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Inside This Year's Final Issue Survey Resul t s, Mega Facul t y Grid, Rugby, Review of Curtains, Get t ing t o Know Mrs. Moul e, This Week on Twit t er and Much More!
Vol . 41, Issue XXV
The Student Newspaper of St. Joseph's Prep
Sage Dining Repl aces Aramark at t he Prep By Aidan O'Connor '17 Time has shown that every empire falls. The Roman Empire, the Mongol Empire and the Ottoman Empire. None stand today. At the Prep, this year marks the fall of Aramark dining services. Starting July 1, 2016, Sage Dining Services will be the new food provider for the Prep. This is the culmination of a search process that began in early November.
exceptional dining services. They emphasize fresh, local foods made from scratch in small batches; the difference in taste comes through in just about everything they serve. They are passionate about great food, nutrition and sustainability,? said the official announcement from
the Prep. The original list of potential vendors was ten long. Seven companies responded to the Prep with proposals. From this four were shortlisted: Sage, Culinart, Metz, and Aramark. At this point certain students were invited to serve on a
?We are thrilled to be in partnership with Sage which is committed to
committee to taste test food prepared by these companies and provide feedback. Based on this feedback along with other information such as finances, Sage was chosen. ?I am very happy that Sage is our new provider. They provide legitimate and quality tasting food for the same value price as Aramark. Also, it appears as Sage wants to be at the Prep and cares about us more so than Aramark did,? says Joe Console ?17, one of the taste testers. Sage hopes to enact changes in the food experience at Continued on Page 6.
Dcn. Fit zpat rick, Science Teacher, Ret ires By Eamon Gal l agher ?17
sweet. When asked what his favorite part about being a teacher was, his answer was simply ?teaching.?
2016 is a year of many goodbyes in the Prep community. It is dealing with many departures after this term, not the least of which is the retirement of physics teacher Dcn. Thomas Fitzpatrick. As a man who has been teaching at the Prep for 31 years, he is deeply attached to the school community. Even if a student has not had the honor of being lectured by him in the classroom, he has probably seen him during mass in the Gesu, where he serves as a deacon, and maybe he has even listened a
When asked if he had any plans for retirement, he said, ?No. Generally speaking plans find me, so I?m open.?
homily of his.
Fitzpatrick.
Fitzpatrick recently talked about his impending retirement.
This quote perfectly exemplifies how deep the connection between Fitzpatrick and the Prep truly is.
?I have six [favorite Prep memories]: giving my sons their diplomas when they graduated,? says
For much of the brief interview, Fitzpatrick kept his answers short and
He did, however, have one final piece of advice that should be useful for anyone involved in education, whether they be a teacher, student or parent. ?Every single time in my entire career that I thought a kid was just gone and not worth the effort anymore, I?ve been wrong. Every single kid is worth the Continued on page 13.
May 23, 2016
New Bl ocking Syst em Rest rict s Games, Joy
By Pat Ryan '16 Three weeks ago a new web filter was added to the Chromebooks. Its improved blocking ability has left many students with no other option than to pay attention during class.
manually block every one. Blacklisting ultimately fails when hundreds of students are looking for unblocked sites.
Whitelisting is the opposite of blacklisting. Instead of the administrator marking every Both Mr. Kenneth website that they Kiesel and Mr. Mark want blocked, they D?Eramo declined to only set the websites be interviewed. Mr. that they want D?Eramo reluctantly allowed. This explained through strategy is unrealistic email that ?the ?new? in a classroom filter runs on the setting because it Chromebook.? blocks all sites, good A Google search and bad. revealed that the Keyword filtering is filter is a plugin the most efficient called ?GoGuardian?. and puts the smallest Its specialized to burden on the filter and analyze administrator. All web usage in schools they have to do is set with Chromebooks. a list of keywords There are three and any site that has different types of one of the keywords web filtering will be blocked. available: GoGuardian blacklisting, combines both whitelisting, and keyword filtering and keyword filtering. blacklisting. With the GoGuardian can be old filter, a student configured to any of could find a new these. website for games by Blacklisting is very simply googling direct, but requires ?unblocked games?. the most work. The Now, GoGuardian administrator must prevents even manually input every googling those website that they words. want blocked. With And, because it is a millions of websites, Continued on page 4. it is impossible to