ual Junior Rafael is Au V d Velez’s narrative The Grady music scene io accompanies gathers Momentum C p h o t o s o f and the mystery of t h e G r a d y the Moog synthe- 6 Censorship sizer is investigated 6a r t s h o w 22this month. o at Youth Art Connection. m n ru t s o t R e Senior Erin Wert tells n how it was to grow up 1conservative in a liberal community. Social studies 18 teacher Lou Sartor weighs t in on the state of politics 8in this country and around the world. s rie ge a n e 10 Nexus10 explores M the War on Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan as told through the stories of Mr. Cramer discusses the math and construction of soldiers who fought the war. 2pipe organs. eBay has a MySpace deal and Beagle re 20 advertising. Also a calendar tu of April’s events. u o C 0 G r a c i e Cunningham discusses music’s influence on fashion through the years. Mr. 16 Martinez predicts the next trends for the year. C o v e r and content nexus art by Forrest Aguar Volume 2 Issue 3 March-April 2006 Contributing Writers From Lily Feinberg and Rebecca Gittelson- juniors Lily and Rebecca are officially the two coolest Jews at Grady, so it comes as no surprise that The they’re also best friends. Lily is known for her wicked mad skills at jazz piano and cutouts for The Southerner—even though she really hates Staff cutouts. Rebecca is an exercise fanatic and very healthy eater who very recently passed the 5-foot The is no better place to publish a magazine of culture mark. Her tragic flaw is her weakness for chocolate. than Henry W. Grady High School. This issue highlights Chelsea Cook- senior two of Grady’s inaugural cultural achievements: the Mo- Chelsea is not a hippy. She eats a lot of soy. She mentum Music Festivals and the censorship art show also drinks a lot of water, conquering about at Youth Art Connection. The Momentum shows were 4 Nalgenes a day. She doesn’t have cable. completely student-run and featured Grady performing She advocates Crocs. She writes for her own artists. According to art teacher John Brandhorst, Grady amusement. She wants dreadlocks...one day. was the only school asked to participate in the censorship Her car is worth about $500, if that. She works at a health-nut restaurant. She has a weird tattoo. show because we have an administration and students She is not a hippy, she’s just from Candler Park. who would be open to the idea of depicting censorship through art. Take that Cobb County. Matt Westmoreland- senior Grady’s cultural achievements extend way beyond what Westmoreland, a president, lawyer and manag- we’ve covered in this issue. Our superior-ranked chorus ing editor all at once, lives and breathes Grady will be touring in New York at the end of April, and the jazz High School, often spending 30 hours a day band put on a great concert at Grady this fall during Jazz working on the newspaper and mock trial. He has connections on multiple levels of govern- on the Bricks. Grady has a brand new dance program this ment and is the go-to guy for behind-the-scenes year, which will turn heads at their spring performance. scoops about Grady or Atlanta politics. He does The drama department continues to exceed all expec- freelance announcing when not working at Grady. tations. Ragtime last year (Vol. 1, Iss. 2) was Grady’s first A n Erin Wert- senior musical in six years and will be rivaled by this spring’s per- esteemed graduate of Morningside Elementary formance of Tartuffe. Grady’s fashion department is turn- School, Wert has worked hard throughout her ing heads in the Atlanta fashion community. They were 16-year schooling career. She loves getting recently featured on Good Day Atlanta, and the spring into arguments with her fellow students and is fashion show is an event not to be missed. proud to be one of the few conservatives in a Grady is one of the central schools researching the 1906 very liberal environment. She’s even traveled the race riots as a part of a citywide effort to Commemorate great expanse of the Atlantic Ocean to experience the centennial of their occurence. Nexus will be joining the great culture of France. that effort in our next issue. Grady will also be hosting the Lou Sartor- social studies teacher inaugural Grady Film on the Field movie night on May 13. Mr. Sartor, social studies teacher extraordinaire, All of these achievements and so much more make molds his third-period students’ political Grady, in the opinion of this staff, one of the most exciting minds in his AP Government class. He sub- schools in Georgia. It makes our job easy having to look jects his students to the confusing history of no further than the next classroom to find the next excit- the United States the rest of the day. At this rate, ing story of cultural achievements at Grady High School. he may never retire and teach forever. Nexus: a publication of The Southerner Volume 2 Issue3 Staff: Jessica Baer, Asa Beal, Lena Brod- Design Editor: Alex Daniels Atlanta, GA 30309 sky, Jeffrey Carpenter, Alastair Carter- Advertising: Nexus is a non-profit Submissions: Nexus is a submission- Boff, Rhanatah Griffith, Stone Irvin, Sam organization that relies on advertising based publication that relies on your Johnson, Koleen Sullivan, Madeleine to generate revenue to cover printing submissions for its content. Nexus Webb. and maintenance costs. Nexus is read accepts submissions for all of its sections Managing Editor: Micah Weiss by approximately 1,500 people and is and features (submissions may be edited Print Staff: Alvin Hambick, Harlon a great way to publicize your business. for length or content). Submission forms Heard, Michael Jackson, Adlai McClure, To advertise with Nexus, contact Dave are located in the Southerner room, or can Charlotte Napper, Benjamin Shaw Winter at [email protected]. be obtained from Mr. Winter. For more Founding Editors: Harrison Martin and Nexus is a bimonthly publication of: information, or to turn a submission in, Micah Weiss Henry W. Grady High School please contact Mr. Winter or any member Adviser: Dave Winter 929 Charles Allen Drive NE of the staff at [email protected]. audio Students create, produce concert series to gain Momentum for Grady musicians Grady hosted its two Momentum music festivals Speedo’s hardcore rap, to Sir Fury’s soulful rhymes, on Feb. 3 and March 10. The festivals were the brain- from Slyfoot’s hard-to-classify folk rock, to Liliana child of senior Miles Keeney-Ritchie. The three rising Hudgens’ great covers and Spare Change’s skillfully stars Keeney-Ritchie signed up for the first festival are played rock with an alternative twist. The groups certainly gaining momentum with Grady fans. Each sounded radically different and each had their own group brought its own style to the concert, from style but combined to make a great performance. 1 2 3 4 5 1. Slyfoot’s Stone and John Irvin played only three songs, but created a varied sound. 2. Sir Fury (Russell Owens) moves the audience with dream-inspired rhymes, hardcore rap, and charged songs on American race identity. 3. Ben Martin laid down a beat that put a liveliness into Spare Change’s performance. 4. Liliana Hudgens utilized her great voice to perform a number of covers that ranged from ‘60s rock to current indie tunes. 5. Speedo (Kai Washington) got the crowd rowdy with his rhymes and bass heavy tracks that left the room shaking and ready for more. Photos by Claire Monson 2 [NEXUS] March-April 2006 audio The amazing journey of the moog our In 1964 music changed. A Hard Day’s Night was the tracks “Daily Nightly” and “Star Collector.” At one of the top albums that year, but that’s not that point, the Monkees were finally beginning playlists what caused music to evolve; Robert Moog did. to experiment with different sounds and to In 1964 Moog introduced the modular synthe- play almost all the instruments on their records, sizer. Moog’s synthesizer was the first to be widely something Clogem Records, their label, did not used, and, unlike previous models, the Moog syn- previously allow. If this had stayed the case, the thesizer used a standard piano keyboard as its Monkees might never have come across the interface.The Beatles may have helped change Moog synthesizer. music, but not until five years later when they Believe it or not, some 32 years later, Moog’s utilized the Moog synthesizer on their album synthesizers are still being used in music today. Alastair Carter-Boff Abbey Road. Moog’s synthesizers can be heard nearly every- -Frank Sinatra The Moog synthesizer was bulky, heavy, and where. The Cure used the synthesizer on many -We Are Scientists sometimes took several hours to set up, so in of their albums in the ‘80s, and the Moog can -D4L 1971, Moog introduced the Minimoog, the first be heard right now on albums by the Black Eyed all-in-one synthesizer. The Minimoog was well re- Peas, Kelis, and Radiohead. Although maybe not -Buck 65 ceived by musicians, largely due to the loud, rich as prominently as before, the Moog synthesizer -Binary Heroes bass notes it was capable of producing.