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Halloween Haunts the Chuck Pagano Going O’School Magic LGBT Hall of Fame O’School! Strong Tournament Page 7 Page 2 Page 9 Page 5 The Voyager: Into Interstellar Space Volume 9 By Francesca Issue 1 FEBRUARY 18, 2014 They’re going farther than any- the Deep Space Network (DSN). The thing from earth has ever gone before. DSN provides vital communications As of October 11th, 2013, Voyager 1 had between Earth and the Voyagers (ap- already surpassed 126.139 AU (about prox. 120 degrees apart from eachother, 11,725,437,915 miles) away from earth. they’re located in Goldstone, California, The identical voyager spacecrafts, a cre- near Madrid, Spain, and near Canberra ation of a group of scientists at NASA, Australia). are pushing the limits of the solar system and beyond. They’re on their way into in- terstellar space (the space between the stars). These unmanned spacecraft are hurtling towards the outermost reaches of the sun’s magnetic field, known as the heliosheath, at a rate of 38,000 mph. The Voyager 1, having already surpassed the heliosheath, has entered interstellar space. It will take 10-20 more years for these ships to completely leave the sun’s Voyager Satellite reaches. Through all this time, they are Photo by YDC Staff going to be sending data to earth through Continued on page 10 Thor: The Dark World Movie Review By Francesca “Thor: The Dark World,” the hugely anticipated sequel to “Thor,” starring Chris Hems- worth, Natalie Portman, and Tom Hiddleston, premiered on the 8th of November. In this installation, Thor, soon to reunite with his beloved Jane Foster, faces an en- emy that he cannot defeat alone. Against his better judgement, he goes to his imprisoned brother Loki for help. Thor is part of a series of Thor the Dark World films incorporating the charac- Public Domain Photo ters of Marvel’s “Avengers.” Re- Continued on page 10 2 O’School Halloween Haunts the O’school by Molly the last year. They claimed that All Hallows Eve and Sam- hain were the only days on which the border between the Halloween is a holiday that is loved by kids and living and the dead overlapped, providing them with an op- adults alike. Both get to dress up in costumes, but kids get portunity to pass sides. The living would claim to leave out the opportunity each year to roam around their neighbor- offerings of food and gifts in order to protect them from the hood during the mid afternoon hours from house to house damage of their land or families done by the spirits when to speak the notorious phrase, “Trick or treat,” and then provoked. Sometimes the townspeople would dress in hor- gather loads of candy in bags, pillowcases, or boxes. While rific masks and costumes to imitate all the lost souls of those we all love this, many of who died and appease us really don’t know the them in the case of their history behind how this soul becoming evil and holiday came to be here dangerous. Their ghosts today. recieve offerings or Though the mod- else they would cause ern day celebrations that destruction. These were go on during the night some of the roots of our of Halloween are very costumes and what we different from long ago now call trick or treat- when the holiday origi- ing. nated, the bits and pieces A source for trick of Halloween are very or treating was Samhain visible in other cultures’ Day. On this day, poor version of this holidays. people would take the In the seventeenth cen- offerings from people’s tury, Celtic cultures cele- door steps in exchange brated the annual holiday Halloween Dance 2013 for their prayers for the of All Hallows Eve. This Photo By YDC Staff dead for the following took place on our current day of All Souls Day. Halloween night, October 31st. At the time, the celebra- During the late seventeenth and early eighteenth cen- tions lasted through November 2nd. November 1st being turies, The Christians made their attempts to change these Samhain and November 2nd being All Souls Day. Each of celebrations into something less devilish. The Christians the three days honored the wealth and providers throughout originally thought that these celebrations were barbaric the year including harvesting all of the good crops. These and worshiped the devil. During the eighteenth century, the days were also a marking of the end of the summer/fall sea- Christians created All Saints Day in order to distract these son and the beginning of preparations for winter. cultures from the holiday of Samhain. This attempt failed, These three days were also celebrated for remem- though the holidays of All Hallows Eve, Samhain, and All brance and honor of all of the people who had passed during Continued on next page Volume 9 Issue 1 3 Souls Day spread throughout different regions of Europe, ent video game character. Fake starting with Britain and Ireland. The mid-eighteenth cen- fireballs were being thrown at tury saw the development of the Halloween we know now Jake by Andrew who played and that drifted to the Americas. Luigi, a Mario Brothers charac- It isn’t entirely clear how Halloween became a child ter. Jake played Bowser. Once oriented holiday, but as of today, this is the time when chil- past the last two students, each dren trick or treat from house to house dressed in costumes person had to punch a tiny box to imitate the dead and the dangerous creatures of All Hal- hanging from the ceiling for lows Eve. In more recent years, adults too have become in- candy to spill from the top. vested in this time to celebrate by going to costume parties Next stop was TLC. Dif- and haunted houses. ferent TLC students led the For the O’school, Halloween is something that we groups up the stairwell and know quite well. This year we had lots of exciting activ- into TLC. The stairs had piles ites. Thanks to our Student Council members, the Hallow- of leaves in the corners and een dance was fantastic. The dorms and day schoolers had spilled all over because we awesome themes this year. It has been an O’school tradition were being led into the “haunt- for nearly twenty years to have dorms decorate their areas ed forest” of TLC. The myth on a theme. Michelle Zarrilli shared that she thinks this is a was that we were entering great way to connect to each other as a community by doing the forest to discover if it was something fun together. truly haunted, but we had to be On October 30th, the dorms celebrated Halloween and cautious because people often everyone’s theme was revealed. Starting with the first floor, went missing, and when the the Bulls had a “rebellion against staff” theme including the Pheonix went through, Liz dis- boys dressed in random costumes while pretending to tie up appeared. The tourists walked their staff in a very bubbly joking manner. Their costumes around the perimeter of the ranged from things like Burak’s costume as the “monopoly room until Iva, as Slenderman, man,” to Zander dressed as a giant present. jumped out and we saved Liz. The Starz dorm introduced an engaging theme similar Dayschool had a general Halloween haunting theme to the board game, Clue. Each student was a different char- where students made strange sounds and hid behind tables acter and the tourists had to ask questions in order to solve and shelves. A strobe light was in the background and the the mystery of their missing dorm manager, Jen Harris. Ms. library was decorated with many fake spiderwebs. Students Claus was played by Bella, and had committed the kid- napping of Jen. The final dorm on the first floor, the Phoenix, was dec- orated in the theme of Mount Olympus with the Gods and Goddesses. Introduced by float counselor Janine, dressed as “Hermes,” messenger of the gods, each student held a still pose until dorm manager Caroline was introduced as Zeus. Music played and each student began dancing in their area. On the second floor, the Broncos had the theme of a haunted restaurant. Guided by Jacob, tourists viewed menus and meals such as Eyeball Split (a dessert) and baby cow brains. Previous Penguin dorm staff, Domo- nique, dressed as singer and artist Janelle Monet and in- troduced us to the stars of the Penguins. Artists consisted hid under shelves and tables to startle those who passed of people/groups like Deadmau5, Two-chains, and Miley through the library. Students dressed in various costumes Cyrus. Miley, played by Stephen, gave us a little number at of no specific theme, like Brandon who dressed in a tie dye the end of the tour. morph suit. In the Gryphons dorm, each student dressed as a differ- Later that night, students changed out of their dorm Continued on page 4 4 The Barn By Bre fire truck was here in Bettelheim’s time. He used to take “I am proud of the barn’s history.”said Coach. the students on rides in the fire truck. Later on, the barn The barn is a very important part of the Orthogenic was also used for a wood working workshop, but very school. Why you ask? because we store things in there briefly, and was also used for Vocational Horticulture. for physical education, maintenance, and other miscel- Coach said that the barn is a “rustic highly function- laneous things. al facility” and he hit the hammer on the head.

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