Volume 120, Issue 7 - Humor

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Because we could all use a laugh...

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The SK8

Brought to you from the future Record, circa 2122.

Horace Mann’s Premier Skate Publication for the 22nd Century

record.horacemann.org November 4th, 2122

School trashes The Record, thrashes with The SK8 Sker Boi Staff Writer After a century of fearlessly breaking school news such as “The assembly last week” and “That other assembly the week before that,” The Record has published its final issue. It will be replaced by weekly newspaper The SK8, covering HMSK8, the only club that students do not join for college credit. Led by former Record faculty advisor, The SK8 will bring back real reporting to the student body. “I’m all for journalism, but spending

Thursday nights in the StuPub for another year would have been my breaking point,” he said. “Now all I need is to change the core value to life of the grind and all my dreams will be fulfilled.” The SK8 will report only the most consequential school news: kids who thrash. “We already have an issue in the works ranking the skaters in terms of ability, commitment to the club, and use of sarcasm,” the advisor said. The Record’s disbandment was met by dismay among its editorial board. “What will I put on my

Regular Decision application now, when I shockingly don’t get into the ED school my college counselor strongly discouraged me from applying to?” the disgruntled Editor-In-Chief said. The editors and staff writers are struggling to cope with the publication’s removal, Anty Soshul (12) said. “I’ve given up everything to be a news editor. What else am I supposed to do on Thursdays besides stress about the layout? My homework?” Students on the top-secret-but-definitely-real interview-

Coun-sealing and Guidance embraces cuddly, furry initiative Ce-Seal-ia Jones Staff Writer

Starting this school year, the Counseling and Guidance department has a furry replacement: in lieu of trained psychologists, each student will receive a personal therapeutic robot seal to meet their mental health needs. In the wake of Riverdale and Fieldston’s robotic backpack carriers and butterfly sanctuary, previous Head of Counseling and Guidance, now Head of Seal Studies Dr. Sealma Sand decided that students’ well-being required a more technological, personalized approach. “If these seals work on dementia patients, they can work on Horace Mann students.” The primary purpose of robot seals is to alleviate depression and anxiety through the clinically-tested method

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of emanating extreme cuteness. “Seals can soothe students’ nerves, reassure them of their worth, and coo on command,” Sand said. “Our human counselors could only do two of the three.” The seals will live in the Jeffrey A. Loria Aquatic Center, which will expand to accommodate the animatronic sea-dwellers. “We plan to triple the size of the pool and convert the surrounding area into a zen garden with mini meeting ponds for students to get one-on-one time with their seals,” Facilities Manager Timothy Seashell said. This new plan has left Water Polo Coach Dave Swimmer furious. “Waterpolo is the only team at this school with any potential for success,” he said. “If they don’t take Four Acres, I’m going clubbing, and I don’t mean the fun kind.”

Despite causing the school’s sports rating on niche.com to drop from a B- to a D, matching its environmental rating, the seal initiative has received positive feedback, Sand said. “Students complain that we spend too much time in HMO on the dangers of Halloween parties, and not enough time on the dangers of depression,” she said. “The seals take care of all that.” The community has already begun to pick out names for the seals, spending countless hours in the art studio painting custom name tags for “Sealine Dion,” “Sea-lo Green,” and “Sealena Gomez,” amongst others. “I can’t wait to get out of class to heal my mental health with a seal break,” Charlie Sealer (10) said. “Who needs professional psychological advice when you have cute baby seals?”

ee list are thankful for the change, Burn Tout (11) said. “I hate getting emails from freshmen asking me for an interview,” she said. “I read it and didn’t respond. Take the hint.” UD teachers are also grateful for the shift, UD English teacher Dr. Greene Lite said. “I can’t stand when Record writers hand out the paper in class on Friday. It’s such a distraction from the real work of English: analyzing literature using Sigmund Freud’s mommy issues.” An anonymous student reported seeing Lite get into her car with a skateboarding helmet last Tuesday.

The student body greatly prefers The SK8 over The Record, Cawfee Adikt (11) said. “At least this publication has some positive news,” she said. “Why would I want to read about our Lions losing again?” The SK8 is projected to be the most popular publication now that The Record is gone — not a high bar, given that the paper’s readership consisted of its own writers vying for leadership positions and… well, that’s about it.

Tuition hits $1M, zombie Mann harangues Trustees Max A. Million Staff Writer A putrefying and moldering Horace Mann rose from his Rhode Island grave and staggered 166 miles along the side of I-95 to burst into the Trustee’s meeting room and castigate the Board of Trustees after the school raised the tuition to one million dollars for the 2122-23 school year. His rotting corpse lambasted the stunned c r o w d of 32 trustees. “Re a l ly? I mean, really? A million dollars? And I thought sixty thousand was bad. I spent my whole life d e d i c a t e d to education as a great equalizer, and this is how you honor my legacy?” One board member commented, “It was trippy to see Horace Mann ‘in the flesh.’ But I gotta be honest — he smelled pretty funky.” The Board defended their tuition hike by citing rising inflation, and sent Mann back to Providence in an Uber XL with a complimentary HM sweatshirt, mug, and umbrella. In a later press release, the board explained their seven-figure fee by flaunting the school’s pricey initiatives.

Half the money will go towards increased security. “The only way to protect our students is to encase each one in bubble wrap,” Chair of Trustees Mann Made P’2134, 2136, 2140, 2142 said. Additionally, a giant moat surrounding campus has been constructed and filled with orcas. The t-shirt cannon has been converted into a real cannon to terminate potential assailants. Some of the increased tuition revenue will be spent on Helicopter escorts that arrive ever y 10-minViv ian utes to Co rac i/P f e r r y roc rea tor s tu d e nt s to the D u n k i n’ Donuts down the hill. The remaining cash-money will fund a fleet of gourmet food trucks manned by celebrity chefs. Options include caviar on chicken tendies and foie gras mac and cheese. Facilities Management will also install Snapple fountains every 20 feet to meet students’ beverage needs. When asked if there is an inherent contradiction between the school tuition and its astronomical tuition, Washed Uplum ‘97 was stunned speechless — but not for long. “Chill brah,” he said. “We did service learning.”


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