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Security Systems Tighten Fashionistas of BHS Seniors Find Financial Boys Hockey Insight pg. 23 Volume 48, No. 3 Barnstable High School, Hyannis, MA 02601 February 2013 Fashionistas of BHS Security By Molly Marcotte effects on fashion. Staff Writer Senior Alex Fasewski added, “If everyone’s wearing the same thing, I make a conscious effort not to wear that.” Spring is just around Systems Fashion is meant to induce creativity, not the corner and after a long, suppress it. If you spend all your time and cold winter slipping into some money buying into a trend simply because adorable spring attire can feel it’s trendy, then that is all you will be: trendy. great. But that doesn’t mean Faye believes that “just because you are not you need to let all your favorite Tighten trendy doesn’t mean you’re not stylish.” winter styles fall by the Being able to finesse upcoming wayside. Being trendy By Grace Elletson buzzer system, all the doors trends and translate them into your own and wearing all the Staff Writer around the building will be personal look is an important component best designs isn’t locked at all times after 7:40 to being stylish. a.m., with a routinely morning necessarily what Since the school “It’s important to have your own door check. “It’s a reminder being stylish shooting in Newtown, Conn., individual style,” said Leavitt. “It for all of us not to be sloppy... is about-- many schools around the United helps you discover yourself.” leaving doors open... those kinds it’s about States are faced with the choice Senior Meghan Woods said “I of things are an issue for our finding to heighten security in not only think it’s important for people to security system,” Clark said. styles elementary schools and colleges, have their own individual style The school wide and but high schools well. Barnstable because it allows them to express camera system, which monitors pieces Public Schools are no exception. themselves without having to hallways, is being revised and that Quickly responding to the explain it in words.” Woods was updated. Mr. David Kanyock, work December tragedy, Barnstable awarded the best dressed senior who manages lighting and for you, High School has already made superlative. heating as well as security, is regardless of changes that tighten the school’s giving the system a timely check- the current trends or continued on pg. 12 security. up, analyzing camera resolution season. The most recognizable and angles. This especially “I love colder Senior Emily Leavitt shows change is the buzzer that has includes the outside of the weather because I love off her style. been placed to the right of the building and in the parking lots. interesting textures and photos by Molly Marcotte doors by the main entrance. BHS Ellen MacDonald, layering,” said Fashion Design was the only school in the district the secretary at West Villages teacher Abby Faye. without one before the Newtown Elementary school, recalled Faye noted that this spring is set incident, Principal Patrick Clark that the buzzer they’ve had has to bring palates of bright colors said. been in place for 10 or 12 years. mixed with neutrals in lots of Instead of walking into “I probably know 90 percent of flowy, breathable fabrics that the main lobby and checking in the people entering, the other ten “will lend themselves to warm with someone at a desk, visitors percent I don’t know. It is helpful weather layering.” are directed to the first, “drive- to a certain degree. But I know Fashionistas agree in” window at the main office. that if someone wants to get that a leather jacket is a great Students, parents, faculty and into the building, they will get piece for cooler weather. even the superintendent will in.” But senior be asked to be identified before Some students have Emily Leavitt thinks leather entering the school. A formal mixed emotions concerning the has a place in all seasons student ID is only mandatory changes within the school. “I and is looking forward to for students coming from don’t think we’re going to slow incorporating it into her community service, Clark said. down anyone wanting to come in own spring fashions. “When a tragedy like with a door bell,” eighth grader Like Leavitt and Newtown occurs it forces you to Sean Smith said. Faye, if you have a favorite check your to-do list, being the cold weather style, don’t leave disaster that it was,” Clark said. it back in The district had been meaning continued on pg. 12 the winter months to install a buzzer in the high just because the trend report is school and it was installed days saying something else is later due to heightened security “in” for the spring season. In after the Connecticut shooting. fact, trends, if adhered to too In addition to this closely, can actually have negative Seniors Find Financial Guidance By Jillian Cahoon Cod Five. The program had a debt. Though they may end up Staff Writer good reputation in other schools in debt, it’s not real, but teaches around the Cape, like Dennis- them the lessons they need if they Yarmouth Regional High School. were to end up in debt. It models If you saw the Field The fair gives students a real life the decision making that students House on Friday, Feb. 1, it did experience in their finances at age will have to make in their futures. not look as it usually does. 24. These are decisions students may There were a myriad of booths Even though the not be thinking about at this stage, scattered between two curtains to program is similar to real life but that are important in college teach students financial literacy. financial decision making, it is all and beyond. Barnstable High School seniors done “in the safety of the school,” “It gives students the participated in the Credit for Life said Mrs. Kristen Harmon, event opportunity to spend or overspend fair sponsored by Cape Cod Five. organizer. Students are able to The fair was brought to without penalty,” said Harmon. make decisions with their money, Barnstable after Principal Patrick photo by Molly Marcotte even though they may end up in continued on pg. 12 Clark was contacted by Cape Senior Chris Bartley practices his perfect handshake. Inside Insight: Pro v. Con: Gun Control pg. 3 Tips for Healthy Living pgs. 14 & 15 2 opinion Students Need Life Skills There’s a field trip coming up and you have to pay a fee in order to go. Feeling mature and independent, you decide to use your own money. The only problem is: you have no idea how to take money out of your bank account. If you ask your parents they will most likely accost you for not knowing how to do it in the first place. Older generations always complain that people of our generation don’t have any common sense regarding life skills, and that it is “assumed knowledge”, but many of us were never taught any of it. Parents can’t teach us everything we need to know before graduating high school and many teenagers are not very willing to listen to their parents when they’re trying to teach them. If topics such as how to do laundry, get a bank account, balance a checkbook, file taxes, fill out W2 forms, get college loans and financial aid, etc., were taught and tested in a classroom, students are more likely to listen and pay attention. BHS did a great job with initiating these kinds of life illustration by Claire Sawayanagi skills we need as adults with the Credit for Life fair for the seniors on Feb. 1, where they were involved in everyday financial scenarios one would encounter in adulthood. Community Service: Seniors were advised to dress up in business attire and sent to the field house where they met with adult volunteers who played out various scenarios for the students. Everyone was assigned an income, depending on the career that was selected for them according to their preferable major, and were put through activities, such as buying a car, Will This Be Graded? paying for car insurance, health insurance, food, and managing their credit score and savings with the income they were given. By Liam Russo standards of many other schools in seniors is getting dropped because However, learning these life skills would benefit everyone, Staff Writer Massachusetts. In the beginning “students should earn their hours not only the seniors. As freshmen and sophomores, students start to of the year I joined a community on their own time.” Without a worry about getting a job and saving up for a car. Having a class that service club within the school and community service class, this lim- The application for Na- teaches these things at a younger age relieves them of stress later on. was unsatisfied when I found out its the ability for students to earn tional Honor Society is perfect. Many juniors and seniors already have jobs but most likely have no that there was a lack of leadership hours within school and some It’s in pristine condition with rec- idea how to fill out a W2 form, or even know what a W2 form is. and efforts to change the commu- students have no other means of ommendations completed, and Although economics and personal finance is offered, it is a nity were being avoided or for- earning them. We shouldn’t be every question filled out except history class and only for grades 10-12.
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