November 2015 Issue 1 The Excalibur The Online Nazareth RHS Student Newspaper November 2015, Issue 1 Have a happy Thanksgiving from the Excalibur staff! Nazareth – Better Than Ever By: Xaviah Andrews Just three years ago even greater performances Nazareth almost closed its from them in the years to doors with its back against the come. Kingsmen baseball has been doing amazing walls, and now it is thriving with new youth all over the themselves also, under the school. There has been a huge supervision of Coach Quiles increase in students, staff, and baseball staff. Nazareth technology, and sports as well. has been on its grind for the How did this happen you last 3 years and we know for - Upcoming 2015 Events - might ask? Well, the sports sure that we will reach programs at Nazareth are greater heights. Nazareth has 11/24 NHS Induction Ceremony achieving great things. The been making a great name for 11/25 Annual Turkey Bowl girls varsity basketball team is itself in the community and it 11/26-11/27 Thanksgiving Break flourishing with new talent only continues to get better as 12/7 Fine Arts Winter Program after winning the CHSAA new students come to 12/18 Winter Ball championship, being led by Nazareth to experience what 12/23 Christmas Show Coach Ron, Head Girls Varsity it’s like to be a Kingsmen. 12/24-1/3 Christmas Break Coach. Boys Varsity Basketball Even though sports has worked non-stop to follow has been doing top notch in suit. The Nazareth Kingsmen the last few years to bring in Football team has been doing new talent, it is not the only quite well for a team almost reason Nazareth has been made up of completely new expanding. Nazareth’s players. They still have many technology has been improvements to make and improving yearly, with new many obstacles to overcome ThinkPad laptops being provided to help students but Rome was not built in a 1 day. We will definitely see obtain needed information, November 2015 Issue 1 Nazareth – Better Than Ever continued… http://www.facebook.com/NazarethRHS and work on projects and homework. Since 2013, Nazareth has been working efficiently to eventually obtain 1:1 computing devices. For those who don’t know, soon students will be able to have their own personal computers provided by the school to let the students work more efficiently without crowding the public computers around the school facility. The process for this new expansion in technology has already been started, as Nazareth will be setting up wireless hotspots around the school, so the students will have strong internet access across the building. New technology and computer http://www.facebook.com/NazarethRHS science courses should be in at the beginning of the 2016 school year and it will teach students a bundle of things about technology, from general tech to more complex skills. Students could learn about filming, editing, web coding, HTML and a bunch of other great activities that might spark the interest of the young minds of Nazareth. Preparations are being made for the new changes that definitely will mark a new chapter in Nazareth history, we hope you’re ready. http://www.plusportals.com/nazarethrhs http://www.plusportals.com/nazarethrhs 2 November 2015 Issue 1 My Adventure at Six Flags Fright Fest By: Egypt Billups Unfortunately the ride I really After we got off the wanted to go on, Kingda Ka, got coaster, the zombies On October 9,2015, closed down because of the rain. started to come out! At first some of the students and I Thanks a lot rain! I was scared, and was went to Six Flags for Fright running around frantically! Fest, for a school trip. It was a It was the like The Walking blast!! When we arrived, the Dead out there! Eventually weather wasn’t what I we got tired and decided to pictured it to be. In the meet up with the rest of beginning, it started to drizzle our group at the blood a little, but that didn’t stop fountain. We got on the the fun! bus and headed home. My friends and I went Even though the weather to the first ride we thought of, wasn’t the best, I still had a which was “Skull Mountain.” great time! It was really scary, but we had a great time. Unfortunately, after we got My friends and I decided to off the ride, it started to rain take a break until the rain heavily. The first thing I did stopped, so we went to was stress because I hate the Nathans to get some chicken rain! But, I realized that it tenders and cheese fries. They kind of set the mood for being were delicious! We waited for at Fright Fest. The real reason a little while and then the rain why my friends and I started finally subsided. We were to seriously panic was ready to hit the rides again! because a lot of rides were My friends and I had to figure going to close down because out which ride we wanted to of the rain. And guess what? go on and decided to go on We were right! one of the roller coasters. Visit our website at: http://www.nazarethrhs.org 3 November 2015 Issue 1 Comic Con – The Experience By: Aaron Orjiugo Comic Con is a yearly Displayed games convention, taking place in included: Naruto many states and countries, Shippuden 4, Street solely dedicated to nerd culture. Fighter 5, Final Fantasy Be it games, comics, manga, Explorers, J Stars Vs, Just anime, YouTube, Twitch, Cause 3, Dragonquest, artwork, films and popular or Star Wars Battlepod, new TV shows, Comic Con is Sword Art Online Last usually at the center of it all. Song, Tales of Zestiria, New York Comic Con has been and Dark Souls 3. The held at the Jacob Javits Also, on the note of DC only game I played was Convention Center for ten years Comics, there was a Justice Just Cause 3. now, with a size of over 800,000 League cast reunion event Lastly, I always square feet, there seems to be with the voice actors of the look forward to cosplay. almost no time at all to do show. Kevin Conroy who Cosplay is the act of anything. played Batman, Phil Lamar as dressing up in a costume One of the biggest Green Lantern, Static Shock, and playing out as that exhibits for the past couple of Hermes Conrad and a character. Some examples years now has been the DC plethora of other characters. are a 9 ½ foot tall Iron Comics exhibit. The past two Marie Canals Babera as Man Hulk Buster to a th years were marked by the 75 Hawkgirl, George Newbern as Netflix and Chill cosplay. anniversary of both Batman and Superman, Susan Eisenberg as Characters from recent Superman. Costumes from all Wonder Woman and Carl live action TV shows to the movies and TV shows were Lumbly as Martian Charlie Brown shirts and displayed. This year the Manhunter. Sadly Michael Goku on a scooter. costume and gadgets for the Rosenbaum who was the Although I have never upcoming film, "Superman VS voice of the Flash and Lex cosplayed it is one of the Batman: Dawn Of Justice" were Luthor couldnt make it. Marie most amazing things to put on display. Illustrators of Canals said, "Its either a high look forward to at Comic recent DC's published line were school reunion or his Con. I can’t wait to return! autographing throughout the birthday.“ four day weekend. Also free I personally did not posters, postcards, collectible play much of the upcoming cards, and buttons were given games on display, however, out to the 170,000 people who from what I witnessed, they attended this year. were good. 4 November 2015 Issue 1 Reflections of a Football Player By: Prince Adeniji Going to school, doing homework, and playing sports. All of this takes a lot out of you. It’s nothing compared to college, though still, it’s quite exhausting. If you listen and pay attention, school work and homework are pretty light. But, not all of us can A do that. Whether school work is easy or hard, homework just demands your Some of your teammates free time, which your mind as a teen are either too excited, too scared thinks it could be spent doing or just too calm, and no one something so much more meaningful. knows what the outcome of the Now the main thing which you love game will be, at least not till the Z and have so much fun doing, football, last whistle is blown. Fear could now that's something you don't mind. easily consume you and throw Even though it is fun, there's the you off your game. After a play, teammates who know how to annoy after the whistle, after the hike, you, the coach who works you to the you're always replaying your A bone and then breaks you if you slip mistakes and trying to fix them on up by fooling around, but of course, the next play, but no play is ever every coach is like that. Though the same. Once you've been hit a football coaches discipline you like few good times or dished out they were once a military instructor, some really good hits, the danger you still have a lot of feelings and doesn't feel like it’s really there. R thoughts. You may understand a play Realizing that feelings are only and have gone over it 100 times, each going to slow you down makes exactly the same way, but you always you so much more faster and find yourself overthinking it in a game.