The Bolles Bugle: Quarter 2 Issue 2022

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Sports Op-Ed

The Bolles Bugle Staff

Co-Editors-in-Chief: Cameron Gratz Amber Bansal

Online/Sports Editor: Caylee Padgett

Copy Editor/Online Editor: Sara Wasserman

Social Media/Arts Editor: Aisha Hasan

Public Relations/Local Editor: Kate Youell

Multimedia/Op-Ed Editor: Isabel Bassin

Design/Academics Editor: Simran Naval

Contributing Writers: Kathryn Arrowsmith Ellie Stewart Tristan Schneider Sophie Lankarani Isabel Schimpff Ava Cheng Grace Albough

Advisor: Mr. Stam

Editorial Policy:

The Bolles Bugle is the news magazine created by the journalism class at The Bolles School. Our publication focusaes on increasing community awareness of in-school events and topics relating to the five news values: relevance, proximity, timeliness/novelty, conflict/controversy, and human interest.

Content in the Bugle is the responsibility of the editorial staff and not meant to reflect the views of the school’s administration or the faculty advisor. Please reach out to our faculty advisor, Mr. Stam, with any questions or comments. He can be reached at stams@bolles.org or at bollesbugleonline@gmail.com.

Copyright 2009-2022, The Bolles Bugle

Editors’ Letter

Dear Reader,

Thank you so much for picking up (or digitally accessing) this copy of The Bolles Bugle, the student news magazine of The Bolles School.

We at the Bugle strive to bring you high-quality journalism highlighting student life, academics, athletics, opinions, and arts here at Bolles, as well as events in the Jacksonville community.

We hope you’ll enjoy reading about the Woodland Acres Food Drive and proposals for a seasonal dress code, in addition to fall sports coverage including crew’s Head of the Hooch Regatta in Tennessee.

Also check out profiles of new teachers at Bolles and tips for success on your semester exams, as well as holiday-themed editorial cartoons and a satire column.

If you enjoy this issue and want more Bugle content, check out our website, www.bollesbugleonline.com and follow us on Instagram @thebollesbugle for early article releases as well as fun photos and videos. Thanks for sticking with us, and welcome to the Quarter 2 edition for the 2022-23 school year!

Sincerely,

Cameron Gratz Amber Bansal Co-Editor-in-Chief Co-Editor-in-Chief

Local Local Local

Quick Recs: Delicious Doughnuts

The Mini Bar

Caylee Padgett Online/Sports Editor

The Mini Bar is a doughnut shop located at 10618 Deerwood Park Blvd. Jacksonville, FL 32256, with a rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars. It is filled with all sorts of mini doughnuts with different flavors and they also have holiday specials. The doughnuts are cake based making them richer than other ones, but their mini size balances out all the flavors. The Mini Bar is also located at 1300 Beach Blvd, Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250 and 1524 County Rd 220 #4, Fleming Island, FL 32003.

Parlor Doughnuts

Caylee Padgett Online/Sports Editor

Parlor Doughnuts is a doughnut shop located at 585 State Rd. 13, St Johns, FL 32259, with a rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars according to Google Reviews. They are famous for their croissant/doughnut hybrid that is then covered or stuffed with delicious different flavors. Their doughnuts are super sweet, but light and fluffy making it the perfect doughnut to go with a coffee or hot chocolate.

nut flavor maple bacon, next is the peanut butter, and finally the fruitty pebbles.

Credit: Caylee Padgett

Depicted are the fall flavors.

Photo Credit: Caylee Padgett

Parlor dougnuts also has other snacks that aren’t sweets. Photo Credit: Caylee Padgett

Good Dough

Tristan Schneider Contributing Writer

Good Dough is located on 1636 Hendricks Ave, Jacksonville, FL 32207, it has 4.4 out of 5 stars and specializes on custom and interesting donuts. They have a wide variety of donuts ranging from savory, such as the everything donut which has cream cheese and everything bagel seasoning, and sweet donuts which was a great contrast to the savory donut.

The Donut Shoppe

Tristan Schneider Contributing Writer

The Donut shoppe is located at 1535 University Blvd N, Jacksonville, FL 32211, and it has a 4.8 out of 5 stars for reviews. Its donuts are more traditionally made and not super overdone or have massive addons. The raspberry donut was very sweet with a coating over the dough, this is true for all of their donuts.

The Mini Bar has seasonal flavors. Credit: Caylee Padgett

A variety of doughnuts offered at The Donut Shoppe. Credit: Uber Eats

Area Highlight: Riverside

Unique shops and restaurants to visit

Grace Albaugh Contributing Writer

Midnight Sun

Midnight Sun is a women owned and run businesses that imports goods from Asia to create their collection of jewlery, clothing, textiles, furniture, and handicrafts. Their suppliers consist of small family owned and operated businesses. They are located at 1055 Park St.

Pizza Cave

Brought to you by Sunray Cinema, Pizza Cave is a vegan friendly pizza joint in a unique atmosphere. This restaurant transports you inside a cave once you walk through the doors. This eerily fun dining experience is completed with an aray of soda options along with the New York style pizza.

Wolfgang Clothing

Wolfgang Clothing at 1038 Park St is an affordable boutique featuring many dresscode appropriate items for people searching for school outfits. They also feature many trendy accessories such as necklaces, earrings, sunglasses, etc.

5 Points Vintage

5 Points Vintage is an antique store featuring many unique objects, glassware, posters, vinyls, clothing, and knick knacks. You could spend hours roaming around this store browsing the array of obscure items such as new rings, socks with funny sayings, photographs from hundreds of years ago, collectibles, memorabilia, books, tapes, furniture, designer bags, clothes, etc. Located at 1046 Park St 5 Points Vintage is bound to deliver with many interesting finds.

The Cummer

The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens was created with the mission statement “to create a center if beauty and culture for the benefit of all people.” The museum consists of art exhibits, gardens, and and a cafe. It is the largest fine arts museum in Northeast Florida and was established in 1958. Today the collection of art consists of 60 pieces from Ninah Cummer’s estate and has grown to more than 5,000 total works of art. This museum also includes historic gardens displaying the St. Johns river in the background. Visit The Cummer at 829 Riverside Ave.

BARK

BARK Boutique is a store featuring many items such as pet friendly treats, toys, and more so you can spoil your pets. BARK also provides grooming, boarding, training, and daycare. They have many unique items such as prayer candles featuring different dog breeds, pet friendly doughnuts, and tote bags with catchy pet related slogans.

Sun-Ray Cinema

This renowned local movie theatre shows new movies along with reruns of classic favorites and many indendent films as well. The environment within accurately matches the unique personality of Riverside.

Coming Soon: Mixed Fillings Pie Shop

Credit: Grace Albaugh

happy brew

W E B R E W P O S S A B I L I T I E S

Happy Brew, a non-profit coffee shop hopes to “create community” by employing people with “different kinds of abilities.”

The director of the project, Amy Franks, has been working on the endeavor since fall of 2019 when the idea came about.

Her church, Southside Methodist, started a program called The Missing Voices Project that tried to reach out to those with intellectual and developmental differences. Through this project, Franks and her colleagues realized that many of these students with different

abilities did not have support after high school. So the question came up, “how do we create community so that everyone can befriend them?”

To answer this question they started with creating a nonprofit. They filed for a 501c3 which established them as a nonprofit coffee shop and set out to fundraise. They chose a coffee shop because “coffee shops are kind of where community is,” Franks said.

Their community is located just past San Marco and is currently being constructed to feature an open environment with room for collaboration. So far, Bitty and Beau as well as Southern Grounds

“It’s not about the coffee or selling the coffee, it’s about how many lives we can change.”

— Amy Franks

has helped Happy Brew get its footing and plan its opening.

They plan to hire an occupational therapist to assess the employees and their abilities to make sure “their job is set for their ability” and everyone enjoys their work. The design of the shop includes all

accommodations like automatic doors, wheelchair accessible bathrooms, and an adult changing table so “it’s not your typical coffee shop, it’s really for everyone,” Franks said.

The goal is to open multiple locations, but right now the team has all of their efforts focused on getting their first one off the ground. They are well on their way to raising enough money but still need some contributions, anything helps!

Contributions aren’t just monetary though, students can also get involved by just being openminded and willing to talk to others and make friends. The awareness factor is the most important because “each ability is different and just because someone has different abilities, it doesn’t mean they can’t do the same things,” Franks said.

The idea is to connect over food and conversation. To facilitate the effort, their menu will include pastries, bread, and coffee, specifically, affogatos (an espresso shot over vanilla ice cream).

not your typical coffee shop, it’s really for everyone.”

— Amy Franks

But really, “It’s not about the coffee or selling the coffee, it’s about how many lives we can change.”

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Servers at the Happy Brew Happy Hour Fundraiser on October 20th.

Amy Franks

“Coffee shops are kind of where community is.”

— Amy Franks

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Jacksonville Thrift Spots

Grace Albaugh Contributing Writer

Contributing Writter

Thirfiting and buying second hand clothes has made a huge comeback over the past few years. This new trend promotes ideas of sustainable, cheap, and environmentally friendly ways to shop for clothes without participating in fast fashion.

The Thrift Store is unique due to its immense size. The Thrift Store, located at 3851 Emerson St #14, Jacksonville, FL 32207, is the Walmart of thrift stores. With so many isles of clothes it’s almost

impossible to leave without multiple great finds. However, along with clothes there is an entire section dedicated to technology such as cd players and cameras, a section for films both DVDs and vhs tapes, and a section for home detectors such as picture frames and antiques.

City Thrift, located at 728 Edgewood Ave N, Jacksonville, FL 32254, is known for its multiple shelves dedicated to antiques in which you can find mugs, plates, and other random vintage antiques. There is also a unique aisle dedicated to matching clothing sets, for example suits for both men and women but also track suits or athletic or lounge wear. This thrift store is also great for finding niche t-shirts.

There are multiple Goodwills across Jacksonville since it is one of the most well known thrift stores across the US. Some locations within Jacksonville are 5953 St Augustine Rd, 4448 Hendricks Ave, and 11160 Beach Blvd. Every Goodwill color codes their clothing items and has antiques and home decor on the top of the racks, also color coded. Goodwills are also very helpful for finding prom dresses as there is an entire section dedicated to vintage, unique gowns.

Uptown Cheapskate, located in Mandarin, is different then most of the other resale stores in Jacksonville due to its selection of popular brands such as Free People, Athleta, and even Madewell. If you are looking for a way to get all of the popular brands but for a cheaper

The antique collection at The Thrift Store

Credit: Grace Albaugh

Sophie Lankarani

Vintage pins, stickers, and tags found at Goodwill

Credit: Sophie Lankarani

price and sustainably, Uptown Cheapskate would be the perfect place to do so. The store also has an option for customers to sell their used clothes to the store which is a perfect way to recycle old clothes.

Recently, more online thrift stores have been created with the goal of providing a curated selection of second- hand clothes for people to browse online. Thread up and Depop are examples of the growing industry of online thrift stores. At Thread up, customers pick their clothes and they are sent directly to their home. Depop is a platform for users to buy and sell used clothes from people directly similar to the concept of etsy. Customers are still able to shop cheap, sustainably, and environmentally friendly however they do this from the comfort of their own home.

Thrift stores, although mainly known for their clothing selection, have a variety of items for sale. Jewelry, home decor, and antique furniture are just a couple of other kinds of objects you can find at a thrift store. There are even object specific second hand stores such as used book stores. If you are looking for unique pieces to bring life to a room or house, second hand shops have plenty of options without the price.

Chamblins is a used bookstore where you can find a plethora of books from varying time periods and genres. These books are sold at an affordable price; however, you can turn in some used books of your own in exchange for store

The several books at the used book shop Chamblins

Credit: Grace Albaugh

credit.

Chamblins is located downtown at 215 N Laura St, Jacksonville, FL 32202. This bookstore also has a coffee shop and seating area, but don’t miss the additional collection of books upstairs.

Credit: Grace Albaugh

Credit: Grace Albaugh

Hurricane Ian

Local humanitarian efforts started after the storm

Swartz set out bins around campus, sent out a message on Schoology, and waited. A week later, she collected bins full of water, food, toiletries and clothes that she brought to those who needed them through friends in the area. “I was very pleased with how successful it was. I put out a few bins around campus and a few days later, I was getting all this stuff. I was very pleasantly surprised.”

Ava Cheng Contributing Writer

After Category 4 Hurricane Ian blew through Florida in late September, areas throughout the state were left flooded and destroyed by “one of the worst storms to ever hit Florida.” Thousands of Floridians were displaced from their homes and left without shelter, basic necessities, or assurance of their loved ones’ safety.

Those who avoided the significant damage from Ian sprang into action to provide support for those who weren’t as fortunate. While Jacksonville remained relatively untouched by the storm outside of coastal flooding, its citizens were quick to take action, with countless local organizations, businesses, schools, and individuals contributing to relief funds around the city.

At Bolles, Saylor Swartz ‘25 founded a supplies drive to

provide aid to those in Fort Myers who were impacted by the hurricane. “I’m from Fort Myers, I was born there, so I have friends and family and everything there. That was very scary, the whole night when it hit, and the next morning, was still scary,” Swartz said, “We had to make sure [my dad’s] employees were alive and accounted for and their families were okay.”

While her family made trips backand-forth to Fort Myers with supplies for employees, Swartz wanted to help. “I just knew I wanted to help out somehow, so I asked my dad if I could get a bunch of stuff that would be helpful, just some supplies that would help. I texted some of my friends down there and asked what they thought people needed, “Swartz explained, “they kind of listed the things that I asked people for, like toiletries and stuff and they talked about how they knew some of their friends and people who needed some of this.”

Outside of Bolles, local organizations have been contributing to various humanitarian relief efforts to help those impacted by Ian. From churches and schools to businesses and restaurants located around Jacksonville, many people have been pitching in to help with drives and donations.

Swartz collected bags full of items after the drive at Bolles

Photo Credit: Saylor Swartz

Overall, the hurricane caused members of the community to come together and in efforts to help those all across the state impacted by the storm, whether donating money or items in person or through drives, working together to rejuvinate the state.

Hurricane Ian swept through the state, causing flooding and destruction in many areas.

Student Life Student Life Student Life

Balding at Bolles

The boys swim team shave their heads

Simran Naval Design/Academics Editor

As per usual, the Bolles Swimming and Diving Team began their fall season with a great start. The swimmers’ hard work and weeks of grueling training paid off as they eventually made it to the state championships and placed in several different categories. However, in the days leading up to the state championships, many Bolles students were not focused on the swimmers’ upcoming competition, but rather something significantly more eyecatching: their hair. As part of their usual tradition, the male swimmers decided to shave their heads prior to their final swim meet. However, this year, several swimmers added a slight twist to their normal routine in an event that caused more than a few heads to turn their way. For example, some male swimmers decided to bleach their hair prior to the ritualistic head-shaving. Others chose to shave off parts of their hair in bold patterns and styles. These uniquely colored and shaved heads were sported around campus for a few days before a final team bonding moment where the male swimmers fully shaved their heads.

The boys swim team following their head-shaving. Photo Credit: Sherry Bowen

Bugle Tries Holiday Recipes

Schimpff Contributing Writer

Sara Wasserman Copy/Student Life Editor

With the holiday season right around the corner, the excitement brought by seasonal recipes has already arrived. Bugle tested several different holiday recipes from a variety of cultures. From Christmas m&m cookies to empanadas, these holiday recipes are sure to brighten anyone’s holiday season. We encourage you all to try these recipes during the holiday season. Make sure to use the QR codes to recreate any of these recipes, and let us know how they turn out!

These cookies made with red and green M&Ms are a great treat to celebrate the holidays with. Made with pretzel pieces, chocolate chips, oats, and white chocolate chips, these cookies are loaded with delicious ingredients. Make sure to give them a try!

Isabel

Christmas Cookies Recipe

Christmas Cookies

Swedish dream cookies:

These Sweetish cookies, also called drömmar, are traditionally eaten in Scandinavian countries. The spere-shaped cookies topped with an almond slice are very buttery and almost melt in your mouth. They are typically served around the holidays.

Beignets:

Beignets are a deep-fried pastry that originated in France but are now associated with New Orleans. They are a dessert made of dough that are served warm and covered in powder sugar. While the most popular recipes for beignets are fried in oil, the recipe below is made with an air fryer.

Bolivian Empanadas:

Empanadas are a baked or fried turnover that consist of a pastry outside and a filling that is typically meat or cheese. Empanadas got their origin in Spain and Portugal and are now a popular dish in most Spanish speaking countries. This food could be eaten for breakfast lunch or dinner and are especially good during the holidays.

Dream Cookies

Empanadas

Beignet Recipie

Seasonal Dress Code

Is it a possibility?

The most popular topic witin the seasonal dress code is allowing students to wear shorts during the summer months

Credit: ClipArt

Grace Albaugh Contributing Writer

The seasonal dress code has been a topic of discussion for many years, and for senior Chris Lee, it has been a topic of discussion for all four of his years on Student Council.

A variation of seasonal dress codes have been proposed including “the altered dress code due to COVID and extra parameters to keep the “tradition” and “prestige” of Bolles,” Lee said.

However, due to the school’s desire to maintain a “business” style, Chris Lee stated that, “our abilities have been rather limited.”

The seasonal dress code would entail more options during the immense heat of summer.

“We had always hoped there

could be more leniency regarding dress code in those months. Unfortunately, our progress has been a setback especially due to

the already altered dress code via COVID and maintaining a professional look,” Lee described.

However, the seasonal dress code is still a hot topic amongst the Student Council and a major goal is to make compromises on the issue.

Lee stated, “Hopefully some of the ideas can be revised to make some real change.”

“We had always hoped there could be more leniency regarding dress code in those months. Unfortunately, our progress has been a setback especially due to the already altered dress code via COVID and maintaining a professional look.” -Chris Lee ‘23

Fall Frenzy 2022

Ellie Stewart Contributing Writer

The Fall Frenzy was one of the first of many freshman/sophomore socials to come. Ms. Willis, leader and director of the social, talks about why the Fall Frenzy was held, along with other fun information regarding the event.

The idea behind the Fall Frenzy was to create a substitute for Prom during the fall for the freshman and sophmores. “We’ve always done the winter dance coming up in February and we’ve always done prom, but this was the first year kind of to have an event for just ninth and tenth grade,” Willis said.

About 50-60 students attended the Fall Frenzy, enjoying music, dancing, s’mores, and the company of their friends. “It was the first time for a student event that we got to use the fire pit and do s’mores and things like that. And then the DJ was set up

for dance,” Willis said after the event. She agrees that s’mores and dancing were the perfect combination for the social. “You know, kids were dancing all night and that kind of stuff,” she said.

Willis and many of the students who attended the social agree that the night was a success. “We were very thankful to have a lot of parents volunteer to help,” Wilis said. The social could not have been as big of a success without the help from the parent association.

In case you or a freshman/ sophomore you know couldn’t make it to the Fall Frenzy- don’t worry! Bolles intends to hold the event for years to come. “The current plan is to try to hold it again next year; kind of see as

Ms. Willis ‘22

it gains some momentum. And also try to get more student involvement in the planning process,” Willis said. She agrees that it was a good success, and would love to see how much momentum the Fall Frenzy can gain in years to come.

Ms. Willis ‘22

We were very thankful to have a lot of parents volunteer to help and the parent association... they were on top of it.

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Photos taken of the Fall Frenzy. Credit: Dr. Halloran

It was a good success, but we would love to build momentum and get more student involvement forward.

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Behind the Scenes: Alumni Relations Office

back to campus,” Kalinski said. She and her team believe that by having an annual Homecoming game, the alumni feel more comfortable at Bolles, creating a sense of home. “We hosted an alumni tailgate so that people and families can come back and enjoy that sports environment,” Kalinski said.

The second annual event the Alumni Relations Office holds is a class reunion. Every few decades, a graduating class will have a reunion to reconnect those alumni. “So, the idea is to connect your class together, but then also connect you to the broader Bolles community,” Kalinski said. This helps to better strengthen relationships between high school friends, allowing the Bolles legacy to live on through them.

Stewart Contributing Writer

The connections made throughout highschool can last a lifetime, which is why the Alumni Relations Office travels all over the globe to reconnect alumni to the Bolles community. Julia Kalinski, Director of Alumni Engagement and Annual Giving, tells about what the Alumni Relations Office is and what they do for the Bolles community.

“The Alumni Relations Office strives to connect our alumni back to the school,” Kalinski said. When students graduate and become alumni, Advancement Team members like Kalinski would reach out to certain areas in order to “reconnect” them to the Bolles community. “So that’s the point of traveling; to really create pockets of the Bolles community across the nation and internationally. To make sure that we’re really creating that long term experience for grads,” Kalinski said.

Team members like Kalinski enjoy getting to know alumni to continue the Bolles legacy through them. “I can get coffee with them and tell them who the best dentist is in town, or something like that, and just welcome them and really create that community,” Kalinski said.

The Alumni Relations Office holds

Another project of the Alumni Relations Office is to help raise money for the programs around campus. To do this, the Alumni Relations Office holds many parties and events in order to raise funds. “Our biggest event that we just held was the Pinnacle Celebration. That was kicking off our fundraising campaign to finish several amazing projects that you see happening around campus,” Kalinski said.

two annual events to reconnect alumni. One of them is widely known among the students as Homecoming. “Homecoming… [is] an exciting time to bring alumni

One of the projects the school is working on is the Innovation Center. It is the largest construction on campus since 1925, when the original hotel opened at the San Jose Campus. The Innovation Center is to house 12 specialty labs, along with the unique Bolles Anatomage table. None of this would be possible without the donations given by the alumni and other donors.

Because of everything the Alumni Relation Office does for The Bolles School, the percentage of alumni

Ellie

An alumni event at Washington D.C. Credit: Ms. Kalinski

The idea is to connect your class together, but then also connect you to the broader Bolles community.

— Ms. Kalinski 2022

This was an alumni event at Washington D.C.

Credit: Ms. Kalinski

donor participation has doubled from the 2020-2021 school year to the 2021-2022 year; a huge milestone for the Bolles community.

— Ms. Kalinksi 2022

The Alumni Relations Office is an essential part of the Bolles Legacy because of its reconnection with alumni, and because of the funds they raise for the school. This helps support major projects around campus, allowing students to better explore the different opportunities Bolles holds.

This was an alumni event at Washington D.C.

Credit: Ms. Kalinksi

The alumni relations office really strives to connect our alumni back to the school.

Bolles Gives Back

For over three decades, Bolles has served the Jacksonville community through the Woodland Acres food drive. With school-provided meals inaccessible during Thanksgiving break, this food drive provides Woodland Acres families with essential resources and aids them in having a meaningful Thanksgiving together.

The drive provides direct support for families at Woodland Acres, and helps them to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday without the stress of meal expenses. Additionally, Mrs. Moyer-Shad describes the benefit that the drive provides to Bolles students, “Our students are so busy and so over extended and rarely get the opportunity to see the people

whose lives they are impacting.” Overall, the drive contributes to both Bolles and Woodland Acres students through its fostering of mutual understanding and friendship.

In past years, Bolles students could deliver the collected food items to Woodland Acres themselves, but COVID-19 put a pause on this. “I’m really pushing to try and get our kids back into the classrooms, just so they can see the families that they’re helping and they can learn from those kids. And then those kids can learn from our students,” Moyer-Shad said.

Moyer-Shad described the importance of having an emotional connection when advocating or raising money for a cause. “We’re great at fundraising, students raise a lot of money for different charities,

Sara Wasserman Copy Editor

Bolles students delivering canned goods to Woodland Acres Elementary Credit: Bolles Instagram @bollesschool

Aisha Hasan Social Media Editor

-ing into History M

Cameron Gratz Co-Editor-in-Chief

Wwith a history degree, new Bolles faculty member Tyler Jump said, “You can be a teacher, you can be a lawyer, or you can go work for ancestry. com. That’s about it. And so I’m obviously a teacher.”

After graduating from the University of Florida and teaching sixth grade for one year in Clay County, Jump decided he wanted to learn more about teaching, so he enrolled at Ole Miss and earned a degree in the subject. After that, he spent “two years teaching in Mississippi, in a Title I school, meaning a very, very

poverty-stricken area. So I taught two years there, and I was a football coach and a baseball coach out in Mississippi.”

Jump later moved back to Jacksonville to be with his wife, teaching history at Nease as well as coaching football and weightlifting before coming to Bolles to start the sixth year of his teaching career.

From all of the different locales and environments where Jump has taught, one of the most valuable lessons he has learned is “kids are kids,” he said. “They’re the same across the board.

— Tyler Jump

“Behavior can be different. Ages can be different, but I’ve really learned that kids are kids and they really do want to learn and it’s on teachers to set them up for success.”

Behavior can be different. Ages can be different. But I’ve really learned that kids are kids and they really do want to learn and it’s on teachers to set them up for success.”

The most striking aspect upon entering Jump’s classroom is the collection of flags that decorate the walls, which he began collecting in Mississippi. His classroom there “didn’t feel like a classroom. It was literally a cinderblock white wall all the way around, like white tile, and a white board. And that was it. It felt like a prison almost,” he said.

The flags, along with other decorations, help students continue learning even when they lose focus during lessons. “If you’re zoning out in my room, you’re at least going to be zoning out and looking at something that might interest you,” he said. “Like war bonds or some flag or a president, or a college or Einstein over there. Whatever it is, you’re gonna zone out and be looking at something that’s still interesting.”

Jump’s fascination with history began during his childhood, coming home from school

to watch History Channel documentaries and going to art museums with his mom. He also collected baseball cards with his dad, learning about the sport’s all-time greats like Hank Aaron.

Beyond coaching sports at Nease and in Mississippi, Jump was also involved in athletics in college as a cheerleader for UF, which he called “some of the happiest times of my life.” Through cheer, he gained an appreciation for the value of being able to participate in a sport or other extracurricular activity at the collegiate level. He said he advises studentathletes to “Go all out. Try to get a scholarship… Take that opportunity.”

But if there’s one thing that has been the most valuable skill of his teaching career, it’s building relationships. “I could know the most history of any person on the planet,” he said. “But if I’m not able to make the classroom fun and build relationships with students and help them understand that learning can be fun, then it doesn’t matter how much content you know. If you can’t get kids interested in it, it doesn’t matter.”

Bratcher’s flags include Florida, South Carolina, and Mississippi, as well as the universities of those states. Photo via Cameron Gratz.

“If I’m not able to make the classroom fun and build relationships with students and help them understand that learning can be fun, then it doesn’t matter how much content you know. If you can’t get kids interested in it, it doesn’t matter.” — Tyler Jump

1. Why are test scores dropping?

New data reveals a decline in standardized test scores nationwide.

Contributing Writer

According to a report released on October 5, ACT test scores of this year’s high school graduates have hit the lowest in over 30 years across the United States, falling for the fifth consecutive year as a result of COVID-related disruption.

Studies have linked virtual learning during the pandemic to difficulties in students’ math and reading comprehension when students connected less with their peers and teachers while facing at-home distractions.

In the 2019-2021 school year, the vast majority of colleges allowed students to apply without presenting test scores because so many test sites were closed or at limited capacity due to the pandemic. “The vast majority of colleges went test-optional in 2020-2021 and many have continued that policy, [so] the number of students taking standardized tests declined,” Ms. Vagenas, a college counselor at Bolles, explained.

However, this decline can’t be credited solely to pandemicrelated issues, but to a lack of preparedness and the decision to go test-optional at many schools as well. ACT scores had been declining for five consecutive years, showing a trend that began long before the pandemic.

This decline has largely been attributed to a lack of overall preparation for the exams, with only 22% of students in 2022 who took the test meeting all four subject area benchmarks (math, reading, science, and English), while 42% met none according to the ACT. Though the number of students taking the ACT increased by 55,000 from last year, the total

number of 1.35 million students who took the exam remains lower than it had been pre-pandemic.

This academic decline doesn’t apply only to seniors and ACT scores; a report released last month from the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that 9-year-olds’ math scores showed their largest decline ever, and reading levels had their biggest drop since 1990. SAT scores took a similar hit, with the average score of the graduating class 10 points lower than the year before.

Vagenas has been a college counselor at Bolles for 23 years and previously worked in college admissions at The University of South Carolina and Miami University. As a college counselor at Bolles, Vagenas helps seniors prepare applications, builds

different scales, standardized testing can be used as a way to differentiate between students’ performances. Daily classroom performance is typically the best indicator of how students will perform in college, so the ability to choose whether or not to present scores appears to be a great option, but it’s not always that simple.

“That’s one less item for the college to consider which means that all the other parts of a student’s application will carry more weight,” Vagenas said, “by placing more emphasis on the other parts of their application, an applicant may not be successful in the review process if those other parts are not strong enough to be competitive in that school’s applicant pool. Each student must carefully consider whether or not to submit their test scores (if a school is test-optional) to each of their colleges and their decision may be different at various schools.”

college lists with juniors, begins college research with sophomores, introduces freshmen to SCOIR, and of course, guides students through testing.

“Standardized testing provides a common point of reference for colleges when they are reviewing a student’s academic credentials.” With no common curriculum in the United States, and each school calculating GPAs and grading on

“Standardized testing causes varying levels of anxiety for many students and the college counseling team is committed to limiting that anxiety,” Vagenas said. To help with easing this stress, students at Bolles are encouraged to take practice SAT and ACTs to decide which is best for them and focus on preparing for it as though submitting testing is mandatory. “We believe it is better to have test scores and not need them than to need test scores and not have them.”

Ava Cheng

“To compare prepandemic data to that gathered during the pandemic and post-pandemic is complicated since so many variables have changed.”

— Daphne Vagenas

Science Showcase!

The Annual Science Expo

Photos from the 2022 Science Expo Photo Credit; Kate Youell

Sports Sports Sports

Swimming into Nationals!

The Bolles Swimming and Diving team are National champs!!!

out of impacting others. When I’m making an impact on them, whether it’s teaching them something or whatever it is, it’s what really helps me feel good about what I do. And swimming just happens to be the language I speak. I’m just more fluent at that than anything else.”

Continuing with the goal of winning nationals, the swim team will be participating in the coming meets in order to prepare for nationals.

Verhoef ended by saying “Just for people to experience that [swim] and realize what it takes to get there. It’s really special. So add on a little sprinkle of competition and you’re wanting to beat somebody else and it’s a lot of fun.”

Kate Youell PR/Local Editor

When you walk down the halls and see all the shaved heads and the orange shirts there’s a meaning behind it. The swim team which is a big part of the Bolles athletics department are currently National Virtual Champs.

The Virtual National Championship is determined by the combination of results from the FHSAA (Florida High School Athletic Association), state meet and Swimming World magazine. They’ve been using this method for decades now in order to determine National Champions.

Head swim coach Peter Verhoef says that in order to prepare for the meet, “We purposely set goals for our team to score points in that virtual championship.” He continued, “So the strategy behind it was identifying that we have a goal that we want to win this. It

wasn’t just showing up and hey let’s just do the best we can. It was actually like, hey, let’s intentionally kind of aim for this goal.”

As you walk past the pools your eyes are drawn to the “National Champions” sign hung on the bleachers, showing that the swim team had top scores. Verhoef commented, “We had a great meet last year, it was one of those meets where the preparation we did and the work we did for the year prior, you could really see that coming through.”

As the swim season progresses the team is striving to win again. “I’m trying to win again. Same strategy right?” said Coach Verhoef.

Verhoef has been coaching at Bolles since 2019 and in total has 12 years of coaching experience, but has been swimming his whole life. When asked how he knew he wanted to pursue coaching he stated, “I get a lot

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Closeup of the Bolles swim cap. Credit to Robert Sohovich .

Girls competing at the

Classic. Credit to Robert Sohovich.

Swim warmup before the meet. Credit to Robert Sohovich.

Guys diving off the blocks at a swim meet.

Credit to Robert Sohovich.

At swim meet.

Credit to Robert Sohovich.

Bolles Crew Takes on Hooch

Also called ‘The Last of the Great Fall Regattas’ the Head of the Hooch is a 4,500 meter regatta in Chattanooga Tennessee. It is held in the fall on the first Saturday and Sunday of November as a head race on the Chattahoochee River. A head race is a time trial competition where boats start in staggered increments and times are compared to determine placements.

The Head of the Hooch started in 1981 by the Atlanta Rowing Club as a small event but has grown to be one of the largest regattas held in America. It now hosts rowing teams from all over America and even international teams from countries such as Sweden, Canada, and Germany.

This year, 171 teams rowed the 2.8-mile course in with teams competing against 10 to 60 boats

per race. Bolles Crew attended the Head of the Hooch this year as the penultimate race of the fall season. Bolles raced many boat types including: eights, fours, quads, doubles, pairs, and singles.

The Bolles crew teams had a great time at the race and they look forward to more racing during the upcoming spring and winter season.

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Boats stored in preparation for racing

Men’s Youth U17 4x Women’s Youth U19 8+

Streets of autumn treees in Chatanooga

Streets along the race course

Men’s Youth Novice 8+ Men’s Youth U17 4+

Walking through the venues to the race course

Photo Credits: Sara Wasserman and Sophie Lankarani

Sara Wasserman Copy Editor

Photo Caption (above and below): Final bridge at the Hooch course

Photo Credit: Sara Wasserman

Sophie Lankarani Contributing Writer

Crewsing into College

Avery Goldknopf Reflects on her Crew Experience

the many things that can go wrong, Goldknopf has had lots of time to improve. Goldknopf joined rowing when she was in sixth grade. She immediately showed promise and undeniably had talent which placed her on the varsity team her first year.

The reflecting senior shares that her early placement on the varsity team gave her an advantage going through her high school career as a student

Isabel Schimpff Contributing writer

“I feel like a lot of people just don’t know anything about crew at all and I wish everyone who saw it knew how much actually goes into making the boats move. It takes a lot of perfection.”

Our senior reflects on her high school rowing experience as it launches her into the next chapter in her life.

Avery Goldknopf ‘23, is a coxswain for the Bolles Rowing team. In her position, she is responsible for steering around obstacles, navigating, and directing the rowers in the boat. She faces towards the bow of the boat and must be aware of the wind currents. Alas, she is also responsible for docking, which Goldknopf admits is her least favorite component of the sport.

“You could be a good coxswain and be bad at docking. It does not have to have any effect on your ability but it’s just something that you have to

— Avery Goldknopf

athlete, which has allowed her to balance school and crew without struggle.

“I’ve gone through my workload and my crew load and it’s kind of progressed together, and I think that definitely helped me,” she said.

Goldnopf sets up for meet

Credit: Goldnopf

do. It gets kind of annoying,” Goldknopf said.

Despite the miniscule margin of error that docking allows and

Early on, Goldknopf decided she wanted to be recruited for crew to continue her rowing through college. Her college recruitment process was an incredibly timeconsuming process as it is for most sports.

Goldknopf feels that the college recruitment process for crew especially, requires a copious amount of reaching out and advertising yourself.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re a girl or a boy, it doesn’t matter if you’re green, you still have a place on the team”

Avery celebrates her Clemson signing Credit: The Bolles School

“You have to really put yourself out there, otherwise you won’t be noticed or seen,” she says.

For rowing, July 15th is the important day where coaches from colleges can begin to reach out to you. After her sophomore year, Goldknopf became informed about this crucial day.

“I actually didn’t know about it. I didn’t know it was an important thing but I was at a national team camp and one of my friends who was older than me and who was a coxswain said ‘It’s July 14th- are you ready??’”

Her friend was able to guide Goldknopf through the process and explained what coaches would be looking for and what to send out first. The questionnaires she filled out included everything from her hobbies to her rowing stats.

Goldknopf said, “I think I started off with like 50 questionnaires and I wrote about 20 emails and I probably got 30 response emails and I’d say from when I started I probably spent close to 20 hours with my first draft of sending people information.”

All of the hours that she poured into this process became well worth it when she committed to Clemson for Crew.

Now, the senior is most looking forward to the athletic program

Top left, Goldknopf gets ready for a competition. Top right, students pose for picture at their commitment ceremony. Bottom left, Goldknopf signs to Clemson. Bottom right, Goldknopf commands the boat. Credit: Avery Goldnopf and The Bolles School

the opportunity she has made for herself.

“I’m really excited just to go

there and reap the rewards of all my hard work because I’ve spent a lot of hours getting better.”

at her future college and while she will miss her team that is inclusive and well spirited, she, of course, is proud to embark on

Bolles Crew team competes

Credit: Avery Goldnopf

The

“You have to put yourself out there otherwise you won’t get noticed or seen”

— Avery Goldknopf

Fall Sports Recap

Finishing up the 2022 fall sports year, both the both and girls cross country teams placed first in state and first and in the individual category. For the boys, Aidan Ryan (23’) placed first with a time of 15:25.6 minutes and Jillian Candelino (23’) finished in 17:43.3 minutes for the girls. Bolles broke the record for being the first team in state history to win both states and individuals and for being the first team to win two years backto-back for both genders.

The Swim Team finished the season with the title of district and regional champions. Contributing Writer, Kate Youell wrote more about the swim team on pages 34-35. The Girls Volleyball team on the other hand finished the season with the title of district runner ups.

The girls golf team claimed both the district and regional champion titles. They advanced to states and placed 7th. The boys gold team also placed first in districts. For regionals, they placed 2nd and advanced to states where they finished in 14th.

The Bolles football team had a successful season by making it all the way to the state semi-finals. Unfortunately, their season ended there but they still claimed the title of regional champions!

The boys cross country team race at States in Tallahassee

Credit: Mr. Stam

The girls cross country team compete at States.

Credit: Mr. Stam

Congratulations to all of the teams and their season and we look forward for the next fall season!

Kathryn Arrowsmith Contributing Writer

The swim team compete at a meet Credit: Robert Sohovich

The student sections cheers on the girls volleyball team Credit: Grace Albaugh

Arts Arts Arts

Photography Workshop

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Tips and Tricks Workshop by Jeff Adams

When photographing a person, you should create a highlight of light in the shape of a triangle on the model’s cheek.

Padgett Online/Sports Editor

On October 28th Jeff Adams visited the Bolles school to teach six students about portrait studio photography. Portrait studio photography focuses on a model, a person, and lighting within a designated studio to accentuate their features and face. Students learned tips and tricks to taking photos, different styles of lighting, and a little bit about Jeff Adams’s background not only in sports photography, but an extensive background in portrait photography.

Dylan Schwartz commented “Everyone has their own style of making art, and I say that, because I have taken plenty of portraits before using all sorts of different setups. So, it wasn’t necessary that this workshop had taught me a completely new skill, but rather a different approach and style to what I’ve already been doing.” Take a look at some of the photos that were taken during the workshop and scan the QR code to learn more about Jeff Adams, and what he does as well as some sample photos.

Caylee

Credit: Jeff Adams (Subject: Dylan Schwartz)

When posing two individuals you a photographer must make sure they are close together with little to now space between them.

Credit: Jeff Adams (Dylan Schwartz on Left Caylee Padgett on Right)

There are only thee ways to photograph a person’s face: profile (depicted on the right), straight on, and 3/4.

Credit: Jeff Adams (Subject: Lars Jendruschewitz)

Artists Share Inspiration

looking girl into an eerie forest. “I got an image of it and decided to go with it,” Orasheva said.

Stewart Contributing Writer

Many artists struggle with finding inspiration for their artwork. Oftentimes, artists either have a type of writer’s block, or may have trouble finding something original enough to expand on. Aylar Orasheva ‘23 and Madison Balaskiewicz ‘23 are two Artists of the Week who share where they get their inspiration from.

Aylar Orasheva, an active member of the Bolles Art Club and AP Art class, has been interested in the arts for as long as she could remember. “I have been [interested in the arts] since a very young age. Since my dad got me an iPad. I just liked to sketch and stuff,” Orasheva said.

She became involved in the arts at Bolles when she first took Foundations of Art class. “I just

thought that it’d be very cool to complete the entire course,” Orasheva said.

Orasheva’s piece that won her Artist of the Week on October 18th was what she describes, “a girl and this monster that was leading her into a forest,” She recieved the inspiration for this from a YouTube video about a Windigo

-Aylar Orasheva ‘23

Whenever Orasheva can’t find inspiration, she likes to go to social media in search of ideas. “There are several artists that I really follow in shape, kind of like my ‘inspirations.’ I always like to look for different art techniques and stuff like that,” Orasheva said. She believes that the internet holds a vast variety of different techniques, themes, and styles of artwork in which she can dive into.

Orasheva isn’t the only artist who tends to the internet for art inspiration. Madison Balaskiewicz takes AP 2D Art, and so she is very experienced when it comes to having inspiration blocks.

The piece that Balaskiewicz believes won her Artist of the Week on September 26th are photos she took on her trip to Oregon. “I remember I was messing around with collaging in my photography class last year… Mr. Myers actually told me about this collage contest that’s online. And I thought I would do it,” Balaskiewicz said.

giant. Her artwork included a type of monster leading an innocent

Another piece of artwork

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This is Aylar Orasheva’s piece that won her Artist of the Week. Credit: Aylar Orasheva

I usually just to be very open minded about stuff and try like, experiment with like, different compositions to make your art more dynamic.

I like when my art has a flow, and when people are in action... I like when my art like tells a story to people.

-Aylar Orasheva ‘23

Balaskiewicz was working on at the time were photos of her trip to Oregon. She had become interested in photography, and decided to try and explore it.

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Balaskiewicz believes that by going out of her comfort zone, she was better able to gain a different perspective of the world around her and capture it in her photography.

Whenever Balaskiewicz finds herself searching for inspiration, she too goes to the internet for help. However, she takes a different strategy while finding inspiration. “If I have an idea, or a general broad thing that I wanted to do, I would just look it up online from there. Once I find someone that I really like, I’ll click on who they are, research them, and look at some of their works,” Balaskiewicz said. She believes it better allows her to dilate on a certain topic she is interested in.

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A piece of advice Balaskiewicz would like to give to other artists is to not be afraid to explore new things. “Once you figure out what you want, don’t be scared to try new things, like something that someone else did… Be sure to try other things and experiment in different ways,” Balaskiewicz said.

are the pieces that won Madison Balaskiewicz Artist of the Week.

Credit: Madison Balaskiewicz

If I have an idea, or like a general broad thing that I wanted to do, I would just look it up online and go from there.

-Madison Balaskiewicz

These

Don’t be scared to just stay fixed on the one thing that you know that you’re good at.

-Madison Balaskiewicz

Featured Work from Art Show 2!

That is just for the setup for the camera system and not all the materials. For the picture he needs a crystal. “And on there, there’s a crystal you can get that crystal if you take like vitamin C is one of the ones I use in this. I used beta alanine and those are supplemental vitamins. So if you dissolve that in water, you put it on the side, you evaporate the water now you have a crystal left behind.”

Schneider Contibuting Writer

As you know Bolles has multiple art shows every year. The great thing about the art show is that it allows the artist’s work to be displayed out for everyone to see and admire. Dylan Schwartz is one of those artists.

Dylan Schwartz is in photography class and specializes in experimental work. “I don’t really like actually working with more active like candid or street photography. So I really like working in a controlled environment where I’m in charge of everything that the final photo will look like”. His latest work is very interesting and unique.

His photo is of a crystal growing, which is only visible through a microscope. Unlike the rest of the art which might take a month or two at the max, Dylan’s work took a little under ten months to fully create.

Since this took months to create, you need a good setup, everything has to be perfect for this to work. “$12,000 microscope, and I wasn’t happy with the results coming from that. So I came back home and I said I’m going to do it by myself and for nothing less than the $200 camera I borrowed from school.”

The whole process is also very different from most photographers. Instead of just needing a camera to take photos, he needs multiple different configurations to create the perfect picture.

“I’m using a camera and instead of an actual microscope, I’m using a crazy configuration, where I have a glass picture frame setup on some books, so it creates a glass table that your sample would be resting on. I have a microscope on top of that. So I have the microscope slide on top of that.”

The finished product is nothing less than beautiful and stunning. The amount of time and effort for the photo was worth it entirely. Even though the photo came out gorgeous, Dylan is not done with this type of work. He also has plans to make several more photos in this style. “And I’ve just discovered how to really perfect that, how to get cleaner and sharper results and more crystals and get more colorful and more structures. So it’s only the start really.”

— Dylan Schwartz ‘24

We cannot wait for what Dylan has in store for his next photos.

Tristan

Dylan’s photography project

Credit: Dylan Schwartz

“I feel accomplished, but I feel like I’m not done.”

“The crystal itself is growing, and it’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. And to think that that’s all natural is incredible.”

— Dylan

Meet Me At Midnight

Kathryn Arrowsmith Contributing Writer

Taylor Swift is a name that often comes to mind in the pop music industry. After rising to fame from her first album, Taylor Swift, in 2006, she quickly grew to be one of the most successful artists in the music industry. Over the course of her career, she has released a total of ten studio albums, with her most recent being Midnights.

Taylor first announced Midnights’ release on August 29. When she released the album on October 21st, it consisted of a total of 13 songs with Anti-Hero, Lavender Haze, and Maroon claiming the top 3 spots on the billboard charts. In fact, she quickly held the top 10 spots on the Billboard Hot 100, with all 13 songs making the list.

At 3am, 3 hours after the release of Midnights, Swift surprised her listeners with an additional album titled Midnights 3am Edition. This album included an additional seven songs such as Dear Reader, Glitch, and Paris. Although these seven songs did not gain as much popularity as the first 13, many fans of Swift still adore these songs.

Although Midnights broke many music world records, such as Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single day and being the first female artist in history to occupy the entire top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, this album also contained another first for Swift. Snow on the Beach was her first song that included a collaboration with Lana Del Rey. The song broke Spotify’s record for the most singleday streams on an all female collaboration. Although it gained popularity immediately, Lana Del Rey was not sufficiently featured. Listeners feel cheated out of what could have been an outstanding collaboration

Conversely, Mastermind, Karma, and Dear Reader are the songs that stand out. To start off, Mastermind tells the story of one of Swift’s romantic relationships. This song gave the perfect insight into the relationships and sounded beautiful at the same time.

Karma has an upbeat style and a pop song feel. Although the meaning of the song is easy to decipher, its lyrical simplicity does not take away from the lesson it teaches. Karma explains how Swift doesn’t mind criticism because she knows that karma is on her side. This song vividly resembles

an older but classic Swift song, Shake it Off.

Dear Reader is the last song on Swift’s album. Its lyrics are a compilation of advice, acting as an ode to advice columns in a magazine. Swift compiles this advice and carefully crafts it into a song that is meant to teach the “reader”. Some of the best lines include “Dear reader/You don’t have to answer/Just ‘cause they ask you” and “When you aim at the devil/Make sure you don’t miss”. The song is one of my favorites because it teaches the listener what Taylor Swift learned while she grew up. Furthermore, now that Swift has entered adulthood she is passing this advice on to her children, which for her are her fans.

Overall, though the Midnights album gave Swift the popularity she deserved, Maroon, Karma, and Dear Reader should be higher on the charts. This album accurately reflected Swift’s continuous growth throughout her career.

The origional album cover before the song titles were announced

Credit: Taylor Swift

Wakanda Forever Review

Tristan Schneider Contributing Writer

Even before Black Panther: Wakanda Forever came out, it was controversial. The first Black Panther movie (2018) was a critical and commercial success with an earning of 1.348 billion dollars and 96% Rotten Tomatoes. Following this massive success, it was pretty clear that there would be a sequel, so why would everything surrounding the sequel be so controversial? Chadwick Boseman.

On August 28th, 2020, Chadwick Boesman, the actor who played Black Panther, passed away from cancer. This tragedy filled people with sorrow and grief throughout the world.“I haven’t grieved a loss this acute before. I spent the last year preparing, imagining and writing words for him to say, that we weren’t destined to see.” stated Ryan Coogler, the director of the film.

After Chadwick Boesman’s passing, people thought the sequel would be canceled out of respect for the actor. On Disney Investor Day December 10, 2020, Marvel Studios announced that they would not recast, but still make a sequel.This birthed the controversy of the creation of a sequel with the replacement of the main role

Black Panther 2 has the very hard job of one warranting its own existence, and two, not to overshadow the legacy of Chadwick Boseman. So the question is, did it prevail or flop miserably?

Black Panther:Wakanda Forever differs strongly from other Marvel movies. For a movie franchise known for fast paced blockbusters filled with jokes, Wakanda Forever contrasts as a slower movie with little action and more focus on the characters and their emotions after Black Panther’s death.

The movie sets itself apart by starting with a scene of Shuri frantically trying to find a cure for her brother’s illness, instead of the typical Marvel Studios logo.It’s a very emotional beginning for the movie that successfully pulls on the audience’s heart strings. After Shuri finds out that her brother passed away, the scene then cuts to the logo,with all of the regular actors replaced with Chadwick Boesman in memoriam.

The movie then cuts to a year after the funeral and how everyone is dealing with the loss of their king. Wakanda is at odds with other nations since they refuse to share vibranium with the other countries due to the fear of what they would do. This makes people go looking for vibranium, which angers Namor, the antagonist. He tries to bargain with Wakanda since if they didn’t give the nations the vibranium they wanted, then they wouldn’t be looking in the ocean for vibranium (Namor’s country is

Photo of New Black Panther Credit: collider.com

made out of vibranium). This ends up with Namor going to war with Wakanda, killing the Wakandan queen in the process.In the end, Shuri, the new black panther, rips off one of Namor’s wings on his ankles, and makes peace with him and ends the war.

The movie was pretty good in the end. The special and VFX effects were well done and much better than those of the other new Marvel movies. All performances were great, with Angela Basset’s monologues standing out the most. All character motivations are understandable and, the villain is sympathetic and well written. He has clear motivations for his hatred of the world and desire to kill the scientist.His goal is to protect his people from the upcoming threat of the rest of the world.

However, This isn’t a perfect movie. Some of the jokes just dont land properly in the movie. Additionally the serious tone gets cut off by a joke. While this is a problem with many other Marvel movies, it is extremely noticeable in this one. For example, when Shuri took the plant and saw Killmonger in the ancestral plane instead of her mother, she is very distant and emotional after her trance. She hits things in a fit of rage but is ruined by Iron Heart asking if she could have some of the flower..

Another thing not right is the character Iron Heart. Though Dominique Thorne performed well, the character just comes across as static. Her main function is for cool action scenes and comic relief. With everyone going through grief and trauma in the movie, she just feels off.

The final issue is with Shuri. In the beginning and the end she is sad and angry, but at the middle isn’t the same. In the middle however, she is comedic and calm, which is fine but the change is disjointed.

The movie fulfilled its promise to create a good story while honoringChadwick Boesman’s legacy. It is a necessary continuation that is well acted and

Picture of the late Chadwick Boesman Credit: Chapelboro

written, and maybe better than the first one. Marvel had a tough challenge and completed it almost perfectly. 8.5/10

Picture of Shuri Credit: Target

B O L L

Sophie Lankarani Contributing Writter

From choosing what to wear every morning to finding stylish but appropriate clothes for school, what a student wears is a big aspect of their identity. One of the most controversial aspects of Bolles’s dress code today is the tucking-in-shirts rule. Whether it is the discomfort or disfashion of the look, most students have disregarded this new policy in retaliation.

Since the founding of the school in 1933, the dress code has repeatedly evolved . Beginning as a boy’s military academy, the school had a formal dress code of slacks and oxford shirts. In 1962, Bolles changed to an academic all boys school but retained the formal dress code. When the school became co-ed in 1971, the girls dress code was dresses. Throughout the years the dress code has varied for both sexes with an overall trend of increased informality.

Over the last ten years, the dress

code has become an increasingly contentious issue between administrators and students alike. Fashion, leadership, and reputation have been the three main considerations for any major or minor adjustments to the rules.

Tucks Into a New Dresscode E S

Fashion is one of the largest drivers of dress code evolution. With new trends and cultural shifts happening so often, Bolles responds by adjusting its restrictions to fit them appropriately. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Bolles took a more comfortable approach to the dress code due to relaxed fashion trends.

The school board also considers leadership to be one of the main variables in deciding the dress code. One of Bolles’ most vital missions is to prepare students for college and the workplace, which the school board executes through the requirement of professional attire. By abiding by the dress code, Bolles students are preparing for the world of business casual as they hope to take on higher positions in their futures.

Furthermore, students who attend Bolles have a reputation to hold in and out of the classroom. By dressing professionally they not only uphold the school’s reputation, One of Bolles’ most vital missions is to prepare students for college and the workplace, which the school board executes through the requirement of professional attire but the reputation of themselves. Thus, tucking in shirts creates a more professional look which adds to the business casual attire.

Bolles has a dress code that requires students to uphold certain business casual guidelines. This dress code allows students to have the freedom to express themselves through what they wear rather than a set uniform, which would limit them to a particular style of clothes. Now more than ever, students are taking advantage of this freedom and are able to discover their personal style while still dressing professionally.

The school board responded to the tucking-in-shirts controversy by allowing casual blouses to remain untouched. Bolles students have appreciated this change although their stil is a major push to extend that relaxation to button down shirts as well. Only time will tell if Bolles will keep this rule of tucking in shirts or ease into less formal attire for students.

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Affirmative Action?

Why Affirmative Action jeopardizes Asian American students

Hasan Social Media/Arts Editor

The process of applying to college is extensive. An applicant must rack up their resume, write numerous essays, and have the perfect GPA to become the ultimate college candidate.

However, could it be easier for some than others? There is a hot debate of whether affirmative action should be allowed in universities. When colleges utilize affirmative action they are favoring minorities that are known to be discriminated against in the past.

As an Indian American senior who is applying to college and has brothers who applied to college, this is really disheartening. Why should colleges take preference to certain minorities over other minorities? Multiple cases have brought the debate to the supreme court.

Some colleges are facing heat for their biased actions, specifically

the University of North Carolina and Harvard University. Both colleges have demonstrated taking preferences to certain applicants simply based on their ethnicity. Arguments against the schools claim they are violating equal protection of the law and discriminating specifically against Asian Americans.

In the UNC admission process, race can be considered a “plus factor” along with all the other requirements for an application.

The case, Petitioner Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. The University of North Carolina (UNC) covers whether UNC is in violation of the fourteenth Amendment. The school defended themselves saying they “appropriately tailored race-conscious decision making” following the fourteenth amendment.

In addition, Harvard’s admission process includes a “personal rating” for each applicant decided by admission officers. Harvard claims the “personal rating” is a holistic approach of looking at applicants in order to see what type of person the applicant is

outside of school. The downside to the “personal rating” is it can allow for discreet Asian American discrimination by the admission officers.

According to statistics on the acceptance rates of students, provided by the Harvard Crimson, unfortunately Asian Americans in the past 20 years have seen an all-time low with an average acceptance rate of 8.1 percent. In comparison, Hispanic Americans had an average of 13.2 percent and African Americans had an average of 10.6 percent.

There are other ways to diversify schools. For example, a socioeconomic diverse campus would allow students from lower incomes households an opportunity to seek higher education; It levels the playing field and allows people from different backgrounds to experience new opportunities together, without involving race.

Colleges need to be evaluated in their acceptance processes because more and more Asian Americans will apply each year and be denied their aspirations for an uncontrollable factor.

Aisha

Harvard and UNC face backlash for utilizing affirmative action in their admission processes.

Credit: Aisha Hasan

National Labor Relations Board Saves Christmas

Moe Monet Economics Editor

Negotiators from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) narrowly averted a general strike at the North Pole that would have imperiled Christmas, 2022.

Representatives of the Elven Labor Federation (ELF) met late Tuesday night with Santiago “Santa” Claus, the President and CEO of recently embattled Claus Industries at a strictly mediated session at the NLRB’s headquarters in Washington, DC.

The dispute appears to have been brewing for some time now as ELF’s grievances have grown. “The North Pole real estate market is in shambles!” argued spokeself Candy Kane. “With all that ice melting, there’s less room for housing, and prices have

skyrocketed. Twelve chocolates an hour just doesn’t go as far as it used to.”

Beyond a simple increase in the cost of living, inflation has also been driven by manipulation of the confectionary currency. “North Pole labor law is notoriously vague,” said Northnorthern University law professor I.C. Kells. “The law simply states that the minimum wage is 12 chocolates per hour. It does not, however, strictly define a size or cocoa percentage. The Claus-backed government has taken advantage of this loophole by gradually minting smaller chocolates of lower cocoa content.”

“We honestly didn’t think they would notice,” said Sen. Robin Banks. “How smart can they possibly be? They’re like this tall,” he said, with his right hand at his knees. He had a fair point.

The elves were not, however, to be truffled with, and added to their list of demands an independent central bank to fix monetary standards.

However, not everybody involved considered elf compensation

that we would fail to deliver presents to every spoiled brat on this miserable blue-green rock! I mean… to every good little boy and girl on our lovely planet Earth.”

“This is the best part of the job,” said an NLRB negotiator, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “When I tell my friends what I do for work, they’re always like ‘wow man, that sounds like a snoozefest,’ and they’re usually right. But this is what I live for, man.”

“Oh yeah but this doesn’t even hold a candle to last year,” a colleague bragged. “The Intergalactic Mining Guild was so pi—”

of equal importance. “This was incredibly irresponsible,” said Claus spokesperson Holly Daye. “What if the deal had fallen through? This would have been the first time in over 2000 years of our company’s proud history

“Shut up David! You know what the Boss said would happen if we talked about that!”

“Hey! I’m being anonymous! And Joe didn’t say anything to me.”

“Not Joe, you half-baked toaster pastry, the Boss.”

“Oh. Was that when he said something about the Falklands?”

“Yes David, the one about the Falklands.”

“When I tell my friends what I do for work, they’re always like ‘wow man, that sounds like a snoozefest,’ and they’re ususally right. But this is what I live for, man.”

— Anonymous NLRB Negotiator

“We honestly didn’t think they would notice. How smart can they possibly be? They’re like this tall?”

— Robin Banks North Pole Senator

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