Eastside: October 2014

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Vol. 49 No. 1

Cherry Hill High School East: 1750 Kresson Road, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003

October 2014

Emelia Keller (‘17)/ Eastside Photo Editor

Daniel Swartz (‘17) buys an apple from the school while Kauly Almonte (‘17) and Julie Woods (‘17) eat doughnuts from outside of school.

East temporarily says ‘goodbye’ to all bake sales ■By Kaitlyn Boyle (‘17)

Eastside News /Features Editor

Though once a common sight in the past, students carrying boxes of Krispy Kreme doughnuts and handfuls of Chick-Fil-A sandwiches may never be seen walking the halls of East again.

In accordance with the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act passed in 2010, the Department of Agriculture worked to establish certain nutritional requirements in schools throughout the country. The Food and Nutrition Service also published a “Smart Snacks in School” regulation in 2013 to help schools provide healthier eating options.

“Right now, while we try to assess fully what the guidelines are and what we’re allowed to do, we have to suspend [all bake sales],” said Mr. CJ Davis, East Student Activities Director.

The Cherry Hill School District must develop a district-wide wellness plan to specify the amount of fundraisers during the school day and the various options for baked goods. Students cannot attempt to avoid this rule by selling at exactly 2:30 p.m., for the school day officially ends thirty minutes after the final bell.

The standards specify that most food items must remain 350 calories or less.

Snacks and sides must re-

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main 200 calories or less.

Other guidelines are set to change within the next few years. For example, food items at the moment can have up to 230 mg of Sodium, but the number will lower to 200 mg in July 2016.

“Based upon my experiences from last year with the bake sales, we wanted to take some time to look at the guidelines and make some revisions,” said Dr. Lawyer Chapman, East Principal.

Chapman said that he has three main reasons for temporarily suspending the bake sales.

“Number one, I saw a lot of junk food being sold,” he said.

“We know that junk food is not good for anyone, especially our young scholars.”

Chapman added that the bake sales interrupted the school day, and the school district needed to reevaluate its standards based upon the state department guidelines.

Various students expressed annoyance and even anger towards this change.

“I think it’s a horrible idea,” said Aaron Krivchenia (‘16).

Davis explained that the school district possesses the responsibility of ensuring healthy food options for

all students.

“We don’t want to sell junk food,” he said. “Is doing an occasional Krispy Kreme sale going to hurt our kids?

Probably not. At the same time, we don’t want to become the junk food capital of Cherry Hill. I think [we] can find a happy medium.”

Students argue that every once in a while, they enjoy having a small sugary treat during the school day.

“What are we going to sell

“In the past, aside from a little bit of money from the school, we were mostly funded [by] bake sales,” said Cohen. “We need to find a new way to make money.”

Robotics has now set out to look for business sponsors to help with purchasing necessary equipment.

“I think [this is] a poor decision,” said Sam Benson (’15). “The clubs are making less money now. Bake sales were easy ways to help out clubs.”

The school store will soon also feel the effects of this change in school policy.

Currently, the school s t o r e can continue its apparel sales yet canSydney Steele (‘16)/ not sell Eastside Staff n o w , any food until later notice. carrots?” said Ben Vaupen The school store, while also (’17). a part of the business curAdditionally, clubs that riculum, is a way to raise once used bake sales as a money for the DECA trips. means to fund their projWithout the sales of baked ects must now find other goods, students will have to methods of fundraising pay more money to attend that do not require the sale the DECA competitions. of baked goods.

“Now that school store Lewis Cohen (’15), Busican’t sell [certain] foods, ness Vice President of East it’s definitely going to make Robotics, commented on the less money since most peoimportance of the Krispy ple go for food,” said Cindy Kreme doughnut sales.

Zhu (’16), a business stu-

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dent who works on school store events. “The money we make offsets the cost of DECA for students.”

Mrs. Kathy Ford, East Business Management teacher, added that although the school store may eventually be granted the ability to sell once again, the sales must change greatly.

East Business Teacher Mrs. Peggy Hager said, “What we are hoping is that our students do research and find food that fits [the guidelines].”

Aramark must also implement changes to the foods offered in the cafeteria. Chapman said that it has already changed various products sold during lunch breaks.

Some students agreed that last year, the bake sale policy grew a bit excessive.

“I understand why they were canceled, because it was like every other day there was junk food to eat,” said Liz Hallinan (’17).

“But I’m also kind of upset because I will honestly miss the Krispy Kreme sales.”

Chapman looks to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.

“I am hoping that certainly within 30 days, this will be completed,” he said.

Hungry students searching for a quick snack to purchase on the way to class must anxiously await the Cherry Hill School District’s decision regarding fundraising policies.

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Students participate in prestigious national music groups ■ By Rachel Cohen (‘15) Eastside Editor-in-Chief

Out of thousands of applicants that audition to play with prestigious national music groups, three students from Cherry Hill East have been selected.

It is not often multiple students from the same school are accepted into these programs; yet this past year, two groups, the NAfME (National Association for Music Education) All-National Honor Ensembles and the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America, admitted two East students each.

Abigail Hong (’15) and Emma Parker (’17) were accepted into the All-National Honor Ensembles and Hong was also accepted to the National Youth Orchestra of the United States along with Hannah Lam (’15).

This is the first year that Cherry Hill East has sent students to the National Youth Orchestra because it is the first year that East knew about the program, as the program was formed only two years ago. The All-National Honor Ensembles are more affiliated with East because students must go through All-South Jersey and All-State music groups before applying for All-National.

“All-National is a series of four groups—there’s Concert Band, [Symphony Orchestra, Mixed Choir] and Jazz Ensemble,” said Mrs. Gia Walton, Director of the Freshman Wind Ensemble, Wind Ensemble and Lab Band.

In order to apply for the

All-National Honor Enhave a lot of experience in chestra program, which is sembles, students must go the musical field. Parker run through Carnegie Hall’s through the regional and began playing the flute in Weill Music Institute, ocstate levels for their specific fourth grade and has takcurred this past summer. group. They then must send en private lessons for four Over 120 musicians from in a resume, a video of themyears. She practices every across America came toselves playing and some paday in addition to particigether for a two-week trainperwork with questions repating in the Philadelphia ing residency in New York garding their prior musical Sinfonia, her other orchesand then a two-week tour experiences and why they tra. across the country, perwant to participate in the Hong started private vioforming in eight different groups. Hong, who was aclin lessons at age three and concert venues. The orchescepted tra includes into the strings, S y m woodwinds, phony brass and Orchespercussion. tra to National play vioYouth Orlin, and chestra is Parker, an indepenw h o dent organiwas aczation and, cepted therefore, into the acceptance Concert is based B a n d solely on to play the audition flute, and not on w e n t the groups through students this prohave previcess last ously made. spring Thus, it is a n d extremely found competitive. o u t H o n g about and Lam, their who both accepvioRachel Becker (‘16)/ Eastside Photo Editor play t a n c e Lam and Hong both pose with their instruments. lin, began in They practicing w i l l months travel to Nashville, TN, for practices for many hours before they had to send in four days to rehearse and each day. She was Concert their three-minute audithen perform at the Grand Master of the All South Jertion tapes along with the Ole Opry on October 29. sey Orchestra and Assisrest of their application last “I’m really looking fortant Concert Master of All November. The application ward to [performing at the State Orchestra last year. also included a speaking Grand Ole Opry], it should “It will definitely be a portion, a resume and an be super cool. I heard it’s good experience to meet lots essay. gorgeous,” said Parker, who of people who come from the Lam, like Hong, started also looks forward to worksame kind of background as playing violin at a young ing alongside people with I do,” Hong said of the fourage, practices several hours such a high level of talent. day convention. a day and attends private Both Hong and Parker The National Youth Orlessons. The girls found

out they were accepted into the program last February.

Hong was unable to attend the actual program during the summer because she was already signed up for a different program, Music@ Menlo Chamber Music Institute and Festival. Lam, however, participated in the program, and had an incredible experience. “[The program] was really good because we worked with two pretty famous people: Gil Shaham, who is my favorite violinist of all time and David Robertson, who is the conductor of a professional orchestra,” said Lam. Besides working with proclaimed musicians, Lam’s favorite part was seeing so many different places. She had an amazing time both rehearsing and sightseeing, she said.

Both the All-National Honor Ensembles and the National Youth Orchestra are extremely competitive programs for young musicians who aspire to strengthen their skills.

Mr. Tim Keleher, director of Symphonic Band, Marching Band and Jazz Band, said that in the end, the thing that separates good musicians from great musicians is their sound.

“If you consider all of these students [who are applying]…and that these different organizations are pulling from across the entire nation, the prestige is pretty high,” said Keleher.

With these great opportunities and their personal dedication, Hong, Lam and Parker are all ready to continue their successful musical paths inside and ouside of school.

Cooking room to be a true culinary arts center ■ By Rebecca Cohen (‘15)

Eastside Managing Editor

What has been known as “Dilba’s Room,” or the cooking classroom, for years at Cherry Hill East, has been completely remodeled into a new and improved center for cooking. From now on, F074 will be known as The Culinary Arts Center.

On the first day of the 2013-2014 school year, Mrs. Pat Dilba, East cooking teacher, recalls when Principal Dr. Lawyer Chapman made his rounds to every classroom.

Upon his visit to the cooking classroom, he “didn’t Emily Cao (‘16)/ Eastside Staff say anything, [he] walked around the room with his The cooking room undergoes heavy renovations to become a new Culinary Arts Center. hands behind his back in a man, the superintendent approved Dilba said she would like to thank world language teachers to cook ethcontemplative state, then the request with a budget of 20,000 the district carpenters, plumbers nic foods with their classes there. left,” said Dilba. dollars. and electricians for their diligent In addition, Dilba would like Later in the year, Chapman ap“The room has been completely work and their conscientious efforts to invite PTA members to use her proached Dilba to voice his opinion. gutted and emptied of all its past in revamping her classroom. Withclassroom and even teach adult “‘Your room is disgusting,’ he nastiness,” said Dilba. out them, she said, this would have cooking classes for parents in the said. ‘We can find another room. It Although the actual footprint of never become a reality. district. is unsuitable for students. I’m gothe room could not be changed, evNow that the classroom is clean Dilba said that she believes “eving to make it my mission to fix it,’” ery single cabinet, stove, and sink in and accessible to students, with ery single school should have such a Dilba said of her conversation with the room has been replaced. There much more potential than it preroom that everyone can share.”

Chapman. are also two new refrigerators for viously had, Dilba hopes to really Dilba said that she really loves Dilba said that Chapman did not cooking classes to utilize. change it according to its new name the community feeling of the classwant to have people in that classDilba went to Home Depot to get and make it a true Culinary Arts room, and she always welcomes sturoom. Thus, if the room could not help in redesigning her classroom.

Center. dents into the room to cook or talk. have been fixed, the cooking proThe representatives at Home Depot Dilba said that she is already She wishes that the Home Economgram at East would not be able to aided in the selection of the best planning open houses for teachers ics Department at East could be continue. materials for the room all while and parents to come in and taste bigger than it is now.

Throughout the course of last staying within budget. the food she and her students have Now that the cooking room is finyear, numerous meetings were held The classroom project started in cooked. She also hopes to invite sciished and looking beautiful, Dilba to discuss the reconstruction of the July and was completed at the beence classes down to preform foodinvites everyone to “stop by… and room. After Dilba presented her ginning of October. related experiments and bring in wish [the cooking students] luck!” ideas along with help from Chap-

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Cherry Hill Police initiates E-ticketing ■ By Ashley Cooper (‘17)

Eastside Community Editor

The Cherry Hill Police Department recently began implementing an allnew electronic system for ticketing purposes. Contrary to its manually written predecessor, E-Ticketing allows policemen to quickly issue citations.

“We started implementing the system in 2013, but it really went live in 2014… There was a lot of testing we had to do to clarify if the system would work for us,” said Detective Paul Campana of the Information and Technology Unit.

The Department’s Traffic Safety Unit regulates the new E-ticketing system. The traffic squad is devoted to helping over 70,000 residents of Cherry Hill safely pass through the community each and every day. When this new electronic ticketing system was brought to the attention of the team back in 2013, it struck the unit as a great and innovative method of supplying tickets.

“The new software is part of our CAD [Computer Aided Dispatch] and records management system. Basically what [CAD] does is if you call 911, we put your call into the computer and the officer gets all of the information, or if you file a police report; it’s all part of that system, it’s all one big database,” said Campana.

According to Campana, marked and unmarked police cars alike are now supplied with the new E-ticketing system; basically, all policemen are now equipped to provide civilians with tick-

ets at an immensely increased pace.

“We now use the system every day,” said Campana. “It’s available in all patrol cars… any police officer, detective; anyone from a chief to a patrol officer has access to the system.”

The system can now be seen not only in squad cars, but also in the Cherry Hill Police Station itself.

“We actually have them inside the building too,” said Campana. “Say unfortunately you get arrested for a DUI, and you get brought into the station, we can print the tickets out right there.”

This E-ticketing system saves a great amount of time for policemen, who previously had to manually record the same citation information repeatedly into the database. Campana said that the system eliminates this redundancy, which was strongly present in the paper-ticket writing era of the P.D. “I used to have to write you a ticket. Then I would need to go hand punch that ticket information in my computer. Then that ticket [would] go to a records clerk and then to a court.

The court would then punch it in; clearly a very inefficient system,” said Campana. “The old, paper ticketing method may still be utilized if the software technology goes down, or something of that nature, but for the most part this is the universal ticketing system now used by the Cherry Hill Police Department.”

When asked about the exact workings of the new system, Campana said, “Basically… someone gets pulled over, they hand the officer their license and the officer then gets back in his [patrol car]. There is a little barcode scanner, similar to what you see in a store. The policeman uses the scanner, and then the information goes into the mobile computer, which is in the car.

All of that information comes back, and then the [policeman] sees something similar to a ticket, on the screen. The policeman then drags and

drops the information into the template of the ticket. Then the ticket is eventually sent to the state or the AOC [Administrative Office of the Courts]. Finally, the AOC sends back a ticket number and the policeman has a ticket, which goes into the overall database.”

As for Cherry Hill East parents and students, both have responded positively to the advancement of technology in the Police Deparment.

“I like this new E-ticketing system because the police officers type one ticket in instead of going through three sets of paperwork, and that decreases the wait time and gives the officers more time to be available for our protection,” said Joyce Winter, parent of two East Students.

East seniors, specifically, view the Police Department’s new ETicketing system as a prominent change in their lives as less-experienced, teenage drivers.

“As a teen driver, it is nice to know that the Police Department is making an effort to have safer streets. I’m less experienced than older drivers, so with this E-ticketing System, I think there will be [fewer] distractions on the road,” said Arielle Greenspan (’15).

This innovative E-ticketing device rapidly completes the police officer’s work efficiently and ensures Cherry Hill a safer experience for travelling drivers and passengers.

Border by Spencer Maussner (‘16)/ Eastside Staff

ExpressGrub provides Cherry Hill delivery ■ By Dani Roth (‘15)

Eastside Community Editor

High school students are often searching for new foods to try. Sadly, many students do not know where to go to get these foods or are simply void of a ride.

For this reason, countless students cannot grab a bite at the best places in town.

Luckily, an up-and-coming company has the ability to quench any picky eater’s hunger— all while that picky eater is lounging at home.

The Cherry Hill-based company, ExpressGrub, functions as delivery for dozens of local restaurants that do not normally de-

liver. Created by Nigerian native, Mohammed Oloko, this online company allows families and friends to eat and enjoy fine dining in the comfort of their own living rooms. Thanks to ExpressGrub, take-out is no longer needed, and one is no longer forced to choose between the limited options of pizza or Chinese food in the area.

Oloko, who graduated in 2007 from the Rutgers University Camden School of Business, began forming the idea of ExpressGrub while attending college.

“We were deciding what to order for dinner, and it was always just pizza. I thought it would be great to be able to order something

different,” said Oloko.

He created ExpressGrub in 2008 but did not develop it into a company until 2012.

With eleven staff members total, this company continues to grow. Currently, it can supply approximately 35 different restaurants’ cuisine for a fee ranging from $1.99 to $8.99.

“We have different relationships with different restaurants. With some we get a commission for every order we deliver for them, plus we get our delivery fee. With others, like the chains, we act as an errand service. We don’t get a commission, so our delivery fee is higher,” said Oloko.

Expressgrub.com pro-

vides information from the restaurants they deliver, including Cherry Hill’s Maggiano’s and Ponzio’s, Collingswood’s Tortilla Press, and Voorhees’s Catelli Duo, as well as others.

Receiving about eighty orders daily, this small company may possibly break a million dollars in sales by the end of the upcoming winter.

“I worked mostly in customer service, pleasing people, making people happy, going above and beyond [before] I started this business. [Now], I wake up and do what I love, then, I go to sleep and do it again.

It’s fun. And in terms of growth, the sky’s the limit,”

said Oloko.

Available between the hours of 10 a.m. and 9:30 p.m., Expressgrub runs all seven days a week; the company ensures a delicious, hot meal for those who are too lazy, tired or short on time to prepare or pick up one. Expressgrub will solve the problem by transporting food via its red and white checkered delivery cars.

Expressgrub resolves the pizza and Chinese food conundrum, and unlocks the options of choosing between all different types of cuisine; through the company, any food from almost any Cherry Hill restaurant can be hand-delivered to a waiting customer’s house.

as well as theirs.

With the little time we had, I can only hope that we impacted the community a fraction of the amount that it impacted us.

After spending the day painting outside in the sweltering San Salvadorian temperatures, I learned to appreciate the simplistic facets of life, that Americans accept as an intrinsic part of life, such as the ability to use air

conditioning when you are hot, or the ability to flush toilet paper.

It was in those frantic moments when I desperately tried to recall the Spanish verb chart I memorized back in eighth grade.

It was when I realized how big the world is outside of Cherry Hill. It was when I interacted with children who didn’t have the higher educational opportunities that we do. Only then did I truly begin to appreciate Cherry Hill East, as well as my very fortunate upbringing, with a greater sense of meaning.

Giving back to the community of San Salvador ■ By Jennifer Pacitti (‘17)

Eastside Staff

It is seldom in life that you find yourself traveling up a mountain with twenty other people on a cattle truck. Yet, in San Salvador it’s lucky if you can jump on the back of those cattle instead of having to exhaustingly run up the mountain yourself.

This summer, I had the privilege of travelling over 3,000 miles to San Salvador, C.A., with my church.

For the second time I was able to take this terrific journey, and it is one of

those experiences that utterly transformed my perspective on life.

Although I have visited San Salvador once before, returning at an older age allowed me to recognize and reflect on the life I take for granted daily in Cherry Hill.

While there, we restored a church, held various programs for the local children and distributed hundreds of bagged foods to impoverished women. Giving my time and energy to the underprivileged San Salvador people uplifted my spirits

Rachel Pacitti (‘15)/ Eastside Art Director If you volunteer, please tell us about it in our next issue! Email us at community@eastside-online.org

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Facebook users know “Whats up in Cherry Hill” ■ By Dani Roth (‘15) Eastside Community Editor

With over a billion users globally, Facebook is an extremely active tool of social media through which new acquaintances can form and old friendships may rekindle. Several groups, pages and events are created daily in order to establish connections and update users on upcoming events. Facebook helps bring people together from all around the world—as well as locally.

The Facebook page “Whats Up in Cherry Hill” centers on uniting Cherry Hill residents and helping to improve the community.

This open group provides offers for doctors, local businesses and restaurants to advertise their services.

With over a thousand members, “Whats Up in Cherry Hill” gets new members daily and now even includes neighboring towns, like Haddonfield and Voorhees.

Most users post about places they recommend or ask for help to find quality places to eat and shop. Promotions constantly appear on the page, advertising many different aspects of Cherry Hill, from upcoming restaurants to weekend yard sales to popular Cherry Hill events, like the annual Cherry Bowl.

“Whats Up in Cherry Hill” also presents news stories, traffic reports and weather updates to help locals in the area plan and prepare for certain conditions. Instead of waiting

for news to air on ABC, inhabitants in the region can simply go to this page to discuss upcoming or current events that affect the community.

intrigue the page members, the users themselves also update the page daily with recommendations or different ways to spend the night in Cherry Hill. The community forum allows people to express their opinons and help others with the daily conundrums of life Rachel Pacitti (‘15)/ Eastside Art Director in Cherry Hill. For example, the page Residents can also enis often filled with users joy a lively debate over resharing their opinions of gional health services and movies to see in the theater businesses through the Faor rent at home. cebook page. For example, Although community included on this page is inpublications print local adsight and opinions on new vice and referrals, Facebook construction in the area, inoffers a different service: cluding the Wawa on Route real-time conversation and 70. friendship-building with loWhile businesses concals. Though the majority stantly post free offers to of its users are adults, users

have posted several promotions skewed towards teenagers. Additionally, several local DJs have posted about their shows and stations in the forum, which further helps unite South Jersey residents.

The page’s dedication to blending Cherry Hill natives together infuses endless possibilities for the community to develop and continually progress.

Facts Members: 1,100 Founders: Cherry Hill West alum Abe Karetny and wife Megan Number of Photos: 85 Group Objective: Stimulate Cherry Hill economy

The Looping Dragon zooms into Great Adventure

ing the new and in need of playground repair,” Ferequipment; rington said. we wanted The re-dedsomething ication cerfor the emony for the whole complayground, munity,” owned by Ferrington Cherry Hill said.

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Emelia Keller (‘17)/ Eastside Photo Editor starting to “All the become un- Children play on the all-new playground. proceeds from fit for young refreshments children and families. are going to Sharp Elementary “The entire playground equipment School,” Ferrington said. was removed because it was dated Ric Miscioscia, the principal of Jo-

seph D. Sharp Elementary School, was also a big fan of the idea for the new playground, and hopes that students will enjoy the changes made.

“We are planning on actively communicating to our school community about the park’s re-dedication ceremony,” Miscioscia said.

Miscioscia hopes and believes that many students and their families will happily use the playground after school, as well as on weekends. The new playground was very well-received and enjoyed by the children and families who attended the event.

Mayor Chuck Cahn, Miscioscia and Cherry Hill Council members were all in attendance at the Grand Reopening. They were accompanied by countless other children and families from all throughout the community.

The playground is located on Thornhill Road, directly behind Sharp Elementary School, located on 300 Old Orchard Road.

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Along with the Looping Dragon comes Great Adventure’s Fright Fest 2015, filled with several new features, including an indoor maze where guests wear 3-D glasses and have an exhilarating black-light experience, entitled “Big Top Terror.”

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Another indoor haunt maze that the park will feature is “Condemned.” The maze will be located in Movietown, joining famed rides such as Nitro and Batman. This Fright Fest attraction will appear as a maximum-security prison, where guests must fight to make it

out alive.

In addition to the brand-new mazes of Fright Fest 2015, Great Adventure’s acclaimed Halloween fest will last for two additional days next year, lasting from September 18 to November 1, 2015.

While various attractions and Fright Fest Festivities have been released, Six Flags h a s also announced the start of the 2015 seasonal pass. Now through November 2, guests who have purchased a two-pack Pass will receive a free upgrade to a Gold Season Pass. This Gold Season Pass warrants free admission into any of the various Six Flag theme parks, including Hurrican Harbor, special discount offers and free parking.

Though not available until next year, these attractions are expected to measure up to the standards of the Six Flags Enterprise.

The new and unique rides should exceed the expectations of roller coaster fanatics, and thrill-seekers are eagerly anticipating the arrival of the coaster.

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On August 28, the massive Six Flags Corporation annouced exciting news for thrill-seekers across the nation. According to this press release, there are many changes in store, specifically, for the upcoming season of Six Flags Great Adventure.

Thus far, Six Flags has announced a new roller coaster, as well as an even more thrilling Fright Fest, for the 2015 season.

The all-new Looping Dragon will be an exciting addition to the park. The coaster features forward and backward motions. Contrary to a traditional roller coaster, the Looping Dragon will make a complete 360-degree revolution around the track. After the first revolution, the ride will continue to complete full revolutions.

Eventually, the ride will briefly pause, causing riders to be suspended in mid-air. Then, the ride fully revolves in the reverse direction. The ride is circular in shape and is seven stories tall.

According to the news release, the coaster will be located in Great Adventure’s Golden Kingdom section, which includes high-thrill rides such as Zumanjaro: Drop of Doom, Kingda Ka and El Toro. The ride will have a 48-inch height re-

from reality. This maze will be located in the clown section of Great Adventure’s Fright Fest, Circus Psycho.

In the news release, Tony Mandile, Fright Fest’s special ef-

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quirement for riders and is expected to debut in the late spring of 2015.

“Looping Dragon is a great addition to our diverse roller coaster collection… it delivers speed and thrills that appeal to both our younger and more e x p e rienced thrill-seekers alike,” said Park President,

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fects expert, said, “‘Big Top Terror’ will be a coulrophobiac’s [one with a clown phobia] worst night-

Old Orchard Playground swings back open ■ By Allie Shifton (‘17) Eastside Staff

The Old Orchard Playground, behind Joseph D. Sharp Elementary School, reopened on September 20 for the children and community after undergoing refurbishment. The playground was completely redone in order for it to function as a safer and more kid-friendly neighborhood attraction.

The free re-grand opening ceremony included a ribbon cutting ceremony at 6:30 p.m. An outdoor showing of The Muppet Movie followed at approximately 7 p.m. Kids were invited to use the new playground after the ribbon-cutting while simultaneously enjoying the film and concessions.

Ericha Ferrington, the Special Events Coordinator for Cherry Hill Recreation, said that the Cherry Hill Township wanted the re-grand opening to be a huge community and family-oriented event.

“We wanted an event for unveil-

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Lammily Doll is the new and realistic Barbie

■ By Cassidy Rosen-Swell (‘16) For Eastside

Nickolay Lammily has created a new type of doll that will transform the way children view their bodies.

The Lammily Doll has been created to resemble the average teenager, rather than a 110-pound, five-foot-nine model. Unlike the Barbie doll, the Lammily doll is shorter, wider and more proportionate to the body type of an average girl. Because of these changes, this doll has the potential to influence the lives of young children and promote a healthy body image.

Nickolay Lammily used real measurements of the average 19-year-old woman, which were provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and molded them into a 3D model. The average measurements of a 19-year-old girl, a height of five-foot-four and a waist of 33 inches, are much more realistic than those of Barbie, who is five-foot-nine and 110 pounds, which is 35 pounds under the appropriate weight for someone that tall. With these proportions, a woman would not have the necessary body fat to menstruate, and her body mass index would be in the “severely under-

weight” range. Starting from their very first doll, young girls are exposed to extremely unrealistic imag-

In fact, 42 percent of girls in first through third grade wish they were thinner.

The Lammily Doll is

Tammy Stahl (‘16)/ For Eastside

The above drawing is a comparison between the Barbie doll and Nickolay Lammily’s Lammily Doll.

The proportions of the doll on the right give a more accurate representation of the average 19-year-old woman, while the Barbie proportions exaggerate the female body. es of female bodies and feel the need to mirror these images in their own lives.

dressed in casual, sporty clothes. This endorses an active lifestyle that all

whales that are not from their family, which makes the animals frustrated.

They scream by themselves and, if separated from their family, they occasionally act out, hurting the other whales in their pool. There

inside the tank by not coming up for oxygen. In fact, 37 orcas have died in the three SeaWorld parks.

None of this would happen if the sea mammals were living where they should be living.

young girls should have.

Every Barbie doll has perfect hair and a flawless face, something unachievable in real life. The Barbie Doll supports a lifestyle of material importance—which is something young girls should not be taught.

The Lammily Dolls wear minimal makeup, which shows girls that they should embrace their natural beauty as opposed to concealing themselves behind pounds of makeup. The Lammily Doll will help girls feel confident with their own beauty without having to hide themselves with a cake of makeup or a skimpy outfit.

The fact that the Lammily Doll was created based off of real-life measurements motivates young girls to achieve the image of a Lammily doll, a much healthier goal weight, and not feel obligated to look like a Barbie Doll, which is very dangerous.

The Lammily Doll allows girls to grow up and be proud of their bodies. If the Barbie Doll is the only doll a child grows up with, young girls will grow up thinking that that is the only acceptable weight and height. The Lammily Doll will allow all children to recognize that they do not have to be as skinny as a Barbie Doll in order to be beautiful.

Orca whales should not be held in captivity

right way. Food deprivation makes them angry so they are more likely to lash out at their trainers. TrainThere is no denying the ers put a lot of time into amusement of tourists as developing bonds with the they watch the variety of animals and get attached to whale and dolphin shows them. There have been too that SeaWorld has to offer. many incidents when People get close ena trainer is injured counters with these or killed by being animals that they attacked by whales. would otherwise Many of those times never see. However, the whales were fruskeeping these sea trated by not getting mammals in captivthe things that they ity prevents them need, like food. from living a natuAlthough dolphin ral life, which could and whale shows at potentially hurt the SeaWorld are very animals and their entertaining for tourtrainers. ists, it is important The environment that tourists are these animals live aware of the unnatuin once they are ral living conditions captured and taken of the animals. to SeaWorld cannot People have been compare to their natprotesting this issue ural environment of already. California the massive oceans has proposed a bill they should be living that would ban whale in. They live in exand dolphin perfortremely small tanks mances and ultitogether so there is mately put an end to little room to swim the captivity of these around. The whales sea mammals. The are forced to swim in bill will be decided on cramped, concreteat a vote next year in lined tanks instead 2015. of being allowed to Organizations swim thousands of such as People for Helena Sirken (‘15)/ Eastside Art Director miles in the ocean the Ethical Treatwith large social A trained Orca Whale living in SeaWorld has an unhappy life. ments of Animals groups.

An orca is no escape for a whale beLiving in these pools (PETA) are really striving would have to swim the ciring attacked because they makes sea mammals unto make a difference in the cumference of the main pool are forced to live in captivable to find their own prey lives of these sea mammals at SeaWorld 1,900 times in ity. These fights can somelike they would in the simply because no animals one day to swim the same times lead to death. ocean. The park feeds the should be living in captivity distance that it would in The tanks that orcas live whales food that is natuand deprived of their natuthe wild. in have filtration systems ral to a normal whale’s ral life.

When the sea mammals that make a lot of noise. diet in an attempt to keep Wonderful creatures, live together, they are norKiller whales and dolphins them hydrated for all of such as dolphins and mally separated from their are eventually driven crazy the shows. Sometimes, if whales, are serving the role family unit. Orca whales by the noise. Some dolphins a whale fails to do a trick, of circus performers, which are highly social animals, and whales have even been it will be deprived of food is demeaning to their vast but sometimes they find known to kill themselves until it does the trick the status in the wild. it tough to bond with orca ■ By Rachel Cogan (‘17)

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Kim’s Korner ■ By Sonia Kim (‘16)

Eastside Webmaster

You see images on your Facebook newsfeed of heart-tugging depictions of an indigenous little girl in tears, caressing her baby sister in her delicate, slim arms, imploring for help and crying for hope. Underneath the photographs you also see a caption that reads, “Poverty in your eyes—you can help save these children. Like and share.”

Did you like and share?

Of course… after all, the video said you could help save children by simply clicking one button. Unfortunately, oftentimes young activists feel compelled to “create the change they wish to see in this world.”

However, they often know absolutely nothing about the cause they claim they are fighting for.

There is no doubt that today’s young activists fight based on their emotional choices. Motivation, persistence and passion are all laudable traits the youth possess—it shows that they genuinely care about helping this fragmented world.

Without even consciously realizing it, the youth have the power to develop ideas and see them come to fruition, to channel their empathy through volunteering and, most importantly, to become leaders who not only have a vision, but also a strategy. Young activists do have the power, but this power will become futile if people do not translate it into action that produces effective results. Hence, they will never truly succeed with solely just the desires of the heart; they need to also start fighting with their heads.

Young people, in general, act very rashly. Because most young activists tend to follow their hearts to do whatever it is they feel to be right, they forget to use good judgment in the process. Consequently, practicality becomes muddled. Young activists must have clear notions on what it actually means to create change by evaluating and reassessing their approaches and methods. It is not enough to formulate vague proposals, especially because the most important aspect of activism is application. Young activists have to implement action in an intellectual way, which results from vigilant, thorough planning.

So the next time you see a post on Facebook regarding some type of cause, know what it is before you click like and share. Do some research, donate some money, start a club at school.

Do not devote yourself to a cause out of pity. Instead, temper your emotions and think rationally as well as sensibly. Let love and empathy give you purpose so that you can find your true voice, but remember: never let only compassion guide you.

Take action and use your mind; it is more valuable than you know.

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I-Dosing: A non-lethal drug that can end with addiction ■ By Keshav Amaro (‘15) and Leah Korn (‘16)

Eastside Opinions Editors

Kids across the country are getting high off the Internet, thanks to MP3s that produce sound-induced highs. It could be a gateway drug leading teens to realworld narcotics.

I-Dosing is the new craze sweeping the Internet in which teenagers put on their headphones, drape a hood over their head and drift off into a world of “digital highs.” The pulsing soundtracks supposedly simulate the effects of real-life drugs. These “digital drugs” use binaural, or two-toned, technology to alter the brain waves and the mental state of humans.

I-Dosing alters a person’s state of mind, meaning that his or her decision-making is negatively affected while I-Dosing. The music involves playing two tones simultaneously, one through each ear. The low frequency

pulsations of about 1000 to 1500 Hz last about five minutes, but some doses can take up to fifteen, even thirty, minutes.

The I-Dosing tracks reportedly bring about the same effects as drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, opium and peyote. This is extremely dangerous.

The short-term effects for a drug, such as cocaine, can vary between feeling euphoric to feeling paranoid and irritable. Cocaine use may also result in becoming extremely anti-social and aggressive. Since IDosing creates a similar high, a person I-Dosing is at risk of making some pretty unintelligent decisions that he or she might regret.

Just as marijuana is seen as a physical gateway drug, the beats that simulate the high created from

marijuana are seen as an audible gateway I-Dosing track. Once the I-Dosing particpant is bored with the marijuana track, he has a plethora of options to feel a more intense high. After listening to the strongest I-Dosing track, listeners will feel intrigued to try the real deal: actual drugs.

These I-Dosing drugs not only include marijuana, but many others as well. It claims to mimic the effects of alcoholism, amnesia, ecstasy and the list goes on and on. Videos of teens trying I-Dosing on YouTube show people acting extremely abnormal, reacting to these often shaking, twitching violently or even screaming. It is unclear if these effects are staged or i genuine, but either tt i c r way they are pretty Pa cto horrifying. l e he Dir While it is true c a t R Ar that I-Dosing does not e id actually physically harm sts a the body, it can get the lisE / 5) tener addicted to the high (‘1

that he receives and lead him to try real world narcotics. I-Dosing has caused such an alarm in the U.S. that the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs has issued a warning to children not to particpate in I-Dosing.

Oklahoma’s Mustang Public School District even sent out a letter to parents warning them of the new craze. The school district has banned iPods at school in hopes of preventing students from I-Dosing.

I-Dosing is not just a harmless pastime done on the computer. I-Dosing indicates a person’s willingness to experiment with real drugs.

The increasing popularity of I-Dosing is a sign that the teenage culture is still seeking drugs. The obsession with experimentation with drugs and altered states of mind is a gateway to actual drug use. I-dosing encourages those behaviors and will result in more drug use as a result.

Ebola is spreading to the United States and it is no joke ■ By Brooke Greenberg (‘17) Eastside Staff

A disease that initially began with a few individuals who were traveling to West Africa has now turned into a deadly, global phenomenon. This deadly virus has shaken the world in a way nobody could have ever expected Ebola, discovered in 1976, is believed to be traced back to bats which harbored the illness and ended up passing it on to humans who come in contact with them. The virus causes the body to have hemorrhagic fever, where the body bleeds to death and is only contagious by

direct skin to skin contact, contaminated needles and bodily fluids, similarly to how HIV is contracted.

The United States is taking cautionary actions while tending to those with the virus so it will not spread.

Contaminated people who enter the United States are transferred to specific hospitals to receive treatment.

Many doctors are using blood transfusions to mix “infection-fighting antibodies from survivors’ blood for Ebola,” according to an article written by Fox News.

No vaccine is available at the moment to take precautionary action for the disease. So far, four Americans have been treated in the United States for this

illness. This illness has been stated as a threat to the United States, but recently, the first American has contracted Ebola. According to USA Today, that patient had been to Liberia, which is where the disease was probably contracted and later developed in the United States.

The virus was brought to Dallas, Texas, by a Liberian man named Thomas Eric Duncan. Although he passed through all security tests at the Monrovia Airport in Liberia, he had no indication that he had Ebola until a couple days after he arrived in the United States.

Ebola is just as deadly as it sounds. Its current death

rate is 50 percent of the people who become contaminated. CNN reports that there have been “more than 4,400 confirmed human cases and more than 2,500 deaths since the discovery of Ebola.”

Many African countries are suffering immensely from this virus, especially Liberia, which has had 1,698 cases with 871 of deaths thus far. The country of Sierra Leone declared a “nationwide lockdown from September 19-21 in order to stop the spread of Ebola,” according to CNN. Because there are so many diseases in Africa, people are required to get vaccinated before traveling there in order to pro-

tect themselves from diseases such as Hepatitis A and Diphtheria. Ebola is far from new. However, it was considered to be nonemergent, so a vaccine was not required because an outbreak was thought to be extremely unlikely.

This deadly virus is rampaging out of control.

Doctors are now tending to quarantined patients in full protective gear, hoping to not get the illness.

The death rate of Ebola started out as being 90 percent, but now, due to more research and doctors working furiously for a cure, it has dropped to 50 percent.

Hopefully this trend continues in the future and Ebola is headed to a cure.

State police officers should be better monitored ■ By Jenna Myers (‘17) Eastside Opinions Editor

Camden is a well-known city in Jersey, made notorious for its high amount of criminal activity. On September 11, Senator Donald Norcross announced that he was working on a legislation that would allow every cop in New Jersey to have a camera pinned on his or her body.

The next day, Governor Chris Christie signed a bill that enforces every cop in Camden, and soon New Jersey as a whole, to have a camera placed in his or her car. This idea overall was stressed because of what happened in Ferguson, Missouri, where a young man, named Michael Brown, was shot by a local police officer. This piece of legislation should come into action as cameras would offer an ideal solution to monitor police officers and crimes.

“Ferguson didn’t have a video camera, and we still don’t know what exactly happened,” Norcross said in his speech outside of the Cherry Hill Police Department, according to NJ.com.

“Video and audio would have put it to rest.”

It is important to make sure that police activity is recorded to avoid cases— especially those like Ferguson—that end up causing New

large amounts of controversy. With the installation of these cameras on the policemen and in their cars, the state as a whole would become a better place because there will be more proof when it comes down to crime and how the crime was carried out.

In July 2012, New Jersey State Assemblyman, Paul Moriarty, was arrested and charged with drunk driving. The cop who arrested him had a camera in the police car that recorded the entire sobriety test. The police officer said that Moriarty was driving under the influence, but he really passed the sobriety test. Once Moriarty demanded that the sobriety test footage should be shown to the police department, Moriarty was cleared of all charges and the police officer had fourteen false arrests. With the help of cameras, every cop will be monitored and there will not be any false arrests made that endanger the citizens. Cops will no longer have the power to falsely influence the outcome of crimes. Instead, these cameras will show concrete evidence of what will happen during arrests.

Along with the cameras required in the police cars and on the officers, the Camden Police Department has overseen the placement of 121 cameras since May 2013 around the Delaware River that are able to see up to 360 degrees. There are over 120 clerks monitoring these cameras 24/7.

The crimes are reported to the local police, and the police officers will be allowed to use the cameras to identify the suspect and victim. Nonethelss, cameras will not be installed in areas around people’s homes.

“More often, at community meetings, I have to explain why there isn’t a camera in their neighborhood,” Bryan Morton, the president of the North Camden Little League said in an interview

with Newswork.com.

The price of one security camera ranges from 300 to 1,000 dollars . A small state tax should be placed on the cameras in order to maintain and install them. Every area in New Jersey should get these cameras, especially more populated areas.

With the new cameras installed in Camden, there will be fewer crimes occurring in the area and an increase in the number of reported crimes. Since the installation of the cameras in 2012, Camden homicides went down 51 percent, shootings decreased by 45 percent, and the percentage of crimes will continue to decrease over time.

As notorious as Camden is for its high crime rate, other cities such as Detroit and Boston should follow the same actions, installing cameras in police cars, buildings and streets as well as on other police officers. The annual crime rate would sufficiently go down if every city or highly populated area decided to add security cameras.

Sydney Steele (‘16)/ Eastside Staff

Cameras have been put in police cars to record the actions of police officers.

EDITORIAL

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Editorials represent the views and opinions of the Eastside Editorial Board.

Cherry Hill High School East

East’s bake sale ban should be lifted As of October 16, students are still unclear about what food items can and cannot be sold during fundraisers at school due to the “Smart Snacks in School” regulations. These regulations specify standards that food items must meet in order to be sold in school.

Since a final statement about these standards has not been released, all food sales have been put to a halt. This ruling can be especially problematic for clubs that rely on food sales as a way of raising money. Additionally, the curriculum for the Business Management classes require the students to host sales.

Eastside urges administration to shed light on the regulations in order to settle the many concerns of students,

parents and staff.

Additionally, if the new regulations are implemented, many food items that used to be sold, such as Krispy Kreme doughnuts, will no longer be allowed. As high school students are preparing for adulthood, one way that the school can prepare students outside of academics is to allow them to make informed decisions without influence from administrators. One of these decisions should be what to eat. A high school student is perfectly capable of making the decision of what food to consume. An overweight student or a student in training for a sport should know whether or not he or she can eat certain foods. By prohibiting all students from choosing what food to eat, the administration is forcing

students to abide by their health standards, as opposed to letting students make that decision themselves.

If the calorie count of donuts or other baked goods is posted, the student should be allowed to make the decision to eat that food by him or herself.

Furthermore, the administration has been slow in deciding the new policies and informing students of these policies. Many clubs that relied on bake sales as their primary means of fundraising are quickly becoming concerned about monetary issues.

There has been over a month of school, and students are still unaware of what the new policy is. It is only fair that administration makes a decision soon regarding the new regulations.

Day Zero should be re-implemented at East On the first day of school, many students were concerned about not having the ability to visit all of their eight classes and meet all of their eight teachers. Due to the recently implemented schedule change, the school year started on a Day Five.

The reasoning behind a Day Five start was that within the first two days of school, every student would attend all of his or her classes once, without having any labs to interrupt the schedule. This created confusion among students—especially freshmen—and the 90-minute blocks were difficult for students and teachers to endure after a long summer of not having class.

Eastside would also like to recognize the problems that have occurred and may continue to arise from having a random day of the schedule before and after an extended break.

Days before and after breaks could be considered as a waste of time. Not much can be accomplished on these days, as students and teachers are excitedly anticipating their upcoming vacation, unable to focus in a classroom. Addi-

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tionally, when students come back from a break, they can be extremely unorganized and teachers end up trying to teach new material to students who may not be back in learning mode, or show a movie because they have nothing else to do during an extended period.

In years prior to this newer schedule, which was implemented for the 2012-2013 school year, the first day of school always started on a Day Zero, which used to just be a non-testing and non-lab day. There are many days during the course of the school year, such as days before and after extended vacations and first and last days of school, when a Day Zero would be helpful to the school’s community.

To address the previously listed concerns, Eastside proposes that the school district implements a Day Zero before and after extended breaks, similar to how the schedule was in years past.

In addition to a Day Zero having no labs or tests, this new Day Zero also encompasses all eight periods of the schedule.

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Learning Goal: Students will be able to better understand the new teachers here at East.

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1. What subject/grade do you teach?

2. How do you like East so far?

4. I attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, MA, for both undergraduate and graduate school. In my undergraduate career, I received two degrees, Biology and Psychology. My graduate degree is in Education.

Ms. Campbell 1. I teach 9th grade CPS (Conceptual Physical Science).

2. East is great!

3. I taught at West for 12 years and took two years of leave for the birth of my son (now age two). Now I teach CPS at West in the morning and East in the afternoon!

4. University of DelawareBiology Major, Rutgers in Camden for Teacher Certification and I studied Chemistry Education at University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Blum

1. I teach English. I have classes of freshmen, juniors and seniors.

2. I graduated from East, 1996, so this is an exciting homecoming for me.

3. I taught English as a foreign language in Japan for 13 years, working with students between the ages of 2 and 80. Then, after returning with my wife and two children, I taught at Glassboro High School for a semester. I taught for one year at Moorestown High School, and now I’m here.

4. I got my BA in Literature and Philosophy from University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign, and I received my Master’s in Education from St. Joseph’s University.

3. Where did you teach before coming to East?

4. Where did you go to college?

Ms. VanAmburg

1. I teach two sections of 3A American Literature, two sections of 3H/AP Language and Composition and one section of Study Skills.

2. I like East so far! It is a very different environment than I am used to, but I appreciate how rigorous the coursework is and how academically minded the students and faculty are. I am looking forward to becoming part of the community!

3. Before teaching at East, I taught for several years at LEAP Academy University Charter School in Camden, NJ. 4. I received my undergraduate and graduate degrees from Rowan University.

Ms. D’Alessandro 1. French 1 and French 2.

2. Everyone at East has been very friendly and helpful.

3. I’ve been teaching at West for the past five years.

4. B.A. Douglass College, M.Ed. Rutgers Graduate School of Education.

2. I am so happy to be at East for many reasons.

The most important is that I have the opportunity to see former students. So far, everyone has been very kind, friendly and helpful.

3. I started the Middle School World Language program 15 years ago at Beck and Carusi. The last 14 years I have taught French and Spanish at Beck Middle School.

1. I am teaching biology, Applied Chemistry, Concepts of Physical Science and Study Skills.

3. Timber Creek and in New York.

3. I taught at Carusi before Cherry Hill East.

4. Master’s degree from Western Connecticut State University, Bachelor’s from Nazareth College of Rochester.

4. I went to Trenton State College (now TCNJ).

Ms. Spence 2. I love East! The students and faculty are great. The students are especially helpful when I get lost in the hallways every day!

Ms. Jamrogowicz

2. The people are very nice and the kids are great.

4. I did my undergraduate studies at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. I also studied at the University of Poitiers, France and at the University of Valencia, Spain. I have a master’s degree in French Literature from Villanova University. I have taught at Villanova and Camden County College.

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2. I enjoy working with my students and getting to know the communiy better on the East side.

2. I really like teaching at East. I did not realize how big the school was and how many teachers and students there are to get to know.

East welcomes brand new faces ■ By Allie Grossman (‘16)

4. I attended Rowan University.

1. Biology and special education.

1. I teach grades 9-11 because I have level 2A / H and also level 4A classes.

1. I teach English 4R at East and English 2H and Public Speaking at West

3. I have been a teacher at Cherry Hill High School West for three years and work there now as well as at East.

Prior to teaching at West, I taught middle school English and history at a private school.

Ms. Fox

Ms. Griffo

1. I teach English as a Second Language (ESL) to grades 9-12.

Ms. Hahn-Walsh

This school year, there are many new faces gracing the halls of East. For the 2014-2015 school year, eleven new teachers were hired at East, the greatest number of hirings that East has seen in a decade. Many of these teachers have previously worked at other schools in the district, including West and Malberg.

Four of these teachers commute back-and-forth between East and West each day. In addition to the eleven new teachers, East has a new assistant principal, Ms. Donean Chinn-Parker, and two long-term substitutes, Mr. Raymond Falls (Science) and Dr. Nicole Mantuano (English). Three new teachers teach English: Mr. Blum, Ms. VanAmburg and Ms. HahnWalsh. Two new teachers teach science classes: Mr. DeFuria and Ms. Campbell. Two new teachers teach a world language: Ms. Griffo (some may know Ms. Griffo from Beck) and Ms. D’Alessandro.

In addition, Ms. Spence teaches ESL and Ms. Jamrogowicz, Ms. Vanaman and Ms. Fox are all new additions to the Special Education Department.

The new faculty’s responses to four questions are printed on this page.

Can you match the teachers with the animals they would want to be?

All photos by Rachel Becker (‘16)/ Eastside Photo Editor

1. “I would want to be an otter. I enjoy the water...kayaking, stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) and rafting, so it would be a lot of fun. Plus I’d get to eat seafood every day!”

2. “I guess I would be a bird so that I could fly and get everywhere quickly.”

3. “A bird, so I can travel at will.”

4. “If I could be any animal, I would be a clownfish like Nemo. I think about these fish as funny, happy-go-lucky and peaceful creatures because they are the only ones that get along with the scary sea anemones!”

5. “If I could, I would be a lion. I love lions because they are fierce, strong and have a sense of pride.”

6. “An alpaca. I live on a farm with 125 alpacas and they are beautiful, gentle animals with an easy life, eat, sleep and only get one haircut a year!”

Ms. Vanaman

7. “I guess I’d be an Australian marsupial, because I have all the koalifications to be a great teacher! I’d be a small fish, because I’m always asking students to let minnow what they think.”

1. English Concepts for freshmen and I co-teach 3A Inclusion English with Mrs. Bathke.

8. “I would be a giraffe, as they are majestic animals. Truly amazing to watch the power behind their necks.”

3. I taught middle school ESL near Boston, MA, before teaching in Cherry Hill.

2. The faculty has been welcoming and helpful. My classes are going well so far and I have great kids. I’ve definitely found some kindred spirits here!

9. “If I could be any animal, I would be a hawk. I like the freedom of flight and I don’t really want to be prey.”

4. I got my bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Anthropology from Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, PA. I got my master’s degree in teaching ESL from Simmons College in Boston, MA.

3. I taught English at Cherry Hill’s Alternative High School for the past six years.

4. Rowan University for my BA, MST and Special Education Certification. It’s a great college for commuters.

10. “Frog, I love to swim and lay in the sun, which is all frogs do.”

11. “I would be a bird so I could get between the two schools more quickly during LB1.”

9. Ms. Van Amburg 10. Ms. Fox 11. Ms. Hahn-Walsh

3. I taught at Pioneer Valley Regional School in Northfield, MA. If you were to add all of the students, faculty, staff and bus drivers from my old school, the result would be fewer students than the East freshman class.

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7. Mr. Blum 8. Mr. DeFuria

2. East is exciting so far. I come from a tiny school in Massachusetts. It’s great to be part of such a large community.

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5. Ms. Griffo 6. Ms. Campbell

1. I currently teach Biology 1A and Environmental Studies here at Cherry Hill East.

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Answers: 1. Ms. Vanaman 3. Ms. D’Alessandro 2. Ms. Jamrogowicz 4. Ms. Spence

Mr. DeFuria

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BuzzFeed provides unique and diverse content

■ By Liza Rothkoff (‘16) Eastside Entertainment Editor

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BuzzFeed users can see the newest news, quizzes and lists that the website has to offer from the homepage.

In recent years, the Internet has seen the rise of BuzzFeed, a website dedicated to the coverage of politics, media and technology.

This news website, founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti, started out as a viral lab test where the BuzzFeed editors would create an online experiment called “BuzzFeed Labs” in order to create, test and track viral content on the Internet.

The website has changed drastically since its early days. Now, instead of viral lab experiments, the website showcases many stories about DIY projects, current events and celebrities, which are catered to be shared on social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter.

Currently, it receives 75 percent of its views from social media websites.

The website is most well-known for its quizzes. The quizzes focus on a variety of topics, ranging from “What’s going to happen to you after you die?” to “Can we guess your middle name?” to “How well do you actually know Scotland?”

Aside from quizzes, BuzzFeed also features a plethora of lists: everything from lists about adorable dogs to creepy places to visit.

Quizzes and lists are among the most popular posts shared via social media.

In 2012, BuzzFeed hired Ben Smith as the new editor-in-chief of the site. The new hiring was meant to expand the site’s priorities

into “serious journalism” while still utilizing the entertainment content that the company has become known for.

BuzzFeed averages around 378 posts per day, featuring the works of staff reporters, cartoon artists and the community. The website is updated continulously throughout the day with new content.

“Buzzfeed is great. It has both important content, like major world events, as well as numerous articles and quizzes,” said Danielle Schweitzer (‘17).

In recent years, BuzzFeed’s funding has climbed from more than double of its funding from beforehand.

The site has also created BuzzFeed Motion Pictures, which may produce feature-

length films in the future.

Since BuzzFeed’s rise to popularity, the top three countries that have the most BuzzFeed users are the United States, United Kingdom and India. Although BuzzFeed is read in many countries, approximately 50 percent of BuzzFeed users live in the United States.

BuzzFeed may be popular, but not everyone uses the website to get the most recent news.

Even though BuzzFeed is well-known now, not everything during the rise of the website has been smooth sailing. Since as early as 2012, BuzzFeed has received many plagiarism accusations. In that same year, it was discovered that some of the website’s most

popular lists have been lifted nearly word for word from other sites, including Reddit. In July, one BuzzFeed writer was fired after the writer admitted to plagiarizing 40 times. The writer plagiarized from websites such as The New York Times, Wikipedia and Yahoo! Answers.

Along with plagiarism scandals, BuzzFeed has been caught deleting nearly 5,000 posts. It was rumored that these posts were deleted because they were plagiarized or badly cited.

Despite BuzzFeed’s struggles, the company has continued to grow and mature. With the age of social media, BuzzFeed’s popularity has only continued to expand. BuzzFeed has a bright future ahead.

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lowers on Twitter and millions of subscribers on YouTube.

The YouTubers are able to create videos that gain millions of views. These YouTube stars’ videos cover a variety of topics, but the majority of them give commentaries on current events in pop culture.

YouTube stars reach out to their fans through social media. They link their Twitter followers to new videos frequently. These videos reach millions of people, bringing a huge amount of views to the YouTube videos.

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six Grammy Awards. The band was one of the most successful musical acts in the 1970’s. In 2014, the members announced the History of the Eagles: Live In Concert reunion tour. It was launched in conjunction with the release of the documentary History of the Eagles in 2012. The band is stopping in cities across the country and playing soldout venues such as Madison Square Garden and TD Garden.

Another old-time band that is reuniting this year is Aerosmith. Formed in Boston in 1970, all of the band’s albums reached multi-platinum status by the end of the decade. This year, it announced a greatest hits Let Rock Rule tour, which will run from July until October.

Aerosmith not only played in the United States, but also has enough support to travel internationally for concerts in Canada, Europe and Australia.

One of the most recognizable names in music—The Rolling Stones—is also touring this year. The members announced their 14 on Fire tour in late 2013. The tour started in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in February, and will end in Australia in November.

Musician Mick Taylor will be a special guest throughout this tour.

Overall, teenagers across America will be able to see these blast-from-the-past acts live in concert. With these tours, they can see the same acts their parents saw in concert years ago.

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Founded in 2005, YouTube’s original intention was to create a website based off of a video version of an online dating website.

The first video ever uploaded to YouTube lasts just 18 seconds and is entitled “Me at the zoo.” The video shows YouTube co-founder, Jawed Karim, talking about elephants while at the zoo.

Since then, the subjects of YouTube videos have changed drastically.

Over the past few years, YouTube has flung many video bloggers—also known as vloggers—into stardom.

YouTube personalities, such as Anthony Quintal (known by fans as Lohanthony), Tyler Oakley and Troye Sivan, have all recently been nominated for Teen Choice Awards for their video blogging.

The Teen Choice Awards have followed Internet stars since 2010 with the “Best Web Star” category; however, at the 2014 Teen Choice Awards, Fox expanded the Web Star category and added seven new categories: “Best Web Star: Female,” “Best Web Star: Male,” “Best Web Star: Music,” “Best Web Star: Comedy,” “Best Web Star: Fashion/ Beauty,” “Best Web Collaboration” and “Best Web Star: Gaming.”

YouTube stars, also known as YouTubers, are redefining what it takes to become famous. Through social media, Lohanthony, Tyler Oakley and Troye Sivan have developed a large, devoted group of fans. They have gained millions of fol-

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These YouTubers’ main audience is mainly comprised of teenagers. According to Nielsen, the average amount of time people ages 18-24 spent watching YouTube videos during the first half of 2014 is two hours and 28 minutes per week. These statistics do not mean that teenagers watch YouTube videos instead of watching television shows; however, these statistics do indicate that teenagers watch less television than they did a few years ago.

While most YouTubers are seldom heard by people who do not follow their YouTube videos, that will soon change. With many YouTube stars’ sudden increase in popularity, many of them will soon be household names with the help of social media.

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Many teenagers these days are less concerned about the typical “top 40” radio stations and more concerned about the music that graced the “top 40” charts more than 20 years ago. There has been a resurgence of teenagers interested in older music, and this year those teens will have the ability to see their favorite bands in concert, as if it’s 1984 all over again.

The Eagles were one of the first bands to announce a 2014-2015 reunion tour.

The band, which was formed in Los Angeles in 1971 by Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner, has five number-one singles and

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Females continue to dominate rap ■ By Meghna Kothari (‘15)

Eastside Editor-in-Chief

In a generally maledominated genre of music, the rap world is being taken by storm as female artists emerge and change the game.

For ages, the most famous rappers, such as Tupac and Kanye West, have been prominently male.

The only time the limelight was placed on women was when they were featured in a music video or mentioned through lyrics in a misogynistic way. Nonetheless, music is constantly evolving, and as its evolution makes its way to the rap sphere, it is bringing with it a mass of female talent that will surely make history.

In an era where it was unlikely to break into rap as a female, artists like Lil Kim, Missy Elliot and Lil Mama had already started to influence the world of rap. Though few in numbers, these female rappers along with others were able to serve as exemplars of women in the rap music industry. Their fame provided stepping stones for other women who also hoped to pursue something in music but may have been intimidated, for it was a genre prominently ruled by men.

As the earlier female rappers began making room in the industry for more women, artists such

as Nicki Minaj, Iggy Azathe defining artists of the lea and M.I.A arose. Their 2000s by Rolling Stone, music especially shaped caM.I.A. introduced a new apreers for women in the rap proach to rap with her culworld. tural influences projected Though she started makin her music. ing music in the early 2000s, Iggy Azalea also redeM.I.A made a name for fined the female influherself upon releasence in rap as she ing popular sintopped charts with gles later in her singles career, such as “Paper Planes” (2007) and “Bad Girls” (2013). Her such alternative a s approach “Fancy,” to rap mu“Work” and sic makes “Black Widher unique ow.” Infatucompared ated with to other hip-hop rappers. from a young Her disage, Azalea tinct Britmoved to ish and Sri America in Lankan backorder to purground influsue a career in ences her rap. Coming from music beAustralia, Azalea cause surprised people s h e with her talent does not as she gave rap want to fit music a lighter the typical feel with her hip-hop stereopop-like sounds. type. She often She eventually mixes her rapping worked her way w i t h up to the Rachel Pacitti (‘15)/ Eastside Art Director top, Bhanas g r a Nicki Minaj performs for fans. her unfusion— deniably an upcatchy beat music genre that is songs attracted people from associated with the Punjabi everywhere. culture. Deemed as one of Probably considered the

largest breakthrough artist in the female rap industry is Nicki Minaj. Minaj is signed to Lil Wayne’s label, Young Money Entertainment. Minaj had already created a steady fan base before releasing her first album, Pink Friday, which peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard Top 100.

Her career skyrocketed from there, as she became the first female artist with seven singles simultaneously charting the U.S. Billboard Top 100. Since releasing her first album, Minaj has been nominated for four Grammy’s, has over 18.1 million Twitter followers and has generated over a billion views on her YouTube channel. Her quirky flare and sharp lines present her to be one of the generation’s most famous rappers, all genders included As music evolves, genres of music become more open to those who are willing to make a proverbial enough mark to stay. In the world of rap, especially, women are becoming more evident in taking over the world of music. As their fame rises, they show progress toward a gender-equal society.

Though still outnumbered in the music industry by male rappers, these female rappers should not be overlooked, for they are leaving illustrious and fearless tracks and allowing for others to follow.

way,” a VH1 spokesperson said of the show.

On August 14, 2014, one contestant claimed to have seen her body uncensored on national television. Jesse Nizewitz, after seeing

of them.

In each episode of the show, the contestants have to endure competitions and at the end choose a match that they want to send to the truth booth. The truth booth is the only way to determine whether the match is correct or not. By the end of each show, couples pair up for the match ceremony.

During the match ceremony, the contestants are told how many perfect matches they have, but, the catch is, they are not told which matches are correct.

In one episode, all of the contestants went skinnydipping. MTV used censor bars over the contestants’ genitals. One contestant, Dre, was not completely blocked out and that warranted a lawsuit for MTV. “There are some really questionable morals in some of these [reality television] shows,” said Dylan Kost (’15).

Another show also on MTV that was previously considered risqué is “The Jersey Shore”. Due to the show’s suggestive content and language, the show garnered attention. Since the premiere of newer, more risqué shows, “The Jersey Shore” now seems less inappropriate.

These shows are just amongst some of the more risqué reality television shows being aired. As time goes on, TV shows and networks have to change to accommodate the viewers and keep ratings high, but hopefully shows will not have to substitute quality content for quantity of viewers.

TV shows are becoming more risqué ■ By Brielle Clearfield (‘15)

Eastside Entertainment Editor

Over time, evolution takes place. Evolution is most commonly known to take place in people, but what most people overlook is that evolution can also take place in the media.

As people evolve, so do the television programs they watch. Television tries to accommodate the mainstream media in order to get more viewers and a wider market.

Recently, television shows have become more risqué. Television shows like “Dating Naked” and “Are You The One?” are growing increasingly popular in the United States despite how inappropriate these shows would have been viewed in the past.

First airing on July 17, 2014, “Dating Naked” is a show that focuses on a man and a woman who attempt to start a relationship after meeting for the first time completely naked. The show is willing to show the behinds of both males and females, but censors both genders’ genital areas. By hosting a show of this caliber, VH1, the hosting channel, has placed itself at a large risk for lawsuits.

“A new social experiment provides daters with a radical dating experience where before [the participants] bare their souls, they bare everything else first. Each week on a primitive island resort, far from the masks of modern society, daters will go on exotic dates and be naked every step of the

2014, “Are You The One?” is a show that follows the lives of 20 strangers living together in Hawaii. These strangers are all on the island for the same reason: to win money and to find the

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A naked couple poses for the camera for a TV show. herself uncensored on television, tried to sue VH1 for ten million dollars.

This show is still on its first season and VH1 plans to continue running the show for its one million weekly viewers.

Also, MTV hosts a reality television show with equally risqué content.

First airing in January of

perfect match.

At the beginning of the show, all contestants are to enter their personal information into a computer, which then generates their perfect match on the show.

Throughout the show, the contestants have to try and find their perfect match in order to win one million dollars to split amongst all

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Book to Movie: Horns

■ By Dani Roth (‘15) Eastside Community Editor

Ever since the Harry Potter blockbuster concluded, fans have seen Daniel Radcliffe portray several roles thus far in his career.

On Halloween, his new film Horns is expected to hit theaters to satisfy thriller fans.

Based on Joe Hill's 2010 novel, this drama-thriller film features Radcliffe as Ignatius "Ig" Perrish, who once lived a blessed life with financial and social stability as an up-and-coming celebrity in his small town. He had it all: fame, money and love. Then, one night, his girlfriend, Merrin, disappears unexpectedly. Now the town suspects Ig as a prime suspect for raping and murdering Merrin.

After a night of heavy drinking, Ig wakes up one morning to find horns growing from his forehead, which confirms the town's suspicion of him. With these sprouting horns, Ig learns that these protrusions also give him supernatural abilities to induce people to divulge their secrets to him.

The film follows Ig as he tries to discover who killed his late girlfriend, played

by Juno Temple, before the town's paranoia convicts him.

Directed and produced

by Alexandre Aja, who is known for his 2010 film Piranha 3D, this film highlights supernatural powers and the underworld colliding with Earth. The book, on the other hand, provides some comic relief during the visually gruesome scenes, which helps relieve the reader from the novel's dark tone. Though fans of the novel will not find much correlation between the book and the film, it will still include the creepiness, terror and romance the novel entailed.

Horns premiered worldwide at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

Radcliffe's performance is expected to be raw and emotionally wrenching.

Although it is a fantasized horror film, Radcliffe reinvents the universal myth of the devil. With films nowadays focusing on ghosts, werewolves and vampires, Horns awakens the haunting image of the devil, which has long since been forgotten.

Despite the numerous horror films set to hit theaters around Halloween, the two-hour duration of Horns offers viewers a romantic, murderous, mysterious and thrill-binding quest to ensure a devilish experience and will set high standards for its box office rivals.

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Flea market travels around Philadelphia ■ By Julia Rothkoff (‘16)

Eastside Underground Editor

flea markets began to grow in popularity among locals.

“People began to ask me, ‘Can you [host the] flea market for us?’ Then we ended up having all of these different locations,” Soprano said.

Currently, The Phila Flea Markets and its vendors travel to many more locations than just Soprano’s

The Phila Flea Markets are now in their 28th year. They open every Saturday at a different spot in Philadelphia. Every week, the flea markets travel to different locations in the city. The Phila Flea Markets occur during two seasons of the year—the fall and the spring. This year, ten weeks of the flea markets took place in the spring and currently, the other ten weeks are taking place in the fall. The markets can be found in various neighborhoods in Center City, allowing shoppers to not only discover fun new items, but also to discover new neighborhoods in the Philadelphia area.

The flea markets contain booths selling furniture, musical instruments, food, vinyl records, clothing, jewelry and many other items.

Each week, there are over Julia Rothkoff (‘16)/ Eastside Underground Editor 75 vendors at the The flea market booths display a large variety of markets. products, from jewely to games.

Tony Soprano, the coordinator of The Phila Flea Markets, is proud of condo. Some vendors have tents at his long-running flea market. all of the market’s locations, while “I started the flea market in front others only go to a few locations. of my condo [in Philadelphia]. I then “A core set of the vendors follow moved to the Fairmount neighborme around everywhere… About fifhood and brought the flea market ty percent of the vendors sign up for with me,” Soprano said. the whole season,” Soprano said.

After constantly having flea marThe market’s locations vary in kets in front of his home, Soprano’s size. The size affects the amount

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of vendors that the flea market can hold.

“Some of our locations hold 200 vendors. Some are smaller and only hold 50 or 60 vendors. I have to handpick the vendors sometimes because of some of the location’s sizes,” said Soprano.

Debbie Brodeur, a vendor at the

The market is constantly busy, according to Brodeur.

“The amount of people that show up has remained steady. Some days we get a line around the corner,” said Brodeur.

Every week, the flea market has food vendors, unless restaurants in the area are selling food outside.

“We take part in almost all of the locations.

Sometimes local restaurants request that we do not sell food.

They do not want us to interfere with their sales,” said Brodeur.

In order for shoppers to be constantly updated about where The Phila Flea Markets are located each week, an e-mail newsletter is sent a day before each flea market opens.

In addition, the flea markets’ website has a schedule of where the flea markets are going to be every week. The webalso has Julia Rothkoff (‘16)/ Eastside Underground Editor site rain dates for Shoppers walk around the Flea Markets in South each flea market Street. in the case of inclement weather. flea market, manages a booth called The market’s fall season runs My Girl’s Kitchen. Brodeur has from the end of August through Ocbeen a vendor at the flea market tober.The Phila Flea Markets’ last for five years. Brodeur’s tent offers date for the fall season this year is soft pretzels, beverages and various October 25, in Manayunk, from 8 kinds of sandwiches. a.m to 4 p.m.

“I found out about the flea marFor more information on The ket from my mom. She used to sell Phila Flea Markets, visit www. antiques here,” said Brodeur. philafleamarkets.org.

Twiggy wannabees and rock bands thrive during the 1960’s ■ By Jenna Wilson (‘15)

Eastside Editor-in-Chief

While many people have heard of Twiggy, the model who was undoubtedly the face of the 1960’s, most are unaware of the thriving culture scene in London that allowed Twiggy to blossom. “Swinging London” is a catch-all term applied to London’s cultural scene in the 1960’s, an era which was about much more than just Twiggy.

The swinging 1960’s was largely led by youth in revolution, who were more interested in the new and modern rather than the status quo that occurred throughout the 1950’s. In the music scene, many pirate radio stations became popular, such as Radio Caroline, Wonderful Radio London and Swinging Radio England. These stations played many psychedelic rock bands, such as Cream, Traffic and Pink Floyd. The Kinks and The Who also grew in popularity during this time period.

Additionally in the music world, freakbeat was becoming strong.

The freakbeat genre has direct drum beats and a lot of fuzzy guitar riffs. The Sorrows, The Creation and The Move are all examples of freakbeat bands that were prominent at the time.

Mod fashion was a large part of the Swinging London scene. Twiggy was the epitome of this trend, with her androgynous haircut and wide eyes. Twiggy was often portrayed with extreme eyelashes, which led to the rise in popularity

of false eyelashes. Mary Quant was the known designer of this period; who changed the fashion scene with her mod designs and minimal clothing.

Culottes and mini-skirts were also introduced. Many of the youth adopted trends that were considered to be intimidating. They wore dresses made out of PVC and sequins, and they also adopted a “space age” futuristic look. The bikini also became popular during this era. Though the style was considered risqué, the youth of London embraced the rebellious attitude and wore the bikini with pride.

The Union Jack became a symbol associated with the youth of London. Due to England’s home victory in the World Cup of 1966 and the popularization of the minicooper, which bore the symbol, the Union Jack was everywhere.

In the art world, Pop Art was still going strong. Though the Pop Art movement started in the mid-1950’s, the youth in Britain embraced the trend. As the art presented a challenge to the traditions of fine art by including images from popular culture, many of the “youth in revolt” saw it as rebellious and applauded it.

Throughout the 1960’s, rebellion inspired many people to stray away from the norm and create new styles of clothing, music and art.

These rebels created new trends that transcended their decade and are still renown today. Even in the modern age, people are inspired by the works from the 1960’s.

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Statik Selektah’s newest record brings jazz back to hip-hop ■ By Jacob Borowsky (‘16)

Eastside Underground Editor

What Goes Around is DJ and producer Statik Selektah’s sixth full-length LP. The album has 20 tracks, featuring over 25 rappers including Action Bronson, Joey Bada$$, Sean Price, Talib Kweli, Bun B and more. It is entirely produced by Statik Selektah himself.

What Goes Around is a unique album in that, since he is just a producer, Statik does not have any vocals on his album. While many producers do release their own albums featuring entirely their instrumentals and featured artists for vocals, it is unconventional for a producer to put out a record that has 20 tracks and is 68 minutes long. For Statik Selektah fans, this should not come as a surprise, as Statik has consistently put out a high quality production every year of his career.

The artists whom Statik selects to rap for him reflect the styles he wants to hear overtop his jazzy, boom-bap beats.

For the most part, Statik selected a diverse group of artists, though many are artists whom he has worked with before, like Action Bronson or Joey Bada$$. The great number of features allows for fairly unheard-of emcees, such as Jon Connor, Ransom, Sheek Louch and Joe Scudda to work on the album along with some bigger names like Ab-Soul, Talib Kweli and Royce Da 5’9”. Established artists Bun B, Posdonuos, Black Thought and Dilated Peoples bring some familiarity to the album while also adding their own classic signature styles to the songs they rap in.

Nearly every artist impresses on his or her features, from the lyrical artists, like Black Thought, to the glamor rappers (rappers who focus primarily on their riches), like Action Bronson, for no artist had to focus on more than one or two verses. The one exception to this pattern is Snoop Dogg. Once a legendary G-Funk rapper, Snoop’s verse on the song “All the Way” is lazy and clichéd, as

banal and overtly raunchy lyrics indicate. Overall, the features on this album only contribute to the laid-back

dundant to compliment Statik Selektah’s beatmaking. As an established jazz-producer, Statik pro-

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Statik Selektah’s album includes 20 tracks. jazz style which Statik is known for.

In terms of the album’s production, it would be re-

vides 20 different flavors of style, all of which possess a unique sound to them.

Some of the best samples

on the album hit listeners’ ears early on in the album, such as the opener and title track “What Goes Around,” which boasts the blaring horns of the song “Tribute to American Gypsy”

by American Gypsy. “The Thrill is Back” is one of the record’s best mellow songs, as Statik uses the piano of Jazz legend Miles Davis with some snare-heavy drumming to further set the song’s mellow tone.

From “The Thrill is Back,” Statik transitions nicely to an upbeat gospel sample on “The Imperial,” which is a more striking beat consisting of live trumpets, gospel singing and drums. As if Statik’s samples weren’t eclectic enough, “Carry On” consists mainly of a very soothing trumpet riff sampled from the 1974 song “Lady Love” by Gary Bartz NTU Troop. Statik offers consistently soothing jazz beats throughout all 20 tracks.

Another respectable record from Statik Selektah only further cements him as one of the best active producers in hip-hop today.

EDM expands into niche sub-genre “Moombahton” ■ By Ethan Tinkleman (‘16)

Eastside Radio Manager

A new genre of music, Moombahton, is developing in the world of Electric Dance Music (EDM) as EDM expands. Moombahton is the cross genre between reggaeton and dirty Dutch electro house music.

The genre combines the simple Jamaican-influenced drum pattern of reggaeton with the complex Latininfluenced rhythms of dirty Dutch electro house. Dave Nada, one half of the DJ duo, Nadastrom, is the founder of Moombahton.

In Fall 2009, during a party, Nada watched the previous DJ play mostly reggaeton and bachata.

Bachata is a genre that originated in the Dominican Republic. The genre is best defined by its lead and rhythm guitar parts, electric bass guitar, bongos and obscure instruments from the Dominican Republic. Nada’s experience at this party inspired him to have a creative idea for his set. He planned to have his music consist mostly of electro house. However, when Nada came on to DJ, he decided to play Dutch electro house DJ Afrojack’s remix of the DJ Chuckie song, “Moombah.”

Nada’s idea was to slow the track down to the same BPM (beats per

minute) as the reggaeton songs, which were around 108 BPM. The crowd went wild as the slower bass line kicked in.

He then played Afrojack’s remix of “Riverside” and did the same thing to the tempo. He wanted to create more music like that, which turned out to be the beginning of a new genre.

The genre title Moombahton is derived from the song “Moombah” and the “ton” of

reggaeton. Between late 2009 and early 2010, Nada created five Moombahton tracks that were released in March 2010.

Since then, the genre has greatly

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Dillion Francis comes out with a new album on October 28.

progressed into a very unique style of music. Washington D.C.’s U Street Music Hall opened in March 2010 and almost instantly adopted Moombahton as its home genre. The D.C. venue hosts a monthly “Moombahton Massive” event, where many Moombahton and EDM artists perform. Popular Moombahton artists include Valentino Khan, Major Lazer, Angger Dimas and Dillon Francis. For some of these shows, the age restriction is 18 and over.

Francis is one of the greatest Mooombahton contributors. On October 28, Francis is releasing an album titled Money Sucks, Friends Rule, containing a few Moombahton songs. A bass heavy, Moombahton single was just released from the album, called “I Can’t Take It.” Most recently, Moombahton has sparked a subgenre called Moombahcore. This genre is fairly similar to Moombahton, but different in the fact that it incorporates elements of dubstep. The subgenre of Moombahton often goes unrecognized, as it can be easily glossed over as simply EDM. While it does fall under as a subgenre of EDM music, Moombahton has its own characteristics which differ from the rest of the genre, giving it its own distinction.

Once popular ‘Cabbage Patch Kids’ were the doll of the ‘80s During the peak of the Cabbage Patch Kids popuEastside Entertainment Editor larity in the 1980’s, parents The “Cabbage Patch searched Kids” doll line was very at countpopular for little girls l e s s back in the eighties. stores for The dolls, created by the toy, Xavier Roberts, were w h i c h originally called “Little was a People” and were first musthave produced in 1978. for the The doll’s original holiday prototype was made season. fully from cloth. HowWhen ever, when the CabM a t bage Patch Kids protel purtotype was brought to chased production company, the rights Coleco, the fully cloth to the doll was transformed dolls in to have a round, vinyl 1994, the head and cloth body. company The Cabbage Patch Julia Rothkoff (‘16)/ Eastside Underground Editor u p d a t e d Kids brand has since A collection of classic Cabbage Patch Kids. the line moved to manufacturto include ■ By Liza Rothkoff (‘16)

ers such as Hasbro, Mattel, Toys “R” Us and, most recently, Play Along.

birth certificates.

Aside from being sold in retail, the dolls could also be purchased at Babyland General Hospital in Georgia. The hospital is referred to as the “birthplace” of the Cabbage Patch dolls.

Although the buzz around the dolls

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has died down since the eighties, Babyland General Hospital is still a heavily visited tourist attraction for Cabbage Patch collectors and casual Cabbage Patch fans alike.

The once-popular Cabbage Patch Kids dolls are still highly sought after today as collector’s items.

Although modern-day kids may not understand the buzz around the once heavily ravedabout toys, the dolls can sell today for over hundreds of dollars.

While the toy today may not seem particularly spectacular to today’s youth, Cabbage Patch Kids hold sentimental value to many, and were once a great fad in the eighties.

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Students dump ice water on ALS donations ■ By Brett Dashevsky (‘16)

Eastside Humor Editor

In August, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge took the world by storm. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is an activity in which a person dumps a bucket of ice water on someone's head to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), as well as to encourage donations for research. However, this trend has now evolved.

People began to decide not to dump ice water on themselves, but instead dump water on 100-dollar checks made out to the ALS Foundation. By doing so, participants believe that they are making the checks worth more money, even though they are doing the exact opposite.

The ALS Foundation has been greatly confused as to why it is receiving an outstanding number of soaking wet checks.

Jane H. Gilbert, Presi-

dent and Chief Executive officer of the ALS Foundation, said, “We were getting mail, and as we opened each envelope, we were just getting soaking wet checks.

We were shocked and resorted to social media to answer this enigma.”

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge h a s n o w developed into a chall e n g e w h e r e participants are dared to dump ice water on 100-dollar checks made out to the foundation.

The executives were astonished by this new trend, as they originally thought it was people dumping ice

water on themselves, not on the checks.

Gilbert said, “You c a n barely read the writing be-

cause the ink is all smudged, which is a shame because so many checks have been sent in.”

The challenge has gone so viral that a video was

recently posted by the White House of President Barack Obama

dumping presidential ice water on a 100-dollar check.

People still have the same laughter and enjoyment after pouring the ice water on the checks as they did from pouring it on their heads. Some even scream as if the ice water were being poured over their own heads.

SATs indroduce vocabulary words to keep up with the increasing digital age

In order to stump students, the creators have added older vocabulary Eastside Staff words such as “groovy,” “totally tubular” and “radical.”

Among the many changes anStudents have been expressing connounced in the planned overhaul of cern over the old vocabulary, because the SAT, the they only know vocabulary the slang they section is the use on a daily most notable. basis, not what The College was used decades Board will ago. upgrade all “Yeah, man, vocabulary the most complex content to, word in my vocabas Chairman ulary is ‘swag,’ so Theodore I’m gonna have a Brown put it, hard time when “use words I take this test, more relevant bruh,” John Ralin every teen’s op (‘16) said. budding caDespite the reer.” overwhelming Basically, support the new the new SAT SAT has received, plans to throw some people arall the old vogue that the plan cab out the has its flaws. window. In“Why are stead of words you still maklike “opulent,” ing kids write a “camaraderie” three-paragraph and “jettison,” essay?” asked which were, Donald Beekin, like, really a concerned parratchet anyent of some stuway, the new dents at East. test will ask “Shouldn’t you about things just limit it to that actually 140 characters matter. instead?”

According Others believe to Brown’s that the entire Rachel Becker (‘16)/ Eastside Photo Editor public speech, Students take notes on the new vocabulary words on their smartphones. essay should be which he preremoved from the sented last test.

Wednesday, the new SAT words were Alan Rebo, an English professor at “Writing does absolutely nothhand-picked by linguistics experts and Harvard University, agrees. ing to prove what we’re capareviewed by English professors across “The acquisition of these key terms ble of doing,” said Liana Robern the globe. is crucial in a teenager’s education,” (‘16).

“Never before have we come to such Rebo said. “Hopefully, after a student “They should have us recite state a widespread consensus on the stuff has finished taking the SAT, he or she names by memory instead. That would that’s really important,” said Brown. will have completely mastered the use be so much better to prove what our “We believe that this new SAT will perof a hashtag.” skills are,” she added. fect the college admissions process.”

The creators of the SAT also wanted For the most part, though, people Along with multiple-choice questo change the vocabulary to make sure are generally happy with the changes. tions concerning words such as “Twitthat the adults reading the exams Most people agree that it is time for pic,” “FaceTime” and “hashtag,” the would understand more of the slang a change, and this is the best thing new SAT will include an acronyms secthat students use today. to happen to the test since it was cretion and some open-ended questions “By changing the vocabulary, we ated. asking the student to identify differcan get in touch with the way the ‘cool “At this rate, the old SAT words will ent emojis. Instead of the traditional kids’ talk,” said creator Jack Melpin. be like a total hashtag tbt,” said LeeSAT essay prompts, the essays will “We want to stay hip by learning all lan, who he then paused before asking, focus on more complex issues, such as the slang.”

“Wait, fetch is a thing, right?”

■ By Lanxi Li (‘16)

the true meaning of the phrase “like the pic, not the link.”

“Lol yeah the new SAT,” wrote Jennifer Leelan (’16) in a text message. “i think its pretty cool. i’m going to study by watching mean girls.”

Last week, Floyd Mayweather posted a video of himself in a helicopter dropping five gallons of ice water on a 100-dollar check made out to the ALS Foundation.

“I just don’t get it,” said Gilbert. “What is the point of this challenge? Just send the dry check in!”

Many of the people who run the charity have gotten frustrated because the wet checks usually come in ripped with the ink smudged.

“Even if we put the pieces of the check together, the ink is all over the place, so we can’t even read it correctly,” Gilbert said.

Since the start of this new take on the Ice Bucket Challenge, ALS has reported a substantial increase in donations compared to the amount of donations from the original challenge.

Art by Rachel Pacitti (‘15)/ Eastside Art Director

Kermit the Frog says that it is, in fact, his business.

North West decides to move to the southeast.

Student drivers realize that they are capable of parking in the correct spots.

A book is added to the grade nine curriculum that is not depressing.

Students get into a “wrap battle” in the cafeteria.

School district has banned ProgressBook and is using Twitter to report grades.

Latte lovers protest outside Starbucks to get the pumpkin-spice latte year round.

Nurses overwhelmed with students who throw their backs out during “Throwback Thursday.”

Gone Girl was found having lunch with Waldo.

Kevin Jonas becomes most famous Brother with new Real Estate Company.

Food carts to take their show on the road.

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in 2015.

More details will appear in future issues.

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Fights break out over a popular fall beverage ■ By Emma Silverstone (‘15)

Eastside Humor Editor

Cherry Hill East has been in absolute chaos recently because students have started fighting over the drink that is the essence of autumn: pumpkin spice lattes.

Some students believe that Starbucks makes the better coffee beverage and others think that the school’s brand of coffee tastes better. The fights have gotten so violent that multiple police officers have been called in to break them up. Three expulsions and seven suspensions have been issued in the past week.

The school has broken out in chaos over the events. Some students have had to call their parents to pick them up so they can drink their lattes in the car because they have felt too

scared to walk through the hallways with their preferred drink in hand.

Steven Frank (’18) said that he has started to carry around mini water balloons

as a way to defend himself in the hectic hallways.

“Whenever I see people fighting in the hallways or the classrooms, I just throw

one of these water balloons so that they get so distracted that they need to stop fighting,” Frank said.

“I’m not sure why people are fighting over a stupid type of coffee,” Molly Pikman (’16) said before a student poured a cup full of the school’s pumpkin spice latte on her, yelling obscenities while doing so.

The debate started shortly after the school introduced its own version of the popular fall drink. They hoped that students would prefer their recipe to the one from Starbucks, so they would spend their money at the school instead of at the famous coffee chain.

However, everything went downhill quickly after a group of students started a protest against the school, claiming that its version of the drink was “an abomination.”

To protest the school’s brand of coffee, students

Sugar-filled foods affect students’ lives more positively than healthy foods

ued for another ten minutes without pause, but it was too long to include.

Students have been conIn an effort to increase suming so much sugar that student productivity, East they do not have time to has added “sugar-only” ophave the infamous “sugar tions to its food selections at crash” that most people are lunch usually time. worried Sugarabout. o n l y “I have foods, so much s u c h s u g a r as varthroughi o u s out the candy day that I bars, don’t feel sweet tired until tarts, after I get g u m home from drops school,” a n d Ashley Pixie Merrin Stix, (‘15) said. have “In fact, I slowly never fall been asleep una d d til after ed to midnight lunch because of carts Rachel Becker (‘16)/ Eastside Photo Editor how eneraround Student gets A on test after fueling her brain with sugar. gized I get. t h e Talk about school a great way so that students can get the ar as well. He consumed to get homework done!” energy they need to perform five Twix bars during the Teachers have been unwell in class. course of the interview. happy with the all-sugar As a result of First Lady Students are also taking additions. Mrs. Lisa HampMichelle Obama’s antia stand in support of the ton said that her math obesity campaign, schools sugar-free options. With classes have been unable to nationwide have begun the formation of East’s focus because of how enerswitching to healthier food newest club, the “Sugargized they are. options with less fat and Only Foods for All” (SOFA) “I try to teach my stuless sugar. At East, these Club, efforts to promote dents about quadratic healthier options started sugar-only eating have equations, but all they can to hit the shelves last year, reached an all-time high talk about it is how much and their presence at East at East. The club’s founder they want to run around remains prominent among and president, Pedro Gordo outside,” Hampton said. many student nutrition(’16), spoke on behalf of the One campus police ofists. Yet, a healthy lunch club. ficer, Captain Roger Lind, does not always need to “I love sugar so much. said, “They’ve literally been be sugar-free. According to It is a very important part bouncing off the walls. It’s biology and human anatof my life because eating only a matter of time before omy teacher Mr. Frank N. sugar gives me energy and somebody gets squashed Beans, sugar-only lunches when I have energy, I can in one of the stairwells on actually benefit students do a lot of things like math their way to class.” more so than these new and English at the same Although there are many “healthy options” could. time and thinking in two concerns about the well-be“As a biology and hulanguages in my head at ing of students, the sugarman anatomy teacher, I the same time and homeonly options at East have feel I am qualified to say work and watching football had a profound effect on the that these students suffer at the same time and when student body thus far. High at the hands of this new I can do that, I can get all of productivity and work‘health push’ that America my homework done and get completion rates have East has tried to implement,” good grades,” Gordo said. students earning higher Beans said. “Sugar-only Gordo’s sentence contingrades than ever.

■ By Jacob Borowsky (‘16)

Eastside Underground Editor

options are what’s best for students’ immediate energy needs come lunch time.”

Beans, twice awarded East’s “Most Attractive Teacher” superlative, broke down the science behind the students’ need for sug-

went up to whomever had a cup of the school coffee in their hands and throw the cup to the ground. They thought that this would create so much fear that

people in the school would stop buying the coffee.

“I think our protests have been going well,” Jessica Laurence (‘16) said. “But

we’ve only made two people cry. We need to change our strategy so that we get more tears from everyone.”

Teachers have tried to stop the fights, but the students refuse to listen.

“I tried to break up a fight about five minutes ago, but I got punched and pushed to the ground. I can’t believe they would hurt an old woman,” biology teacher Ms. Kim Medlin said.

The supervisors of the cafeterias decided to move the pumpkin spice lattes into the hallway so that so that the protests in the cafeteria would end.

Administration said that it will do whatever it takes to make sure the riots stop.

East will consider selling Starbucks coffee so all students can drink their lattes in peace. Hopefully the riots will stop before pumpkin spice goes out of season.

Art by Spencer Maussner (‘16)/ Eastside Staff

Pool construction confuses students

■ By Brett Dashevsky (‘16) Eastside Humor Editor

Over the summer, the Cherry Hill Board of Education (BOE) decided to add a fourth floor to Cherry Hill East.

Construction of the fourth floor began right after school ended in June and was completed just a week before the beginning of the new school year.

The fourth floor includes an Olympic-sized pool where students can swim for leisure or for a school activity, such as in gym class.

Upon students' arrival to school on September 3, they were shocked to see the new construction.

Upperclassmen were confused about the new addition, for they were not sure if it was real or just a mirage caused from summer heat.

“If this is real, what the heck are we supposed to lie to freshmen about? That there's an ice skating rink

perclassmen, who could be seen searching everywhere for new things to lie about to freshmen.

Manny Paki (’18) said, “I don’t see what the big deal is. We have a pool and nothing can get better than that. Why do upperclassmen feel the need to trick us?”

Paki went on to cry and mention that he felt “violated” by upperclassmen wanting to lie to him.

Despite the weeks of searching, the upperclassmen reached a consensus and decided to tell all the freshmen that there is a trampoline park below the school.

This lie was not as successful as the ones in previous years, but the upperclassmen added that you need a specific elevator pass to enter the trampoline park.

Marky Mark (’15) said, “I’m just happy we have something to mess with the freshmen about because, man, they're so gullible. I’d

Rachel Becker (‘16)/ Eastside Photo Editor

Students are confused about the addition of a pool. on the fifth floor? A zoo in the basement?" Zoey Matthewsonberg (‘15) said.

Upperclassmen were not happy with the new addition, as their classic lie to tell a freshman was now a reality — there's literally a giant pool on the fourth floor.

The first week of school was out of control for up-

hate to have our class be the last one to experience the satisfaction that comes with fooling the little freshmen.”

However, just a few days ago, the BOE mentioned a new construction plan that is said to be completed by December involving a trampoline park.

Guess where?

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A new season of soccer brings a new coach ■ By Brett Dashevsky (‘16)

Eastside Humor Editor

With the departure of former varsity coach, Mr. Dennis Stein, the East Boys’ Varsity Soccer Team needed new leadership.

That leadership came in the form of physical education teacher Mr. Michael Melograna, who was chosen as the varsity soccer coach for the 2014-2015 school year.

As a kid, Melograna was a local Cherry Hill soccer player, playing for Cherry Hill United’s (now Cherry Hill FC) travel and club teams. He also played soccer as a student at both Beck and East.

Melograna coached JV Boys’ Soccer for seven years under Coach Karl Moehlmann. He said that he does not plan on changing the coaching methods of previous years, but hopes to inspire a positive attitude and energy throughout practices and games. He even started playing music at practice to get the boys pumped and motivated.

“I identify the roles of players and discuss with them what they need to do to be successful,” Melograna said.

Melograna said that he is very direct with his players to spur them to work

“It’s a dream come true for me, it really is.”

- Coach Michael Melograna

Rachel Becker (‘16)/ Eastside Photo Editor Mr. Michael Melograna coaches his first game of the season against West. harder.

Melograna has high hopes to win many games this year, adding that “it’s what makes the game fun.”

But winning isn't everything for the young coach.

East student athletes commit early to college

into getting into a particular school.

Stamm said, “Once Students, especially the school is over and your athones at Cherry Hill East, letic career is done, you will tend to revolve their lives need to have a job and the around honors and AP school you go to really helps classes and a multitude of you in the future.” extracurricular activities Jake Silpe (’15), a basor sports practices that ocketball commit to the Unicur six versity of or seven Pennsyldays a vania, said week. he would Many most likely students not continjustify ue his bast h e s e ketball castressful reer after schedcollege. ules as Emily their only Rimdzius ticket to (’15), who getting committed accepted to Seton into colHall Unilege. versity, Brian said that Stamm she knew ( ’ 1 6 ) , she would who comnot be able mitted to play to High soccer in P o i n t college if Univershe did not Courtesy of Brine Lacrosse agree sity as to a rising Brian Stamm (‘16) has already early comj u n i o r , committed to High Point. mitment. said that Rimdzhe feels a ius said, “Women’s college lot less stressed out about soccer has started to reschool now that he has comcruit earlier and earlier, so mitted to college early.

I knew that if I wanted to Stamm said, “It doesn’t play high level Division One mean I can slack off, but it soccer, I couldn’t wait.” does alleviate the pressures Early commitment proof [the] SAT and college apvides students with an opplications.” portunity that minimizes In addition, students stress and rewards them of who decide to commit early their hard work and dediaren’t as interested in purcation. Early commitment suing the sport they comopens a variety of doors for mitted early for beyond students and grants them college. They are, however, opportunities they may more interested in the fact have not been able to expethat the sport assists them rience without the offer.

“More personally, I want the players to respect me and how I conduct the program to make it top-notch, whether that be out in the community wearing an East soccer shirt, doing the

right thing—picking up trash and community service—because it all reflects around me, the whole team and the school.”

Melograna uses the more “Americanized” playing

style, which involves more transition from player to player. He also encourages players to shoot from anywhere, with the goal to score as often as possible.

He also wants the players to be aggressive and energetic on the field. This is very different from Coach Moehlmann's “European” style, which involved more possession time for individual players and direct strategy as opposed to skill.

“It's stressful, it can be overwhelming,” Melograna said after mentioning the team's 0-2 start to kick off the season. “But, there is a lot more to look forward to and prepare for.”

Honored to be the boys' varsity coach, Melograna said, “I’ve waited my whole adult life to be a varsity coach and now I’m ‘the guy’ in charge of the program.”

Having grown up in Cherry Hill, playing for his school’s soccer team, he now has the honor of coaching a team just like it. Melograna is thrilled about his new role.

Melograna said, “It’s a dream come true for me, it really is.”

The East community looks forward to seeing how his combination of new and old coaching techniques will play out for the team.

■ By Courtney Finnegan (‘17)

Eastside Sports Editor

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Freshmen athletes make impact on fall sports

Will the Class of 2018 bring East championship and pride?

Some freshmen, in par-

ed States to ever win this highly competitive event.

“I am excited to play for East,” said Welsch.

Shannon Reiss (’18) started playing field hockey at a young age and has not stopped loving it. As a freshman, Reiss will be brought up to play as a Varsity midfielder.

“My goal is to work together as a team and support my teammates,” said Reiss.

Boys’ cross-country runner Carmen DeCosmo (’18) is recognized for not only his speed, but also his skill when competing in racing events. He started running competitively in sixth grade and is motivated to improve and chase down a faster time. DeCosmo’s goal is to be a champion by the end of his high school career at East. “[The] best part [of cross country] is that I get to spend time with the team,” said DeCosmo.

DeCosmo hopes to move up from freshman-level cross-country.

Freshman cheerleader Samantha Greenbaum (’18) has been cheering since she was four years old.

Greenbaum has competed throughout the country, including Virginia Beach, Washington D.C., and Florida. Look for Greenbaum being tossed into the air and landing gracefully.

“It’s going to be a good year,” said Greenbaum.

In girls’ soccer Sam Fry

■ By Jacob Borowsky (‘16)

techniques, skills and safety, as well as the opportunity to perform,” DiStefano said. “The coaches had to re-learn some stunts and how to teach them as well.”

Adriana Godwin (’15), one of four captains, who participated in the mandatory camp this summer, said that she believed the camp was very ben-

more importantly we were trained in how to stunt properly and safely so no one will get hurt this year.

We went over everything from the very basics, which is very helpful because some cheerleaders were ahead of others,” Godwin said.

Godwin also expressed excitement over the change, however

■ By Luke Hinrichs (‘17)

Eastside Sports Editor

A new school year brings new athletes to East Athletics. Freshman student-athletes have a unique chance to represent their school in high school level sports. Incoming freshman athletes have the task of transition ing from middle school level athletics to a more challenging level.

ticular, have shown skills that inspire hope and optimism for a successful season of East fall sports, as well as for the future.

A confident Tim Welsch (’18), boys’ soccer midfielder, has experience that few can match. Welsch’s club soccer team competed in a U14 international tournament in Barcelona, playing teams from all around the world. Welsch’s team was the only one from the Unit-

Rachel Becker (‘16)/ Eastside Photo Editor

Freshmen Sam Bourne (‘18) and Sam Fry (‘18).

Jared Fisch (‘18)/ For Eastside

Shannon Reiss (‘18) practices field hockey at East. (’18) and Sam Bourne (’18) have been recognized for excelling during the preseason. Fry and Bourne already have the chemistry on the field that comes from training and competing on the same club team. They take control of the back of the field with big hopes for this season: Fry as a defender and Bourne as the goalie. Thus far, they have already had great experiences.

“I am learning a lot and making new friends,” said Fry. Some East teams are powered by upper-classmen, which makes it difficult for freshmen to compete beyond their own level and stand out amongst more experienced players. Nevertheless, the Class of 2018 is already looking like it will have a positive effect on the future of athletics at Cherry Hill East.

been cheering since freshman year and we’ve been waiting for this for a very long time. It’s difficult because it’s new, and we have to focus a lot of effort into making sure everyone is safe,” Godwin said. “Still, it’s a good transition and I’m really happy about it.”

As far as other requirements for participating in

requirement for performing stunts is simply practicing these new stunting techniques every day.

As a captain, Godwin has also had to share the responsibility of mentoring some of the younger members of the squad.

She has embraced the role and hopes to ensure everyone’s well-being and safety throughout the entire year.

“As a captain, I have to make sure to go over the younger members’ questions multiple times if they need, and just make sure that no one is falling behind. We make sure that everyone is safe, and if they feel uncomfortable, we help them feel the most comfortable they can be,” Godwin said.

The program changed this year as a result of a big push by the cheerleading coaches and team members to finally be able to participate in the same type of cheerleading that all the other schools in the area do.

“The rule changed this year after persistence on the part of many of the incoming freshmen and some of the other team members, as well, to change the rule. At the middle school, students were allowed to stunt, and because West has been allowed to stunt, we were losing many students to West who wanted to cheer in a bigger program,” DiStefano said. “We’re happy now that we’re doing what the other schools in the area do. This is what we should be doing.”

Be sure to check out the East cheerleaders perform their new stunts for the first time in ten years at upcoming East football games this season.

Cheers to stunting for East cheerleaders

Eastside Underground Editor

After a decade of the East cheerleading squad being limited to cheers and basic jumps, the Cheer Team has finally been given permission to perform cheerleading stunts.

The squad has been preparing for the change throughout the summer in hopes of performing stunts for the school as soon as it is ready. The program first changed in the 2004-2005 school year for various reasons.

“Though I wasn’t with the program a decade ago when the rule was changed, there were apparently some issues with some students who didn’t want to perform every trick the coach wanted them to do. Parents became upset that their kids were doing things that they didn’t want to do,” said Cheerleading coach Ms. Jen DiStefano, “[The] problem was, you have to do what the whole team is doing.”

Since the rule has changed, the team has done basic cheers, chants, and a few jumps—everything but a stunt unit. The basic rule has been that cheerleaders “can’t leave the floor off of two feet.”

In order to prepare for a complete overhaul of the old system, the entire team had to attend a mandatory stunt camp to learn how to perform the new stunts safely.

“The camp, which was hosted by the National Cheerleaders Association, ran for three days from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. The cheerleaders were all trained in

Emelia Keller (‘17)/ Eastside Photo Editor

East cheerleaders practice their stunts for an upcoming football game. eficial to the team’s safety.

“At the camp we learned a few dances and cheers to use for the games, but

challenging it may be.

“The transition has been difficult, but it’s a good transition for sure. I’ve

stunts this year, the team had to order special safety mats for this season. Aside from that, its only other

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Liz Lee (‘17)/ Eastside Staff

East cheerleaders spread spirit at an East football game.

Leah Downie (‘16)/ For Eastside

Girls’ Tennis practices after school on East courts.

Liz Hallinan (‘17)/ For Eastside

Girls’ Freshman Field Hockey poses before a game.

Rachel Becker (‘16)/ Eastside Photo Editor

Marisa Meyers (‘16) and Jillian Ranes (‘16) finish a crosscountry workout.

Liz Lee (‘17)/ Eastside Staff

Boys’ Varsity Football regroups during its game against Eastern.

Courtesy of Girls’ Soccer

East girls’ soccer teams pose for a photo.

Rachel Becker (‘16)/ Eastside Photo Editor

Boys’ Varsity Soccer battles West in its home opener.

Logo by Helena Sirken (‘15)/ Eastside Art Director

Rachel Becker (‘16)/ Eastside Photo Editor

Boys’ Cross Country practices after school.