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2 THE SCHREIBER TIMES NEWS FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 2013 I N THIS ISSUE... ! e Schreiber Times Editor-in-Chief Hannah Fagen N!"#. Intel semi$ nalists p. 3 Managing Editor Art project p. 4 Hannah Zweig BOE livestream p. 5 Copy Editor O%&'&('#. Kerim Kivrak Armed guards in schools p. 7 News Hurricane Sandy relief bill p. 9 Senior Editor Foreign language p. 9 Minah Kim Assistant Editors Rachel Cho F!)*+,!#. Ana Espinoza Superintendent pro$ le p. 14 Frippery p.15 Opinions Nail art p. 16 Editors Erin Choe A-E. Hallie Whitman Django Unchained p. 17 Assistant Editor Natasha Talukdar 30 Rock p. 18 Les Miserables p. 20 Features Editor S%(,*#. Daniella Philipson Autism and sports p. 23 Senior Sara Marinelli took this photograph of lightning during a storm from the town Assistant Editors dock. Marinelli is currently an AP Photo student and has taken photographs of elements Sports gambling p. 22 Caroline Ogulnick of nature in town and abroad. Kelly To Crew p. 24 A&E Editors N EWS BRIEFS Dan Bidikov Flu season Students have missed class and exams recommended people to get 0 u shots. Katie Fishbin before and a2 er the break due to illnesses. Vaccines have been 62 percent e1 ective Assistant Editors Coughing, sni. ing, red-nosed stu- “Being sick is really irritating and sets this year according to a preliminary study. Victor Dos Santos dents have been abundant in the halls you back in schoolwork quite a bit. If I’m / e vaccine is considered moderately ef- Penina Remler and classrooms during this $ rst month really sick, my work in school will be af- fective this year. of 2013. / e 0 u season which has been fected,” says sophomore Sabina Unni. Sports reported to be more severe this winter, is / is kind of absenteeism a1 ects each ~Crystal Ren Editors a1 ecting people throughout the country, person di1 erently. Jake Eisenberg and students at Schreiber are no excep- “/ ere’s always one or two students in APPR tion. each class who end up missing a few days. Dan Miranda / e 0 u advisory report for the last Some lag behind in schoolwork and strug- At the Jan. 8 Board of Education Assistant Editor week of December and the $ rst week of gle initially because they miss so many meeting, Superintendent Dr. Kathleen Aaron Brezel January released by the Center for Disease notes, but most are able to catch up,” said Mooney announced that the Annual Control (CDC) suggested that 49 states Spanish teacher Ms. Evelyn Joseph. Professional Performance Review (APPR) Graphics have widespread in0 uenza activity and 27 / ose who are concerned are tak- plan which determines how teachers and Editors states and New York City have reported ing precautions to avoid getting sick and principals will be evaluated for the year Brian Seo high levels of in0 uenza-like-illness. / ere spreading germs to their peers and family has been accepted and approved by the Chris Goh have been 3,710 hospitalizations associ- members. State Education Department. Jane Nolting-Kolb ated with laboratory-con$ rmed 0 u virus “Sick people don’t bother me but I get “I cannot overstate enough how and 20 pediatric deaths reported during sick really easily so to keep from getting important it was for us to gain that this season. On Jan. 11, federal health of- sick, I’m washing my hands more fre- approval. / is could not have been Photo $ cials reported that deaths have reached quently,” said senior Andrew Kim. possible without the collaboration, Editor the level of an epidemic. Others try to stay healthy in di1 erent collegiality, and cooperation with both Harry Paul Students at Schreiber have been af- ways. the administrators and the teachers and fected by the 0 u as well. Students who are “I wear more layers to keep myself many of the principals working to get this Business not sick enough to stay home from the be- warm, including scarves and hats. I also completed,” said Dr. Mooney. Manager ginning of the day do sometimes end up keep myself hydrated with hot drinks,” / e BOE adopted the $ nal version Aaron Schuckman going home by the end of the day. says sophomore Anan Rayn. of the plan at the Jan. 8 BOE meeting. “A lot of children have been going / is 0 u-like disease is very widespread Accreditation resulting from the APPR home sick in the middle of the day, lately,” and not just restricted to schools. process allows school districts to be Sta! Assistants said school nurse Ms. Maria Hernandez . “/ e 0 u has been spreading like wild- eligible for increases in state aid. Aaron Bialer “/ is does seem to be disruptive for them $ re, everyone in my family had it,” said to leave school early. I’m mostly seeing sophomore Rachel Ellerson. ~ Minah Kim 0 u-like symptoms.” O4 cials from the CDC have strongly Sta! 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We accept camera-ready ads or will design ads to your speci! cations. For information, Fagen, Kerim Kivrak. Sta! Photographers: Elana Galassi, Claudia Varner. call our business o" ce at (516) 767-5862. Subscribe to The Schreiber Times! Subscriptions cost $12.00 for the 2012-2013 school year NAME Ira Pernick, principal Mail to: Schreiber Times, Attn. Craig Medico or Evelina Zarkh ADDRESS Craig Medico, Evelina Zarkh, advisers 101 Campus Drive, Port Washington, NY 11050 © 2013, The Schreiber Times Make checks payable to: Port Washington Schools CITY STATE ZIP THE SCHREIBER TIMES NEWS FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 2013 3 Two seniors distinguished as Intel semi!nalists BY Ana Espinoza Assistant Editor !is year, two seniors, Drew Feldman and Minah Kim, were distinguished as semi"nalists in the Intel Science Talent Search competition, and will each receive a $1,000 prize. Intel STS recognizes 300 students and their schools as semi"nalists each year and 40 of those students move on to become "nalists. !e organization distributes $1.25 million in awards to the students distinguished by Intel STS for excellence in science research and academic standing. Semi"nalists were announced online on Jan. 9 at 3:00 p.m. “I started to check the Intel website at 2:00. I refreshed the page about 100 times until the link became hot at about 2:55. Drew was the "rst name I found on the national list. I was so excited for Drew. His research is amazing and he worked as hard or even harder over the past three years then anyone else to achieve this award,” said math research teacher Mr. Anthony Minah Kim Tedesco. Senior Minah Kim presents her research with her mentors at the Simons program symposium at Stony Brook University. Feldman, a student in the math research program, conducted research at Boston University through the Research studies need to be done before any clinical of drug development for individuals also have a timeline to help manage their Internship in Science and Engineering application were to exist. infected with B. pseudomallei, a bacteria work. (RISE) program. His project was called “!e mentorship experience was fun. that causes meliodosis, a potentially “Applying for Intel is a lot of work for “Elastic Modulus Reconstructions from It gave me a way to really understand fatal disease endemic in tropical regions. a student. Most students are driven away Sparse Displacement Measurements.” the role that a scientist/engineer has in a Currently, treatment is di&cult and by the length of the application or the Feldman used ultrasound image data to professional academic environment,” said ine$ective due to the resistance of the many essays that are required, in addition measure the relative sti$ness of tissues Feldman. “I had a great relationship with bacterium to antibiotics. to the research. !e research teachers and analyzed the e$ect that decreasing my mentor. We had tea with two graduate She tested four inhibitors against a and students at Schreiber High School amounts of data had on this calculation. students every day and spoke o%en about protein that is essential to the viability of embrace this obstacle and work together He prepared and ran numerous tests, many things, not just science and math. B. pseudomallei. !e inhibitors were able to achieve this goal,” said Mr. Tedesco. calculations, and algorithms on a We all went out to lunch a few times also to stop activity of the protein to varying !is year, the application season was computer. so it wasn’t necessarily all work.” extents, which would prevent the survival especially di&cult due to power outages Feldman’s project could potentially Kim, a science research student, worked of the pathogen. !rough her research, as a result of Hurricane Sandy. Intel facilitate the diagnosis of certain medical at Stony Brook University under Dr. Peter Kim addressed the need to design novel STS extended its deadlines by four days conditions, such as cancer and asthma Tonge in the chemistry department.

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