Volume 45, Issue I

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A L etter From the Editor s Page 2

M ade in Amer ica Festival Page 4

ASC Profile: Teddy L awlor '15 Page 7

Opinion: Go to the M ixer Page 12

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Vol. 45, I ssue I

1733 West Gir ar d Ave. Philadelphia, PA, 19130

September 9, 2019

Prep Football Player s Combat M edia Cr itics with " Tr ust and L ove" By Gar rett M cCloskey '21 First it was online forums. Then came articles from the Allentown Morning Call. After that came tweets from former Coatesville Offensive Coordinator Jim Cantafio. There was also Pennsylvania State Representative Joe Conklin.

(Photo: Tim Tai | The Philadelphia I nquirer)

And now it?s Al Thompson and the ?Protect Our Youth from Steroids? group. Facing criticism is nothing new for the Prep football program. ?As a team we try and block out all the noise from the reporters and fans to focus on the team and our goals as the season progresses,? said Casey Stephenson ?20. Stephenson is a team captain and is committed to play football at Howard University. Continued on Page 15

The attention of media cr itics has reminded Prep football player s to remember Coach Roken's mantr a: " stay in our own bubble."

Freshman Already M aking an I mpact with Homeless Vets

I n the Great Chicken Debate, Popeyes Tops All By M ur phy Bonner '22

Have you ever walked past a homeless person holding up a sign that reads ?Homeless Veteran?? After seeing first hand the sad reality that many veterans live, Freshman Cole McCafferty questioned how someone who has selflessly served their country could be cast aside and thrown onto the streets upon returning home from war.

Lawsuits, overworked employees, twitter feuds, and a company scrambling. How did all of this begin on account of a chicken sandwich?

(Photo: Cole M cCaffer ty '23 | Twitter)

By Caleb Datto '22

?Did you know that over 20 Cole M cCaffer ty '23 has been fighting since sixth gr ade to Veterans commit suicide a day or combat the alar ming homeless veter ans in the Philadelphia that 39,000 Veterans are area. homeless on any given night?? #ColesChallenge, an online Edison High School, paying said Cole. campaign which aimed to raise tribute to the sixty-four The freshman has made it his money and awareness for Vietnam War Veterans who mission to raise awareness and homeless Veterans. Their goal attended the school and gave provide the necessary support for was to raise 50,000 for a new their lives for our country. Veterans throughout the kitchen located inside Edison Edison High School Philadelphia region. 64, the future site of a experienced the most loss of homeless veterans facility in student casualties in the Ever since 6th grade, Cole has Philadelphia. Edison 64 sits on been raising money for homeless Continued on Page 5 Veterans. In 2018, he started the grounds of the former

On August 8, Popeyes announced that as part of their new partnership with Sweet Dixie chicken they would be unveiling a new item, a fried chicken sandwich. The unlikely partnership with Sweet Dixie Chicken comes less than two years after they were caught using reheated Popeyes chicken in their own restaurant without their customers knowledge. Despite that, Sweet Dixie Chicken was allowed to sell the chicken sandwich 4 days before it was to be sold at any Popeyes location. This left only one question for Twitter to answer, Who had the best chicken sandwich? The obvious choices were between Chick-Fil-A, the self

proclaimed founder of the ?original? chicken sandwich, and the new untested Popeyes sandwich. After a week of twitter debates, Chick Fil A themselves stepped in with a tweet reminding the people that ?Bun + Chicken + Pickles = all the [Love] for the original.? This one tweet brought the feud to the mainstream where writers from the LA Times and The New Yorker were able to voice their own opinions raising the stakes along the way. From the moment the sandwich made its debut on August 12 there were lines of dozens of people at Popeyes all over the country, all anxious to get their hands on the new creation.

So many people showed up that only after two weeks after the sandwiches' release every Continued on page 12


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