Galloping Gazette A Student Publication By Randolph Union High School

February 2018 Volume 1 Issue 4

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From Love to Hate Motivational

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Will Speaker Ed Gerety Comes Never Be the Same Again to RU February 14th, 2018; a day usually filled with love and chocolate, turned into a very horrific tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in southern The Principals’ Corner Randolph Union is fortunate to Florida. The second largest school shooting in recent American history Rebecca Haslam wrote RU students a follow up welcome nationally renowned • resulted in 17 deaths and 14 injuries (NBC News). These deaths include a note: “Dear RU Community, It was an honor to get to football coach, a wrestling coach, an athletic director, a cross-country coach, motivational speaker, Ed Gerety, for an meet you all last week and learn about your hopes and and 13 students, just like those who walk the halls of RU every day. The all-school assembly on Friday, March needs for racial justice. So many of you showed up, shooter was a 19 year old expelled student, Nikolas Cruz, who has had 9th. Ed is a powerful speaker. His spoke your truth, and listened deeply to each other. I mental health issues and had also been suspended multiple times for different matters. passion, personal experiences, humor, hope you felt the community of support in the media and real life examples, and high- center that day and noticed how many of your peers Our society has become very desensitized to hearing this type of news. Now energy, interactive presentation, leaves and teachers showed up beside you. Kayla and I is the time to stop putting it to the side. This is a big problem in our world. Too a lasting impact! His message includes: would love to help support you moving forward. If many innocent lives are being lost. It doesn’t matter if you go to school with you're interested in starting a Racial Justice Student 3,000 people or 300, you are just as susceptible as any other. People are • The power of leading by example Alliance at school, we would love to come help you willing to stop at nothing to get revenge, get their anger out, or cause trouble. get it up and running. It might help to learn more As a school community, we need to be prepared and informed on how to • Strategies on having a growth about the RJSA model and how it could help you start react if we were to ever find ourselves in this situation. We have fire drills mindset and positive attitude to take action around some of your identified once every month or so, and rarely have a clear-the-halls drill. To better • Skills to setting and achieving their needs. All it takes are a few students to step up as prepare for an event like this, we should have more clear the halls drills and take them more seriously. This is an undeniable and scary issue that our goals emergent leaders in this crucially important work and society needs to learn how to handle in case this does happen. Some say, • Ideas on creating a positive culture an advisor to assist with logistics. You are well poised “That’ll never happen to us.” That’s exactly what everyone thought at Marjory • Leading with gratitude to do this work of confronting racism and shifting the culture at RU. I believe you can start this journey Stoneman Douglas High. It may not seem relevant until you’re the one to • Becoming a person of influence experience it first hand, but our best bet as a community is to prepare together, and am here to help you.” beforehand and know the appropriate way to react. Let’s show him a warm Randolph • During the moth of January, our Advisories have been having conversations about instances of welcome!!!!! Along with practicing school safety, each of us can also take it upon ourselves bias that I have seen in the fall to make a positive difference interacting with the people around us. Be kind to semester. Advisories discussed these instances everyone. Be there for people even if they’re different. They may not be the and had conversations about what it means to be most talkative, or they may not do the right things at the appropriate times. Guess Who! They may make mistakes like every other human. All they may need is a little Which RU included and excluded. more compassion than others. Everyone is different in their own way and we • Two students came up to me after the assembly all need to be there for one another. Teacher to emphasize the importance that we not lose Looked Like momentum in our conversations. I suggested We, the RUHS community, need to come together and make a plan so we This Back in forming a RJSA as one option. I’ve also had can do our very best to prevent this from happening to us. This isn’t some conversations with students about what “fairy-tale” concept; this is a very true, sad, horrible, and scary reality. Let’s the Day?? Montpelier HS is doing for Black History Month make something positive come from this tragedy so that the lives lost were You’ll never guess! and suggested they take their ideas to some of not in vain. See page 2 their peers in our student leadership groups (YATST, NHS, Captains Council, Campus Life). What will the students do as a next step? This is Page 1 of 4 up to you! Let me know what I can do as principal to support your conversations and actions. -Mr.Hawkes

Continued From Page 1 Didn’t Have a Date on It’s Mr. Weir! V-Day? 10 Reasons Why It’s Okay! By Grace Brock Favorite comfort food: Pasta Valentine’s Day has come and passed. There is Favorite musician: Taylor Swift always a ton of stress to be in a relationship or have a date this time of year. But being in a Favorite book: East of Eden by John Steinbeck relationship is a lot easier said than done. Most people end up spending Valentines Day alone. If you could have dinner with anyone from the past, Now, you can mope about it, and eat 10 tubs of present, or future, who would it be and why? My ice cream while watching The Notebook L Or mom so that I could have the opportunity to get to you could look at the good of it!

know her better as an adult Here are ten reasons why being single after

Valentine’s Day isn’t so bad: What did you want to be when you grew up? A Red Sox player 10) You didn’t spend a ton of money on gifts/chocolates for someone else. Hidden talent: Rock Skipping 9) You didn’t have high expectations for a What you see yourself doing in 10 years: Coaching “romantic” and “dramatic” date or confession. Little League 8) You can now spend time with your friends who are also single. Favorite app: Shortyz Crosswords 7) You don’t need to stress over planning out the Way you deal with stress: Running date for your S.O.

6) You can put attention on yourself and your well Fun Facts About Riverdale! being. Bet you didn’t know these! There is only 1 Jughead beanie…they better not loose it! 5) You can treat yourself to something special. Camila Mendes (Veronica) and Cole Sprouse (Jughead) went to NYU at the same time 4) You can flirt with other people

Madelaine Petsch (Cheryl) and Lili Reinhart (Betty) are 3) It’s fun to fly solo! roomates 2) You get to celebrate your way! Petsch (Cheryl) is very afraid of water, making some of her scenes pretty difficult to shoot 1) Valentine's Day is just like every other day of the year; being single doesn’t change that. Plus, Riverdale’s time-period is unspecified. It’s made to there’s always next year! confuse you. HOW RUDE!

The show is mostly filmed in Vancouver, Canada Fun Fact: A new Yahoo! survey found that between the December holidays and Valentine's Day, people KJ Apa (Archie) actually wants to be in a relationship with are more than twice as likely to consider breaking up Bughead (Betty and Jughead)! than any other time of the year.

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Kids at the whole school By: Superintendent Millington

assembly took the win against the teachers! Better luck next time, teachers! You might want to work on your shooting skills!

The Principals’ Corner Rebecca Haslam wrote RU students a follow up note: “Dear RU Community, It was an honor to get to meet you all last week and learn about your hopes and needs for racial justice. So many of you showed up, spoke your truth, and listened deeply to each other. I hope you felt the community of support in the media center that day Calvin Terrell will be joining RUHS on and noticed how many of your peers and teachers showed March 27th and 28th. He will engage the up beside you. Kayla and I would love to help support you moving forward. If you're interested in starting a entire community (students, faculty, and Racial Justice Student Alliance at school, we would love parents) in a deep discussion about the to come help you get it up and running. It might help to foundations of hatred and how the learn more about the RJSA model and how it could help you start to take action around some of your identified everyday actions of individuals can have needs. All it takes are a few students to step up as a dramatic impact on the climate within a emergent leaders in this crucially important work and an community. He will also work with advisor to assist with logistics. You are well poised to do this work of confronting racism and shifting the culture at cohorts of students to develop a vision RU. I believe you can start this journey together, and am and a plan to carry on into perpetuity the here to help you.” good work begun during his visit. His

During the month of January, our Advisories have been message can be incredibly intense and having conversations about instances of bias that I have eye opening, and is vitally important for seen in the fall semester. Advisories discussed these anyone that wants to have a positive instances and had conversations about what it means to be included and excluded. impact on the world around them.

Two students came up to me after the assembly to emphasize the importance that we not lose momentum in our conversations. I suggested forming a RJSA as one option. I’ve also had conversations with students about what Montpelier HS is doing for Black History Month and suggested they take their ideas to some of their peers in our student leadership groups (YATST, NHS, Captains Council, Campus Life).

What will the students do as a next step? This is up to you! Let me know what I can do as principal to support your conversations and actions. -Mr.Hawkes

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Sea of Pink Day 2018! Isaac Kaplan Crushes It! By: Coach Weir After lots of practices and t-shirt selling, Sea of Pink day was finally here! This is a day many On February 9, athletes from all over the state gathered at UVM's Gutterson Field House for the look forward to, and it’s a great way to Division 2 Indoor Track State Championships. support their peers and have fun. Here are the Junior Isaac Kaplan, who already had two results: individual state championships and one state V&MS Gymnastics: 93.55-88.45 • runner-up title in the past twelve months, added • Bowling: 1st place another state championship by edging out U-32's • V Boys Basketball: 41-71 Andrew Crompton for the 3000 meter run title. • JV Boys Basketball: 48-74 The Ghost junior led from the gun, opening up a lead as large as 30-meters before being slowly • V Girls Basketball: 20-36 reeled in by the U-32 junior. With four laps to go, • JV Girls Basketball: 10-36 Isaac increased his pace, opening the gap over There was an awesome turn out with great his competitor, and eventually crossing the finish spirit! Keep up the hard work! Go Ghosts! line in 9:27.11, about eight seconds ahead of Crompton.

Advice Column Once the results from both Division 1 and Dear "da love guruz", Division 2 were compiled, Isaac's time was good Valentines day has come and gone. On Valentine’s day I received several carnations and enough to secure him an invitation to The New chocolates from somebody that I am not England Interscholastic Championships, which romantically interested in. This person is my will take place at the Reggie Lewis Track and friend, but I am currently in a romantic Athletic Center in Roxbury, MA on March 3. relationship. I have no idea how to tell the person Isaac is the first Ghost to qualify for Indoor New that I am not interested in a relationship. I don’t want to hurt this person’s feelings. What should I Englands since Haddie Lary in 2013, and is do? Randolph's first male athlete to ever do so. -The Confused Friend There's no real secret to being a better distance runner. The more you run, the better you get. Isaac has run more than 300 miles since Christmas, and that training showed at States. Congratulations, Isaac!

Dear Confused Friend, Thanks for writing in. Unfortunately, this person will be hurt no matter what, but you can minimize the hurt. Introduce the person to a friend that you think could be a better match. What ever you do, don’t lie or lead the person on. Who knows, maybe some day you will end up wanting a relationship with him, so you don’t want to burn any bridges!

-da Love Guruz

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