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School NewspaperDISPATCH“The beacon of truth since 1974” ISSUE II, VOLUME 48 HUNTINGTON HIGH SCHOOL OAKWOOD AND MCKAY ROADS HUNTINGTON, NY 11743 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR THE HOLIDAYS 2018 OP-ED Procrastination: How to Spend Your Break NHD Free 2-3 Going Back into Time with Hunting- ton High School 3 100 vs. 101: Grade Culture 4-5 World AIDS Day 2018: What More Can Be Done in Terms of Prevention and Awareness? 5 Intersectional Feminism: What Is It? 6 Amazon Develops New Feature That Will Predict Your Purchases Before You Make Them 6-7 ate your homework. You might not KIARA GELBMAN get credit, but hopefully the teacher NATIONAL NEWS will appreciate the creativity. The California Wildfires: A Devastat- Well it’s that time of year Present Hacks: If you do not ing Record-Breaker 7 again… Holiday Season! Between want your holiday present to be wait- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vs. The the days off of school and all the ing on long lines while listening to Political Machine 9 holidays just before the new year, the same songs on repeat, make sure A Tribute to George H. W. Bush 10 there is much to be excited about. to shop ahead of time! However, if However, I know the holiday season the holidays sneak up on you and SPANISH can sometimes be overwhelming, so you cannot shop ahead of time, you to keep your holiday spirits up, here can always shop online or master the Las “Patronas” Alimentan a Los is a five step survival guide to get art of regifting. Let Santa take care Inmigrantes De Centroamérica Que through the holiday season. of the rest. Viajan en “La Bestia” (with English Travel Hacks: Between the Ugly Sweater Hacks: There’s Translation) 10-11 packed flights and busy roads, ev- always an event where an ugly hol- erything is hectic about holiday iday sweater is required. Make sure YEAR IN REVIEW traveling. Whether you’re flying or to be prepared and get your sweat- 2018: Year in Review 11-12 driving, make sure to expect delays er ahead of time either online or at and be prepared. To keep your mind a nearby store. Remember not only COMICS from spinning as fast as a dreidel, Christmas sweaters can light up your holiday, you can also have a lat-ke Echo 12 try downloading your favorite music and movies and looking at the scen- fun by getting a Hanukkah sweater! SCIENCE ery you pass. Most importantly, if Christmas Music Hacks: If you you are flying bring earplugs to tune love to go straight from Halloween It’s the Aliens! Or Is It? 13 out any crying babies. fear to Christmas cheer, this is the Christmas Break Assignment perfect time of year for you. How- ENTERTAINMENT Hacks: We all know the struggle of ever if you try and hide from those Bohemian Rhapsody 13 the day before break when you are same Christmas songs every year, try given a sleigh full of work. If you finding some new Christmas music, Netflix vs. Disney: The Streaming War don’t want all that work hanging always having earbuds ready and if That Is Destined to Happen 14 over you like a mistletoe, get it done all else fails just embrace the spirit right away. However, if you decide and sing along. POPCULTURE not to be like a kid on Christmas Keep these holiday tips in The Culture: Should Kanye West Be morning and tear into your work all mind as we approach the holidays. Canceled? 14-16 at once, try spreading it out. If your They will allow you to relax, grab a mind stays in the North Pole the cup of hot chocolate and watch the SPORTS whole time and you forget to do any chaos all around you. What’s Going on with work, keep the holiday energy high Le’Veon Bell? 16 and tell your teacher that a reindeer • • • The Dispatch 2 Winter 2018 Dispatch PROCRASTINATION: HOW TO SPEND YOUR BREAK NHD FREE ERIN YE CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF KERRIE JOYCE December vacation has to procrastinating on schoolwork. HANNAH BAILIN dawned upon us, and we might This means that at Huntington, actually get some proper sleep up to 1392 of our 1600 students for the first time since the end are putting off important tasks LAYOUT EDITOR of November vacation. The hol- right now, and waiting to buy their HANNAH BAILIN idays: hot beverages (first and Christmas presents on Christmas foremost), family time, Christmas Eve. I won’t call you out, but if music, and an escape from the you think I’m talking about you, I CONTRIBUTING STAFF schoolwork that’s been creeping probably am. CASSADY CASABONS, CHRISTIAN BELLISSIMO, beneath our skin for weeks. We’ve You might not even be lazy. COLETTE BARRON, CRAIG HAAS, DOMINICK finally caught a break. Procrastination comes from the STANLEY, EMERSON FORBES, ERIN YE, FINN Latin word crass, which means MALONE, JAMES KRETSCHMER, JULIA GILES, “To be fair, your tomorrow. You’re not doing your KIARA GELBMAN, KEVIN O’DONNELL, LUCAS procrastination NHD work because you’d rather KELLY, LUKE FARRELL, MELISA TORRES, NA- do something else you find to be TALIE MCCANN, SHAYE O’BEIRNE doesn’t make you a bad student.” of more fun or importance. Even- tually, you’ll begin to feel guilty, ADVISORS Wait. Did you finish your but even that’s not enough to reel MS. AIMEE ANTORINO, MR. EDWARD FLOREA, AND NHD project? If you’re reading you in until it’s far too late. Your MR. STEVEN KROLL this article within eyesight or ear- brain cares a lot more about your shot of one of our lovely history present self than your future self teachers here at Huntington, feel because the cost of your choices free to nod and make yourself out now won’t appear until later. Now to be a dutiful student. You, my though, the price you’re paying is friend, are not fooling me. having to type up your bibliogra- phy in your room while everybody The Dispatch is Huntington High School’s official student publication. Written for over 1500 students A Character Analysis of the Pro- else is enjoying their winter break. attending HHS, The Dispatch is distributed to all stu- crastinator dents, staff and school community members at the school free of charge. To be fair, your procras- What You Can Do to Stop (or tination doesn’t make you a bad Start) The Editorial Board is the newspaper’s decision-mak- ing body, organizing and directing its operation. The student. Increased stress has a When it comes down to it, Dispatch staff has adopted the following editorial pol- scientific tendency to increase procrastination is a mindset more icy to express the rights, responsibilities and philoso- phy of the newspaper for the 2018-2019 school year. performance. Say you finish ed- than anything else. If you decide iting your paper at 11:59 on the that you’re tired of having to pull The Dispatch of Huntington High School is a public forum, with its student editorial board making all de- day of the deadline: this may not an all-nighter every time some- cisions concerning its content. Unsigned editorials ex- be an ideal situation, but it also thing that matters comes up, you press the views of the majority of the editorial board. might be a solid paper that you’re can take action to change your Letters to the editor are welcomed and will be pub- writing up. This is not applause ways. To begin, tell yourself that lished as space allows. Letters are preferred signed, but may be published by request. The Editorial Board for your procrastination. Nation- you want to take action rather reserves the right to edit letters for grammar and clari- al History Day is a pretty big deal than need to. Rather than saying ty, and all letters are subject to laws governing obscen- ity, libel, privacy, and disruption of the school process, around here, and I’ve heard the “I need to finish that dumb his- as are all contents of the paper. Questions, comments, stories of the students who fin- tory project,” think, “I want to be and letters to the editor should be sent electronically to [email protected] or submitted to The Dispatch ish their project in the class pe- finished and fulfilled with NHD.” mailbox located in the main office. riod before AP World, or the guy Something as simple as a change Opinions in letters are not necessarily those of the staff, whose entire project was a rock. in perspective can yield signifi- nor should any opinion expressed in a public forum be Those presentations probably ar- cant impact. construed as the opinion of the administration, unless so attributed. en’t going to Hofstra, or receiving If you know that you want a passing grade, for that matter. to start, yet the urge to commence The Dispatch’s goal is to provide readers with inter- esting content in a wide variety of areas. Such areas There’s balance when it comes to hasn’t dawned upon you, consid- include the news coverage of school and community doing assignments; some stress er counting down from 5 and be- events, as well as features on relevent topics. In addi- tion, The Dispatch will provide opinionated editorials is probably meant to be, but the ginning your work at 0. Once the on controversial topics, as well as provide previews type of stress that comes with be- process has reached an opening, and reviews for upcoming school and professional ginning a project the night before it’s far less likely to stop.