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Volume 69, Issue 7 March 2020 Super Tuesday Arman Mehzad ‘21 of them. FiveThirtyEight, however, noticed another trend among late- deciding Biden voters - in the states of Maine, Massachusetts, and Minnesota, white voters played a key role in Biden’s News success, with each state’s electorates Updates regarding being at least eight percent white. On the other hand, an increase in Hispanic Corona virus can be support slightly bolstered Biden’s numbers in California, the most delegate found on page 3 of rich state, but did not amount to anything this issue! able to overtake Sanders’s support within Latino communities. The Vice President’s late surge was also felt across the party’s ideological lines, with conservative Democrats and “very liberal” Democrats alike swinging over Editorials into his camp. As such, Biden can owe It would be an understatement to say that Biden did well on much of his win to the many late-deciders of the Democratic Get the inside scoop Super Tuesday. On one of the biggest primary voting days in the primary, and by extension, his comeback win in South Carolina. about Dart Wars o country, the former Vice President won ten of the fourteen states But what now? up for contest on Super Tuesday, with Senator Bernie Sanders page 5! winning the other four. With around one third of Democratic National Convention delegates awarded to Biden and Sanders primarily (635 and 558 Vice President Biden won the states of Minnesota, Texas, respectively), Biden is most likely to walk away with a majority Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, of pledged delegates by the Democratic National Convention on Virginia, Massachusetts, and Maine, while Senator Sanders won June 6th, with FiveThirtyEight projecting a ninety-nine percent California, Utah, Colorado, and his home state of Vermont. chance that Biden will do just that. However, this is without Features consideration for the events to come - including a potential shift The lead up to March 3rd can help explain how Biden in Senator Sanders’s strategy, the eleventh and twelfth Want a complete up- significantly outperformed expectations laid out by sites such as Democratic debates, a possible endorsement from now withdrawn date on the Bachelor? FiveThirtyEight, a prominent statistical analysis website, and Senator Elizabeth Warren, and more. Policy differences between RealClearPolitics, a polling aggregate site. The former Vice Biden and Sanders will come under much more scrutiny, and with Read our brand new President’s win is most attributable to his so-called “revival” in only two people on the debate stage from here on out (a stark Bachelor feature on South Carolina, a more conservative state in the four early difference from the first Democratic debates, which saw twenty primary states, where he beat out his only prominent competitor candidates spread out over two nights), attacks will become more pg 6. Bernie Sanders by more than twenty percentage points. The prevalent, and discussions more substantive. It is completely victory was expected to lead many voters who had earlier seen possible, then, that a blunder from Biden during a debate or in the candidate as unelectable due to his failures in the earlier states one of the states voting in the next month may lead to a reversal to reevaluate their stances and possible votes, and indeed, they of his current trajectory. After all, this presidential primary has did. This was most clearly reflected in exit polling: according to been nothing but chaotic. If one thing is sure though, it’s that if ABC News, the percentage of Biden’s voters who decided in the Joe Biden can continue his streak of wins and his renewed debate Senior Spotlights last few days following South Carolina amounted to an average performances for a little longer, he will be the Democratic Check out our of around fifty percent, in comparison to an average of around nominee for president. eighteen percent for Sanders. This difference between the two amazing senior candidates undoubtedly led to expected Sanders states to go ∎ spotlights on pages Biden, with Massachusetts and Texas being prime examples. 9-11! Biden’s South Carolina win was not the only thing to influence late voters. The last minute withdrawal of Senator Amy Klobuchar from the race and her subsequent endorsement of the Vice President was enough to convince enough of her supporters to vote against Sanders, leading to one of his more unexpected losses of the night. Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s CROSSWORD withdrawal and endorsement of Biden also worked out in his favor, and, when combined with a slew of other endorsements on page 12! from prominent Democratic Party members in the days leading up to Super Tuesday, it isn’t hard to believe that some late- deciding Democratic voters were swayed in his direction because “Getting you guys to do anything is worse than CHILDBIRTH!!!”- Mrs. Schonauer NEWS 2 March 2020 March’s This & That Olivia Vigran ‘21 Improving Education: Remembering Kobe: On January 26, 2020, legend Kobe Bryant Innovation labs across the country are developing and testing new technol- passed away in a helicopter accident along with ogy that will revolutionize education for the Generation Z and beyond. his 13-year-old daughter, Gigi. Kobe Bryant was an American Basketball icon. He entered Among these programs include the introduction of artificial intelligence, the NBA straight out of high school, one of the virtual reality, and other technologies to improve the way students learn. youngest ever to enter the league. He is 4th on Even here at Indian Hill, teachers are implementing new technologies, such the all-time scoring list and has won 5 NBA as using virtual reality, to explore religious sites and to help improve the championships for the Lakers, along with 2 way we learn. ∎ gold medals for team USA. Kobe’s passing was a heartbreaking loss for so many. ∎ The Oscars Alex Karev is Leaving Grey’s Anatomy: Parasite was the first film with subtitles to win best picture. Not only that Innovation labs across the country are developing and test- but “Parasite” won 4 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Directing, Best ing new technology that will revolutionize education for the International Feature Film, and Best Writing (original screenplay). Anoth- Generation Z and beyond. Among these programs include er notable thing from this year's Oscars, was that Jennifer Lopez was not the introduction of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and nominated after her performance in the movie “Hustlers.” Fans were out- other technologies to improve the way students learn. Even raged, and J-Lo later admitted that she too was slightly upset. here at Indian Hill, teachers are implementing new technol- ogies, such as using virtual reality, to explore religious sites ∎ and to help improve the way we learn. ∎ Australian Fires The Democratic Race: Dozens of fires erupted in Australia starting Politicians Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Mike Bloomberg, and Eliza- in November 2019, causing the country to beth Warren have dropped out of the Democratic Presidential Race. declare a state of emergency. The fires There are now two candidates still in the running for the Democratic spread rapidly throughout the country mak- Party, consisting of Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. Current president ing it one of the most devastating in history. Donald Trump remains the favorite for the Republican Party nominee.∎ Nearly 25.5 million acres have burned, and there are still about 5 fires still burning. 33 people have been reported dead, and nearly 3,000 homes have been destroyed. The fires have begun to be contained Friends Reunion Lori Laughlin “Friends” fans everywhere are freak- ing out because the original cast has The trial for the Lori Loughlin College Admissions Scandal has re- confirmed a one-hour TV special reun- cently been set for October 2020. One of the new main pieces of ion. It is going to be an exclusive un- information regarding this case is whether or not the money was a scripted special that will air on HBO donation or a bribe and the wording will be crucial in building the max. All of the original characters will case. If she is found guilty, she may face decades in prison along be present: Chandler, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Rachel, and Ross. It will with millions of dollars in fines. ∎ become available in May 2020 when HBO begins to air all 236 epi- sodes again after Netflix took them all off. Friends fans everywhere cannot wait to see everyone back together again. ∎ The Coronavirus Epidemic: Mulan Live Remake The coronavirus epidemic has officially spread to the US. There have been Disney is releasing a new version of Mulan on March 26th, 2020. It is a live-action remake of Disney's original 1998 animated movie. It is reported cases in New York, Florida, California, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington. As the spread begins to slow down within China, it is going to be Disney’s first live-action remake to be rated PG-13 which speeding up within the United States. The total number of people infected has caused controversy due to Disney’s traditional younger audience. around the world is slowly approaching 90,000 and they are doing every- Its original trailer got 175 million views within the first 24 hours that it thing they can in an effort to contain it. ∎ was released, so sales are expected to be huge. ∎ “I gave up Christianity for lent this year” - Maggie Jutze NEWS March 2020 3 Harvey Weinstein Minseo Kim ‘20, David Kholodenko ‘21 On February 24th, 2020, Harvey Weinstein was officially found did a public service to guilty in New York on one count of criminal sexual assault and one count of girls and women eve- rape.