Tradition and Modernity Fuse at Annual Asia Night
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HORACE MANN SCHOOL | WEEKLY SINCE 1913 February 5, 2010 http://record.horacemann.org Volume 107, Issue 18 Tradition and Modernity Fuse at Annual Asia Night Moodle, DC Sarah Swong Animate Council Staff Writer Sarah Sicular A rich buffet of Chinese, Japanese, Staff Writer Korean, and Indian dishes, the In a collaboration of a constituent reverberating rhythms of Korean and a representative, the Governing drums, and fight choreography Council passed a bill on Tuesday to between a brave mouse and a sinister set deadlines for teachers to post cat are among the planned festivities homework on the Internet. at tonight’s Asia Night, East Wind After Noah Landesberg (10) West Wind club members said. asked Rep. Jessica Bernheim (10) This year’s event will feature to address homework assignments “traditional and modern acts at the posted late at night on the Moodle, same time,” East Wind West Wind the pair proposed a bill requiring co-President Kevin Lin (12) said. teachers to post homework on An Indian dandiya dance, a Japanese Moodle by 5 p.m. on the day it Bon dance, and a standing Korean is assigned, or by 7 p.m. on the drum performance by the Samulnori last class day before a weekend. If Club will celebrate traditional Asian homework is not posted by that culture, while a boys’ dance to the time, students cannot be held pulsating hip-hop song “Heartbeat” responsible for completing it, the by 2PM,- and a girls’ dance to the bill states. Korean pop-dance hit “So Hot” by “The school places a huge Wonder Girls will display modern Photos by Aramael Peña-Alcántara & Justin Gilston/Staff Photographers emphasis on time management, and popular culture, club members said. TONIGHT Kenny Zhang (10), Kevin Lin (12), Gurbani Suri (10), and Noah Lee (10) practice a modern Asian dance to the with so many students crunched for “I really think that Asia Night song “Heartbeat” during rehearsal yesterday afternoon. The dance will be performed at Asia Night this evening. viable work time, their homework has become more said. chunk of our time practicing for Asia solely of student performances. The needs to be available to them as diversified in the sense Asia Night, which Night,” Lai said. out-of-school groups that are usually early as possible,” Bernheim said. that it includes aspects usually takes place after “Many of the new freshmen invited to perform “are unavailable at Representatives such as Max of Western cultures, spring break, has been members are participating, which this time of year,” Lai said. The event’s Moran (10) shared stories about such as hip-hop pushed earlier this year is great because it’s fun for them proximity to Chinese New Year teachers not informing students of dancing,” dance because of stage set to meet new people and have inspired the skit theme, Chiang said. assignments until even 6 a.m. on chore o g r aphe r conflicts with the spring time to bond with them over “The night is about supporting the day they were due. Gurbani Suri (10) production Oliver!, co- Dorr,” co-Vice-President students who want to diversify The bill “appealed directly to the said. President Brian Lai (12) Erica Chiang (11) said. this community and want to take concerns of the representatives’ “How 13 said. To compensate for The time change ownership of their academic and constituents, and has arisen as an Became 12,” a skit reduced practice time, the also altered the educational identity,” Faculty Adviser issue for most students at some recounting the club traveled to the John Dorr p e r f o r m a n c e Ian Rios said. legend about the Nature Laboratory last weekend lineup, which selection of the see Governing Council, page 3 to bond and to dedicate “a huge will consist 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, will be the centerpiece Students’ Study App Hits iTunes Store of the show, Pamela Mishkin Barg said. a Twitter, a Facebook fan page, and a Lin said. The So far over 100 users have Though other flashcard simulator website for the app. story follows a mouse that thwarts a Staff Writer downloaded the app, which the apps exist in the iTunes store, the After Moon conceived the idea for cat plotting to cheat his way into the group decided to charge $1.99 for group felt that most of these were the application, the group decided to Need flash cards for your Spanish zodiac, Lin said. With incorporations after determining that price “was the missing something. Moon sought to split its responsibilities. Moon took test? There’s an app for that. such as a “President” Jade Emperor take these “clunky, ugly, and care of the graphic design, while and the mass media, the traditional difficult to understand” apps, Barg did most of the programming story will have a modern twist, he and add features that they lack. and Bleuel covered web design, they “A lot of these apps don’t even said. The mostly self-taught group come with the ability to make learned Objective-C, the language your own cards, and some of Apple apps, “from online Google of them require you to have tutorials and the Apple website,” Barg purchased a desktop version said. “Once you know one language, Bronx, NY Permit #185 of their app in order to create it’s not that hard to learn another.” cards. And a lot of them are The group hopes to create more US PostageUS PAID pretty expensive. The interface apps in the future after updating we came up with seems to Flipside more, they said. Eventually FIRST-CLASS MAIL work for us, and hopefully for they would like to develop a note- others as well.” taking app for the iPad. To prepare their app, the Flipside – Digital Studying is not group downloaded many the first app the group has produced, related ones already available though it is the most ambitious. in Apple’s online store, to Their most successful apps, Jump see what features they were the Cat and iMassage, have each missing and what could be sold around 120,000 copies, and added, Bleuel said. iMassage has reached the #3 spot in Flipside – Digital Studying, a sweet spot,” Moon said. tool for the iPhone and iTouch, was Because of the multitude of similar the Health and Wellness category in “We’re not as focused on making apps in the online store, the group Afghanistan/Vietnam. created by freshmen Jay Moon, Jeff a profit as introducing ourselves to Street Barg, Justin Bleuel and Jay Palekar. has found it difficult to gain traction. Their other applications include th the marketplace,” Bleuel said. “The It took about three months to “We haven’t had many sales yet, but TuneTweet, which allows users to money goes to cover Domino’s when we are waiting for some review sites post what they are listening to on transform the app from idea to we have weekend coding sessions.” reality, with members of the team to feature our app, which we hope their iPhone/iTouch to Twitter, and “We wanted to keep it pretty cheap, will give us increased publicity,” Nim, a simulation of the ancient getting together on weekends for 19- so that our app would be less than hour sessions, Moon said. Moon said. The group has established Chinese game of the same name. 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