The Govian: Volume 39, Number 1

Volume 39, Number 1 A Gow School Publication

October 2020

Con te n ts Hong Kong Protestors ............................2

Virtual Learning @ Gow.........................10

Election 2020............................................3

Economic Recovery.................................8

Meet our New Teachers..........................5

Theatre Closings......................................13

The Gow School Safety Plan..................9

Changing the Game Plan.......................14

Editor’s Note By: Allie M.

This year The Gow School has had to change a lot due to the Covid-19 pandemic. With everything going on, The Govians continue to bear and dare, pushing through these hard times and growing together as a community.

In all my years at Gow, I really think that this year we are the closest as a student body, partly because we have spent so much time on campus and together. Although we can’t go off campus too much, I try to see this as a blessing despite the curse. We’re still able to have fun together and really get to know everyone outside of the classroom.

I’ve seen a lot of different students be able to express what they’re interested in as we’ve all become more comfortable with each other. It’s such a great experience to see all these friendships blossom.

The students of the journalism classes have worked very hard on this edition, and we really hope that you all enjoy it.

The Govian Staff Advisor:

Mr. Brognano

Reporting:

Daric F., Allie M., Fritz O., Rafael P., Kent S., and Taylor W.

Image credits: All images by staff of The Govian or The Gow School unless otherwise noted.

News Fight for Freedom By: Taylor W.

According to New York Times, twelve citizens of Hong Kong were arrested Aug 23rd fleeing to Taiwan by speed boat. Many others have succeeded in fleeing Hong Kong.

The protests in Hong Kong started June 9th, 2019, and the protests have continued with gatherings in the 100,000s.

The Vlog Brothers said Hong Kong has been under the rule of others since its creation. Hong Kong was loaned to the British by the Chinese for 99 years after the end of the Opium War. Since 1997, Hong Kong has been under the control of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Hong Kong A protester is detained by Hong Kong Riot Police during a protest. / Lam Yik via Bloomberg. Used with permission.

wants to be its own independent state. On the other hand, the PRC doesn’t want Hong Kong to be independent because of the value of their free trade system.

The protesting started when the Democratic party won by a landslide in the democratic voting.

Still the Democratic party did not have majority seating in the legislative council.

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has taken measures so that citizens of Hong Kong cannot protest the government without repercussions.

The PRC passed the National Security Law. This new law makes protesting hard to do without becoming a criminal. This meant citizens of Hong Kong could be arrested for secession, terrorism, and collusion with foreign powers.

Since then, protesters created ways to avoid being caught. South China Morning Post says wear Continued on page 5

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What’s Important to Gow students About the 2020 Electon

Image by Rain G.

By: Kent S.

The 2020 election season has been intense.

Several students at Gow wanted to know more about the candidate’s platforms, so I decided to do some reasearch. Here’s what I found.

Gun regulation In the U.S., over the past few years there has been an increase of gun related issues, from classrooms to Walmart shopping centers, the talk about firearm are very important at this time. The Republican party, alongside President Trump fear that gun restrictions infringe on the Second Amendment rights of the American people. In response to the Parkland shooting of 2018, Trump proposed arming teachers with firearms in classrooms. But this idea was not popular in teachers’ unions according to Matt Peace of the LA Times. However in 2019, after the El Paso shooting, Trump showed some interest in expanding background checks for a person that may by a high risk of committing violence according to Peace.

Joseph Biden has been fighting for gun regulation for years: in 1993, he helped passed the law that introduced the existing backgroundcheck system. Biden has also had plans for universal background checks and bans on magazines that contained more than 10 bullets state wide according to Peace. Although these plans did not go through the first time, we may see these ideas return if Biden gets elected President.

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Healthcare According to Selena Simmons-Duffin of NPR, Trump’s administration has made some major changes to healthcare in the past four years.

Changes include eliminating individual mandates, allowing states to add “work requirements” to Medicaid, ending cost-sharing reduction subsidies to insurers, expanding access to short-term “skinny” plans, and slashing funds to facilitate HealthCare.gov sign-ups. Another thing Trump has done for healthcare is supplying $225 million for testing in health clinics relating to Covid-19 and offered funding for 185 healthcare providers in 38 states according to Nick Tate from WedMD. Trump has done for has supplied $225 million for testing in health clinics relating to Covid-19 and offered funding for 185 healthcare providers in 38 states according to Nick Tate of WedMD. Biden wants to protect the ACA, an act passed during his tenure in the Obama administration.

Biden offers that no family would have to spend more than 8.5 percent of their income on health insurance according to Tate. The previous average families are currently paying for is 9.86% of their income according to WebMD. Biden has developed a five-pronged plan to address pandemic consisting of free testing to all, the guarantee of PPE for essential workers, supporting of science-backed vaccines, making sure the reopen will be safe after “sufficient” reductions in community transmission, and to safeguard at-risk Americans especially the old and high-risk population.

The mental health of the candidates The two candidates are both over 70 years old and both have done things to make people suggest something may be happening with their mental state. Trump has been called out for making frequent mistakes as he speaks, and even called out for inventing statistics and facts in his speeches according to YahooNews. They also say that he's even mixed up his father place of birth saying it was Germany when in fact it was the Bronx.

On the other hand, while traveling to South Africa, Biden made a false statement claiming that he was “arrested on the streets of Soweto” when in fact he was just detained at an airport.

Libertarian Party candidate, Jo Jorgensen (above). Green Party candidate, Howie Hawkins (below).

Other Candidates Even though it is likely that we may see next president be someone from the Republican or Democratic party let's talk about two other party that are have candidates that are running. The Libertarian Party and the Green Party.

The Libertarian Party’s candidate is Jo Jorgensen. Jorgensen’s platform focuses on reducing healthcare costs, criminal justic reform, cutting taxes, reducing government borrowing, giving parents greater control over their children’s education according to Jorgensen’s official campaign website.

The Libertarian Party has some features that are both Democratic and Republicanism ideas, like modern liberalism and progressivism of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party's conservatism.

The Green Party's candidate is Howie Hawkins.

Hawkins’ platform focuses on Medicare for all, COVID-19 relief, the Green New Deal, Community control of the police, sustainable agriculture and food systems, developing an economic bill of rights, ending endless wars, and legalizing marijuana according to Hawkins’ official campaign website.

The Green Party also has their own form of four pillars. Their pillars are “Peace and Non-violence, Ecological Wisdom, Grassroots Democracy, and Social Justice, and our Ten Key Values” according to Green Party’s official website.

Whoever it is, one of these candidates are going to be the 2020 president-elect. There has never been a perfect candidate, but in the end, it is up to the American people to decide.

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Fea tu r e s Meet Our New Speech Teacher By: Daric F. and Kent S.

Mrs. Wagner grew up in Poughkeepsie, NY but lives in North Tonawanda, NY with a dog named Bear. Thought she said, "I’d like to move down" closer to Gow. She still has family in Poughkeepsie and North Tonawanda. From a young age, Mrs. Wagner said that she always new that she wanted to work with people and to help people.

After high school, Mrs. Wagner attended Buffalo State where she earned her undergraduate degree in Speech and Hearing Science. She recently graduated in May from the University at Buffalo with her masters degree in Speech Language Pathology.

Prior to working here, she jumped around to different schools helping out with speech.

When Ms. Vinciguerra left Gow, Mrs. Wagner was sent by the Buffalo Hearing and Speech Center to help as a speech teacher here.

This was the first time that Mrs. Wagner had ever heard about The Gow School.

When she read up on it, she thought it was so cool how "great the school’s mission is, and that you guys are getting specialized services to help you do the best in the future." Ever since Mrs. Wagner arrived at Gow, she said that "it has been great and a smooth transition." So far the best part of Mrs. Wagner's day has been the in-person therapy and being able to work in speech class face-to-face.

Mrs. Wagner is a fan of the film company A24, they produce movies like Midsommar and Moonlight and her favorite book of all time is Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

In high school, Mrs. Wagner was on the crew team and continued to do that in collage getting all the way up to division one in crew.

Welcome to Gow, Mrs. Wagner!

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Continued from Fight for Freedom masks at protests. People started using that before Covid hit, the protesters wore masks to cover their faces. Soon it was made illegal to umbrellas to hide their identity from cameras.

Laser pointers were also used to confuse security cameras.

According to VICE, the Democratic citizens of Hong Kong want complete separation from China, so the PRC cannot wrongfully harm any citizens of Hong Kong.

Meet Mr. Anderson By: Fritz O.

Mr. Anderson is the new music teacher, guitar lessons, vocal recording, and music production. Music production is using software to create music, we use the same software that the pros use.

Nighty five percent of music is created through technology nowadays.

Mr. Anderson grew up in Holland, NY. He attended Holland high school for two years then attended SUNY Erie Community College, then Buffalo State for two years. While at Buffalo State he participated in a student exchange at Monash University in Australia. Mr. Andersons has a major in communications and a minor in digital music production.

Mr. Anderson wanted to be a teacher because, “I like the idea of helping students reaching their goals.” Mr. Anderson claims he’s a patient guy. The way that Mr. Anderson said, “ I want students to reach their goals in music production. Teaching this complex topic, consolidate it into something for someone to digest it easily.”

Before Gow Mr. Anderson worked at two bars. Both closed due to COVID-19.

Mr. Anderson has a younger half-brother and a half-sister, also has two cats and a golden retriever, none on campus.

Mr. Anderson’s favorite movies are The Shining, Departed, Joker, and Dark Knight series, but he likes non-fiction historic movies like 1917 and Saving Private Ryan. Yes, he’s a Marvel fan Mr. C and Mr. Chafin. Mr. Anderson’s book recommendations are So good they can’t ignore you by Cal Newport and blink by Malcolm Gladwell.

The Gow School almost lucked out on not getting Mr. Anderson as a music

teacher because “I Almost ended up going to Fredonia for English education because I wanted to become an English teacher but I kinda got cold feet last minute and backed out.”

Even if Mr. Anderson chose an English education route, he probably would have still made his way to Gow because Mr. Anderson had a high school friend Victor Mohney ‘15 and Ms. Dobinski. Mr. Anderson likes Gow because of how it helped Victor, and what it has done for Ms. Dobinskis’ career. This is Mr. Anderson’s first time teaching students with learning differences, he’s been thinking about it for a while. Although Mr. Anderson considered volunteering at a summer camp for students with learning differences but never followed through. Mr. Anderson saw Gow as a good option and way to introduce himself to that teaching style.

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Welcome Back, Ms. Sullivan By: Allie M.

Ms. Nakajima, a Great Addition By: Allie M.

Miss Nakajima is the new math teacher for pre-algebra and algebra one classes. She was born in Arizona and lived there until high school when she moved to South Dakota. After high school, she went to Black Hills University in South Dakota where she majored in music education.

She has four siblings and one of her sisters is married to Mr. Bray. Before she came to Gow, she was the manager of an ice cream shop, but when her brother-in-law Mr. Bray told her about an open position at Gow, she decided to go for it. She also wanted to explore the teaching world and loved the Gow community.

She now lives at Gow in Whitcomb dormitory with her cat, Echo.

She didn’t specifically see herself helping students with learning differences but knew she wanted to help anyone she could. She decided to be a teacher because she was always close with her teachers and wants to be that for another student. And being a teacher was her dream job since she was growing up.

Miss Nakajima’s favorite time of her day is when she can spend time with her cat. She loves watching How I Met Your Mother and reading Harry Potter. She also loves crafts and doing origami. Welcome to the Gow community!

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One of our new instructional assistants is a former Gow student. Ms. Sullivan found out about Gow because her dad worked here also her uncle came to Gow as a student. Ms. Sullivan grew up in Buffalo and now lives in Green Cottage.

Ms. Sullivan attended Ashland University in Ohio. Originally majoring in Nursing, she switched to Health and Risk Communication because she just didn’t enjoy the Nursing program. She also has a minor in Public Relations and certificate for Youth Mental Health. She worked for AmeriCorps where she was stationed as a youth mental health specialist.

After she finished her last contract with the AmeriCorps, she decided to start working at Gow to give back to the school. She decided to work here because Gow helped her so much “if there’s one caring adult that a student can relate to, they will do amazing things and I want to be that to someone.”

She never really saw herself as a teacher because she didn’t think that she could do it, but when she started teaching she learned how passionate she was for this job.

Miss Sullivan had always known she wanted to do things with kids but originally planned on working in a kids hospital. She learned a lot working with kids with her unstable homes in the YMCA where she found her passion for mental

Get to Know Mr. Speller By: Taylor W.

One of The Gow School’s newest faculty members is Mr. Speller. He enjoys sports, video games, and spending time with his friends and family. Mr. Speller plays many video games such as Call of Duty and NBA 2K. Mr. Spellers favorite movie is Never Back Down.

Mr. Speller grew up in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, with his mother, father, three brothers and four sisters. He says his family is very supportive of him in his choices. A friend of a friend told Mr. Speller about Gow. During his time working at the summer program he decided he liked it here and applied to work here during the school year.

He is currently helping coach the girls’ volleyball team. Mr. Speller said, “I like volleyball because it’s fun and exciting and keeps players

health. Her favorite part of her day is when she’s able to lay in bed and watch Netflix and relax for a bit her favorite book is The Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See. Welcome back to Gow, Miss Sullivan!

on their toes.”

Currently Mr. Speller is studying at the University of Albany. He majors in sociology and minors in criminal justice. In the future he sees himself working in law enforcement. Mr. Speller dded, “I always wanted to be in law enforcement and being a part of the S.W.A.T is something different and can really put you into the action.” Mr. Speller is in the National Guard.

Here is what Mr. Speller says about being in the National Guard, “It’s very interesting, it’s something different. It has it’s good and bad moments but overall, there are good benefits that come with the job and opportunities that come with it too.”

Mr. Speller is motivated by the desire to improve himself. He strives to be the best version of himself every day. His goal is to show everyone that he will excel in life no matter what challenges present themselves.

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The Safety Plan By: Daric F.

We are over a month into the school year and everything has gone according to plan… well, sort of. It is 2020 after all.

This is the first time in Gow's history that we have to have a plan in case we can't be here on campus. As of right now, we have had no problems with the safety plan that came into effect on July 28, 2020.

When I talked to Mr. Salerno who go the idea for the safety plan rolling? He said, "We got the idea for the safety plan started back in May. The people that were involved with the plan were Mr. Rogers, Mr. Salerno, Mr. Marshman, Nurse Kathy, and the New York State Department of Health."

As the decision maker/leader for student health, Nurse Kathy provided clarity about some issues that weren't verified in the safety plan posted online.

For example, what if a local student gets COVID-19 can they go home? Her response: “If a local student gets COVID-19, then the parents would have a choice to bring them home or not."

I asked Nurse Kathy If the vaccine is ready in December will it be monitory for students to get it? She said, "No because we don’t make families get the flu shot so we can't make a

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family get a shot 'til the state says something about the vaccine." As of now, New York State Governor Cuomo has said little to nothing about COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Other states have said they won't make a requirement but will highly suggest it.

The last question for Nurse Kathy was once home games start up at Gow, will opposing players get their temperature checked by Gow or will we take the word of the other team? Her answer was "It would depend if the other team wants us to do it or if they will tell us before the game."

I had a brief chance to speak with Nurse Halila and ask her what her greatest fear if once COVID-19 hits Gow. Her response was "The answer to this question would have looked different six months ago, when we did not know a lot about COVID-19. But the last few weeks have helped us understand the disease better and we know what to do in order to mitigate it. Gow has implemented a great plan for students and staff to keep everyone as safe as possible. Therefore I personally am not very concerned with COVID-19 presence at our school as we have the proper equipment, protocol and staff to confront it."

This is just the surface of the many safety measures taken to make sure this year is safe.

Virtual Learning at Gow By: Rafael P.

The Gow School’s Virtual Learning program lets students and teachers use online learning to teach and learn.

Luke M. has been using the Virtual Learning since the beginning of the school year. I interviewed him to find out how the program worked for him.

Luke prepares himself for class by making sure his laptop is charged and he checks up on his connection to the network. He also makes sure that he has all his class materials so he is prepared to do whatever the teacher assigns the classes to do, even online. Luke claims that focusing during online classes isn't that difficult because he tries to remove all distractions and his mother checks up on him from time to time to keep him focused.

The advantages in virtual learning are that students can spend time with family, and students can even eat their own food from home. Virtual learning doesn't seem that bad because it's as if they are in class, just not physically. The only difference is that it's just online.

Of the challenges, Luke mentioned that lag was a big deal, and it was hard for him to hear

what the teacher is saying when the lag cuts the audio off sometimes. The lack of in-person teaching is also a challenge with Virtual Learning since it’s very different because students aren’t learning in the class.

Luke said that whenever he pretends to be physically at Gow, it helps him focus more on school. Luke is given motivation by his teachers and parents for online school to focus and the teachers get him involved in school.

The next person I interviewed was Mr. Poblocki. He mentioned several challenges they faced when developing the virtual learning program.

Rafael: How did you figure out a plan for virtual students?

Mr. Poblocki: Determining the final plan for virtual students took a lot of patience and a lot of work. We experimented with multiple different platforms before settling for the system that we have now. The main drivers for selecting a plan was technology that was easy to use for the Continued on page 13 10

Business Economic Recovery By: Fritz O.

Due to COVID-19, businesses have had to close and layoff workers. Because of this, unemployment has soared through the roof. Back in early June, when the country was hit the hardest, 44.2 million people were unemployed at its peak, roughly 14.7% of the population. (This time last year unemployment was at 1.5 million: 17x more people unemployed one year later.)

But that number has gone down. Four months later, the unemployment rate has dropped down to just over 26 million.

In December of 2007, the Great Recession was caused by the housing market crash. By 2009, 33,759,000 people had been laid off, that’s 11% of America’s population.

In 1918 during the Spanish Flu pandemic, America’s population was 106.9 million, and at the height of unemployment, 12.45 million people were unemployed.

Harlan Ullman of Atlantic Council said, “Post-war recessions hit hard in 1919 and again in 1920, driving unemployment up to 11.7%.”

Due to factories closing and laying off people, the country wasn’t producing many goods makings the gross domestic product (GDP) go down. The Spanish flu resulted with a GDP drop of only 1.5% at its peak from the flu.

As America wrapped up WWI, it was still in factory mode, so even with the flu the number of factories help keep supplies running.

Fast forward to the Great Recession, the GDP fell 4.3% at its peak. Previously the GDP

was 3.5% in 2005, then falling to -2.5%. Robert Rich of Federal Reserve History said, “The net worth of US households and nonprofit organizations fell from a peak of approximately $69 trillion in 2007 to a trough of $55 trillion in 2009.”

With the most recent economic fall due to Covid-19, the “Gross domestic product collapsed at a 32.9% annualized rate last quarter, the deepest decline in output since the government started keeping records in 1947,” according to R. Staff of Reuters.

Thankfully, that was the peak of the GDP collapse at 32.9%, but “Economists polled

by Reuters had forecast GDP slumping at a 34.1% rate in the April-June quarter.” The outcome of the Covid-19 effect was less damaging to what economists’ thought was going to happen--so far.

A visual of how COVID-19 has affected the GDP of America so far compared to the GDP from the preceding years. / U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Used with permission.

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Cu l tu r e

Owners of Aurora Cinema in East Aurora used playful sayings on their marquee during the early months of the pandemic. / Aurora Cinema. Used with permission.

Theatres Closing From Pandemics By: Rafael P.

Schools, malls, restaurants, and other businesses closed due to COVID-19. But perhaps the slowest to repopen have been theatres.

In the beginning of October, theatres such as AMC and Regal announced that they would close once again. While movies were being delayed, the theatrical business has been financially suffering. All theatres closed because there weren’t as many movies being screened since they all were being delayed even further than expected. Most of the movies, such as Black Widow and James Bond, were rescheduled for next year instead of releasing this year, hoping that they would be shown on theatres after the pandemic ends.

John Fithian, who is the chief executive of the National Association of Theatre Owners, said, “If the studios continue postponing all their releases, the movie theatres aren’t going to be there for those postponed releases [...] 80

percent of the movies that were scheduled during our closed period have been postponed for future theatrical release and not taken to the home.”

Closing theatres due to illnesses and viruses isn’t anything new. Many illnesses have existed around the world for ages, and t has been common practice to close theatres temporarily for public safety to prevent the spread of sickness. According to a New Yorker article by Stephen Greenblatt, a respected Shakespeare professor at Harvard, Shakespeare wrote many plays during bouts of the plague, especially during some of his most productive years 1592-1593, 1603-1604, 1606, and 1608-1609. Some of his greatest hits were not likely open and could’ve been closed for a period of nine months or more.

Ryan Faughnder of the Los Angeles Times reported that ever since theatres have closed due to COVID-19, many production companies and cinemas put movies out as video-on-demand (VOD) on the day of the release. Companies such as EON Productions 12

also figured that they should change the release date either earlier or later for business purposes and profit.

According to Toni Ruberto of the Buffalo News, many theatre owners are furious about their theatres remaining closed so long, and one owner mentioned that other businesses weren’t closed, such as bowling alleys, bars, and casinos. Ray Barker, who owns the North Park Theatre, said that there was no point in closing cinemas if the other businesses were open.

Theatres were still closed three months after the initial reopening of everything else.

Michael Clement, president and owner of Dipson Theatres, agreed with Barker. Governor Cuomo stated that having theatres open is an extremely high health risk. Barker said, “In a theatre, no one does anything but sit, eat, and watch the movies, while in a gym, people are huffing, puffing, sweating and doing physical activities in the gym.” Ruberto reported that many theatre owners thought it was unfair that theatres were closed and other places for entertainment weren’t.

Continued from Virtual Learning faculty and provided a good experience for the virtual student. We think we achieved that.

Rafael: What are the challenges that the Instructional Technology office experienced with virtual learning?

Mr. Poblocki: There are lots of IT challenges with the virtual learning program. One of the biggest challenges was coming up with a plan that would be the best for students (both in the classroom and online) and work well for faculty. Another challenge was trying to acquire equipment as every school at business was trying to acquire the same equipment to use for virtual conference calls.

The final big challenge was training teachers how to use the equipment. We had a very short turnaround time from when the equipment arrived to when classes started. The faculty have done an outstanding job coping with 13

S p o r ts Changing the Game Plan By: Daric F.

Like everything else, 2020 has been an interesting year for sports. We started with a bang when the National Basketball Association (NBA) was postponed to every single sports league getting shut down. However, in order to stay afloat, professional sports organizations seem to have developed two strategies: gamble or bubble.

The most recent league to gamble was the National Football League (NFL). This means teams are traveling the country to play their respective games. Week four saw the first game postponed due to COVID-19. The Tennessee Titans and the Pittsburgh Steelers, originally a week 4 match-up, are now scheduled to play week 7.

According to Nick Shook of National Football league Players Association (NFLPA) published on July 24 2020. Most of all the NFL teams have had plans for fans to attend the 2020-2021 season these fast and constant changes.

In my opinion, there are not many advantages to virtual learning. I feel students learn best in the classroom where multisensory instruction can be delivered. It is very difficult to do that virtually, but our faculty are doing an excellent job. If I had to pick one advantage of virtual learning, it's that we can still help students that are unable to make it to campus due to the pandemic.

Rafael: What can the Instructional Technology department do to improve the virtual learning system for both teachers and students?

Mr. Poblocki: At this point in the virtual program, the biggest thing IT can do to improve the program is to support the faculty the best we can. In IT, we only deliver the hardware and software to connect the faculty and the virtual student. That technology would be useless without great faculty behind it. It's our job to make sure the technology is working so the faculty can do their job teaching students.

since July. Some teams are willing to have up to 20% of their fans at home games as soon as week 4 or 5. But some teams, like the Cleveland Browns, have said they will put in a “spectator variance,� meaning the number of cases the state has will determine how many fans are permitted to attend the game, according to Nick Shook.

The other strategy is the bubble, which organizations like the NBA are doing. The bubble means that the league has a set area that the games will be played in. Players can't leave bubble and no fans can come watch.

The NBA was one of the first major sports leagues to announce a back-to-play plan. The same goes with the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) which also has a bubble for their season/playoffs. The NBA bubble is located at Disney world Florida and the WNBA bubble is in Bradenton, Florida. All these bubble updates are on NBA.com.

The National Hockey League (NHL) is also one of the major leagues to have a bubble in

Edmonton and Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

According to by Tom Gulitti of NHL.com, teams will compete in a play-in round, which is best of five to fight for playoff seeds 5-8. The teams that win three out of five of the games will move on to the main event the Stanly cup playoffs. The top seeds which is 1-4 seeding spot each of the top four teams in the Western and Eastern conference will play three games against the other teams in there conference to see who is the first seed.

Like the NFL, the Major League Baseball (MLB), Major League Soccer (MLS), and National Woman's Soccer League (NWSL) have decided to gamble: they plan to travel all around the US to play their Respective games. As of right now the MLB finished its playoffs, MLS is concluding its season, and NWSL's season is ending this month.

This is definitely going to be a sports season to remember. With all these protocols and restrictions, it will be interesting to see what each of the respective leagues will do about their major finals.

Extras

Caption Contest We thought this photo was just begging for thought bubbles, but we couldn’t decide what they should be.

Have fun coming up with your own. Email your best ideas to Mr. Brognano at jbrognano@gow.org (Make sure you identify which thought is for the deer and which is for the golfer).

We’ll choose three finalists and publish them in the next edition of The Govian.

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