The Milton Paper APRIL 14, 2017
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That Weird Week in Between the Two Semesters By EDWARD MORETA You have just finished your exams to end the first semester. The next week, you have the first two days of the week off, you get one modified day on Wednesday where you get all of your exams, and just like that you’re expected to swing back into the swing of things by getting into the second semester. In the next week or two, you’ll probably receive the same amount of work you got before break, or maybe even more. You, in reality, have no time to reflect on your first semester, no time to give yourself and think about all of the things you’ve done, and you probably feel like your first semester work and testing is all in the past. What if though, there was a week long break from our whole schedule and set of classes, right after exams? No, not the break in which you can go and tan on vacation. How about a type of break in which you have none of your regular classes, but have all types of different classes where you talk about certain topics, have time for reflection, and even electives in which you won’t have to feel stressed and bogged down from work. At Masters, the host school for CITYterm, there is a half week in which they have a day dedicated to one topic (this year’s happened to be culinary education and equality). It has a lot of resemblance to one of our seminar days or community service days as it was a requirement for all students, and most students did different things during the day.
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The Head Monitor Candidates, in Brief By EMMA JAMES Spring is in the air and with it the near departure of Class I. The junior class will be left to lead the school in the absence of the seniors during their time at projects and beyond, and the Milton Academy SGA will be inherited by two intrepid head monitors. By now, the student body has a taste of who each candidate is and his or her ideas for the coming year, if elected. Following is a quick conversation I had with current head monitors Semi Oloko and Tyler Piazza, and a brief summary of each candidate (listed in alphabetical order). Emma: What are you looking for in a predecessor? Semi: I think someone who is going to put in the work and take the job seriously. We’re definitely not looking for someone who is just putting it on their college app, because that can be the case a lot of the time. Someone who knows why they’re running and has concrete goals for next year. Tyler: Building off of that, someone who knows it’s more than just talking at assemblies and knows there’s more behind the scenes stuff. E: What are the hardest or scariest parts of running?
T: Writing that last speech. S: For me, the Q&As; I was super nervous for those. E: What’s behind the scenes of a candidate’s preparation? S: I was definitely being nicer to everyone! And trying to think about an idea for my speech, trying to recognize things in the community that I feel need to change. E: What changes or goals are yet to be solved or what are you hoping the next leaders do? S: Emphasis on community. I feel like we tried to do that but there were obviously a lot of things that came up this year, like election politics. I think that our community, because of national events, became more polarized. I hope that next year, a goal can be addressing that and bridging those gaps. Also, the boarder-day student gap is something I wanted to work on. T: Stuff that we got moving but then didn’t really get concrete, like academic stuff – we had a meeting with Ms. Bonenfant as an SGA and talked about different issues. But even though it’s been brought up, we haven’t done anything really concrete yet.
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Fast News By TMP News Staff
Warm Weather Brings Students to the Quad Just as Monarch butterflies fly South in winter to seek warmth, so too do Milton students flow to the quad when temperatures are high. This week, daytime temperatures were in the mid-80s, and the quad-area surrounding the path from the stu to Forbes was flocked on either side by small groups of students. Throughout the day, teachers
chose to bring their students outside to experience the warm weather. But, Malcolm Mccann (I), lamented that classes outside “inhibit learning” and distract from course material. Malcolm also “enjoys eating lunch on the quad.” Regardless, the warm weather and outdoor experiences are a welcome change on Milton’s campus for many. •
French Exchange
On April 2nd, twenty-four French students arrived at Milton Academy, marking the 40th year of the French exchange program. The students hail from The Lycée Georges Duby in a suburb outside of Aix. Milton Academy families host the French students until Sunday, April 16th.
The Milton Academy group will travel to France this May where they will also stay with a French family. When asked what he thought of his experience, Teddy Beaudoin (I), said, “I had a fantastic experience on the French exchange, and I would recommend it to any student.” •
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Last year, the Milton Academy Upper School voted on a referendum to reform the longstanding structure of Student Government Association (SGA) elections to open up the option to run for SGA to those outside the male-female gender binary. The amendment which succeeded in replacing the old election process appeared to be perfectly inclusive and democratic: the two candidates with the most votes gained a spot on the SGA. Unfortunately, as some had feared but many failed to predict when voting last year, this system resulted in a male dominated SGA, with 9 of 14 seats on the SGA belonging to males. This year’s referendum, in which the candidate with the most votes and the candidate of a different gender identity with the next most votes become elected, is poised to improve gender diversity while allowing for more inclusivity than the male/female system. The Milton Paper board firmly believes that the opportunity to run for SGA should be open to all students, irrespective of gender identity, and the board also recognizes that females and non-binary students, who likely account for a majority of our student body, should not be disadvantaged by the voting process. We commend the SGA for producing an amendment which satisfies both of these concerns. Gender diversity is crucial to the functioning of the SGA because students of different gender identities bring different perspectives to the SGA. The SGA is responsible for participating in DC processes, organizing student activities, and representing students’ viewpoints in the school. In all these functions, students of different genders could bring different perspectives that would ultimately benefit the SGA and ensure that views of all students are represented. The new amendment will improve this diversity while not hindering inclusivity. We must reflect on the fact that the purely democratic process in place this past year effectively disadvantaged non-males in the community and consider the broader implications of this realization. In doing so, it becomes evident that the SGA voting amendment, despite the merits for which we endorse it, is but a bandaid solution to an underlying issue of sexism. As a school, we must confront why we do not evenly elect boys, girls, or non binary students. This likely lies not only in unconscious bias, but also in the traits that we look for in SGA candidates. Given the format of speeches followed by voting, students often vote based on whether the candidate is funny, and could be entertaining during assemblies. Often, this type of voting favours boys who more often jest or goof off during their speeches. The voting disparity also indicates that gender stereotypes impact our community. Students who do not fit into defined gender roles are disadvantaged in our elections. Further, women are often stereotyped as passive and not leader-like, as shown by the sexist criticism that exclusively impacted Hillary Clinton. To prevent sexism from inhibiting gender diversity on the SGA, we strongly support the mandated gender diversity. •
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Vijaya Anisetti plays softball, dances in Dance Concert and on the Step Team, and is involved in South Asian Society, Yearbook Club, the Outdoor Program, International Students’ Club, and OBK; her favorite movie is How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days. Vijaya is running because she “wants to make a difference at the school that’s done so much for [her].” Coming from a background suspended between India and America, she has changed schools many times, and that variety has given her a “wider range of perspective” – she is open to new ideas and what other people say. She acknowledges that Milton is a pretty good school, but “there are definitely certain aspects of it that aren’t given as much importance.” For example, freshmen are given one DC pass, but Vijaya points out that new sophomores and juniors are not given this; she “didn’t know much about plagiarism before coming to Milton,” and wonders if “[she] accidentally did that, would [she] be let off the hook or not?” Additionally, she plans to put some priority towards mending the gap between upper- and underclassmen, but she “doesn’t have any boundaries to the change she can see.” She concludes by saying, “the future is in our hands.” Nicholas “Nick” Gistis is immersed in the Milton theater community, starring in two shows and managing one this past year; his favorite movie is Gone with the Wind. Nick has wanted to run for head monitor since freshman year, and he “really loves this place.” A student at Milton Academy since fourth grade, he feels he is the most equipped to integrate the middle and upper schools. His philosophy towards change is “anything for the better.” Nick recently noticed a sign on the bathroom door listing the gender-neutral bathrooms on campus, but “the list started with the places that don’t have gender neutral bathrooms.” This glasshalf-empty attitude seems like it could be an issue for some people,” and he wants Milton to be “the most accepting place it can be, a place where everyone gets excited to go to school.” John “Jake” Griffin plays Ultimate Frisbee and “hack” soccer, and is involved in Students Interested in Middle Eastern Affairs, Model UN, Debate, and the Forward Looking Liberal Action Group; his favorite movie (interestingly enough) is Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer. Jake observes that “we as a community have created divisions and have become pretty reclusive and hateful” over the past few months, and thinks that “we’re going to need a fun year” to bridge the gap. As a former Class III Representative, he “really loves creating games, making assemblies fun, giving speeches, and all the requirements of SGA”, and has a “unique component of approachability and
relatability” that rivals the other candidates. Jake notices that small friend groups cause students to “align themselves with people that they mentally stay with for the rest of their Milton careers,” and despite the discomfort, weirdness, and awkwardness, we need break those boundaries. However he can, he wants to work towards “a Milton community more bound together instead of just desperate across grades and friend groups.” Taicheng “Leo” Jin plays soccer, swims, plays piano, is involved in community service, Asian Society, International Students’ Club, and photography and film; his favorite movie is Shawshank Redemption. Leo grew up in rural China and had a mentor that taught him English when he “really didn’t know where America was.” Because he is “not from a typical Beijing, Shanghai family,” he has experienced “not being the center of attention.” This has granted him a valuable “outsider’s perspective” to look objectively on situations, through this, he hopes to propagate the idea of serving others before yourself throughout the community better from the outsider’s perspective, so I can see what needs to be done. Leo observes the groups of specific friends, and wants the student body to feel comfortable with having more than just “seven or eight friends,” when they are surrounded by such a vibrant student body. He concludes with a single word: “unite.” Isabelle “Izzy” Lareau plays field hockey and hockey, runs track, and is involved in Investment Club, OBK, and her dorm, Hallowell; her favorite movie is Brother Bear. Izzy always thought she wanted to be a dorm monitor, but she realized she “wanted to make a bigger impact on the community than just in my small dorm sense.” Because both of her parents are in the Navy, she has moved around a lot, and can see from the perspective of “people who are from the Midwest, from the South, obviously from Boston” now that her family lives close by. Her status as a local boarder with a brother in the middle school allows her to see “from the boarder and day student perspective.” Izzy says that we should embrace the “many movements and reforms” occurring on a national scale, and “try to change our school for the better every day to meet the times and support everyone in the community.” In this, she hopes to bond the school together. Gregory “Greg” Livingston plays football and lacrosse, and participates in community service at the Taylor School; his favorite movies are Caddyshack and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. As a new junior this year, Greg has already attended four years of high school at three different schools – he’s looked forward to his senior year for “a really long time,” and he thinks
everyone, especially the current junior class, “deserves an awesome year.” From his overarching high school experience, he will “bring a lot of different insights and opinions” and the “fresh perspective” that other candidates might not. Greg’s first year at Milton has been enhanced by his dorm’s “really strong community” and he thinks the whole upper school community could be closer. “Everybody here is really smart,” he shares, “but we all just need to listen to each other a little bit more” to learn. Navpreet “Nav” Sekhon manages the varsity girls’ volleyball team, edits for The Milton Paper and The F-Word, and enjoys creating art in and out of the classroom; her favorite movie is Mulan. Nav honestly states that in the past, she has “hated it here, but I’ve grown to love it,” and that perspective pushes her to work towards a more positive and inclusive environment. She thinks her approachability and drive to “get stuff done” makes her a good leader, but knows the job isn’t all leading; she has experience helping the community behind the scenes, from “planning the beginning of the year events” to “planning some of Class II Retreat.” As opposed to “saying ‘alright, let’s just see how this turns out,’” Nav wants to take serious action regarding “problems with inclusivity and people feeling that they get shut down a lot.” She hopes to convince the administration to grant stress days to underclassmen and alter the affective education curriculum to avoid “learning the same thing over and over again.” Kailee Silver runs cross country and track and swims, and is a member of the Milton Measure news board, the Magus Mabus music board, and Helix; her favorite movie is Mean Girls. Kailee is running for head monitor “one, for personal reasons, because I want to put myself out there and try something new,” and because she feels her energy and kindness would serve her well in the position. Her involvement in a variety of activities on campus – sports, music, and science – allows her to “reach out to people” and come across as approachable. As a junior heading into the college process, Kailee acknowledges that “Milton can be very competitive,” but she wants to lessen that. Pointing out the posters on the walls, she says that the administration “does a good job facilitating LGBTQ+, ethnic, and religious groups, but she thinks “we need to raise some tolerance levels and educate people,” as a community. Next Tuesday, April 18th, each candidate will give a two-minute speech in the final state of the head monitor election process, followed by school-wide voting. The 201718 Milton Academy Head Monitors will be announced Wednesday, April 19th. •
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Milton Switches to an Automated LED System By LINDSEY MUGFORD Upon the return to Milton from March break, each teacher quickly found on his or her desk a small packet detailing a change in the light system. Within the packet, diagrams and instructions relayed the message that, as a part of Milton’s energy conservation program, the school has switched its fluorescent lights to an automated, switchless LED system which, in the time since its implementation, has received mixed reviews. Before the shift, Milton had been lit by fluorescent bulbs controlled manually by switches. “[The fluorescent tubes] are not good,” James Benoit of Facilities, manager of the recent LED project, explained. “They pulse, they contain mercury, they’re just not good for you.” In fact, the levels of the old lights couldn’t even be adjusted. “They never could dim [the light] before,” Benoit said, “It was either on or off.” According to him, such problems become things of the past with the new LED lighting. Not only do the LED lights have no mercury or pulsing, they also save a tremendous amount of energy. “[Fluorescent tubes] are, say, 28 watts, bulbs, each”, Benoit explained. “These [LEDs] are 14. So to begin with, they use half the amount of energy to produce the same amount of grated light.” Not only do the bulbs have less overall wattage, but they don’t even use their entire light output thanks to their ability to harvest daylight. Essentially, as a small sensor on the light senses how much sunlight is coming through windows, “it’s going to harvest the light from the sun and then dim the lights down,” Benoit said. “What we found was that we only needed 70% of the output of that 14 watt bulb.” Not only does the sensor detect light, but it also detects movement, turning the lights off when the room is unoccupied; it only uses energy when it is essential to do so. In fact, according to documents obtained from Benoit and Heidi Vanderbilt-Brown, Chief Financial & Operating Officer also working on the project, the new light system saves 954,165 kilowatt hours and reduces nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide emissions by 16,935 ounces, 53,800 ounces, and 19,280,336 ounces, respectively. The documents explain that these energy and greenhouse gas cuts are equivalent to the year-long removal of 131 cars, the transformation of 654 regular cars to hybrid cars, or the cessation of 77 household’s electricity consumption for a year. Additionally, the LED light system is much cheaper than the previous one, making the project not only environmentally friendly
but also financially practical. “There are 203,000 dollars annually in savings,” Benoit summarized. “And it’s better light.” In terms of the logistics of implementing such a system at Milton, Benoit described how, in several phases, facilities converted campus lights to the new LED system, placing the sensors and replacing the light switches with dimmers. Although seemingly an odd choice, Benoit explained that, thanks to the sensors’ connectivity to the cloud and motion-sensing capacities, the on/off state of the light can depend solely on the preset schedules or occupancy of the room. “You don’t need a switch anymore, because we can shut [the lights] off,” he said. “In a dormitory, for example, you can have all the lights in the hallway go off at 10 o’clock at night.” Benoit did specify, however, that the new system does not include student rooms. In order to communicate the new changes to the community, numerous emails were sent out to the faculty, as well as the instructional packet containing facts and explanations left on each teacher’s desk. However, besides an inclusion of a brief message on the Student Center TV, little to no communication was made to the student body. “Our initial assessment,” explained Vanderbilt-Brown, “was that most people who don’t operate a light at Milton would consider it a nonevent.” She wasn’t wrong; Alex Palacios Santos (III) of Norris house barely registered the change. “I didn’t even notice that the lights were switched in Norris,” he admitted. “Nobody’s really noticed.” Alex Chen (II) of Wolcott house agreed, remarking that “overall, most people seem indifferent to the changes.” However, some have complained about the switch, specifically about the automated nature. Hannah Pulit, for example, couldn’t help but feel frustrated with the new system. As a Hallowell dorm parent, her experience with the lights in the dorm has been less than ideal. “I had no control over the light situation,” she remembered, “It was a little aggravating.” Pulit also dislikes the motion sensors, especially in the middle of the night. “If you go out into the hallway at 3am, you don’t really want to step into this hugely brightly lit hallway,” she argued. “There’s just something a little industrial and institutional about [the lights] that makes it feel less homey.” Chen experienced a similar problem. According to him, “accidentally activating the motion detectors is inevitable… when people are trying to sleep, once you walk into the hallway, all the lights turn on, leading to a
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Between Semesters CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 However, unlike our seminar days and community service days, their days continue throughout the weekend, with a closed weekend within the boarding community, and another one of these “culinary education” days. At Milton, we have the combination of having such a fast paced and often rushed environment, in which you wish you could participate in something important to you, but never can because we are always all doing something. Our seminar and community service days usually feel oddly placed, and sometimes feel like an interruption into the swing of things into the classroom. As well, because we only have one or two of these days a year, it can feel so extremely easy to just coast throughout the day, and then go on our merry way at 2:55. Really, it feels like the students are sitting on the sidelines, and the administration really created something for us that we need to attend. What if every year, seniors chose the topics to talk about? And what if they helped plan the types of classes, whole school events, and the activities? In addition, this fast paced culture often creates the notion that we really don’t have the time to care about the things that are important to us and in the world because we are all so busy and have so many other things to worry about. However, imagine if we could have a whole week (after exams), dedicated to a topic or two; all of the grades are mixed, we have regular school day hours, but all day for the week, we have a mixture of classes and activities in which they are dedicated into only the topic. Important conversations and learning opportunities could happen, people could be exposed to things they had never talked or learned about, and the whole campus would be taking a deep breath that everyone deserves after something as stressful as exams. There could be reflection time, places to be creative, and people to be leaders. Maybe, we receive comments from teachers that you had during the week, that went into your transcript? A whole week makes things more complicated, longer, almost begging you to care because of the meer length of the whole thing. How could we make our campus feel more awake and passionate about things we sometimes don’t get the platform for, and don’t even have the time for? And when we finally get the platform, how will all of Milton react, when it’s such a long chunk of our time, in which both students and teachers invest so much time in? •
Improve Vegan Options By WILLA DUBOIS This April, the Sustainability Board offered several pledges for students to commit to reducing their meat consumption. These included diet changes as small as “Meatless Mondays” and as large as “Completely Vegan” with the promise that, based on student-selected pledges, Flik would reduce the amount of meat they purchased. However, eliminating meat or, in the case of full veganism, dairy products, greatly reduces the amount of food and nutrients one intakes, especially protein consumed by a pledging student. Eating enough food and consuming enough protein are important to every Milton student. Thus, the calories and nutrients lost by not consuming meat need to be replaced by other sources, such as beans and tofu. Flik will likely make an effort to replace meat with other protein sources for the month of April, but that says nothing for the health of students with diet restrictions in the other seven months of school. The options for student lunches are expansive, from sandwiches to salad, pasta to noodles, and regular hot lunch as well as Flik Live, but dinners are a different story. While there is always a salad bar and vegan option, the reality of the food can often not be what a vegetarian or vegan student was expecting. While the idea of a vegan option is luxurious in theory, in reality, it often falls flat. Vegan options vary greatly, from April 2nd’s lentil chili to the regular hummus. While lentil chili is an excellent dinner with all the necessary nutrients, hummus fails. With the small portions of vegan options, a student would likely only get a serving of one or two tablespoons, and at 26 calories a tablespoon, that fails to be a substantial meal. Additionally, the salad bar at dinner, while it always provides many vegetables and grilled chicken, never has tofu and often doesn’t have beans. This means that vegan students are reduced to carbs to make up the bulk of their calories consumed, which is not even close to as healthy as relying on beans or soy products. Clearly, going vegetarian or vegan is a choice. But it’s a choice that benefits the environment we all have to live in, as shown by the Sustainability board, and it is an ethical choice. Students who love nature, whether that be for the animals or the environment, should have the option to cut animal products out of their diets if they so desire. Moreover, providing for vegetarians or vegans can be cost effective. Beans cost $1.99 a pound, less than chicken’s national average of $3.18. Providing options for vegetarian and vegan students is possible, and it needs to happen. •
PAGE 5 Opinion The Power of Musical Emotion By JACK WEILER Music is simply an expression of emotion. Those who listen to music engage in listening to feel something, not necessarily joy or pleasure, but some feeling. Currently, most, I would say, categorize music into either “banger” or “vibe”: So we see “X” by 21 Savage and “One Dance” by Drake, entirely differently sounding songs, both entirely thin in deeper meaning, both occupying the top charts. A common misconception these days, though, from critics and supporters of these bangers is that if something is a “banger,” it has no value as a song. However, using a song to pump up a team before a game manufactures necessary pregame rage, excitement, and focus -- all of which are emotions. No, “Mask Off” by Future is not well-crafted art marked by carefully-thought, socially-conscious lyrics, but it still has value. Still, I see where people come from when they say that Future’s music has no value because there is another side of the music world that, on the surface, appears to have much more apparent value. This is the “lyrically woke” music supported by the music elitists and purists who dwell in a camp entirely the same as the masses but masked as more sophisticated, who categorize music only as “lyrically woke” or “lyrically ignorant.” It is quite easy to say, too, that Illmatic or Coloring Book has more value than Lil Boat because the artists of the former no doubt put more intelligence and thought into their works. But I argue “4 Your Eyez Only” supplies simply a different kind of value than “XO TOUR LIF3”: woke music provides a feeling about some political, human thing, while unwoke music provides innate, general emotion. But, at the end of the day, emotion is emotion. The lack of originality on More Life and Views is a testament to Drake’s weaknesses as an artist, not to the value
of the songs to the listener. Conversely, the originality of N.W.A at their time is a testament to their trailblazing not to the value of the music itself. Don’t get me wrong, though, I think that some music is fundamentally better than other music; however, even though Tupac is better than Uzi, the emotions we feel when listening to their respective music have equally valuable homes in different people and different times. And we need, now more than ever, to seize that value like our lives depend on it. As so many of our peers and fellow Americans have beaten into our heads, “America is a country divided right now.” Although divided, both sides have something to fear, something to cry about, something to revere. Fear, sadness, joy are just emotions, though, and what better way is there to get rid of an emotion than to overload it with it’s opposite emotion? Music transcends the boundaries of politics: Regardless of your support for Meals on Wheels, music can provide the emotion to hop on the opposite side of the see-saw of the emotion that’s weighing it down. Since the opposite of fear is hope, if you fear relations with Syria and Russia, listen to “Alright” -- kDot’s perfunctory delivery about the future will no doubt assuage your fears. If you are sad about government programs being cut, listen to “Yellow Submarine”-- let’s be honest, what’s more joyous than the Beatles? And if you are a conservative happy because some “triggered snowflake” got quote-tweeted by Cloyd Rivers on Twitter, listen to “All I Do is Win”-- that song is the major key to giving false senses of confidence. Some of you may hate music, so you do you. But for those of you who like to bump Yachty in the car, or even those who like to perform etymological breakdowns of Full Clip, understand how that music makes you feel beyond the beat and beyond the lyrics. •
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Translating Slang By ELENA VICEIRA Milton’s many slang words foster a new branch of English for every student, inherently making all of us bilingual, by some standards. For students who speak two languages, even before taking this third dialect into account, translating so many new, trendy words makes it harder to communicate in a second language. My family life consists of speaking Spanish at home and English at school. Growing up this way never proved to be a problem; rather I was able to embrace the beauty of being bilingual and felt lucky to have that opportunity. As younger kids in elementary school, slang words are not uncommon and usually already exist in the English language. Using words you can find in a dictionary, having the same meaning the dictionary gives, makes translating much simpler, especially when sharing your day with your family and retelling inside jokes between you and your friends because every language has it’s own version; no need for Spanglish. However, upon arriving at Milton, I was overwhelmed by the amount of made up, obscure words that had found a permanent home in every Milton student’s vocabulary. Words such as “hit”, “DSG”, and “curve” (or “box”, whatever your snapchat lingo entails) feel second-hand when speaking with friends, but when I attempt to translate these words when telling my family a story about my social life at Milton, I can never put my finger on a corresponding word in Spanish, leaving me having to use yet another dialect: Spanglish. Even explaining these peculiar words to people who don’t go to Milton usually takes a few minutes, as other teenagers who don’t experience the use of these words daily also have trouble understanding their place in our vocabularies. Taking a step further and not only having to explain these words, but additionally having to translate them
puts up an ever larger unforeseen obstacle. The disparity between teen and adult language use, and additionally translating between two languages, presents a hinderance in any relationship. The inability to speak freely with my parents or brother the same way I do with my friends holds me back from speaking at all. I don’t feel the same connection and ability to explain the details of my life, and therefore don’t feel that I should be opening up to them at all. My fluency in Spanish extends solely to speaking with my family and when in Spain, but I don’t have much exposure to the language that Spanish teens use. There are many students at Milton who do have this exposure, and in turn have more vocabulary that they use to translate from one language to the other, but my sheltered vocabulary doesn’t allow me to convey my thoughts and experiences in the same productive manner. Teenagers all around the world have similar slang, so by knowing what Spanish teens say in replacement of “hit” can make communication more exact. Although, even in these cases there will always be a difference in culture that doesn’t supply an exact translation of all slang words. The nuances that cause a disparity in communication pose a barrier in the development of relationships where translation is imperative, such as parent-child relationships, but the advantage of the ability to blend two languages, flowing them together, presents a solution to this problem. Although everyone wants the ability to talk with one language and be able to say all the same things in another language, cultural differences also present a blockade and there are not always direct translations for everything. Milton’s slang culture brings our community together and serves as a bonding characteristic for everyone since it is something we all share. Since our slang culture is not shared outside of Milton, it unifies and strengthens our community from within. •
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The Trouble with Trumpcare By NATASHA ROY On Tuesday evening, Lauren Haley sat in Straus surrounded by a small group of students to discuss Healthcare in the modern era. A member of the American Health Lawyers Association who has devoted her life to the ever-changing field of Healthcare Law, she offered the Milton community insight into several complex issues, including the omnipresent debate concerning Obamacare and TrumpCare. She began her talk by stressing that “there’s no free lunch-- the money for health care has to come from somewhere”: an important reminder to keep in mind as we consume the endless stream of news surrounding the Trump Administration’s plans and negotiations for healthcare reform. In March, House Republicans finally got their chance to present a “new” healthcare bill after 7 years of fiercely opposing the existing Obamacare. The disappointing result was several failed negotiations, heavy opposition to drafts from Democrat and Republican politicians alike, and a repeal bill that was--astoundingly--pulled from the floor before a single vote had even been cast. In Haley’s words, “the joke on Capitol Hill now is that Republicans have been calling to Repeal and Replace Obamacare for 7 years, and when they finally got the chance they presented nothing.” Haley thinks “Democrats would have been willing to consider something, but were presented with basically nothing.” To make matters worse, what Republicans did present ended up being “Obamacare Lite”, according to Haley, in that most if not all of Obamacare’s policies remained the same albeit less firm or extreme. So why did House Republicans fail so dramatically to propose a sustainable Healthcare bill? When one takes into account the rising cost of care, constituents’ growing unwillingness to pay for insurance, and the generally complex nature of modern healthcare, this astounding failure seems understandable. In fact, 21st century Healthcare policies are so complicated that Haley joked “if you’re looking for job security, go into Healthcare, because there will always be work to be done.” Perhaps the most significant roadblock standing between politicians and an acceptable Healthcare plan is the issue of cost: health insurance costs are incredibly high, to the point that the general public
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Book Recommendations for Budding Environmentalists By MICHELLE ERDENESANAA Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Published in 1970, this case against the nationally disputed pesticide DDT was one of the major catalysts of the U.S. environmental movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Carson’s work is acclaimed for making scientific writing accessible to the general public and for exposing the profit-driven chemical scientists that formed one of the first waves of front groups in American history. The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey While Abbey’s fictional representation of a radical environmentalist group was controversial for seeming to advocate for ecoterrorism, the “monkey wrenchers” that undermine ecologically destructive infrastructure have become icons of social resistance. Read if you like the Southwest and dark humor. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein Klein, known for her social activism and journalism, exposes the fallacy of neoliberalism and its social and ecological consequences. She moves fluidly between issues of ecology, economy, government, and consumerism, thoroughly examining the repercussions of corporate globalization. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer Foer combines personal narrative with agricultural studies, forming a journalistic inspection of the true cost of consuming animal products. He walks readers through his own process of divesting from animal products, narrating with a tone that is neither berating nor judgmental toward meat-eaters. •
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Trumpcare CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 is growing more and more unwilling to pay for healthcare coverage. “The basis of healthcare,” Haley explained, “is that the healthy people pay for insurance even though they don’t require much care, so that the sick people can afford the care they need.” We are thus presented with a massive predicament when healthy people grow unwilling to pay for coverage they may not necessarily need. For example, Haley woefully described how “people have started to realize that it's actually cheaper for them to opt out of paying for health insurance, incur the fine, and instead just pay an upfront fee the 2 or 3 times in a year they actually visit a hospital. For healthy people, doing so would be cheaper than paying for a year’s coverage.” This staggering reality sheds light upon the Republican push to reverse Obamacare’s Individual mandate, which requires Americans to obtain and retain health insurance (or pay a tax penalty). Clearly and undeniably, health insurance is astonishingly expensive. Perhaps, then, TrumpCare’s aim to make health insurance less binding is justified, even sensible? In a perfect world, maybe. Unfortunately, for the delicate balance of health insurance to survive, it is crucial that everyone pays for insurance, regardless of their health status.
Health Insurance policies will unravel around us when healthy people decide not to pay for the care that they don’t need, but others do. Another major flaw with TrumpCare is that millions of low-income Americans will lose their coverage each year. Instead of Medicaid expansion, the Republican plan block-grants traditional Medicaid. The result is less funding for states and for lower-income Americans. In response to this distressing situation, Haley reasoned that “no one wants to see people out on the street, stripped of their healthcare… [but] it really just came down to money for [Republicans].” As Lauren Haley made clear throughout the discussion held on Tuesday, Healthcare is an unbelievably expensive right. When it comes down to it, however, Healthcare is just that: a right-- not a privilege, but a human right to which every American is entitled. Politicians must keep this fundamental fact in mind while negotiating terms for new healthcare terms. Despite extenuating economic circumstances, it simply cannot stand for healthy people to opt out of insurance-- leaving sick people completely unfunded-- or for millions of low-income Americans to lose their coverage •
New LED System CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 really bright hallway in the middle of the night.” In fact, the motion sensors don’t only cause difficulties at night. Because the light turns off when it can’t sense motion, if the occupant of a room is sitting still the lights may turn off. Pulit, for example, remembers several times that the light has gone off in the middle of her class, just because the group was seated at the harkness table. “It feels counter productive to what we’re doing,” Pulit said. “[In class,] you don’t get up and walk around necessarily. We’re sitting at the table having a conversation. So I find the sensitivity to movement a little aggravating.” Despite some negative reactions, many people are excited about the change. Ian Torney, chair of the visual arts department, spoke of the upgrade to the AMC, where, according to him, the quality of the light is extremely important. “Finding that noontime, daylight calibration was very important to us,” he explained. “The challenge with florescent bulbs is that they
degrade by about 12% per year… they actually came in with these new LED lights at 5,000 K (a measure of the coolness/ warmth of light), and the difference is significant. It’s a really great upgrade for us.” Juliana Viola (I) of the Sustainability Board was equally excited, especially happy that Milton was addressing issues of energy conservation. “The new energy plan makes some of those decisions about when something should be on, which is really great because it lowers the amount of energy that each person is using,” she said. “We should be making the changes in these areas, so it’s great to see that.” Despite mostly positive or indifferent reactions, the new LED system has received a few mixed reviews. However, those involved in the project remain adamant that it is a positive change for the community in the interest of sustainability and convenience. “This is nothing but good,” Benoit insisted. “This is nothing but really, really good stuff.” •
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Arts & Enterainment Something Artist of the Week: Something Kailee Silver (II) Goth Rap By LIZ FOSTER
By HANNAH HACHAMOVITCH HH: What art class are you taking now? Do you like it? KS: I took Studio Art last year and Advanced Drawing this past semester. I really liked having live models come in during Advanced Drawing; I learned a lot from drawing from life. I’m not taking anything right now, but I’m taking two classes next year! HH: What are you working on now? KS: I’m working on my college portfolio. So I’m trying to practice and improve my skills as an artist. I want to push myself as I build my portfolio by doing things like painting and watercolors. I do a lot of portraiture, so I need to expand. HH: What's your favorite medium? Why? KS: I like charcoal because you can do so much with it! You can play with the lights and the darks so much, change the contrast, blend or not blend—it’s so cool. I love the texture and the control. HH: What’s your favorite subject to depict in your art? KS: I love drawing people! I can’t really explain why. With people you can depict emotions, and there’s just something that I really love about drawing different kinds of people and putting them into art.
HH: What's your favorite piece you've made this year? Why? KS: I really liked the drawing I submitted to The National Scholastic competition. I drew myself swimming with all this water coming off of me. It took such a long time and ended up working really well! HH: Do you do any art outside of class? KS: Yes! I have a sketchbook that I sketch in all the time, and because I’m trying to build my portfolio, I’m really pushing myself to do a lot of art on my own. HH: Do you think art will be a part of your future? How? KS: I don’t think I’m going to major in art in college, but I’m definitely going to take art classes. I just love it so much, so I want to continue with it for rest of my life. Maybe I’ll have a little gallery or something like that when I’m older. HH: Do you have an artist crush? Why? KS: I love Thomas Saliot’s paintings—he’s a professional artist I see on Pinterest. He draws people, and his stuff is pretty realistic, but it’s his own distinctive style. His paintings are edgy without being too crazy, but they definitely make you stop and look at them. Look him up! •
From jazz-influenced rap to trap-influenced rap to bare-bones freestyling, there’s a subgenre of rap for absolutely anyone. However, the latest trend in the underground rap scene strays far from the norm. With muddy vocals and low quality production, the distorted noise of “goth rap” has been blasting across sites like Bandcamp and SoundCloud. Artists such as $uicideboy$, Fat Nick, and Ghostemane have engineered a sound that blends 90s grunge with today’s club beats. The future of rap, it seems, could very well lie in the hands of depressed twenty-somethings emulating the sounds of their youth. Though the goth rap subgenre owes its popularity to many different figures in the scene, the now-deceased A$AP Yams brought the genre its first large exposure. Prior to his untimely death in 2015, the A$AP MOB leader constantly tweeted about “goth b****es,” posting delightful updates such as, “very depressed bruh where is my goth b**** to comfort me with mad despair and regret.” While fetishizing these girls clad in all black wasn’t cool, what was cool was Yams’s opening the door for goth influence to invade rap both sonically and culturally. The songs of self-professed “goth trap/goth rap/emo rap” artists usually contain this type of content. With themes of self-destruction, the occult, and heavy emotions, the sound of goth rap steps outside the typical hip hop box while still maintaining typical themes of money, girls, and cars. Songs like $uicideboy$’s “Stop Calling Us Horrorcore” straddle both emo and rap. Group member $crim, sounding like a distorted Marilyn Manson, raps, “Forbidden from heaven’s gates, ain't my choice to make/Stuck with these devilish traits,” while his cohort Ruby informs us that the weed that he’s smoking “is overly potent.” These blended influences allow goth rap to appeal to multiple audiences; fans both of mid-2000s emo bands and of Future can find something appealing in the sound or lyrics of artists like Lil Peep and Goth Money. Without any apparent intention on the part of artists, the bridge between rap and other genres has continued to grow in the past few years. As Kanye West and Chance the Rapper construct links between gospel and hip hop, the underground scene has managed to blend the appeal of Slipknot and GG Allin into the genre. Rap’s core continues to shift and evolve, creating unique blends that appeal to music audiences worldwide. •
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Beauty and the Beast: the Major Motion Let Down By CELENA ECCLESTON
If there’s one thing everyone knows about me, it’s this: I love Disney. Not Disney channel or the annoying movies that only air on the channel, but actual Disney movies, my favorite ones having to be The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Lion King, Aladdin, Frozen (I, a sixteen-year-old junior in highschool, own an Elsa doll that sings Let It Go, and I feel absolutely no shame at all). But my all time absolute I-will-die-if-that-movie-dies favorite is Beauty and the Beast. So, naturally, I hear that a live action remake of the movie is coming out. Cinderella and The Jungle Book weren’t too disappointing, so I had hope. My favorite movie was going on the big screen with real people. I would get to hear Mrs. Potts sing Tale as Old as Time as a real Belle and a real Beast waltzed around a grand ballroom. Boy, was I disappointed. And I will definitely tell you why. (Warning: spoilers ahead. If you haven’t seen this yet and still plan to, stop reading. Otherwise, continue.) And I will definitely admit that everything following is based on my bias for Disney animations. First of all, there were serious rumours circulating that LeFou was going to be a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Although I am a cis-hetero female, I have many friends in the community and thought it was their time to shine as far as representation in the Disney world went. However, I sat through every single scene with LeFou, looking for him to say something that implied something else, or even the ridiculous “gay” stereotypes. Alas, I was let down. Secondly, what’s with the musical numbers? The original soundtrack was wonderful, and now this live action remake decided to stomp all over the original track. There were two unnecessary musical numbers added into unnecessary scenes, none of which were in the animation. There was a song about a childhood Beast standing by his father’s bed and singing, which never even happened. Then there was a scene where Belle figured out how her mother died (who no one was even thinking of in the original movie, to be brutally honest) and started singing about her childhood sorrows that she couldn’t even remember, considering she was an infant. Then the songs that were still carried to this remake, they were screwed with. Some words were changed--propositions and articles and
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‘Pure Comedy’ Review By MADISON LYNCH AND LIZ FOSTER Josh Tillman—commonly known as Father John Misty—has already tackled the intricacies of romance and masculinity in his previous album, I Love You, Honeybear. In his newest release, Pure Comedy, he continues to dig further into difficult issues as he addresses capitalism, analyzes modern entertainment, and explores the defects of the human condition. Pure Comedy arrives not only as an album but as an experience. Prior to releasing the record, Tillman penned a 2,000-word essay and created a short film chronicling the album’s production. Tillman explains that Pure Comedy “is the story of a species born with a half-formed brain. That species, Tillman continues, “becomes the purveyor of increasingly bizarre and sophisticated ironies.” Those quirky and sometimes outlandish ironies imbue each lyric and chord progression on Pure Comedy with pretentiousness and poise. Mid-tempo piano tracks—many mirroring his former works such as I Love You,
Honeybear’s single “Bored in the USA” and Fear Fun’s “I’m Writing a Novel”—provide a healthy counterpoint to the album’s deeply satirical lyrics. Despite sonically mimicking his older works, each song on Pure Comedy presses into new territory that stretches the boundaries of Tillman’s music. The album’s clearest stand-out song is the thirteen-minute epic “Leaving L.A.” The song lacks a chorus, instead filling out with ten distinct verses and the occasional repeating “oh’s.” “Leaving L.A.” attacks both the nature of Los Angeles and the identity of the songwriter himself. Tillman acknowledges his faux-deep indie image as he sings, ‘Oh great, that’s just what we all need /Another white guy in 2017/ Who takes himself so goddamn seriously.” A work of incredible sacrifice, “Leaving L.A.” took Tillman three whole years to complete, as he notes in an interview with Beats 1 host Zane Lowe. In Pure Comedy, Father John Misty continues to create a new world of indie folk. Blending tongue-in-cheek self critique, faux-deep analyses, and insightful satire, Josh Tillman pioneers a sound that sounds dated but still feels contemporary. •
Alumni Interview: Matthew Trammell ‘07 By NIHAL RAMAN For Matthew Trammell, a lifelong passion for music and an interest in writing developed at Milton led to his getting, as Mr. Chung put it, “the best writing gig in New York City.”. As the night-life editor of Goings On About Town at The New Yorker, Mr. Trammell writes primarily about music: profiling artists, reviewing albums, and more. Mr. Trammell’s music writing career began with an assignment for Rolling Stone when he was still a student at New York University. Since then, he’s become a prolific music writer and critic, contributing to publications such as Fader, Pitchfork, and, of course, The New Yorker. Last week, The Milton Paper had a chance to talk to Mr. Trammell. Thank you Mr. Chung for setting up the interview. NR: Could you tell us a little bit about how you got to where you are now? What inspired you to write about music? What inspired you to write for the New Yorker? Matt Trammell: I grew up really
passionate about music. Not even consciously, it was just like how other people had sports or had art; music was the thing I liked. By middle school, I was buying albums, keeping up with [music], reading about it, and watching a lot of TV. They used to have VH1 and MTV, Behind the Music, Driven, I Love the Eighties, and all these kinds of documentary-style shows where they would have talking heads talk about the music and contextualize it. [The talking heads] would be critics from magazines. There was Rob Sheffield (’84), from Rolling Stone, who would say, “When this album came out, it was very important.” And I thought that was a cool job. And just the idea of critics talking about art was very interesting to me; I just thought it was cool. And then, I came here. Obviously Milton has an amazing English program; all the teachers are so good and they teach you how to write really well. Then I found out that Rob Sheffield and Touré (‘89) both went here, and now
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Mustang of the Week: Christina Sakellaris
By SOPHIA LI This week’s mustang is an avid sailor. A modern day female Jack Sparrow if you know what I mean. Her name is, drum roll please, Christina Sakellaris. Christina is a modern day Sparrow because she sails like a pro. I’m not kidding when I say she is a pro because Sakellaris has been sailing for almost five years and competes in national and international regattas including Nationals, North Americans, Laser Radial Youth Worlds, and the Miami Sailing World Cup. Since Sakellaris puts so much time and effort into this sport, calling her a pro is not a big deal at all. Luckily, Sakellaris doesn’t only compete in big competitions: she also competes for Milton in the New England high-school sailing league, NESSA. Even though Sakellaris competes in very prestigious regattas in a single person boat, here at Milton she competes in a two-person boat that requires teamwork. Racing in a two-person boat and a single person boat require different skill sets, one with two people having two separate jobs and the other with one person doing everything. According to Sakellaris she is not “the strongest team racer” but she “loves being able to learn the strategy of another racing style from everyone else.” By sailing with the Milton team, Sakellaris has improved her sailing skills by learning how to sail in a two-person boat. Now, Sakellaris and her team are hoping to use their talent to win both Nationals and New Englands. After winning their first 10 match-ups
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Matthew Trammell CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 they’re music critics at Rolling Stone. I realized [because of the strength of Milton’s English program] that made sense. My freshman year of college, I started a blog, transferred to NYU [from Boston College], took criticism classes there, and got my first assignment for Rolling Stone from a professor who wrote for The Village Voice. So I was doing album reviews and show reviews for them, and basically went from there; that was the genesis of it. But, it was most definitely a combination of having an interest in music and the ability to know when things are written well based on experiences I had [at Milton]. NR: What activities, teachers, and clubs at Milton especially affected you? MT: I just saw Ms. DeBuhr, who teaches World Religions; I took two semesters of World Religions in my senior year. I think that she was really awesome, and that class was really amazing because religion is the last thing that’s so sacred that nobody wants to talk about it if it’s not theirs. It’s like, “I’m Jewish so I’m just Jewish,” or “I’m Christian so I’m just Christian,” and everything else is just “that’s what they believe, but it’s not what I believe.” It was the first time in my life when someone said, “Here’s Judaism, here’s Christianity, here’s Islam, here’s Buddhism, here’s all the faiths. Read all of the texts and learn the history of all of them just like you learn the about Geometry, Trig, and Calculus.” It made so much sense to me at the time that you can’t claim anything about religion if you don’t know about all [religions]. Mr. Fricke, Mr. Chung, Ms. Apthorp, and Mr. Hales all [also] immediately come to mind [as influential teachers]. Mr. Fricke is the man. [I was part of] Hip-hop club, I was cohead of Onyx, and I wrestled, but I quit wrestling because I wasn’t into sports. The clubs were always super fun, Beatnik was a ton of fun, and all of the dorm stuff. Boarding in Forbes was the source of [fun]. Anything with the dorms was always a good time. There was a lot of unprintable stuff from the dorms. NR: Could you tell us about the process of writing a New Yorker article? MT: What I’ve been saying in a lot of classes, which is the main thing that I wanted to [come to Milton] for, is that Milton trains you to have original thoughts and to support them with evidence. That process is applicable to anything and everything that you do in life. Everything you learn
about the people around you and the stuff that you want to figure out about yourself, it all starts with that. Having an original thought and not borrowing an idea that’s already in the world, looking at things yourself, and drawing out evidence and inspiration, and then supporting it with your own information that you gather yourself is fundamental; it’s a fundamental skill and is harder to come by yet more valuable than ever. That’s the process. 90% of the work is finding something that hasn’t been talked about before and hasn’t been done before musically and asking yourself why is this happening, how did it happen, what does it mean that it’s happening, and what will happen in the future. Then you have to make [your article] consumable for people. Typing the words out is the busywork and the labor [of writing], and you get better at it the more you do it. But the process of identifying something that’s worth it is really where the work is. Having a sense of what’s been done already and what hasn’t is important; that takes a lot of research, a lot of self-education and a lot of voluntarily absorbing information. We have so much [information], so there’s no excuse not to use it. NR: You recently interviewed Father John Misty for the New Yorker Festival. What has been your best experience as a music writer? MT: That was really awesome. I just went to London last summer to do a story on XL recordings. They’re a record label that put out the White Stripes, Radiohead, MIA, Adele, King Krule, Vampire Weekend, a lot of music that was really important to me when I was growing up. It’s run by this guy named Richard Russell, and he’s really smart. It’s one of those stories that I pictured doing when I was younger. Being out there and learning so much about music and London, which has its own [musical history]. We know about punk, and now grime is becoming more popular, so we know about grime. But the timeline between there is still cloudy for many of us, so learning about that in a direct way was really exciting. Interviewing T-Pain was amazing because he’s just the man; it was a hilarious conversation. NR: What is one album that you recommend, that you are listening too right now? MT: Especially here, running around in the spring, I’d recommend an EP called “U Want the Scoop” by The Garden. It’s like what the Beastie Boys would sound like in 2017. •
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pronouns, sure, but words nonetheless. And songs that did not need to be slowed By HENRY WESTERMAN down were drawn out to the point where it was painful. For millennia, the most worthy champions Thirdly, why did the Beast remember of the various peoples of North America have how to read, and why did he know what faced off in a game of sport now popularly Romeo and Juliet was? Seriously, one of known as lacrosse, though the Ojibwe Algonthe turning points of the love story was quian people knew it as baaga`adowe, which when Belle taught the Beast how to reloosely translates as “bumping hipsâ€?. The member how to read and they started with first European visitors to the continent noted the preface to Romeo and Juliet. There the integral cultural importance of what they was even a whole three seconds where called “Indian Stickballâ€? to the Native AmerBelle had her hand on the Beast’s arm. ican people. But no, not in the live-action remake. The As one contemporary source described it Beast rolled over while sleeping, saw Belle (gathered in an article posted to laxallstars. reading aloud, and criticized her love for com), lacrosse “was emphatically a sport, and Shakespeare’s classic romance tragedy. brought out the very finest physical attributes Can you spell “disappointingâ€?? of the finest made men in the world, – the imFourth and finally, GASTON TRIED petuosity and vigor of a wild nature let loose; TO ACTIVELY MURDER MAURICE? and compelled its votaries, in its intense exIn the original, we all knew Gaston wanted ercise, to stretch every power to the greatest to threaten to throw Maurice into an asyextremeâ€?. American Painter George Catlin, lum just to coerce Belle into marriage. Bad describing a lacrosse game as a caption for behave as varsity athletes. Mark, a defender, guy, sure. Murderous self-righteous bufone of his paintings, proclaimed that “Such a was quick to recognize the unity and strength foon? 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However, he didn't let his injuries damptraitor to Disney, but I would refrain from hsmitty_13 Who sleeps? dominance as one of the most important sports en his competitive spirit. “My tights were doing so and realize that we all have our markcbodner Our opponents @hsmitty_13 in New England culture. bloodied, but I persevered and kept playing.â€? own opinions (the only opinion I can’t Mark Bodner, co-captain the Milton spooky Mark was also voted to the ‘Ugliest Helmet stand is that of my boyfriend, who thinks hsmitty_13of@markcbodner Academy Varsity Boys lacrosse Team and our Hair’ position on the team, a true achieveall Disney is awful, so don’t be like him). jackpacheco13 Ok bowie male Mustang of the Week, sees it as his honor ment for a player to earn the title so early in Live love Disney my fellow Beauty and and privilege to carry on the legacy of so many the season. To top all of this, in Wednesday's the Beast enthusiasts. • generations of lacrosse players. game, Mark jumped to block a shot with his Like Add a comment‌ More options This year, the boys’ lacrosse season has body, taking a hit straight to the torso. Though been off to a tough https://www.instagram.com/p/BEmiwVRoVQcMx8PTdvlcJcf3r9UsgpDiC5lnz00/ but promising start, led by he coughed up blood for the rest of the game, 1/1 Christina new coach Mark Goodrich and experienced adding to his horrifying Warrior’s Visage, he CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10 captains Owen Martinson, TJ Brennan, and continued playing honorably for the rest of the Mark Bodner. Following a successful spring game. training trip to Florida over March break, the Chris Mathews, one of Mark’s seasoned with no problem, Sakellaris believes “as boys faced two difficult competitors in Moses teammates, explained Mark’s central role on long as [they] keep working hard and racBrown and Rivers, coming away with valiant the team: “Mark is a player who really defines ing well, [they’ll] have a very good chance defeats in both matches. This Wednesday, they what it means to lead by example. He takes of continued success.â€? Her goal, and the defeated St George’s in a strong 9-6 victory, his captainship very seriously, and is always goal of her team, is to finish on the podium in which Mark’s defensive dominance played working his butt off as an example for the oththis year at Nationals and New Englands. a key role. As Mark explained, “Our current er players on the team.â€? Chris also echoed how After falling short last spring, this year record doesn’t reflect the level of intensity Mark’s heroism on the field helped inspire the Sakellaris, the seniors, and the rest of the and improvement we’ve been seeing from the younger players who might be frightened by team are determined to finish on the poditeam. We're playing well and visibly improv- so violent a sport as lacrosse. um and hopefully get first place. ing every game so I'm really optimistic about As far as the team’s outlook for the season, Right now the sailing team is working the season.â€? Mark, ever an optimist, remains hopeful. “In hard to train for it’s more important reMark’s leadership, along with that of the ISL lacrosse nothing is ever a given, so no gattas later in the season. It is the time for other seniors on the team, has been indispens- wins are guaranteed. Our players are learning redemption; Milton Sailing will be on that able for uniting this year’s boys’ lacrosse team to play with grit, and with a talented new coach podium and they will be first. With a little behind its quest for victory. The new coach and a strong senior class to lead the team as help from Sakellaris and her teammates, has especially relied on these veterans to set well as smart, motivated players, things look there will be a sailing trophy in Milton’s an example for younger players in how to good.â€? • trophy case very soon. •
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