The Bishop's Presence Is a Present
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Friday, January 12, 2018 The Bishop George Ahr HS Volume 48 One Tingley Lane Number 2 Satoma Edison, New Jersey 08820 Newsmagazine The Bishop’s Presence Is A Present See article on page 11... Inside... Fallout Boy P. 5 Holiday stories P. 9 Sports spotlight P. 13 Student Artwork p.2 Self-love P. 6 Cotillion P. 10 Swimming P. 14 Cookie vs. cookie p.3 Christmas concert P. 7 Ahr Star Mass P. 11 Winter Track P. 15 “The Last Jedi” p.4 Sophomore traditions P. 8 California fires P. 12 Ads P. 16 8 Job # School HJ HJ Job # 4977 School Bishop George Ahr High School 8 Special Instructions Special Instructions 2 Template Template 3 WICS551101L WICS551101R ©2010 Herff Jones, Inc., ©2010 Herff Jones, Inc., Even All Rights Reserved All Rights Reserved Odd Page Page Black Ink Includes Spot Color(s) Process 4-Color (CMYK) Black Ink Includes Spot Color(s) x Process 4-Color (CMYK) 2 CREATIVITY The Satoma Newsmagazine • Friday • January 12 • 2018 Top left: Artwork by Abigail Chadwick ‘21 Top right: Artwork by Sydney Samuelson ‘21 Bottom Right: Artwor by Ally Wonski ‘18 Next quarter satoma will hold a creative writiNg aNd art coNtest. The Holiday Rush studeNts who waNt to By: Nicole Petrick have their work published Holiday shopping, Rushing around, Cries from the customers, managers’ frown. should coNtact ms. byrNe Nothing compares to the holiday rush, Except maybe when it’s left in the dust. ([email protected]) Christmas is a time to put all the hustle and bustleaway, But instead we choose to indulge in holiday layaways. Wrapping paper, and crisp ribbons are wrapped as one Christmas trees and jolly lights add to the fun. T HE S ATOMA S TAFF Gift Cards and gift sets are bundled and wrapped, While paychecks and credit cards get caught in the trap. WI S HE S BGA A A long time ago Christmas had a bigger reason, But now all that’s lost in the material season. Presents instead of people, is what I fear H APPY N EW Y EAR ! will soon be the meaning of Holiday Cheer. 8 Job # 4977 School Bishop George Ahr High School HJ HJ Job # School 8 Special Instructions Special Instructions 2 Template Template 3 WICS551101L WICS551101R ©2010 Herff Jones, Inc., ©2010 Herff Jones, Inc., Even All Rights Reserved All Rights Reserved Odd Page Page Black Ink Includes Spot Color(s) x Process 4-Color (CMYK) Black Ink Includes Spot Color(s) Process 4-Color (CMYK) The Satoma Newsmagazine • Friday • January 12 • 2018 OPINION 3 In the defense of oatmeal raisin Dear read- both stocked heavily. On the would have been instantly ers, when left platter, there are choco- reminded of the nightmarish garland and late chip, and on the right conditions of a rocky field Principal: Sr. Donna Marie Trukowski Associate Principal: Harry Ziegler the gentle oatmeal raisin. You are now due to the hostile, unfriendly, Vice Principal: Brian Brogno glow of confronted with this enthrall- and rigid edges. As you place Campus Minister: warm hearts ing puzzle. Right or left? the circle of despair from ba- Sr. Cynthia Marie Babyak decorate our Oatmeal raisin or Chocolate sicness into your mouth, all Technology Coordinator: homes ev- Chip? Salvation or Condem- the joy and hope for a deli- Michael Kowalczyk ery year in nation? cious Christmas treat turns to late Decem- Reader, if you chose the ash. As you spit out the hor- Editor-in-Chief ber, we are confronted with a platter on your right, you rendous disgrace for a cook- Simon Llaguno moral dilemma so herculean have chosen correctly. You ie, everyone attending the in nature that most of us fail place your fingers on the oat- Christmas party turns to look Photo Editor in choosing the righteous an- meal raisin cookie directly at you. You understand their Maia Lim swer. We are approached by on top. You feel the heav- tacit command to leave from Copy Editors an ultimate decision between enly textures of soft, though the looks on their faces. On Ally Wonski two choices: chocolate chip slightly bumpy contours of your walk of timid humilia- and oatmeal raisin cookies. the surface. You slowly place tion along the darkened roads, Editorial Editor Rationally, I propose that the cookie in your mouth and you feel the immense guilt as Thomas Knapp the far superior treat is oat- bite down. Your teeth glide the entire neighborhood looks Entertainment Editor meal raisin. The infinitely through the scrumptious con- upon you. “Shame!” they yell Julia Kebuladze better oatmeal raisin cookie tents and begin to chew. Your “Shame.” is a delicious, gooey dessert, saliva captures the tasty par- What did you choose when School News/Service Editors and those who deny the mag- ticles and delivers them to our good Santa Claus deliv- Mary Pucci nificence of that glorious disk your taste buds. As you be- ered presents on December Sports Editor do not deserve its existence. gin to experience the cosmic 25th? Did you choose the Simon Llaguno In a hypothetical situa- delight, you begin to wonder good graciousness of oatmeal tion, imagine yourself enjoy- the fundamental questions of raisin? Or, did you errone- Editorial Writers ing a family Christmas party. life. You ask yourself what ously choose the awful choc- Thomas Knapp You are sitting on the couch would’ve happened if you had olate chip? I can only hope, Julia Kebuladze when suddenly, on the coffee picked the platter on the left. dear reader, you knew what to Ally Wonski Michael Trinidad table, you notice that there If you had picked up the choose. are two platters of cookies, chocolate chip cookie, you Staff Writers Alyssa Pittari, Megan Lim, Ashley D’Souza, Pamela Picerno, Jaren Buliyat, Sybille Rateau, Girely The case for chocolate chip Oyola, Julia Duarte, Claire Froehlich, Carissa Matrale, Nicole When you Christmas spirit and as much and I hope you agree. Petrick, Samantha Soldo, Marjolyn Megaloudis, Adam Kubisak, Jasmine imagine the joy. When you look at many I highly doubt you would Chang holidays, of the children’s Christmas like to not honor your ances- you prob- books, you find chocolate tors, you own blood family Adviser: Amy Kate Byrne ably think chip cookies being used for who strived for you to have of an im- the occasion, not oatmeal rai- a better future and a lov- Vol. 48, No.2 age similar sin. ing home.They fought for The Satoma Newsmagazine is to this: You Most Christmas movies dis- you right to live somewhere a student publication which imagine card the silly oatmeal snacks, where you can enjoy the feel- is the forum of expression for yourself sipping hot choco- instead using the comfort of ing of righteousness when the student body at Bishop late by the fire while watch- a piping hot chocolate chip you choose a chocolate chip George Ahr High School, ing Christmas movies with cookie. While some may pre- cookie. They tried to make One Tingley Lane, Edison, family. The oven dings; you fer the taste of oatmeal raisin sure you had a home, where New Jersey 08820. Letters to pull out a fresh batch of de- to chocolate chip, the cookie you could comfortably rel- the editor should be signed licious, warm, chocolate chip is simply not a tradable op- ish in the luscious, beautiful although names will be held cookies. You pour half a glass tion. It is the traditional chocolate chip cookie. upon request. The Satoma of milk, then place the cook- food that makes Christmas I once had a friend who ate Newsmagazine is a member ies and beverage above the as magical as it is! It is not a processed and granulated of the Quill and Scroll and the fireplace, awaiting the com- something to simply taste, it dried grape cookie rather than American Scholastic Press ing morning where you find is something to experience. a heavenly, cherubic choco- Association. some of the snacks gone! When you think of Christmas, late chip cookie. They lived This is the Christmas tra- it is doubtful that you auto- the rest of their life in regret Phone: (732)-549-1108 dition that many children matically think of oatmeal of that choice they made that ext. 655 have grown up with, and it raisin cookies. While having day. This is a warning, a cau- should continue to be one new customs is important, I tionary tale. I hope I have Email: [email protected] of the trademark christmas think honoring the cookies of made a convincing case for traditions. Variants of this the generations before us is chocolate chip cookies, the Web: www.bgahs.org/satoma. story would not bring you as one of the time honored tra- right, and only, choice this jsp much happiness, not as much ditions of the holiday season, holiday season. 8 Job # School HJ HJ Job # 4977 School Bishop George Ahr High School 8 Special Instructions Special Instructions 2 Template Template 3 WICS551101L WICS551101R ©2010 Herff Jones, Inc., ©2010 Herff Jones, Inc., Even All Rights Reserved All Rights Reserved Odd Page Page Black Ink Includes Spot Color(s) Process 4-Color (CMYK) Black Ink Includes Spot Color(s) x Process 4-Color (CMYK) 4 Entertainment The Satoma Newsmagazine • Friday • January 12 • 2018 ‘Last Jedi’storms theaters By: Maia Lim after the conclusion of the original Rotten Tomatoes. It also received line and positive feedback, fanatics trilogy and picked up where the numerous praises from many top and passerbys alike should expect “The Force Awakens” left off when critics including Rolling Stone and a thrilling conclusion to the trilogy On December 9th, 2017, the Rey discovered the banished Luke The Atlantic.