Panther Press February_March Newsletter

PANTHER PRESS OAK HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL Issue 3

Winter 2009-2010

After school @ Oak hill

Save the Cafeteria

By: Peter Klapes

by: Dennis Phan and Peter Klapes

What are you doing after school? Are you really intrigued by what you are doing? Well, at your own school, Oak Hill, there are various clubs going on after school. The clubs run from 2:30 to 4:00. These clubs provide a relaxing and fun atmosphere to students.

Students are not graded during these clubs and these clubs are much less structured than regular classes.

All of the teachers are devoted to their clubs, as when asked, they all said that they received compensation for advising the club.

If you walk through the hallways of Oak Hill Middle anytime after school, you will probably hear and see many of your peers having fun! There are various clubs, such as: homework center, dance, ultimate Frisbee, math team and ski and snowboard club. At the dance club, “you will be doing a lot of hip-hop, ballet and jazz,” states dance club adviser, Ms. Potenski.

Potenski is always looking for “more kids who love to dance.” Homework center is another fun club that takes place after school. This is a great benefit to students as they get to do their homework with help and then students get the rest of their evening off from anything school-related. “I love homework, and love to help students do theirs,” says Ms. Aliaga, homework club advisor. Ms. Wong, another homework club advisor says that she tries to make doing homework fun as she ‘brings] in munchkins.’ Wong also wishes that she has more supplies in order for students to better complete their homework. Alongside, coming to homework center on Wednesdays gives you the opportunity for being provided with math. Homework assistance, done by a volunteer tutor, from 2:30-4:00. The tutor also enjoys brining math games to play with the participants as she states that she is a math rocks person. She also is happy to help kids with math. MCAS practice. You don’t have to stay in the school building when you stay for an after school club, you can enjoy the outdoors at the ski and snowboard club taking place at Wachussett. Ms. Oliver, club advisor says those kids get to get out and ski with some of their peers, as she believes that, “ski and snowboard club will help kids build their social skills and self esteem.” You don’t have to have experience with skiing in order to join the club, as lessons are offered at Wachussett. You can also enjoy the great outdoors in the spring and fall in your own backyard. Join Ms. Deschaines and a small group of about eight students to have fun playing ultimate Frisbee, “I love playing Frisbee,” says Deschaines. She likes to see students bring their friends and get more students to join the club.

“Playing Frisbee is a great way to have fun with friends at school,” says Deschaines. Find what you like, try a club and get some friends involved. Come have fun at school!

Ms. Potenski, Dance Club advisor

Mrs. Aliaga, Homework Club Advisor

The school committee is trying to implement a new program which will impact the job security of our food service staff, a.k.a., “the lunch ladies”. These hard-working valuable staff members will be without a job. The district will then hire an outside source to provide lunches to the students and staff of Oak Hill Middle School. Although there is currently a milliondollar deficit in the city’s school lunch program, many people think that they should try other alternatives to take initiative of the deficit, rather than getting rid of the lunch workers. According to Mrs. Vaglica, the school’s executive secretary, “The lunch ladies are fantastic and are part of the Oak Hill family!” She also states that she would not like to see them laid off and she really cares for their job.

Mr. Arnold, a seventh grade teacher states, “The Oak Hill cafeteria staff does an amazing job and I’m proud to be their colleague. I support them in their efforts to keep and secure their jobs as well as to continue the excellent work that they do.”

Many oppose the idea of laying off the lunch workers and blame the current system of serving the lunch, not the people who are working under it. Many seventh graders also agree with Mr. Arnold about the issue.

One student said, “I have never had such nice cafeteria ladies in my school career. These lunch ladies know almost everyone’s name, and I am new to this school! ...

They try to cook the provided food to the best of their ability.” Another student said, “They’re just doing their jobs and they’ve done what they’ve been told to do.

Ms. Mayrand, a Learning Center teacher states, “If the system is not working, it needs to be adapted. Cutting jobs is not always the answer.” Terminating jobs may send the message that perhaps the Newton community does value personalization in our schools.

Ms. Wong, Homework Club Advisor Ms. Deschaines, Ultimate Frisbee Club Mrs. Oliver, the Ski Club Advisor is not photographed.

INSIDER: •• Oak Hill News •• Around Our World •• Important Events

An 8th grade “Community” group raised money for relief in Haiti by conducting a bake sale after school. The group raised two hundred dollars. Students, teachers and parents all participated in the worthwhile event.. The proceeds have been donated to Doctors Without Borders.

Around our world The Seventh Grade Takes a Stand...

“They are part of the Oak Hill community… They’re just doing their jobs and they’ve done what they’ve been told to do… It’s not fair that the system has to be let go along with the lunch ladies. If something is wrong, it’s the system, not the people who are hired to follow it.”- Dennis Phan

“I am fully against your new bill. I believe that these workers are true, and valued members of our school community.”- Peter Klapes

“You can also tell that they are nice because they learn your name.”

- Liam Brandel

“They do extra things on their own time to do fun things in the cafeteria.”- Sabreena Mei

“They are all very nice people and are very special to Oak Hill!”

-Sammi Goodstein

“I don’t think it would fair to the people who work in the cafeteria to suddenly lose their jobs after working at our schools for a long time… The food that the company provided would probably be even poorer quality.” – Sophia Autor

“I don’t think you should change the lunch ladies because they are very nice and they work very hard.They try to give us the best food possible.”- Adam Josephson

“They have organized many parties for lunch in the cafeteria.”Zachary Nislick

“I have never had such nice cafeteria ladies in my school career.These lunch ladies know almost everyone’s names, and I am new to this school! ….They try to cook the provided food to the best of their ability.”- Sam London

“They plan great community lunches…”- Jack Groper

Around our world Student Government Organizes School-Wide Charity Event

Recycling is Bad?, Really?

By: Jack Lovett

By: Julian Milkey

March madness is coming to Oak Hill. The student government will be beginning a charity initiative to help Haiti. Their fundraising method: Basketball. (Date of event) students will file into the gym and pledge money to their favorite teachers to be donated to the international red cross. Here’s how it will work: 1. Students will sign up on a pledge sheet to donate money whenever a certain teacher makes a basket.

2. The teachers will have a faculty shootout, and for every basket made by, say, Professor Redstone the science teacher, the students who pledged to him will donate money to Haiti.

3. At the end of the event, the pledges will be collected and donated.

When a student pledges a certain amount to a teacher, a dollar per shot for example, every time that teacher makes a shot the student agrees to donate a dollar to the school Haiti

Spring Athletics

Baseball: Coach Lyons Softball: Coach Burke

Boys’ Lacrosse: Coach Cutler Girls Lacrosse: Coach Seppa Track: Coach Giguere and Assistant Coach Trunk

“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”

- Heywood Broun

“The game isn’t over until it’s over.”

-Yogi Berra

In second or third grade kids learn about recycling; we learn the different reasons why we should to do it. We learn about how it saves paper, the environment and the world. The idea is fantastic--everyone participating to save the world. Well sadly, it’s too good to be true. The recycling program that the U.S has been using since the early 90’s does not have any substantial benefits. In fact, it is very wasteful.

There are approximately six reasons why pro-recyclers say you should recycle. The first is that it makes people feel good. I can’t argue with that. (Misinformed) people everywhere love recycling, saving trees, and protecting the environment, but that’s really the only good reason to recycle. The other five reasons sound good but don’t live up to their reputations.

The second argument recycling advocates make: it saves energy. It doesn’t save energy. In fact it wastes it.

So first let’s think about this. For every few neighborhoods you need a big truck to collect the recyclables.

That’s a lot of trucks, and they use tons of fuel, wasting energy and polluting the air. After they pick up the recyclables, they take them to many different centers to sort, break down and put into a reusable state. Some smaller towns may not have recycling centers, so many trucks have to travel long distances to deliver their cargo. Even though recycling supposedly saves energy, it actually wastes a lot of it.

The third argument in favor of recycling is that it saves money. That argument has been trashed. Even J. Winston Porter, the man who helped start recycling, said to take away the trash it costs $50-$60 per ton.

It costs $150-$160 per ton to take away recyclables.

That was in 2004. From this statistic you can see it’s more expensive. Now that’s all ready bad, but it get’s worse. The United States Government takes eight billion dollars of our tax money to fund this program per year. Now guaranteed there are many other things we pay for that cost more, but eight billion is still undeniably a lot of money. In addition, it costs more to make products out of recycled materials than it does to make them out of virgin materials. Also, the products made out of recycled materials tend to be of worse quality than new products. The only exception to these reasons is the recycling of aluminum which is economically efficient and more or less the same quality when reused.

Not only is recycling expensive, it also leads to the production of poor quality goods.

The fourth reason is why “recycling is good” is it saves trees. Of course we’re always losing trees. Well guess what? We’re not losing trees. We have three times more trees than in the 1920’s, and in some places, we have as many trees as when the Native Americans lived here in the early modern era. So recycling saved the forests right? No, recycling is not the reason we have such a wealth of trees. Our forest wealth is very big because natural forests aren’t cut down to make paper.

Today paper businesses grow their own forests for trees and for the most part do not cut down natural forests allowing American forests to flourish. So what is so bad about recycling paper? Well, first the money

fumes and gases that pollute the air and contribute to the increase of global warming. Recycling paper not only doesn’t save trees, but also hurts the environment in the process.

Creating good jobs, as pro-recyclers say, is “the end of the golden rainbow.” After our economical and environmental benefits, we create jobs.

They create jobs all right but not good ones. People who work at recycling centers have to deal with the poisonous fumes, deafening noise and intolerable smells. Fumes which could hurt their lungs; noise which could create hearing loss and smell which couldn’t kill them but definitely isn’t a bonus. Giving someone one of these jobs is an unethical achievement of modern America.

Now the final and arguably the most powerful of reason of the pro-recycling movement are landfills. After a false alarm in 1987 where a garbage barge, owned by the mafia, was not allowed to drop off its trash in many landfills across the east coast, people began to fear that we were running out of places to put our trash. Increased by the closing down of landfills in the late 1980’s, this hysteria started the recycling movement in the early 90’s. So are we really running out of landfills? The answer is no. The reason for the loss of many landfills was that many unnecessary ones were closed down. The national standard for landfill size was made larger, and because of this fewer landfills could take the trash load of the many smaller ones. The theory of us being buried in our trash as landfill space shortened was libel and not true. In fact, landfills have a benefit too. Landfills are known to give off lots of polluting methane. At the Irvine California landfill (one of the biggest in the nation) they have a system that takes emitted methane to a nearby power plant by pipes. The methane is then used to help power part of the city. The plant also uses about 5,000 gallons of Liquefied Natural Gas per day; which has the same amount of environmental benefit as taking about 150,000 vehicles off our roads per year. If managed correctly, landfills are a better choice than recycling.

The modern American recycling program has no substantial benefits and is very harmful. This issue against recycling is not the first time people have questioned its usefulness. In 2004 Penn and Teller released an episode in their awarding winning TV series Penn and Teller: BS!, which also debunks theses arguments. The liberal newspaper New York Times also talks about the detriments of recycling in Recycling is Garbage by John Tierney. In the article he states that, “Recycling may be the most wasteful activity in modern America: a waste of time and money, a waste of human and natural resources.”

Sorry everybody, but all that stuff we heard about recycling in the past and now is propaganda or at least bad research on the part of the government.

Recycling was a good idea and could still be, if reformed. The program used today is wasteful, environmentally harmful and economically burdensome.

If recycling is taken to a more beneficial state, a better researched level on the part of the developers and it actually works, I wouldn’t mind spending my tax money on the program. But until then, let’s use

Around our world DEad Space Review

Mega Man Review

By Matthew Lu

By: Julian Montagut

When was the last time you played a game that made you sleep with the light on? Well, when I played Dead Space I most certainly keep the lights on, and the door locked. The story: When the Concordance Extraction Corporation loses radio contact with its Planet Cracker-class mining ship, the USG Ishimura, engineer Isaac Clarke (our silent protagonist) is dispatched on a routine mission to repair its communications array. However, Clarke is also on a mission of his own, having recently received a cryptic message from Nicole Brennan, a medical officer serving aboard the Ishimura. While on board he intends to reunite with her and learn the meaning behind her strange broadcast. Unfortunately, the moment you set foot on the derelict ship, it’s obvious that something terrible has happened.

What makes this game unique is its lack of a HUD (Heads up display). Instead, your health bar and ammo is integrated directly onto your armor and weapons. Your health bar is conveniently located onto Isaac’s suit. And your ammo is displayed on your weapon, literally. Also the fact when you bring up your inventory and menu, doesn’t pause the game, adds to the game’s tension. In fact, I guarantee that Dead Space will make your heart pound like a jackhammer as you venture through claustrophobic hallways that hold the remnants of the former crew of the Ishimura.

Speaking of the ol’ crew, what happened?

Well, long story short, the crew turned into these monsters called Necromorphs (but seriously, don’t call them zombies because they are nothing like zombies!). These all so friendly dudes come in all shapes and sizes! Although there aren’t that many, you’ll find it amusing burning them to ashes. Though, the funny thing about this game is that it broke the “aim for the head” rule in shooters. Instead, you’re going to have to aim for their Limbs! (Spoiler ahead!) Early on in the game, you’ll find the words “Cut off their limbs” written on the wall with blood near a crew member (dead! duh). Well……who wouldn’t listen to that! I mean, that poor guy wrote that with his own blood! And so, that’s going to be the most help you’ll ever going to get because your most of your allies are dead and the ones that are still alive just say “Ok Isaac, we’re gonna send you down a monster infected ship with no weapons to repair it while we chill here in this safe room with big chunky assault rifles. Have fun! Oh and make sure you aim for their limbs.” But I’m not saying that the characters are bad or anything, in fact the voice acting is pretty good. But this game is a single player game ONLY. So we can only hope that there will be downloadable content down the road.

I bet your asking why you have to aim for the limbs, well; you do that because if you saw off a Necromorph’s head, it won’t make the cut. The Necromorph will morph onto another creature that will be harder to kill and much more deadly. But now, I should tell you that you don’t have ANY firearm. Yup, no shotguns, pistols, or machine guns. Instead, you’re going to use the tools of your mining trade such as saws, lasers cutters, rock smashers, and other useful tools. Each weapon has its own ability’s such as switching from vertical or horizontal cuts, gravity effects, and other fun things that will rid of everything in your path.

In 2008, Capcom made the wise move of restoring the original Mega Man series to its roots in Mega Man 9.

Mega Man 9 featured 8-bit graphics and sound effects, just like Mega Man 1 through 6 on the Nintendo Entertainment System. The fluidity is ever flawless and, while a tad difficult, stunned retro audiences everywhere. Capcom then made the decision to capitalize on its success by releasing Mega Man 10. Does Mega Man 10 continue the series of stunning games admirably, or is it as low a depression in the franchise as Mega Man 5?

In Mega Man 10, a robot disease known as Roboenza (Man, even robots are affected by Swine Flu!) sweeps over the robot population of Earth, ultimately making them go insane. Dr.Wily, Mega Man’s former nemesis, comes crashing down while Mega Man is outside, stating that the robots are not his and he is working on a device to cure the ailed robots. Mega Man sets off to deal with 8 super powerful robot masters. As the plot goes on, it becomes evident that Dr.Wily is forming the cure for the sole purpose of offering it to robots that come help him conquer the world. I’ve found this cure, although most games in the series follow a generic plot, to be very weak. It is a flat out retread of the Mega Man X games’ plot and with a hasty and not at all clever tiein to the H1N1 flu. But like most games, the gameplay is the true deciding point.

In Mega Man 10, Mega Man and his robotic brother Protoman must set off to defeat 8 Robot Masters. Right from the beginning, there is the option to play as Mega Man or Proto Man, each with their own pros and cons, whereas one had to shell out two dollars to play as Protoman in Mega Man 9. There are also three different game difficulties, which makes it more accessible to a wider audience of gamers and is the only game since the American release of Mega Man 2 to feature such a thing. Also, Dr. Wily’s Mega Man in a sense, Bass, is to be available for download in April. After completing the game, one can participate in a series of challenges, from jumping to shooting to killing bosses. Mega Man 10 is a game packed with bonus features, but how does the gameplay hold up.

In Mega Man 10, there are 8 Robot Masters. It has been clear since the days of Mega Man 4 that as the series progressed; the Robot Masters slowly became weirder and weirder. With that said, Mega Man 9 at least tried.

Some Robot Masters did not turn out very well, such as Concrete Man and Galaxy Man, but at least the Robot Masters weren’t flat out stupid. That and it had the series’ first female robot Master, Splash Woman.Yay for equality in video games! But with Mega Man 10, the question is asked; was Capcom even trying?! We get Robot Masters like Sheep Man and Strike Man, the sports Robot Master, in Mega Man 10. And to make things worse, Sheep Man was the first Mega Man 10 Robot Master to be announced! Way to leave a bad impression, Capcom! Upon defeating a Robot Master, it has been a tradition that Mega Man gets the robot’s weapon. That weapon is good against another Robot Master. But the weaknesses can be a little confusing in Mega Man 10.

For example, the Chill Spike is a weapon that creates spikes when it is dropped and is the weakness against Continued on pg 6 Nitro Man. However, upon hitting him with the Chill Spike, it does little damage. Actually, you have to get

weakness, he takes more damage than normal.

While the game still maintains the series’ flawless control, unlike another series I can name, (*cough cough* Super Mario *cough cough*) Mega Man 10’s gameplay is very underwhelming and the Robot Master’s are ultimately what ruin the game.

While Mega Man 10 is a huge package with more replay value than previous Mega Man games, Mega Man 10’s gameplay is some of the worst in the series. It appears that Capcom focused on increasing the package of Mega Man 10 rather than making it a sweet experience for retro gamers. If you are prepared for a bit of a challenge, I strongly suggest downloading Mega Man 10’s predecessor rather than Mega Man 10 itself. Mega Man 10 isn’t truly bad, but it’s somewhere near the bottom of the series, at about the same level as Mega Man 4 or 6. (It’s nowhere near as bad as Mega Man 5. Capcom would have to go nuts with their series again to make a game THAT terrible.) Mega Man 9 had better Robot Masters and better gameplay than its sequel, and while it’s a tad bit too hard, it is a better experience for Mega Man fans and new gamers alike. You can just pay the extra 200 wii points to get Proto Man on Mega Man 9. Trust me, its better than wasting 1,000 wii points on the disappointService to the ment that is Mega Man 10. Community Happenings Isabel Silverston and Margaret Allard collected money during February and March to raise money for Pennies for Peace. This is the organization that the writer Greg Mortensen (the author of Three Cups of Tea) started. This is/was part of the girls’ Batmitzvah projects and was inspired by their reading of the book last year during book groups.

The girls also met Greg Mortensen at the Boston Public library and he donated three of his books to our library.

Members of the 8th Community Service group will be headed to the Cardinal Cushing School to work with children with significant needs.

DO You have a favorite book?

Please share it with us.

Contact Rebecca Mayrand, the newspaper advisor for details.

Rebecca_mayrand@newton.k12.ma.us.

Around our world Cooking with Chef Jack

OAK HILL’S FAVORITE PET POLL

By Jack Casey

By: Monica Cipriano and YoElena Tkebuchaua

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This is my graph about Oak Hill’s favorite TV chef. The most popular chef at Oak Hill is Rachel Ray. My favorite chef is not on TV. My favorite chef is my dad.

My Dad makes the best meatballs. My Auntie Sue helped make the recipe. My dad puts cheese in the meatballs. He puts them in really good tomato sauce. We eat them with ziti and bread. They are the best ever.

I want to thank my dad and Auntie Sue for sharing their meatball recipe. Here it is: 1.5 lb. ground beef (85% lean is healthy) 1 egg beaten 3/4 cup soft Italian breadcrumbs 1/2 teaspoon onion powder 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon basil 1 teaspoon oregano 1 Tablespoon parmesan cheese 1 teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce Sprinkle of salt and pepper Step 1 - Preheat Oven to 350 degrees Step 2 Prepare pan for baking meatballs: grease cookie sheet or cover cookie sheet with foil and lightly grease Step 3 Mix by hand ground beef and beaten egg Step 4- add bread crumbs and seasonings, mix well by hand Step 5 Form into 1 inch balls. Place on prepared cookie sheet about 12 to 15 per sheet Bake for 12 to 15 minutes until meatballs cooked through.

Remove from oven and drain on paper towels (if needed) Place into favorite spaghetti sauce.

Enjoy!

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Ask May and Amy

To May and Amy:

I have a HUGE problem…….gossip. It is crazy right now! All anyone can do is gossip! I am not one that likes to, but everyone else does! Even my friends are now and that’s a problem because half the reason we are friends is because none of us where into it, but now, I’m not so sure. I am afraid to even talk to them now because if I tell them something, I don’t know if I can trust them to keep something to themselves! I don’t want to gossip, but also I don’t want to loose my friends!

Have any ideas?

May’s answer: Gossip is always hard to deal with, but you are right about not gossiping, it’s the nice, right thing to do even if you are the only one to realize it. Confront your friends and tell them what you just told me, say that an important part of your friendship was the “no gossip rule” and if it is not still included that you are not sure if you can all be friends. If they gossip and make fun of what you told them, don’t get scared, pretend you don’t care. If someone comes up to you and says, “I can’t believe it! You didn’t really say that did you?” Don’t back down! Say to them, “Yeah I did, and its true, people who gossip are just afraid so they gossip so others won’t do it to them, and I am above that.” But make sure when you say that you aren’t acting like a snob, and everything will be okay.

Amy’s Answer: Can there be a more obvious answer????? If someone gossips about you that does not mean you need to take it……..give it right back to them! You don’t always need to be the one to do the right thing? I mean why should you be the bold, kind one all the time? Let the others do that for a change. Yeah, some people might decide that they don’t want to be your friends, but don’t

The TRUE facts about Chuck Norris

By Matthew Lu In the beginning, there was time, space, and Chuck Norris. For those who are not familiar with the Chuck, he is a god, a legend, a Kung-Fu master, the very reason why Waldo is hiding, he is CHUCK NORRIS. 1. Chuck Norris has the greatest Poker-Face of all time. He won the 1983 World Series of Poker, despite holding only a Joker, a Get out of Jail Free Monopoly card, a 2 of clubs, 7 of spades and a green #4 card from the game UNO. 2. Google won’t search for Chuck Norris because it knows you don’t find Chuck Norris, he finds you. (Try it!

Type in “Google Chuck Norris” and press “I’m feeling lucky”) 3. Chuck Norris doesn’t read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.

4. If you spell Chuck Norris in Scrabble, you win.

5. Chuck Norris CAN believe it’s not butter 6. Newton’s Third Law is wrong: Although it states that for each action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, there is no force equal in reaction to a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick.

7. The Bermuda Triangle used to be the Bermuda Square, until Chuck Norris Roundhouse kicked one of the corners off.

8. There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Chuck Norris lives in Oklahoma.

9. Chuck Norris isn’t god but he can beat him in a round of golf.

10. Chuck Norris once kicked a horse in the chin. Its descendants are known today as Giraffes.

Around our world April 2010 Sun

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You can find or buy these tools from various auto shops scattered around the ship. You can also upgrade your suit using benches that are also around the ship. Though, beware, Dead Space is not an easy game and not for people who have a weak stomach. Dead Space is defiantly a game that’s only for someone who has the gut play it. Now out for the PS3, Xbox360, and the PC, this is a must get game that many gamers will enjoy. So suit up, grab your tools, and step into a nightmare.

Red Sox Opening Day

NEWSPAPER STAFF: Julian Milkey JAck LOVETT Matthew Lu Peter Klapes Dennis Phan Monica Cipriano YoElena Tkebuchaua Johan Thomas Julian Montagut Jack Casey