The Milton Paper OCTOBER 5th, 2018
Opinion Participate in Local Government By WILLA DUBOIS '20
VOL. 36 NO. 5
MILTON’S INDEPENDENT WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Two years ago, Donald Trump was elected. Since his election, many have been shocked and upset by headlines. Despite the shocking ineffectiveness of Trump’s administration (according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, Trump has sent about a third of the number of rules Obama sent to the OMB in the same frametime), he has held the nation’s attention. Countless people ridicule his poor form and unprofessional tweets, but what is actually happening in our government? Trump has effectively stagnated change in America. We could be making effective legislative changes in our communities, but instead we are writing repetitive opinion articles on the appropriate use of @ POTUS on Twitter. Instead of petitioning mayors and starting programs to help our local friends and family members, we are getting into heavily partisan arguments about the fate of our nation. This arguing doesn’t help anyone. Though America is a united nation, the importance of each state is evident even in the name: the United States of America. From the time the Constitution was written, the role of the state has been protected so that states can create legislation of their own. The issue of marijuana is prime example of states’ power. The decision to legalize marijuana has two sides, but there are only nine states in which it is legal to smoke recreationally and forty one in which it is not. By focusing on their own region only, advocates of recreational marijuana were able to legalize it in their states. Obviously, Trump’s administration is focused on far more impactful issues than smoking weed. However, marijuana advocates set a good example. It is unlikely that enraged comments and even articles, no matter how rational or accurate, will create real change. After all, we can’t impeach the president because he is doing things CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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Trial In-Room Visitation Policy Incites Campus By ABBY FOSTER '19 & PIERCE WILSON '19 Early September: Admin announces that in-room visitation, the policy that allows day students or students of other dorms to visit a boarder’s room, will be discontinued until October 1 while the administration restructures the policy to be safer and more inclusive. Throughout September: Mr. Heard, Mr. Ruiz, and boarding faculty met with the boarding council on a weekly basis. House councils of each dorm and the SGA also met to discuss a possible new IRV policy. Monday, October 1: Mr Heard announces that, although October 1 was the original date, he, the boarding council, and the faculty needed more time to mull over a new policy. Wednesday, October 3: Mr. Heard sends an email to all boarding students which announces a trial run policy of a new IRV policy, which includes the following rules: all people have to check in guests with person on duty, regardless of gender; visitors are only allowed during specific times (6:30-7:15 on weeknights, although it is unclear how Wednesdays will work); if a guest is over, the door of the boarder’s room must be a trash can’s width open, and a faculty member will be checking in every few minutes; whether or not a student can have parietals is completely up to the discretion of the dorm faculty, and a boarding student cannot have a guess if the dorm faculty is not present. Common spaces visitation will remain the same. The administration plans to review the response to this pilot program during a meeting October 9, and will determine if the new rules are sustainable. At this time the administration will also decide how to move forward with a permanent policy. Wednesday Night: Margot Becker ’20 and Pearce Crocker ’19, two boarders in Forbes House, create a document which circulates among students. The document includes a letter which outlines the student’s grievances with the new IRV system, as well as an abbreviated list which encapsulates the major points made in the letter, which is shown below: We deeply respect the students who committed their time and energy to a new IRV
policy. Students voices were entirely drowned out during the pilot-program creation. Students were advised to speak with community leaders whose voices were additionally ignored. The new IRV policy will deepen existing boarder-day student, and inter-dorm divides. The new IRV policy places unnecessary strain on faculty. Other ISL and non-ISL schools both have significantly less stringent policies. Becker and Crocker email this letter to Mr. Heard, Mr. Ruiz, and all upper school students. As of the time it was emailed out, this letter had 137 signatures from students who feel that the new IRV policy is unfair. Wednesday Night: TMP sends out a survey to gauge student response to the new IRV policy. Out of the 116 students who responded, the majority were boarders (62.9%), and there was an even spread across all four classes. Out of these respondents, 86.2% reported that they were against the new IRV policy. When asked to explain their stance on the new policy, many responses mirrored the complaints listed in Margot and Pearce’s letter—the rules are too restrictive and limit the privacy boarders are allowed, and will likely widen the boarder-day student divide. Several also complained that the new system seemed like an unfair strain on boarding faculty, as well as that it appeared that the administration had given no thought to the desires of students. However, some students were in favor of the new policy, as they saw it as a step towards inclusion; many thought the old IRV was heteronormative, as many of the rules were targeted towards a scenario where a student invites over a guest of another gender, while same-gender pairings were not addressed. Select quotes from this Wednesday night survey are listed below: “The new policy stigmatizes and sexualizes all relationships instead of fostering healthy bonds between peers. It destroys trust between faculty and students as it assumes that all behavior during visitation requires oversight and cannot be left to the judgement and morality of the student themselves.
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Institutional Change: Impact vs. Instant Gratification Milton prides itself on its ubiquitous campus dialogue, and for good reason; we, the students, constantly aim to to address the various issues we see here. Unfortunately, given most of us spend only four years here, it often feels impossible to create meaningful change in the short timeframe we’re given. Many of us, TMP included, will often bemoan the administration’s apathy towards our complaints; after all, it’s their job to make change. What else are they doing all day? Students with this mindset should step back and understand what a small frame of reference we have. Think of all the teachers commemorated on the walls of Wigg, the Milton staff members who have worked at this institution for upwards of a quarter of a century. These teachers have been on this campus more than three times as long than our “lifers” have. Compare their perception of change at this school with ours; to us, the institution is remaining frustratingly static, but in their scope of twenty-plus years, it’s transformed immensely. Institutions evolve at a glacial pace. Milton Academy, like any storied prep school, will take years to fully consider and implement any meaningful change in its policies. This transition period, though minute in the scope of the school, for us constitutes the majority or entirety of our high school careers. This discrepancy causes frustration and results in our overlooking of many small victories. Two years ago, the SGA updated rules requiring the election of one male and one female student to open positions to non-binary students. Last year’s head monitors established delayed start days in order to create a climate more conducive to students’ mental health. This summer, Milton established at least one gender neutral bathroom in every campus building. Milton recently removed gender from all academic transcripts. After years of Muslim students’ requests for one, we now finally have a prayer room in the student center. Many of us may feel that despite constant dialogue on this campus, this school isn’t getting anywhere. It’s easy to feel impatient in the moment, when our concerns aren’t being visibly or immediately acted upon, but if you take even a slight step back, you can appreciate how even in the last few years, this institution has made some radical changes. We expect such immediate, impractical change because our society has grown accustomed to instant gratification. In this case, the mindset is not “I want food, so let’s go to the bookstore,” but instead “I’m protesting, so where’s the change?” Meaningful changes, however, are slow, because it takes time to make change that will last. Because of the quick turnover of students in a high school, those of us at the front of a given movement are likely never going to receive recognition when all our hard work finally comes into fruition. Students have, for example, been criticizing for years the Student Center’s structure and its reinforcement of predatory behavior. Upperclassman may recall how, in the Spring of 2017, a “Project Story” class performed an expository piece dissecting the pernicious impact of the Stu’s architecture. In a few years, when the revamped stu finally sees the light of day, all of the students involved with this project will have been long graduated. Their work, however, had real impact; it contributed to the administration’s effort to redesign the building at the center of student life. Our activism is amounting to something, but we most likely will never see the fruits of our labor. It’s a realization that's both painful and comforting. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t push constantly to improve this school. Work to make Milton a better, more inclusive place. Fight not because you expect to see the effects in your own high school career, but because you know your work will benefit the generations of students who will come after you. •
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Keeping Milton Safe: An Interview with Campus Safety By CHARLOTTE KANE '19 As of last week, students and faculty must swipe their IA cards to enter the AMC, Pritzker, and the RSG. These changes have been met with mixed reactions from the student body. Bella Lora ‘21 explains that the new security measures are “a good start, but not nearly enough if we want to be truly safe; teachers need to have a plan for if someone comes into the building, instead of just depending on this [IA] system.” In a survey of 202 students, 19% of students said that the changes were necessary. To get a better understanding of how the system came to be and what the students and faculty should know about safety on campus, I interviewed the Director of Campus Safety, Jay Hackett. Why did Campus Safety implement these changes? We continually assess best practice for providing a safe and secure environment for students to live and learn, and for faculty and staff to work. The change that we made this Monday has been something that we have been working towards over time. We work with all divisions on campus when we propose something like this. Our three divisions—Lower, Middle and Upper Schools—all have different needs, and one system needs to be able to serve all of them. Was there a specific incident or person that motivated the change? No, nothing specific [motivated the change]. This summer, as well as in previous summers, we added card access to additional buildings… we are trying to provide greater access to students, faculty, and staff by adding “swipe to enter” for additional buildings rather than using manual locks which are far less convenient for everyone. Our culture is an open and inquisitive one, and we need ensure that members of our community can get into spaces they need at various times to fully experience Milton. We also need to make sure non-community members can walk only into the buildings that we deem appropriate. Do you anticipate or have you had any challenges with these changes? Everyone is used to using IAs to gain access to buildings (and at the snack bar, bookstore, etc). Boarders need their cards to enter the houses every day. The major challenge was implementing the system during the school year, which we
did in order to allow our new students to get familiar with the campus first. Doing this [renovation] during the school year required coordination between Academic Technology Services (ATS), Bryan Price, Campus Safety (Katie Williams), and our card access vendor, BCM Controls. This team effort started last weekend and continued through the week to make sure everything was working properly. We are seeing many members of the faculty, staff, and students who find their previously lost IAs and attempt to use them. Once you report your IA (ID card) lost and a new one is issued, the old IA no longer works—it cannot be used get into buildings. Also, just “hip checking” your wallet or tossing your pocketbook at a card reader will not work when you have additional cards in the wallet such as an MBTA “Charlie Card” or ATM Card; the system attempts to read [these cards] and rejects them. We would recommend that everyone consider getting a small pocket for the outside of their phone (available at campus safety or the dean’s office) or carrying the card separately on a lanyard. [However], punching the card will affect its ability to work. What makes keeping the Milton campus safe different than keeping other institutions safe? Our location is what makes Milton unique in that we do not have a central gate or office where everyone goes before entering campus. [Also], we have two of major roads going through the center of campus, and they are always busy. The teamwork between Milton Academy, Milton Police, Milton Fire, [and] Fallon Ambulance, as well as Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, provides us the best possible resources to keep our community safe. Some schools do not have this type of relationship. What do you want the student body to know about Campus Safety? We are here to help you and keep you safe. We have officers on duty 24/7. If you need access to a space, we will come as soon as we can. Depending on the space, we also might have to check with an adult to ensure someone knows where a group of students is. “See Something, Say Something” is the biggest community service that anyone can do for us. If something does not look right to you, please call campus safety at 617-898-2911. •
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we disagree with. However, the American democracy does allow an individual state to legislate and thus create a society that works for its inhabitants. Trump has figured out one of the best ways to push his agenda: stopping Americans from utilizing the pathways for change readily available to them. Trump is exactly like that one kid in the back of your 3rd grade class that kept you from ever learning how to simplify fractions; he’s so annoying that he distracts everyone from focusing on what is happening right in front of them. Yes, it is challenging to make change in our nation, but it is far less challenging to make change in one city or town. It isn’t all that likely that your senator will even read your letter, but your mayor probably will. Creating small change will directly impact the many people living in your community, including your family and friends. Change has a ripple effect. Rather than worrying about outrageous national headlines, it is imperative to focus your energy on what you can change. By focusing on achievable change instead of Trump’s ridiculous behavior, we can create the society we want in our own communities and, eventually, in our country. •
Do you want a concern, opinion, or question of yours to be sorted, stored, valued, and remembered? Make a deposit to he epot today. Email olayeni_ oladipo19@milton. edu and note whether you request anonymity. You can also drop off your letter in the TMP Office in Warren 304.
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Seniors Confused Over Lack of ‘Walk-in’
New Affinity Groups By SARAH ALKHAFAJI '20
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By LIVIA WOOD '19 Every year, seniors swarm the squeaky floor of the ACC during the first Monday morning of the year and run wild in ridiculous getups to the pumping base of a Top 40. One dorm parades around in animal onesies; a group of friends pushes each other back and forth on a makeshift go-kart; a pack of day students imitate the cast of their favorite TV show. The event is utterly chaotic and sometimes a little bit disturbing, but ‘senior walk-in’ is a long-standing tradition—it’s a chance for seniors to kick off the school year in a fun way and show some pride for their dorms and class. Walk-in provides seniors with a break from the stress of senior fall, and it offers underclassmen a unique, energetic experience to eagerly anticipate. However, the current seniors haven’t yet gotten a walk-in, despite pushback from students who insist that it’s a rite of passage. According to Mr. Tyler and Ms. Engstrom, the Senior Class Deans, the lack of walk-in is due to a scheduling issue: walk-in usually takes place during the first Monday assembly after convocation but because students had that Monday off for Rosh Hashanah, it couldn’t occur. Engstrom does say that the Deans are working on a “walk-in like experience,” but students are not optimistic about the outcome—almost 85% of seniors polled think that this promised walk-in like event will never materialize. Some feel robbed of their chance to engage in this senior ritual—Amy Shohet ’19 calls walk-in “the first show of unity of the senior class”
and feels that it was unfairly taken away. However, some seniors don’t love the idea of walk-in. Evan Jenness ’19 says that “everyone is looking at [the seniors]” and he “doesn’t know what to dress up as,” and Parker Hitt ’19 argues that it can fuel the boarder versus day student divide. Beyond personal opinions surrounding walk-in, students have raised concerns over the legitimacy of scheduling alone ousting the event. Charlotte Moremen ’19 questions the scheduling excuse, asking “why [we couldn’t] have just done it on a following Monday assembly?” Similarly, Christine Char ’19, attributes the absence of walk-in to pushback from faculty who dislike the tradition. When I ask Engstrom about the potential faculty opposition to walk-in, she tells me that while there has been no organized obstruction from teachers she and others have questioned the point of walk-in; she says the first time she witnessed walk-in she “didn’t understand the significance of the costumes, why [she] was required to watch it, and how it could be meant to build community.” Her answer presents a point of tension between faculty tired of the custom and students championing it. Regardless of the real reason for the lack of walk-in, most students are disappointed—almost 75% of seniors report that they want a walk-in. Walk-in seems to most like a harmless celebration of the senior class, and seniors hope that its cancellation isn’t indicative of this year’s trajectory. •
The number of new clubs and affinity groups at Milton has exceeded the numbers from previous years. As of this year, some of the new affinity groups include Transgender/ Gender non-conforming affinity, Queer People of Color (QPOC), and an international student affinity. Asian affinity and Muslim Student Association both officially started last year. This is due of a number of factors, including the need for more students to connect with others on a more spiritual level. In previous years, the LGBTQ+ affinity was the only affinity group that discussed issues of gender and sexuality. This year, trans affinity and QPOC branched from the group in order to supply a more inclusive and precise discussion for their members. According to Heather Flewelling from the Office of Multiculturalism and Community Development, the two new affinity groups did not involve forming of a new group altogether but rather a slight split. “The forming of QPOC allowed people of color from LGBTQ+ affinity to explore their identities in a more connected way, and when it comes to trans affinity, gender is different from sexuality, so the trans struggle is different from queer struggle.” Parker Hitt '19, founder and coordinator of transgender affinity, seconded that statement, saying that “trans affinity came as a result of frustration due to a lack of administrative change and visibility on campus...the greater affinity just didn’t feel like the place to air trans-specific concerns and commonalities.” The changing political climate also encouraged the formation of new clubs and affinities. According to Hitt, the political climate results in “an increased need to connect back to one’s identity and those who share it.” Since the start of QPOC, for example, students of color who did not feel comfortable enough at the larger LGBTQ+ affinity have begun to sign up. Overall, even the seemingly more “niche” affinity spaces become necessary when specific demographics feel more comfortable around those with similar experiences. When inquired, one student stated that “these new affinity spaces may not necessarily be a result of the environment alone, but also from an absolute need for them.” Flewelling states that culture clubs serve as open spaces and affirm people’s identities as valid. When there is a need for additional space, “affinities give members more of the opportunity to speak from the ‘I’ perspective, especially if they feel they are not part of the dominant conversation.”•
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Ms. Rickert: From Hong Kong to the Big Apple, Now Back to the Acad
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By JENN CHEN '19 Editors' Note: This article is interview with Ms. Rickett, a new member of the English Department who is also a Milton alumna. Jenn: Why did you want to become a teacher, especially at a private school? Rickert: I became a teacher 20 years ago. My first teaching experience full time was at Deerfield Academy….I really wanted to learn how to be an expert teacher of English literature. I had also applied to Teach For America, and my assignment was to be a middle school math teacher. I was an English major, [ and although] I did also love math, I realized that if I went into a teaching profession that wasn’t what my passion was, I would probably wind up out of the teaching profession pretty quickly….that’s why I chose English. Jenn: Can you talk about your experience at Milton Academy, particularly as an English student here? Rickert: I came to Milton in first grade, so I spent many years here. As a student, I was pretty quiet in the classroom….I spent a lot of time singing and doing the musical theater productions. I loved English, but also was really into math and science. I was convinced I wanted to be a scientist when I was a senior at Milton. I applied to MIT, and didn’t get in. So I became an English major at Yale. I loved learning while I was at Milton, but probably didn’t find my voice until I was a student in graduate school. Jenn: How did you become an English major, originally wanting to become a science major? Rickert: I’ll just give you the unvarnished answer….I had one teacher, Lindy Eyster, who was just transformational. She was the reason I wanted to study science. Then I got to college, and I realized that [science] was a much more solo and self-directed experience than I had known at Milton….I also live, breathe, and eat books, so it may have come out in the end that I would have become an English major anyway. Jenn: How was the Hong Kong university different from anywhere else you worked in the U.S, and how has that also formed you? Rickert: I had done really well as a teacher at Deerfield. I figured out the Deerfield way, and I felt very proud of the way I was teaching my classes. So I brought that to my [first year college] students at Hong Kong….Two of my students came to me after a few weeks and said, “Julia, your teaching is perfect….There’s just one thing: we don’t understand anything you’re asking us to do.”….I realized that no matter what new classroom I’m in, my students will have different educational experiences, and I can’t take that for granted….I’m not sure if I would have learned that if I hadn’t had crashing failure in my third year of teaching. CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
Problems With New MyMustang Website By NATHAN SMITH '20 On Tuesday September 25, Mark Heath, Class II Dean, forwarded an email from Dan Beauchemin that caught every junior by surprise. The email announced that Milton’s online student portal, myMilton, had been transferred to a new website called myMustangs. The myMilton website is a resource for students to get their schedules, vote in student elections, and view documents like attendance, transcripts, and courses. Students rely on the website for information important to their school lives. Beauchemin claimed that the website had been upgraded and it included a link to the new website. When clicked, the link led to a blank page that never stopped loading. The story, however, does not end here. I decided to follow up and ask Mr. Beauchemin a few questions. Mr. Beauchemin and his team have been working to improve the myMilton website for a long time. He explains that he and his team “took the project over from a consultant [who] could not grasp/handle the nuances of Milton Academy. myMilton consists of three extranets - one for students, one for parents and one for staff & faculty. All were built around the idea that the school needed to deliver personalized information to individual — standard mission for extranets.” I wondered why myMilton needed a change. Justin Lin ’20 believed that the website didn’t need any changes, noting that “the current website is pretty straightforward with all of the labeled tabs.”According to Mr Beauchemin, however, the website urgently needed fixing. As Beauchemin explains, “The server that runs the extranets is old and needs to be replaced. Old servers are vulnerable to all sorts of issues and it has become a priority to get this done in the first part of the academic year.” This effort is not new: “We have been trying to get this done for 2 years.” So, why did the website fail? Shouldn’t an upgrade mean connection to the website would be even quicker? Beauchemin explained “There is a lot of testing and programming tweaks that have to happen to get the old codebase to work on a new server.” Evidently, Beachemin’s team has not completed the necessary evaluation to get the website up and running. Seemingly, the release of the new DNS was rushed. At the moment, are no changes to the myMilton website other than updates to the server that stores it. Nevertheless, Beauchemin has plans to “redevelop the backend databases and make some significant design changes to the data structures to make them more normalized and scalable.” Eventually, we will see changes to the website’s appearance. •
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The Depot #4
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By OLAYENI OLADIPO '19 Hey, Team! Welcome to ‘The Depot,’ a storage facility for the topics of our time: the victories and defeats, the reliefs and worries, and the mindsets in the space of Milton Academy. Deposits have begun to roll in, and your fellow students have some feelings to share. Today’s deposits to The Depot include thoughts on the treatment of different sports teams on campus, a plea to Sage, and a complaint concerning senior walk-in. Let’s take a look. “I think a lot of the girl athletes have noticed different treatment towards the football team whether it’s purposeful or not. Parking in the ACC when other teams are told to park on Upton, trainers prioritizing [the football team], the amount of recruits admissed a year, or equipment funding — it’s just notably different.” -Anonymous “OMG THE PARKING THING FOR FOOTBALL AND NOT SOCCER OR FIELD HOCKEY IS ABSURD” -Anonymous I find that with a lack of knowledge comes misunderstandings and assumptions. These students wonder about the relationship between the treatment of the football team and that of other sports, both male and female. And so, in an aim to gain more knowledge, I went to ask the knowledgeable. An authority in the athletics department informed me that all athletes are required to park on Upton Field when told to. There’s no special treatment towards the football team in this manner. Still, these anonymous students and others have seen football athletes parking in the ACC lot prior to their games on designated Upton Field parking days. When I communicated these findings, I was told to speak with the Campus Safety officers who patrol the entrance to the ACC lot. Yes, with a lack of knowledge comes assumptions, but these assumptions are based on valid, witnessed events and personal experiences. While the athletics department might claim that the treatment of all sport teams is the same, students —myself, included—have observed otherwise. I’ll leave it at that. “SAGE NEEDS TO BRING BACK PEANUT BUTTER. ALLERGIES ARE NATURAL SELECTION IN ACTION. WHO ARE WE TO INTERFERE WITH MAMA EARTH’S PLAN?” -Anonymous
This student amuses me. While I’ve never had an affinity for peanut butter, I know of many who do. And yes, I’ve seen the WowButter that’s stolen the spot of the ever-so-sacred peanut butter. Although I’m not heavily informed on Sage Dining’s policy concerning foods that commonly cause allergic reactions, I do believe that there’s a way to incorporate real peanut butter into our menu without placing other students in harm. As for the correlation between allergies and natural selection, I have no words. Onto the next deposit. “Bullsh*t that we don’t get our walk-in. That’s a tradition and it’s disrespectful to take it away. Some people are saying “it’s not a crowd favorite” which A. has no validity; no one took a survey and B. simply isn’t true, unless, perhaps, you are a faculty member? Not tryna point fingers tho.” -Anonymous Senior Senior walk-in. If you’re a freshman, you probably don’t know what senior walk-in is. In the past, during the first Monday assembly of the year, the senior class has stormed the ACC gym, wearing costumes, running around, chanting, and entering their last year at the academy. The walk-in has never failed to wow the student body. Thus, it’s no wonder that seniors are upset by not yet having a walk-in. The reason that the walk-in hasn’t happened is due to the three day weekend we had on the first weekend of the school year. Rosh Hashanah fell on Monday, September 10th. In the past, the student body still attended school on Rosh Hashanah, and Convocation took place the following Tuesday morning. Ideally, senior walk-in could occur during the next Monday morning assembly. Still, it has not happened, and who knows when it will? I thought it was a crowd favorite… Am I wrong? Make a deposit of your own. So long, and until next time at The Depot. •
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Opinion Clubs depict the inclusivity of Milton’s Environment By ELLA O'HANLON '21 Two weeks ago, the student organizations at Milton set up shop on the quad for the annual shoparound. The clubs, representing a plethora of different cultures and interests, lined the walkway from the Student Center to Forbes dining hall. The variety of the clubs, along with their inclusivity and uniqueness directly highlights our school community’s welcoming and unique environment. At the school I attended before Milton, a very limited number of clubs were available to students. Students could participate in sports, theatre, or art. Those without interest in those activities but wanted extracurriculars had one of two options: join a club of non-inclusive members or join no club at all. I was reminded during the shoparound how differently Milton Academy students acted in regards to clubs. Seeing the great diversity of organizations, lined up side by side, reminded me that there is truly a club for everyone. If after freshman year you find a need for one that doesn’t exist, you can create one. No matter what club you attend, leaders and members will welcome you. Milton strives for individuality and uniqueness, as stated in our motto “dare to be true.” A number of student clubs that are driven by none other than one’s passion. Activities period at Milton takes place every day after school from 3 to 3:30, the perfect time to talk and engage with others after a stressful school day, yet before exhausting sports practices. For people who don’t have a club to go to, not much happens during this time. Because of this matter, along with my lack of attendance to many clubs my first year at Milton, I knew this year I wanted to join more clubs. However, at the start of this year, I had yet to decide which ones to join. As I walked down the path to Forbes, to my right was ONYX, followed by Asian Society. Just a few booths down stood the table for Jewish Student Union. As I am neither a person of color nor Jewish, I thought these clubs must not be for me. Yet, as I walked past all three of the stands, people welcomed me, encouraging me to join all three of the clubs, despite my fear of not “fitting in.” Just the other day I attended Jewish Student Union’s first meeting and not one person acted as though I was different in any way. They simply welcomed me as I knew they would- something I was not used to in regards to clubs. Milton displays diversity but its inclusivity that permeates throughout campus is one of Milton’s best qualities. With this sense of inclusivity, if you ever desire a more niche club, after your first year at Milton, there are “new club proposal” forms in Mrs Reiser's room which makes the formation of a club that fits your specific interest always available. With this opportunity at your fingertips, if you feel inspired to start a club, maybe you can be the person who welcomes students to your new club at the shoparound. Thus, if you are currently planning on spending your 3 to 3:30 time slot sitting in the stu eating M&M’s from the snack bar, I strongly suggest signing up for a club. Even if that space wasn’t where you originally saw yourself fitting in, the community that comes from these clubs is undeniably all-embracing.•
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‘Developing Mastery’ In High School By KATHRYN FERNANDOPULLE '21 I came to Milton Academy as a new seventh grader. Since my arrival, I’ve noticed that the Milton Academy middle school is an entirely different world compared to the its high school. To start, the middle school does not give letter grades. At first, there was the “developing mastery” and “demonstrating mastery” rubric. Later on, the teachers decided to change the grading system to simply “proficient” and “not proficient.” Furthermore, the level of rigor and effort required in a middle school class is nowhere close to the level of a high school class. Despite all of the seminars and presentations that we had to sit through in eighth grade, I, along with most of my class, was not prepared for the high school transition. After experiencing the transition from the middle school to the high school, I can affirmatively say that the jump is too far to make. The thing that really shocked me when I came to high school was the grades. The only feedback I had received for the past years was words like “developing mastery” or “proficient,” which meant almost nothing. Despite the intention of developing an eagerness to learn without the pressure of grades, not having physical letter grades made the students less motivated. Since there were only four categories that your ‘grade’ could be, the highest one would be equivalent to an A or B; therefore, students thought that B-level work was actually A-level work. As a result, when middle school kids cross the street to high school classes, they do not try as hard as they should. The first month of high school surprised me. I soon realized why my sisters had stayed up so late every night; getting an “A” takes much more work and dedication than getting a “proficient” in middle school. Many of my peers from the middle school struggled at the beginning of freshman year. Keeping up with the work became increasingly difficult because we were trained for a much less rigorous curriculum. Furthermore, having almost five subjects of homework per night was a huge change. In eighth grade, I usually had only two or three subjects of homework that would take me no more than an hour in total. When freshman year came, I ended up spending an hour on each subject. During the first month of freshman year, I put about as much effort into my homework as I did in middle school because I thought that level of effort was normal. However, as soon as I started to get assignments back, I realized that I was going to have to do more work in order to get the results I wanted. I remember one homework assignment from my freshmen Physics class was to “work on our lab reports for 45 minutes”. So I wrote and analyzed for 45 minutes and then stopped to do another subject of homework. When I got to class the next day, I realized that I had only completed 1/3 of the lab report, whereas most of my class had finished theirs. I asked my friend how she had finished it so fast and she said, “It took me like 3 hours. When a teacher says ‘spend 45 minutes’ they never mean it.” In that moment, I realized that my study habits had to change. Fulfilling the middle school requirements was not going to cut it anymore. The Milton Academy middle school is an amazing school with great education. However, the high school and the middle school are so drastically different. With the different grading systems and the increase in effort, the leap from eighth grade to freshman year is massive. I think that eighth grade teachers should work to better prepare students for the next year. I have seen all the past middle school students grow over last year as they thrive at Milton, but I still wonder how the freshmen this year will handle the transition.•
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“Falling Down”: A Posthumous Success Story
Aretha Franklin
By JASPER BURNES '21 The word was taken by surprise when, on August 19, 2018, the Queen of Soul herself Aretha Franklin died of pancreatic cancer in her home in Detroit. Franklin is one of the most famous entertainers in American history: she had been nominated for the 44 Grammys, 18 of which she won. Additionally, she has performed at three different presidential inaugurations and is the first woman to ever be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Her incredible musical talent brought her all around the world, performing for a variety of audiences. However, Aretha Franklin did much more than sing. She was a major figure in the Civil Rights Movement in the 70’s and early 80’s, and her six decade career was filled with protesting racial inIMAGE COURTESY OF GOOGLE equality and injustice in many different ways. These ranged from releasing multiple songs directly adBy BECK KENDIG '20 ing Down” is the result of featuring dressing black liberation to offering to post bail for Last Sunday, I walked over to X, who was at the height of his career a political activist in court. Her songs addressing the library, got myself a nice third-floor before his death. This explanation, black liberation are, unsurprisingly, some of her cubby desk, and prepared for a marahowever, overlooks the fact that none most popular. Her 1967 chart-topping hit, “Rethon of work. Habitually, I opened up of X’s other posthumous songs have spect”, impacted people across America, arguably as Spotify to put on my “study” playlist. reached the same level of recognition. one of her best songs. In her memoir, Aretha: From After about three VHL activities, I found I believe the success of “Falling Down” These Roots, she calls “Respect” a song that “[remyself bored of my usual music. The comes from the combined reputation of flected] the need of a nation, the need of the aversearch for something new led me to a its artists. During their careers, both age man and woman in the street, the businessman, song that had been released a few days Lil Peep and X incorporated themes of the mother, the fireman, the teacher—everyone prior. Titled “Falling Down”, this song depression, sorrow, and drug use in their wanted respect.” Though this quote references “Resat at the top of the Global 50 Chart. music. Although the latter is a fairly spect” as being influential during the heart of the Naturally I saw the names of the artists, common subject for modern rappers, Civil Rights Movement, its message has reached but it took a couple of seconds for me to Peep and X were pioneers in this new people all around the world. remember that both Lil Peep and XXX- sub-genre of emo hip-hop. By combinFranklin began performing with her father in TENTACION, the artists in this song, ing the work of these two artists with gospel clubs when she was just twelve years old. are deceased. their trademark tone of melancholy, Within a few years, she was known all across the The new-age emo rapper and “Falling Down” symbolizes the pair’s south as a gospel prodigy. Aretha’s youth was singer known as Lil Peep has been dead unique style. In other words, this song filled with a variety of singing experiences across for almost a year following a fatal Fenacts as a monument for the legacy of Memphis, many of which were done side-by-side tanyl-Xanax overdose. After his passing, Peep and X. When we think of the song with her father. After her mother died, her father a host of his priorly unreleased music as a memorial to these two genre-chang- immediately took control over Aretha’s potential, was gradually made public. Before “Fall- ing artists, it comes as no surprise that becoming her full-time manager. At the time, her ing down”, Lil Peep’s most recent post“Falling Down” has reached such popu- father was the only close relative to help push her humous release occurring on May 13, larity. singing career. 2018 with the drop of “4 Gold Chains”. In addition to the commemBoth of Aretha’s parents had a background in XXXTENTACION, often referred to as oration aspect of “Falling Down,” the music. Her mother, an accomplished pianist and a X, died recently in a drive-by shooting. lyrics hold another type of specialty. A talented vocalist, was a major influence on Franklin As seen in thewrap.com, following the few days after the song’s release, another musically. Franklin’s father, Clarence LaVaughn tragic event, his song “Sad!” jumped to posthumous song dropped called “SunFranklin, was baptist minister and an incredible the #1 spot on the Billboard Top 100 light on Your Skin”. This song, a single singer, nicknamed the man with “The Million DolChart. According to Billboard Magazine, by Lil Peep without any features, is the lar Voice.” One can only imagine the amount of this feat has only been achieved once original form of “Falling Down.” X’s music Aretha Franklin was exposed to growing up before by the iconic 90’s rapper The verses were added after Lil Peep’s death in Memphis, a Blues music hub, with such intensely Notorious B.I.G. Similarly to Lil Peep, X but before his own. A direct, plainly musical parents. had several releases following his death, spoken quote stands out amongst X’s Aretha Franklin’s excellence propelled her including “Ghost Busters” and “Tear additions. During these lines, X shares beyond the confines of the southern Blues music Drop”. his regret about not having recognized industry; she was listened to all around the world. Although posthumous song the similarities between himself and Lil Due to her immense fan base, her loss hit people releases are not uncommon, this song Peep. He ends his quote by reflecting on everywhere. In honor of Aretha’s amazing long carries a special significance. For starthow “It's unfortunate because it's like, life, her estate held a public casket viewing and a ers, the difference in popularity between, yo, when people die, that's when we like beautiful funeral service. The service consisted of say, “4 Gold Chains” and “Falling Down” 'em, you know?” Not only do X’s words performances from Ariana Grande, Faith Hill, Jenis incredible. Since May 13, “4 Gold further the connection between Lil Peep nifer Hudson. Many celebrities released statements Chains” has accumulated 4.6 million lisand himself, they also relay a somber following her death. Reflecting on his own loss, tens on SoundCloud. When comparing irony. The outcome of a musician’s Elton John expressed his pain perfectly, saying “the this statistic to the 12 million listens of passing that X describes foreshadows his loss of Aretha Franklin is a blow for everybody “Falling Down” in the past week, we can own future; “Sad!” only went #1 on the who loves real music: music from the heart, the see that this song is obviously unique. Billboard Top 100 chart after X’s death.• soul, and the Church.”.•
One may argue that the success of “Fall
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The Longevity of John Mayer's Appeal
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Jenn: Do you think you’ll ever teach college students in the U.S. as well? Rickert: I only teach one class here. In my other life, I work at a college called College Unbound in Providence. This is a college for adult learners who have tried college before…[and] work at the poverty level, have families, and work jobs full time while going to school full time. I do grant writing and think about how to raise funds. I would love to work with students there, as well as make the budget work. IMAGE COURTESY OF GOOGLE
By GRACIE DENNEEN '21 John Mayer is an artist who has withstood the test of time. From his first release of “Your Body is a Wonderland” in 2001 to the release of “New Light” a whopping 17 years later, he is a very beloved artist. Both young and old music lovers can listen to John Mayer’s soulful music. Though not the flashiest, he is a laid back artist that can be appreciated across the board. How has John Mayer kept his music career alive through all of this time? How did he manage to be on the top of the charts in the early 2000s and then again in 2018? According to biography.com, John Mayer was born in 1977 as the son of two teachers. After seeing Michael J. Fox’s character in Back to the Future, Mayer was inspired to pick up the guitar. After high school, he attended Berklee College of Music for only two semesters, after which he dropped out to go to Atlanta to begin the pursuit of his musical career. He got signed to Aware Records in 2000, marking the beginning of his career and ensuing success. John Mayer began appearing at the top of the charts almost instantly. He released the hit “Your Body is a Wonderland” in 2001, which ended up in the 15th spot on the top charts in 2003, according to Billboard. He then released the song “Waiting on the World to Change” in 2006, which also ended up in the 15th spot on the top charts. John Mayer became a household name, and one that many teens remember from the music of their childhoods. Now at 40 years old, John Mayer could be thought of as an older artist to most teens, he broke that stereotype of himself recently with the release of “New Light” in May of this year. Because of his likeable persona, “New
Light” landed in the top 3 of the iTunes sales chart over the course of this year according to Headline Planet. How has Mayer been so successful for so long, defying the constraints of his age? John Mayer stays true to himself. He’s a talented musician and uses his talent to express himself through music. He has an authenticity that helps his popularity. He sings with leisure, and the tone of his voice is so easy to listen to. He also uses small riffs on a guitar or synthesizer to tie the verses and choruses together into a seamless three minutes of music. Another factor that adds to his success is his ability to adapt. Though he stays true to his own personal style, he also includes elements of new musical styles into his songs. In “New Light” he uses an electronic beat, in contrast with his usual manual drum kits. His ability to weave new styles into his original and personal style also greatly helps his popularity. John Mayer is a phenomenon of music. His musical ability combined with his ability to adapt and appeal to people of all ages is what makes him so special. He is the epitome of keeping up with the times. I’m excited to see what he comes up with next, because knowing him, it will ride the balance of new and old perfectly.•
Jenn: What are the differences you notice between the school then and now? Rickert: One of the biggest differences I’ve faced is that we were trained to be excellent, critical thinkers. We were able to slice and dice anything….Deconstruct it. But in life, that also meant we were able to do that to each other as human beings. There was less of an emphasis on synthesis, or creation, or building people up. There was a bit more of focus on the excellent student. I think that this is absolutely still present here, but I notice that in the Opening of School speeches, there was so much more about being in the moment, being kind to each other, building something….Maybe that was there when I was a student, I just didn’t see it. But it feels really, really present now. Jenn: What are you interested in now? Rickert: My hobby right now is editing my friend’s novel — my roommate in Business school….I’ve become her unofficial editor, and she goes through her processes of writing these novels that are amazing and beautiful….It’s been so much fun reading her novel and giving her feedback for the past two years. Jenn: What’s your favorite book? Rickert: I can give you two. One is Midnight’s Children, [by] Salman Rushdie. The other one is the Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, [by]Junot Diaz—I wound up finishing it while on a beach in the Dominican Republic. I’d never been there, so the sidenotes throughout the book actually were the best travel guide.•
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The Patriots’ Win Against Miami: What Went Into it
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By SAMUEL BARRETT '21 Last Sunday, the New England Patriots faced the Miami Dolphins and won after losing the previous two games — the last time the Patriots lost two games in a row was in 2014. The Patriots finally began to work as a team again, and the rest of the season is looking up. With a strong offensive running game and a much more powerful defense, the team began to show its potential. On Sunday, the Patriots’ offense appeared to have gotten its act together, with Sony Michel rushing over 100 yards and Cordarrelle Patterson’s 55yard touchdown. In comparison to last week’s loss against the Lions, where the Patriots had a mere 133 passing yards and just over 60 rushing yards, this past week of practice seems to have paid off. In a post-game interview after the week 3 loss, head coach Bill Belichick stated, that “Everything [is] bad, and going into the next week we will be working hard to fix that.” We can assume that Belichick had the team working all week to prepare for Miami after its poor performance in Detroit. So, it seems that with some incentive and push from their coach, the previously inadequate offense finally worked out the early season kinks. If you watched the game against the Lions you would’ve noticed that not only was the Patriots’ offense playing badly but also the their defense, which had recently lost 14-season veteran defensive coordinator Matt Patricia, let almost every rush go right through
the defensive line and also gave up crucial stops on passing plays. In the first few games of the season, the Patriots played very poorly, barely beating the Houston Texans and losing to Jacksonville and Detroit, looking very different from the team that had made it to the Super Bowl the previous year. In their most recent game, the team performed much better, clearly fixing many of the issues that followed them through their earlier games. Brady threw for 274 yards and Sony Michel ran for over 110 yards, in comparison to the previous week where Brady threw for 120 yards and Michel ran for only 50 yards. Along with the improved passing yards, Brady finally showed some chemistry between him and the wide receivers, throwing a beautiful pass to Cordarelle Patterson for a touchdown, and working well with James White and Phillip Dorsett for two more touchdowns. Additionally, the Patriots’ defense finally looked better and even got two sacks, compared to the one sack combined in the previous two weeks. Major losses to the Patriot’s team prior to the season, such as losing a star defensive coordinator, Julian Edelman to a suspension, multiple other running backs, and Amendola to the Dolphins resulted in the shaky start to the 2018 season. Despite all of these struggles, the Patriots finally look good, again and going into the game against the Colts this week they will have WR Julian Edelman back and the team should look even better than it did against the Dolphins.•
The Future of the Celtics By RISHI DHIR '19 As the 2018-2019 basketball season nears the opening tip-off, the Celtics look ready to get the season started. After 10 years since their last championship, this Celtics team presents the best odds in years to contend for the championship title. After a devastating loss in the first round of the 2013 NBA playoffs, general manager Danny Ainge saw it as the perfect opportunity to begin the rebuilding process. Trading away aging superstars Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett to the Brooklyn Nets for draft picks and appointing former Butler coach Brad Stevens as the new head coach, the rebuilding process was underway. The 2013 season was the first time the Celtics missed the playoffs since the formation of the “Big Three” in 2007. Still, the Celtics bounced back the next year, sneaking into the seventh seed of the 2014 NBA playoffs. Now in 2018, after making strong use of draft picks they received from Brooklyn and a number of blockbuster moves from Ainge, the Celtics are the favorites to represent the Eastern Conference in the NBA finals. Before the previous season, after a major summer signing of former all-star Gordon Hayward and a major trade with the Cleveland Cavaliers for 5 time all-star point guard Kyrie Irving, the Celtics looked ready to conquer the east. Unfortunately, in the first game of the season, Hayward suffered a gruesome ankle injury that sidelined him for the whole year and Irving suffered a knee injury mid-way through the season that took him out for the playoffs. Despite the injuries to two of the stars, the Celtics still made a deep playoff run. With a collective effort from young stars like Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum and all-star veteran Al Horford, the Celtics made it all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals, falling one game short of reaching the NBA finals to the Lebron-lead Cavaliers. Now that Irving and Hayward have returned to the team, the Celtics CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
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are now at full strength. With this team, experts predict that the Celtics have the second best odds of winning the championship(first being the Golden State Warriors). Now that Lebron is no longer in the Eastern conference, the eastern has opened up a new vacancy for a new king of the east. Given the fact that the Celtics made it to 7 games in the Eastern Conference without the help of two of their biggest stars, now with all their stars back, the Celtics are ready to finally challenge the Warriors and add banner number 18 to the rafts of TD Garden.• IMAGE COURTESY OF GOOGLE
It's disappointing to see the community take a step backwards.” “I appreciate the effort the school is making to uphold ideals of gender equality and that they're keeping people safe.” “My dorm house council was being told a wide range of things that were not addressed in the new policy.” “People can't come to your room after school... Teens at home have that privilege…” “The whole process is incredibly difficult considering that people on duty aren’t always in the dorm.” “I am in favor of [the new policy] because the administration took steps toward inclusion. However, I feel that there is still a long ways to go and that there is a better long term solution to IRV.” “I used to always have friends over just to change really quickly before or after practice in the privacy of my room with the door closed, but I can’t do that anymore and it makes everything so much more inconvenient.” “[the administration] spent a month doing jack s**t. They further restricted visitation times, and they added a sign in sheet. Like damn, I can print out an excel sheet too. S**t.” “One of the best aspects of having dorms from a day student's perspective is they're private and accessible, which creates stronger bonds both among friends and among day/board students. Ironically, it's the dorms themselves that help bridge the day student/boarder divide...I strengthened a lot of friendships freshman year because I had access to dorms [as a day student]. Also, if the goal was to reduce heteronormative standards, then why are you limiting everyone. You're solving a problem that
wasn't there with this new rule and limiting privacy. What if siblings lived in different dorms? They can't visit anymore? Can't sleep over? Close the door? This applies with friends too. These changes weren't supposed to limit, they were supposed to expand.” “As a person who supports equality on campus, I want an inclusive IRV policy, and I understand that because Milton has to contend with the law and parents, as well as manage families from a huge background of cultures, a realistic LGBT+ inclusive policy will be more restrictive on same-gender friendships, because all student relationships are equalized under the policy. I'm glad that Milton is taking a step to equality, even if it might make my life harder sometimes.” “I believe there should be a system similar to the blue cards one for room visitation. This would mean that parents are allowed to control their child’s visitation rights based upon what they know about their child.” “The school asked for input— this is not a democracy...students didn’t get what they wanted, but their “ideal” situations were not even options in the first place. they have to comprehend the days and days of work that was put in— the system isn’t perfect, it never will be, and we all as a student body have to acknowledge that this is the best that we can do, provided the circumstances. legally, milton couldn’t do a lot of things that students wanted. at the end of the day, this is generally an accountability issue and milton is doing what it can to just get IRV back on the table as a whole. this isn’t the end of the conversation.” Wednesday Night: TMP staff conducts interviews with Quinn Fox ’19, Norris House Monitor; Ryan Choi ’19; and Parker
Hitt ’19, member of the gender council. Fox said that, in the beginning of the process, Mr. Heard encouraged the house monitors and boarding monitors to come up with a few visitation systems that did not involve a face-to-face interaction with house faculty. They came up with the following: a paper sign-in and an IA system. However, Fox says, at a subsequent meeting, the boarding council learned from Mr. Heard that all of their systems “had been shot down” by the house heads. Choi, one of the co-Boarding Monitors, explained that, in his opinion, “this process is not sustainable, but it could be a lot worse.” Choi continued that a large part of the motivation for these rules has to do with the school’s legal concerns. According to Choi, Milton’s lawyers have stipulated that, in order for IRV’s to take place, a faculty member must be present and on duty in the dorm, and the dorm must keep a log of all visitors. Choi said that students should “give [the new system] a chance before arguing,” because “[students] don’t know what will happen. And it’s only six days, after all.” Hitt commented that the the gender council was consulted very little throughout the process of making the new IRV policy, saying that "[making new IRV rules] has felt like a very one-sided process." Perhaps this is why so many students feel that the new policy has less to do with inclusivity and more to do with pleasing lawyers.•
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On October 4, 2018 the Following Appeared before the Disciplinary Committee for: Mr. Heard seen violating the new in-room visitation rules which literally haven’t even been figured out yet???
Administration informed of an 11-person party, thrown by Ms. Reiser
Ms. Kelleher busted for Google Translating her entire lesson plan
Ms. Morin found dealing Plan B behind the Health Center
Mr. Heath for forging Harvard Diploma
Mr.Emmott for repeated dress code infractions
Mr.Tyler and Ms.Zimmer for running an entire meth empire from Prizker
Mr. Reddicks for Whereabouts (seen at a Stanford Basketball game)