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Advanced Topics now open to all sophomores

Teenage Trends

Eighth grade enrollment, 2003-13

February  19,  2013

Points of Interest

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Small 8th grade could mean small high school By Yanni Dahmani

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New play dramatizes life, work of quirky physicist

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WDQÄŤ 3URMHFW DORQJ ZLWK KLV WHDFKÄĽ ing at Caltech University. Despite the heavy historical and VFLHQWLÂżF RYHUWRQHV )ULVKPDQ VDLG Feynman’s character adds comedy to the play. Âł7KH VXEMHFW PDWWHU LV VHULRXV man, respectively. By Madeleine Wright Frankel’s role spans Feynman’s but it has a lot of humor,â€? FrishÄĽ Editor-in-Chief work in developing the atomic man said. Âł,W LV D OLJKWÄĽKHDUWHG ORRN DW VHULÄĽ bomb, as well as his meeting and he spring play, “Moving IDOOLQJ LQ ORYH ZLWK KLV ÂżUVW ZLIH $UÄĽ RXV VXEMHFWV ZKLFK UHĂ€HFWV )H\QÄĽ Bodies,â€? stays true to its line Greenbaum, played by senior man’s personality.â€? title. Not only does it $QQLH %HOO LQ WKH ÂżUVW DFW ÄŞVHQLRU And Feynman’s personality was have a lot of bodies, it Elise DeCarli plays Feynman’s next certainly “complex,â€? according to DOVR KDV D ORW RI PRYLQJħWKURXJK Frankel. time, that is. In Feynman’s New And while some directors York Times obituary, might see this as problematÄĽ writer James Gleick ic, Country Day’s own, Brian wrote, “Dr. Feynman Frishman, chose the play for was a curious character. this very reason. He was never content The play, which he deÄĽ with what he knew scribes as a “dramedy,â€? tells or what other people the story of famous and knew. He taught himÄĽ quirky American physicist VHOI KRZ WR Âż[ UDGLRV Richard Feynman by carryÄĽ pick locks, draw nudes, ing the viewer through his VSHDN 3RUWXJXHVH SOD\ various life stages. the bongos and deÄĽ It starts when he is an adoÄĽ cipher Mayan hieroÄĽ OHVFHQW ÄŞDQG RQO\ GLVFRYHULQJ Seniors Jackson Dulla and Elise DeCarli laugh glyphics.â€? KLV LQWHUHVW LQ SK\VLFVÄŤ DQG at the script of “Moving Bodies,â€? based on the He also won the concludes when Feynman is life of eccentric physicist Richard Feynman. 1REHO 3UL]H LQ 3K\VLFV DQ HOGHUO\ PDQ ÄŞDQG UHĂ€HFWÄĽ (Photo by Kelsi Thomas) for his contributions LQJ RQ KLV OLIH DV D SK\VLFLVWÄŤ to quantum electroÄĽ And, as the title hints, there are ZLIH LQ WKH VHFRQGÄŤ dynamics and is associated with In the second act, Dulla’s porÄĽ the atomic bomb and the investiÄĽ two actors in the main role. Seniors Jacob Frankel and Jackson Dulla will trayal of the physicist deals with his See Play, page 3 play the younger and older FeynÄĽ ZRUN RQ WKH /RV $ODPRV ÄŞ0DQKDWÄĽ

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Student  Council,  with  twice  as  many  students  as  last  year,  is  overflowing  with  some  enthusiastic—and  some  not-­so-­enthusiastic— members. Consequently,  Patricia  Dias,    adviser,   plans  for  yet  another  change.  The  group  has  25  mem-­ bers  (in  comparison  to  the  12  they  had  last  year).  Dias  originally  changed  the  number  of  class  representa-­ WLYHV IURP WZR WR ÂżYH EHFDXVH she  felt  that  members  were  spread  too  thin.  But  she  and  other  mem-­ bers   have  found  that  there  are  just  too  many  now.  Senior  Brandon  Mysicka,  student  body  president,  said  LW LV GLIÂżFXOW WR PDLQWDLQ HYHU\-­ one’s  attention  at  meetings.  â€œThere  are  a  lot  of  people  standing  around  doing  noth-­ ing,  while  the  same  people  are  volunteering  to  do  things  over  and  over  again,â€?  Mysic-­ ka  said.  â€œI  think  some  of  the  people   need  to  ask  themselves  â€˜Why  am  I  doing  this?’  â€?  junior  Maddy  Mahla,  student  body  secretary,  said.   Dias  plans  to  solve  the  problem  by  having  three  representatives  per  grade,  LQ DGGLWLRQ WR IRXU RIÂżFHUV IRU a  total  of  16  Student  Council  members  in  2013-­14.  In  addition,  she  is  consid-­ ering  altering  the  officers’  titles  because  â€œpeople  have  become  obsessed  with  titles  like  â€˜president,’â€?  Dias  said.  â€œNo  one  can  tell  by  the  title  â€˜vice  president’  that  the  job  involves  being  in  charge  of  the  dances,â€?  Dias  said. —Aishwarya  Nadgauda Â

Mock  Trial  competes The  Mock  Trial  team  com-­ peted  in  the  first  of  four  rounds  of  the  annual  Gordon  D.  Schaber  Mock  Trial  Com-­ petition,  Feb.  14. The  team  has  placed  in  the  top  four  in  the  county  since  2008. But  this  year  Mock  Trial  has  only  one  upperclass-­ man,  junior  Sydney  Jack-­ son,  and  is  composed  pri-­ marily  of  freshmen. “I  feel  like  they’re  throwing  me  into  the  deep  end  of  a  pool  and  I  don’t  know  how  to  swim,â€?  said  freshman  Emma  Belliveau,  who  is  both  an  at-­ torney  and  a  witness. The  team  will  compete  in  the  second  round  of  the  competition  on  Wednesday,  Feb.  20. —Garrett  Kaighn

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Four seniors place fifth at last-minute Quiz Bowl By Aishwarya Nadgauda Reporter

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Faculty, staff remember jazz icon Brubeck By Aishwarya Nadgauda

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Enrollment: admissions office hopeful ÄŞ&RQWLQXHG IURP SDJH ÄŤ ,Q IDFW WKH HLJKWKÄĽJUDGH FODVV LV WKH VPDOOÄĽ HVW LWÂśV EHHQ VLQFH ÄĽ Therefore, the high school could be at its lowest enrollment in 10 years, Neukom said. Over the past nine years, the average retenÄĽ tion rate for eighth graders has been 55 perÄĽ cent. If this trend holds true, only 15 students will stay. And if the retention rate were to drop even ORZHU ÄŞDV LW GLG LQ ÄĽ ZKHQ RQO\ SHUÄĽ FHQW RI HLJKWK JUDGHUV VWD\HGÄŤ WKH KLJK VFKRRO PLJKW ÂżQG LWVHOI LQ GHHSHU WURXEOH ,W LV WKLV SRVVLELOLW\ħPXFK OLNH DIWHU WKH UHÄĽ FHVVLRQ ZKHQ WKH VFKRRO OHW JR RI HPSOR\ÄĽ HHV EHWZHHQ WKH ÄĽ DQG ÄĽ VFKRRO \HDUVħWKDW UHDOO\ VFDUHV WKH IDFXOW\ “We’re planning for this situation, but it hasn’t all fallen into place yet because we don’t know the numbers,â€? said Sue Nellis, head of high school. “People will have to make some choices.â€? According to Nellis, this year some teachers FKRVH WR RÉąHU HOHFWLYHV WR VWD\ IXOO\ HPSOR\HG Other teachers, like Neukom, never reÄĽ WXUQHG WR WKH IXOOÄĽHPSOR\PHQW VWDWXV WKH\ had before numbers went down. “When the ninth grade went from three VHFWLRQV WR WZR VHFWLRQV LQ WKH ÄĽ VFKRRO \HDU , ZHQW IURP D ÄĽSHUFHQW WR DQ ÄĽSHUÄĽ cent contract,â€? Neukom said. Glimmers of hope have come in the form of prospective parents who have been touring campus since school started in August. “The annual High School Forum, held on 2FW ZDV ZHOO DWWHQGHG DQG UHVXOWHG LQ VHYÄĽ HUDO DSSOLFDWLRQV ÄŞIURP SDUHQWV ZKRVH FKLOÄĽ GUHQ ZHUHQÂśW FXUUHQW HLJKWK JUDGHUVč´ %ORHGDX said. Subsequently, in the last two weeks the high school hosted two Preview Days for parÄĽ ents to sit in on classes, Bloedau said. But, Neukom pointed out that no matter how admissions turn out next year, in the ORQJ UXQ WKH VL]H RI QH[W \HDUÂśV IUHVKPDQ FODVV doesn’t really matter. “Next year will be an oddity,â€? Neukom said. “The school anticipates full classes in the midÄĽ dle school in the years following, so I’m pretty VXUH KLJKÄĽVFKRRO HQUROOPHQW ZLOO UHERXQG ´ &XUUHQWO\ WKHUH DUH VHYHQWK JUDGHUV VL[WK JUDGHUV DQG ÂżIWK JUDGHUV And if next year’s admissions happen to drastically decline, the majority of teachers ZLOO QRW EH DÉąHFWHG 1HOOLV VDLG “We’re going to do the best we can to keep teachers fully employed,â€? she said.

Mixed feelings caused by new finals setup By Maxwell Shukuya Reporter

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classrooms. Previously, students carried the desks from classrooms to the gym. “People would always hit the doors, so the SDLQW ZRXOG FRPH RÉą ´ VDLG 6XH 1HOOLV KHDG of high school. $ WRWDO RI WDEOHV VDW WKUHH SHRSOH HDFK 7KH WDEOHV ZHUH UHQWHG IRU IJ DSLHFH DQG the school used its own chairs. $ERXW KDOI WKH KLJKÄĽVFKRRO VWXGHQWV ZKR had a preference said they preferred tables. “There was more space to work and we didn’t have to move the desks,â€? sophomore Jaspreet Gill said. Junior Maya Kuppermann appreciated WKH GHVNV GXULQJ KHU RSHQÄĽQRWH $3 &KHPÄĽ LVWU\ ÂżQDO “If we had desks, I wouldn’t have been able to spread my notes and wouldn’t have EHHQ DEOH WR ÂżQLVK WKH WHVW RQ WLPH ´ .XSÄĽ permann said. And the extra space gave students more space for vocabulary sheets and dictionaries, Latin teacher Jane Batarseh said. Tables also allowed teachers to reach stuÄĽ dents more easily, Batarseh said. However, some said that the proximity of their fellow classmates distracted them. “People shake and tap their pens and make annoying noises,â€? sophomore Clare Fina said. “And I already have issues with focusing,

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Editorial 5

February  19,  2013

By Jeffrey Caves

“Attention.  This  is  a  lockdown.  Please  head  to  the  nearest  classroom.â€?

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he last issue of the Octagon featured an editorial (“Students must become more informed, involved in school’s emergency plan,â€? Jan. 22) saying that, in light of the Newtown, Conn. shooting, the school should hold regular lockdown drills and students should be more involved in the safety plan. 6\Y YLX\LZ[ ^HZ WHY[PHSS` M\SĂ„SSLK VU -LI ^OLU [OL ZJOVVS OLSK P[Z Ă„YZ[ SVJRKV^U KYPSS PU TVYL [OHU three years. Additionally, the faculty has discussed the issue HUK TL[ ^P[O H [YHPULK WVSPJL VMĂ„JLY [V [HSR HIV\[ school safety concerns in general. While we commend the school for being proactive in initiating safety training, the lockdown drill wasn’t totally a success. Few seemed to take the drill seriously—news of it was leaked to students beforehand, many didn’t follow the procedure and some ignored the drill entirely. One science class continued taking a test, and another ignored the announcement to clean up a lab. And in other classes teachers locked the doors but allowed students to remain at their desks in plain sight. What they were supposed to do was lock the doors, turn off the lights and have students hide under desks, out of the line of sight from the windows. Such an indifferent, nonchalant attitude defeats the purpose of the drill.

<USPRL [OL ÄYL KYPSS TVZ[ Z[\KLU[Z KVU[ RUV^ exactly what to do in a lockdown and are not comfortable with the procedure—that’s exactly what the school agreed needs to change. And if teachers continue class as if nothing is happening, students won’t learn the procedure. Drills take a few minutes of class every few months, ZV JVUÅPJ[Z ^P[O [LZ[Z JV\SK LHZPS` IL H]VPKLK We understand that the probability of a shooter or other violent stranger appearing on campus is very low—almost nonexistent. )\[ MVY [OL ZHTL YLHZVU ^L OH]L ÄYL KYPSSZ ^L ULLK to practice lockdowns—just occasionally—so that students know the procedure. The lockdown was certainly far from a failure. Issues with the loudspeaker not reaching every part of the campus, telephone announcements not being loud enough and teachers not understanding how to properly lock their doors from the inside were all recognized and resolved. And unlike some classes, those in the library folSV^LK WYV[VJVS HUK OPK PU [OL VMÄJL JSVZL[ But all students and teachers should take the drills seriously. That means having students stop what they’re doing, turning off the lights and locking the doors. And, yes, that even means taking cover underneath the desks.

The Octagon Editors-In-Chief Jeffrey Caves Yanni Dahmani Madeleine Wright Copy Editor Garrett Kaighn Business Manager Jeffrey Caves News Editor Yanni Dahmani Editorial Editor Ryan Ho Community Editor Darby Bosco Centerpoint Editor Madeleine Wright Feature Editors Connor Martin Kamira Patel Opinion Editor Emma Williams Sports Editors Micaela Bennett-Smith

Morgan Bennett-Smith Skovran Cunningham Online Editor David Myers Photo Editors Kelsi Thomas Will Wright Reporters Annie Bell Zoe Bowlus Emma Brown Elise DeCarli Eric Hilton Madison Judd Grant Miner Aishwarya Nadgauda Max Shukuya Manson Tung Foreign Correspondent Margaret Whitney Cartoonist Shewetha Prasad Adviser Patricia Fels

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here is a TV in my dad’s office at home, a massive, midlife-crisis-sized TV that looks shockingly out of place in that tiny room. But why isn’t it downstairs? Why, when we have a four-foot-wide brand-new flat-screen upstairs, do we continue to watch TV on a ancient 2001 model? Because between the four remotes, three cable boxes and a hearty mess of cords that seem to go nowhere, not one person in my family has any idea how to work the new one. We are not technologically handicapped—okay I am, but my Apple-addicted father certainly is not. And yet this TV with its thousands of functions and possibilities is enough to confound us all. Yes, it can stream from the Internet. Yes, one of its remotes has a keyboard. But trying to turn it on? That’s just absurd. And so it was with a familiar feeling of exasperation that I met college counselor Jane Bauman’s urgent announcement a few weeks ago. It seems that the Common Application, in its infinite wisdom, had made itself just a little more complicated. You see, in past years teachers simply uploaded their recommendations and students checked one box that allowed colleges to see them. But now some colleges have added an additional option—they choose to have each student reselect which recommendations they want a school to be able to see. Now I love having more options, yet in order to give a few people options, our entire senior class could have submitted the applications with no knowledge that colleges could not see their recommendations. In fact, a student applying to Haverford was without recommendations in the middle of January because of this very problem, and another had five schools and encountered the same problem with every one. Didn’t this occur to someone somewhere? Didn’t one Common App staffer just step back and say, “Wait, guys, in order to give .01 percent of people something minimally useful, aren’t we confusing the remaining few million?� It would seem the answer is no. To be honest, I understand it from the Common App perspective. The Common App is beholden to the colleges that use it, and it has been a hard fight to get those colleges to give up their independent applications. And I can understand that colleges that want only one or two recommendations want the option to avoid seeing the dozens that some students send. But lest we forget, without students this whole process doesn’t work so well. And if those students cannot navigate the Byzantine labyrinth of the applications process to begin with, how can colleges get the qualified applicants they need?

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nions  to.  .  .  people  who  don’t  pick  up  trash  after  themselves  in  the  garden.  The  garden  has  become  such  a  nice,  beautiful  place.  Let’s  try  to  keep  it  that  way.

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he first luxurious bite melts on the tongue. The second brings a taste of fig, nuanced and exotic and so sweet it dances on the fine line between perfection and cloying sweetness. The third doesn’t bring anything new to the table, but by this time it doesn’t matter—all you are doing is trying to have another bite like the first. And another. And another. And maybe a few dozen more, just to make sure you don’t miss that last tiny drop at the bottom of the infuriatingly rounded cup. Gelato. Like most other Italian food words, the word alone makes it sound delicious long before you know what it is. What is it? Nobody seems to know for sure. Half the cookbooks define it as ice cream with extra eggs, others with no eggs at all. Some say that sugar syrup instead of grains is where that texture comes from; others say it is cornstarch. The only consensus seems to be that it is thick, sugary, probably Sicilian and damn tasty. I have made gelato before, many times—it is difficult. Startlingly difficult, in fact. Sure, you can make something ice-cream-like and slap an Italian label on it (works for most commercial brands). But replicating that intriguing texture—meltingly soft but almost taffy-like, not icy but not quite the pure monotone creaminess of American ice creams—has always eluded me. It is rare to find a perfect gelato in a store, rarer and more arduous still to create it at home. Now that is not to say that you cannot make gelato at home—anyone with an ice cream machine and a decent recipe can do it. And I am not denying that this homemade gelato can be good—in fact it can be exceptional. But I have never replicated the perfect consistency of a great restaurant gelato, nor have I been able to find it in our humble city. And yet there is a glimmer of light at the end of this sugary tunnel. I found it in a sleek, modern storefront that housed one of the most exquisite collections of gelato I have ever encountered: roasted almond, blood-orange strawberry, salted caramel, mascarpone—all made fresh in the shop daily. Devine Gelateria, (19th St. and Capitol Ave. in Midtown) offers me the rare opportunity to relinquish my search for the Holy Grail of desserts without regret, for here I have found what I have so long searched for.

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