Walnut Hills High School
Volume CIX, Issue 10
February 27, 2015
Teague tops 1,000 points in two seasons
TARA SALES/CHATTERBOX
SENIOR Macio Teague spots up to receive the pass from SENIOR Caleb Tregre. This three-point shot pushed Teague over the 1,000-point threshold, joining SENIOR Taylor Darks as the second basketball player from the class of 2015 to reach this milestone. Darien Jackson, ‘15 “I was just thinking, ‘Man, this is just an amazing experience,’” SENIOR Macio Teague said. “I am just glad I made the shot.” On February 13 in the boys varsity basketball game against Milford, in the second quarter with 1:23 left, Teague hit a three-pointer on the right side to surpass a total of 1,000 points in his Walnut career. This is a huge milestone for senior guard Teague, who has been at Walnut for two years. He played at
Summit Country Day his sopho- spent in the gym after practice more season and IMG Academy when nobody was watching. prior to that. According to the Eastern CinAfter the shot was made, the cinnati Conference website, Teague game was averages 26.0 stopped and points, 7.2 reTeague was bounds, 1.9 honored assists and 1.8 with a game steals per game ball at half this season. -SENIOR Macio Teague court, then “It was with a picamazing to ture with the Nut House and a hug watch a player score over 1,000 from his mother. Teague attributes points in two years. When he gets this accolade to the countless hours going he can’t be stopped,” SE-
“I was just thinking, ‘Man, this is just an amazing experience.’”
NIOR Crephat Grengonbondai, one of Teague’s teammates for the last two seasons, said. Teague was the second Walnut Hills player to crack 1,000 points this winter. SENIOR guard Taylor Darks scored her 1,000th point in a January 7 game against Loveland. Teague set another milestone earlier this season when playing in the Flying to the Hoop tournament against Piqua High School. The tournament consists of 41 teams and is over a four-day period. Nationally ranked teams such as Huntington Prep and Findlay Prep were in attendance. College coaches from all over come to see some of the top teams and top players in the country. Teague finished with 51 and outscored Piqua, who had 48. This scoring outburst gave him Walnut’s record for most points in a game
and his own career best. The previous single-game school record was held by Dennis Pierre with 39 points in 1990, according to athletic director Tom Donnelly. “This is a very prestigious event and it meant a lot to me. The night before, Luke Kennard had 47 points so I had to get one of his records,” Teague said. Kennard is ranked 23rd in the class of 2015 and has signed to play for Duke University next year. Teague has offers from Air Force Academy, Akron University, Bryant University, Liberty University, San Jose State University, Seton Hall University, University of Oakland, Winthrop University and Yale University. Disclosure: Taylor Darks is a staff member of the Chatterbox.
Teague’s two seasons at Walnut
• First-Team All-Conference, 2014 • Cincinnati Division I Player of the Year, 2015 • Walnut record for most points in a game, 2015
Harper Lee set to release new book this summer Veronica Victa, ‘16 65 years and more than 30 million copies sold later, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is going to have a sequel. The sequel, Go Set a Watchman, will be released on July 14 this year.
initially to her editor in 1957. Taken by Scout’s nostalgic flashbacks, her editor told her to rewrite the book, eventually leading to To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. The manuscript was lost until her lawyer Tonja Carter found it in a “secure location” attached to one of the original To Kill a Mockingbird manuscripts’. However, there is a controversy on whether Lee actually wants Go Set a Watchman published, stemming from Lee’s notorious reclusiveness and ill health. Lee is also now 88 years old and has lived in an assisted living
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...untill you climb inside of “I’m especially inhis skin and walk terested in seeing an around in it.” -Atticus Finch, To Kill a adult Scout…[and] Mockingbird seeing how different her writing style It takes place in the same fictional is from [To Kill a town as To Kill a Mockingbird, Maycomb, Alabama, but is set 20 Mockingbird].” years in the future. Scout Finch, the child protagonist of the classic, is travelling back from New York to Maycomb to visit her father Atticus. There, she faces the racial tensions of the 1950s South while she remembers her Depression era childhood. Lee brought Go Set a Watchman
-English teacher Barbara Stewart
facility since a stroke in 2007. Prior to this, Lee lived with her sister in a house in Monroeville, Alabama. Following the stroke, there is a
consensus that Lee’s health became worse although the extent of which varies. The 2007 stroke, according to
“[I’m] alive and kicking and happy as hell with the reactions of Watchman.” -Harper Lee
several Monroeville residents and critics, left Lee blind, deaf and forgetful—not in sound mind to agree to publishing an old manuscript. They also point out her desire to stay away from her celebrity, even claiming that she had sworn not to publish another book. However, Wayne Flynt, a longtime friend of Lee’s, says that when he visited her recently, Lee “discusses the books of C.S. Lewis, reads with a magnifying machine and can crack jokes.” The cause for the discrepancy could stem from her withdrawal from town life after the stroke. In the assisted living facility, no one, journalists and acquaintances alike, sees Lee without her lawyer’s (Tonja Carter) prior approval. Regarding her alleged infirmity, Carter has said that, “She is a
very strong, independent and wise woman who should be enjoying the discovery of her long lost novel ... Instead, she is having to defend her own credibility and decision making.” At Walnut,To Kill a Mockingbird is on the English curriculum for all eighth grade students. . Former 8-Honors English teacher Barbara Stewart is excited for the new novel. “I’m especially interested in seeing an adult Scout…[and] seeing how different her writing style is from [To Kill a Mockingbird],” she said. However, she woners, “Was [Go Set a Watchman] really lost? That’s what made me question whether she was willing [to publish] or not.” Another English teacher, Blake Taylor, is more skeptical. “Now at age 80-something, I hear she wants to publish something she’s never wanted to publish before. Sounds fishy,” he said. “I worry that someone is trying...to make a buck off her.” Harper Calhoun, ‘16, who is named after the author and whose father is an expert on To Kill a Mockingbird, is of a different opinion. “I think she would like it published,” she said. She then points out, “I’m pretty sure if she passed away, then they would have published it anyway.” This is not uncommon in publishing.
YOURFAVORITEBOOKSTORE.COM
Harper Lee’s newest novel, Go Set a Watchmen, is set to be released this July. Pre-orders have begun on Amazon. Confirming if Lee wants to publish the novel or not would be hard. All her statements are released through her lawyer—Lee, with just a couple exceptions, has not given interviews since 1965. What is released is this: “[I’m] alive and kicking and happy as hell with the reactions of Watchman.” Despite the allegations of manipulation, the release of this book is met with anticipation—2 million copies are being printed for just the first run of it. After all, who wouldn’t want to see more of Scout Finch?