Isle of Aman. No, Tauriel, your people are not Eldar, but Sindar. Sad-ly, Malekith spoke something else that only sounded similar in Marvel’s Thor 2: The Dark World) , Black Speech (that’s just Orcish) and Westron (En-glish). The runes on the dwarf’s belongings and in the halls of Erebor looked like Angerthans (dwarvish script, bearing re-semblance to Old Norse).

There is one thing wrong: The interspecies love triangle. Legolas is the at-tractive Sindar prince-son of Thranduil, known on the In-ternet as ‘Dwarf Racist Party Dad’—who everybody already knows from The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the Youtube hit “They’re taking the Hobbits

to Isengard!” He has feelings for Tauriel (her name literally means wood forest and she’s a Sylvan elf. Points for creativ-ity), a red-headed commoner who just so happens to be the Captain of the Gaurd.

For some reason, she has feelings for Kili, one of the dwarves. Sure, he’s one of the cute ones, but Dwarves and Elves have hated each other since creation. The Elves love and live among the trees, while Dwarves chop them down greedily. The two are like dogs and cats. That is how Smaug broke the laws of Arda, but one would have to see the movie to see how it broke the laws of physics.

by tyRik dEdRick

class of ‘14

I know the audience I’m talking to pretty well, and while I know people are going to see either “The Hobbit” or “Ma-dea’s Christmas,” I want people to take a look at a film that has gone under the radar. “Saving Mr. Banks” will strike a chord.

The movie shows the

tale of how Mary Poppins came to the big screen, and Walt Dis-ney’s promise to his daughters and writers to honor the mes-sage of P.L. Travers’ book, au-thor of the Mary Poppins story.

Walt Disney is played by Tom Hanks (“Sleepless in Seattle,” “Forrest Gump,” Toy Story Franchise), opposite Emma Thompson (“Treasure Planet,” Harry Potter Fran-chise, and “Nanny McPhee”) as Travers.

These two actors work really well off of each other by playing off each others lines, instead of clashing for the top bill.

Tom Hanks commands the scene the way only Tom Hanks can, with Emma Thomp-son holding her own with con-fidence and an authority that makes me wonder why I was ever disappointed she was picked over the original actress considered for this role, Meryl Streep.

By Disney’s standards, this movie is flying under the radar, which is shocking. 4 out of 5 stars for “Saving Mr. Banks.”

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In photos: Dance recitalBy Emily Hall ‘15

Lower school and upper school students of Leah Kolb’s dance classes performed in a dance recital in the multi-purpose room on January 30. Above: Lower school students performing in a jazz routine. Below, left: Senior Marissa Johnson performs a tap dance routine. Below, right: (from left to right) Senior Nadia Upshur

Richardson, and juniors Julie Yeroushalmie and Olivia Boyd perform in a ballet routine.

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Student poetry submissionsCourtesy of Poetry Club

InvincibleBy Donte Branch ‘14

The light in her eyes is dimmed by the wall of disheartening sadness

Her illuminating skin is faded by the pressure of obligation

Her Sun is afraid to show its face and is blocked by the thunderous clouds of stress

The wind blows down her beautiful trees and the fire of pain burns her autumn leaves

Raindrops fall from her skies like missiles and penetrate her Earth

But the one thing the disasters cannot get to the one thing that shall stand forever under-graded and pure is her heart.

SurrealismBy Madeline Galvez ‘15

I think in poetic rhymes,I see in paintings like Dali,A whiff of my mind,you would think I pop Mollys.

Indeed you’ve been running through my daydreams like a trolley.I recreate your face in my head,that of a Cauli-flower child.

You see, to me, you look like autumn,brown eyes that fall like toffee leaves to the bottom.Same love I felt for my roller blades when I first bought em,

I only hope I don’t forget you the way I forgot them.

My DreamBy Chris Thompkins ‘17

My dream is not only to make it to collegeBut to be successfulMy dream goal is to be seen as intellectualBut I cover myself with a shellSo if you want to see the real me I probably won’t let youMy problem is that I play too muchBut then I expect to get away too muchI’ve got to stop or my life will be roughThis is no bluffAnd for the stuff nobody’s ever seenBut anywaysThis is just a glimpse of my dreams

BeautyBy Dusan Murray-Rawlings ‘16

Beauty is time, you never have enough of it, consuming from the inside-out and in like sin, nobody wins.

You can submit pieces of literature to Sumus Leones and be featured in our monthly issues. Email sumusleones@gmail.com to submit. No guarantees are made to be featured.

Poetry Club meets every Thursday during lunch in Mr. Leonard’s room on the ground floor.

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