The Classic newspaper Volume 16 Issue no. 4

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Bush, Bradley win big Three reach Intel semi-finals by Rebecca Munoz Results tallied en January 19 revealed that Democrat Bill Bradley and Repu91ican George W. Bush had won the presidential primaries in this year's mock election. The results came as a surprise to some. As of December 22, AI Gore, simulated 13y senior Kenny Rubinov, held nearly 50 pereent of the vote, according to a poll printed in a January 10 issue of Newstfay. Only 12 percent af underclassmen were in favor of his opponent Bill Bradley, simu-lated by senior Josh Deely, ·while the rest pf the underclassmen were either undecided or did not plan to vote. Gore's campaign manager, senior Shawn Kodes, attributed the turnaround to Gore's performance during the debate held on January 7. "Everyone was amazed by the impact of the debate," he said. "It seems that the under-dassmen really care al:lout the issues." The results of the Republican primaries were somewhat surprising as well, since Bush, simulated by senior Andrew Goldberg. held 12 percent less ef the vote in the January 10 potl than his opponent John McCain, simulated by se:nior Ja~k Bouha. Bush's ultimate success was

also attributed to the debates. "Bush really made an imtiression at the debates," said Bush campaigner Alexis Mencbin. The same issue of Newsday reported that 56 percent of underclassmen believet;i Bush had won the debates. Much of the focus of this year's simulation revolved ar0und fundraising. For the first time, randomly selected underclassmen received at least 50 simbuoks, which they could do:nate to the po-. litical party of their choice. One student from each of the six history classes that received simbucks was designated a "fat cat;" and receivced 500 s~mbucks. As a result, many of the candidates spent much of the campaign selling baked goods in an attempt to gain those simbucks. ''The distributed ~imbucks changed the focus from the issu,es to f.undraising," said B.radley 's campaign manag-er Drew Zamhrotta. One of the most centtoversial parts of the election was a television broadcast, made by m-embers the ·Federal Electien Committee (FEC), that admonished seniors for showing disrespect for eaob other and snying Continued on p.13

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by Lauren Paley ment. flict they experienced at home Seniors Stephanie Mandell, Stephanie, the only Social compared with the time they Shivaria Naidoo aild Tina Shih Science winner out · of the- lived in the United States. A became three among 300 na- twelve papers submitted, said survey was used to judge how tional semi-finalists in the Intel her study, "Assimilation and assimilated the students were Science Talent Search's (STS) Intergeneration Conflict: An into American culture. She desincreased award program on Empirical Analysis ofRelation- ignated immigrants from India, January 10. Each won $1,000 ship Strain Between Asian Im- China,. Japan, Korea, Pakistan in individual and most other Eastern prize money, and § countries with the exthe group earned ~ ception of Russia, as a total of $3,000 ~ her subjects. for the Science ~;>. Her findings and Social Sci,a showed that the longer ence Rt;search . ..;: Asian · immigrant programs within .S families lived in the 0 the school. .. ] United States, the Intel's $1.2 "" more the children asmillion grant alsimilated and the more lows the Science conflict arose between Service, the the different generaprogram's adtions. She also conministrator, to cluded that there was offer cash prizes more conflict between to semi-finalists these same children In good spirits, Intel Semi-finalists seniors Tina Shih, Stephanie - for the first time and their fathers than Mandell, and Shivana Naidoo express joy over winning,cash in the any other family memprizes. competition's ber. But, "to explain 59-year history. Skin cancer, migrant Adolescents and Their that would be something for family relations among Asian Parents, From the Adolescents' future research," she said. immigrants and the production Prospective," "was the most enStephanie was also the of blue laser light were the win- joy able academic experience fourth place winner in The ning topics. I've ever done." She added, Quality of Life Competition Assistant Principal of Sci- "It's [also] the longest ()fall the last year for her project with ence Brendan Curran plans to Social Science titles." Senior Elizabeth Patti, "Inuse the $2,000 from Shivana In conversations with_her creasing Rubber Recycling by and Tina's projects to fix bro- friends, she had noticed that her Increasing New York City's ken microscopes and-buy hot Asian friends seemed to have Uses For Recycling Rubber." plates, while Anthony Scarnati, more trouble with their parents She was co-president of Stuteacher of the Social Science than any other culture group. dents for the Preservation of the Research elective, says the She surveyed Asian immigrant Earth for two years, and has ' $1,000 won by Stephanie will junior high school students to go to the Humanities depart- determine the amount of conContinued on p. 7

Extra band exte,nds by Bosede Adenekan An additional band now extends the school day, requiring some students to leave later in the afternoon . . This new schedule only af- · fects jun_iors because the Board of Education has mandated, limiting the size of English 6 classes to 25 instead of 34 students. This created two extra English 6 classes. Since there ·is not enough room in the school building to place these

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extra classes, another period dents .. Furthermore, while the teams and other activities that was added to the day for some , number of classes increase, the meet after school. Furtherjuniors. They have a free pe- number of available classrooms more, some teams use the gymriod during the day and a class remain set. "There are only 18 nasium during practice after with Robert Bloom, gym regular classrooms . Some - school, making it impossible teacher, from 1:30 until 3: 15 on rooms in the building aren't for this class to meet in the gym. Mondays and from 2:30 until appropriate for classes. You "There are lots of athletes in 4:05 on Wednesdays. wouldn't put Latin classes in a my class who partiCipate in "It is known that smaller computer lab," said Principal spring sports, so they will miss classes make for better educa- Malcolm Largmann .. class but they'll have sometion," said Arthur Boulanger, This period after school has thing else to do," said Mr. Program Chairman, explaining created some conflicts for both Bloom. Mr. Bloom stated that _ why English Regents- classes teachers and students. The gym he thinks the days when his PE have a reduced number of stu- class interferes with clubs, class meets will rotate, depend-

ing on the schedule of athletic . teams. Dr. Largmann asserts that thi~extra period is nothing new to members of the Townsend Harris community. In previous years, there have been z~ro band gym classes. "We've always had an extra period. All I've done is put it in writing so that if we have to expand, students can't say they never knew about it," said Dr. Largmann.

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Mock Election Reactions -pp. 2-3

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'Man-in-the-Can' p. ,6

Clowning Around pp. 8-9

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Sports p.16


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