“A beacon of truth.” Issue 4 , Volume 42 HuntingtonDispatch High School Oakwood and McKay Roads Huntington, NY 11743 Reasons to Relay May 2014 Celebrating, Remembering, and Always Fighting Back By Chaz Ruggieri cry-- the event has certainly been enough time for the charitable soul news in short Relay has been in the school for assimilated into our school culture. nor the community-service-craving >The short films of Huntington three years now. There’s not a soul But what if you’re new to the freshman or Gov student to get his High School juniors Samantha in the school who doesn’t know school? What if you’ve stalled so fill on fundraising unassisted! Never Carroll and Olivia Liepa were what it is, or the amount of good it long that it’s too late to recruit your fear, however, because the Dispatch screened at the Eighth Annual does for has got First Exposure Festival at the Cin- ema Arts Centre in Huntington on its cause. you cov- Saturday, May 17. In past ered. Here years, are three > The Huntington High School Hunting- tear-inspir- boys’ track and field team is the ton High ing patron- best in Suffolk’s League V. The School saints of team is undefeated at 6-0, clinch- has been the bake ing the league title. one of sale, cap- the big- tains of Re- > Huntington High School stu- dents earned 19 medals in this gest con- lay Teams, year’s National Spanish Exam tributors whose competition. The honorees in- to the charity cof- cluded three gold, eight silver and nation- fers you’ll eight bronze medalists, placing wide fun- surely be members of the group among the draiser, able to elite nationally. and we’ve all pitched in, raising circle? What if you just don’t know squeeze some coins into, and whose immense amounts of life-saving how to get into the event? causes you may be able to support > Two teams of five Huntington research and aid money to donate by joining. To join or to donate, go High School science research pro- gram students each recently com- to the American Cancer Society. By the time this article pub- to http://relayforlife.org and look up peted in the 16th annual Long Relay’s purple colors accent our lishes, there may be less than thirty the team in question’s name. Island Regional Envirothon at the hallways and classrooms-- its fliers days before the big all-nighter on Usdan Center for the Creative pepper the walls in a jubilant war- the HHS track on June 7th. This isn’t and Performing Arts in Wheatley Relay Team Spotlight on Page 2 Heights. Collecting Cans for the Community A Look Back on the Stuff the Bus Fundraiser’s Record-Setting Haul By CHARLES BEERS few boxes full of cans and event, local grocery stores such as Waldbaums and altogether, forming long On Saturday March 29th, macaroni and cheese King Kullen were oc- conveyor belts in order to the student government slowly transformed cupied by one or two of efficiently transport the continued one of its into a colossal moun- the dedicated student boxes. greatest legacies. Stuff the tain of delicious foods. government officers. For After a few minutes Bus has become one of “Everyone rallied to hours on end, ordinary the entire bus was stuffed Huntington’s most recog- this cause; Students, townspeople added to from the floor to the ceil- nizable charities, as well teachers and all of the the growing mountain ing, and there was still a as a symbol of the high high school staff. We of goods, ranging from long row of food waiting school’s contributions to are truly humbled by pasta to baby food. for a second delivery. The the community at large. the response,” said Mr. On the Saturday team was able to com- For several months, Bisogno with pride. of the big event, student pletely fill two food pan- the school had been col- The collection government officers, tries: one at St Hugh’s and lecting canned goods was not limited to just who had worked tire- the other at Manor Field. and non-perishable food the high school, how- lessly to promote the Everyone at the pantries items for the local food ever. Stuff the Bus has charity, gathered at the was in awe as a seemingly pantries in the Huntington always been a mas- high school in the early endless line of students area. Boxes full of food sive community effort hours of the morning stuffed the buildings to became a common sight and all of Huntington to complete their mis- the point where it was dif- in nearly every classroom. contributed to this sion. The bus pulled up ficult to move around. For weeks, the collection year’s record-breaking and the packing began. Once again, Stuff was stored in Mr. Bisogno’s donation. Every week- Nearly thirty people were the Bus had been hailed room. What started as a end leading up to the needed to stuff the bus as an incredible success continued on Page 8 INDEX INSIDE News.......................................2 Huntington Students Major League Baseball: La Pagina en Espanol........3 Technology...........................4 Explore Europe An Early Prediction Spotlight...............................5 Staff View..............................6 Art............................................7 Advice....................................8 page 2 Entertainment................9-10 page 6 Sports...............................11-12 College Advice for Graduating Seniors page 12 The Dispatch The Dispatch 2 MAY14 MAY143 Preparing For The End of The School Year The European Expedition A Few Steps to Make Your Studying Easier Huntington Students Experience New Places and New Cultures By LILY MORRIS Now that the end of out a planned schedule of when TERIALS. There are millions of ing the weeks before the APs grade). During all this study- By LEAH BUTZ the year is fast approaching, you will study for each subject. study books out there includ- and before regents, there is a ing, take breaks where maybe many of us are faced with the This creates a checklist for you ing Barron’s, Princeton Review, teacher available every day of you take a walk around the This spring break I them from keeping their Chaucer to write the Can- full of history. Unfortu- amazing places I’ve ever challenge of preparing for what to visually see and understand. Kaplan, and 5 Steps to a 5, just the week if you have any ques- neighborhood or re-watch the had the luck of being able promise. terbury tales two hundred nately, we weren’t able been. The latin quarter, comes with it. Even though Subconsciously, if you don’t to name a few. It is important tions. It is EXTREMELY important finale of Scandal, or even eat to join Ms. Tedeschi, Ms. years later. 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