The Blazer VOL. CXIV No. VI Loyola School, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY March/April 2019 Fiat Veritas APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS BUSY DAYS AT LOYOLA KATE’S CORNER OF CURIOSITIES: BY GRACE COPPS ‘22 AWESOME ACTUALITIES A lot has been happen- BY KATE LUI ‘20 ing at Loyola over the past • It costs 1.5 cents to make a penny few months. At the end of February, we had For & • A Scottish dish called haggis is cooked inside a With Others Week. Over sheep’s stomach the course of the Week, we • The offspring of a polar bear and a grizzly bear is had presentations covering called a pizzy bear a wide range of topics from mental health to offensive • You are rarely ever more than six feet away from language. On Monday af- a spider ternoon, we gathered to • A single strand of spaghetti is called a spaghetto watch a dance performance • IKEA stands for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agun- by Katharine Pettit Cre- ative, led by Katie Pettit, naryd (the founders name, the farm where he grew our very own Dance Club up, and his hometown) moderator (shameless plug • Every year, a redhead festival is held in the Neth- incoming…please come erlands on Mondays after school Three generations of the Bastianich family. in 303!). The performance, Photo courtesy of Loyola Yearbook • Over 5 billion little green monopoly houses have called “I Could Never Love two years before coming to The book is a collection of coming and safe space for been produced since the game was created Anyone…,” told the story America. Hearing the story essays by victims of hate everyone. • The phrase “It’s on like Donkey Kong” is trade- of three sisters as they dealt of Ms. Bastianich’s jour- crimes. He spoke about On March 12, we had Ig- marked by Nintendo with one’s battle with ad- ney to success was a very the time he spent traveling natian Awareness Day. We diction. The dance showed inspiring experience. After around the country visiting kicked off the day with a • The real Buddha wasn’t fat, he was actually very that the journey to over- school on Wednesday, we these victims to hear their presentation by Fr. Sundrup skinny come addiction was not had a school-wide discus- stories. Afterwards, we had called “Everything’s Not • Circus workers call the toilet a doniker a straight line—the sister sion on offensive language an opportunity to get a copy Awesome.” Fr. Sundrup • Ripe bananas glow blue under a blacklight would be able to keep her in our school community. of his book signed, and he told us that if we wanted demons at bay for a time, Many students shared their even posted a picture of us to strengthen our relation- • The world’s most stolen food is cheese but would come to face thoughts, feelings, and ob- on his Instagram. Through- ships, we need to get off • A group of turkeys is called a gang them again. At Assembly on servations, and we had a out the week we also had our phones. After Mass, we Tuesday morning, we heard very insightful conversa- student-led seminars on broke into smaller groups CARA’S CONUNDRUMS esteemed restauranteur, TV tion. We talked about the topics ranging from sexual for a handful of activities. show host, and cookbook issues we need to address assault and harassment to Fr. Sundrup and Ms. Van BY CARA MULROONEY ‘20 author Lidia Bastianich in our community and what violence and hate crimes. I Dorn gave a presentation 1. Name an eight letter word that has kst in the middle, tell her fascinating story. we, as individuals, can do to think we all can agree that on their podcast, Deliver in the beginning, and at the end. As a child, Ms. Bastianich combat them. On Thursday, this gave us a good idea Us. They told us about how fled the Yugoslavian com- we had Arjun Singh Sethi of what we as members of they make their podcast 2. What is the difference between a school boy study- munist regime and lived in come speak to us about the community need to do appealing to listeners and ing and a farmer watching his cattle? a refugee camp in Italy for his book, American Hate. to make our school a wel- how to determine the truth 3. A boy was born in 1955 and he just had his 18th from a variety of sources. birthday yesterday. How did this happen? We had reflection sessions 4. What is the next 3 letters in this riddle? O t t f f s where we discussed the s _ _ _ events of the day, and gave us the chance to connect 5. I’m a word that’s hardly there. Take away my start, with people in other grades and I’m an herbal flair. What am I? who we may not have 6. Why was the picture sent to jail? ever talked to before. We 7. I have two hands, but I can not scratch myself. Who also had a game of Jesuit- am I? themed Jeopardy!, which 8. When is music like vegetables? was my favorite part of the day. It’s been a very event- 9. I have no feet, no hands, no wings, but I climb to the ful school year at Loyola, sky. What am I? and it’s not over yet! 10. How can you take 2 from 5 and leave 4? THE BIGGER THEY GROW, THE HARDER THEY FALL BY LUC BOUSQUETTE ‘20 An international meal cooked and eaten by our very own students. The Giants have now fifty touchdown passes in a playoffs, one of which Photo courtesy of Loyola Yearbook missed the postseason season. Their defense was was against the Patriots. in six of the past seven just as impressive, rank- Their quarterback, Eli CLIMATE CHANGE AND RENEWABLE ENERGY years. From two Super ing 4th in the league in Manning, was a high-risk, Bowl wins in four years to points and yards allowed. high-reward thrower. Al- BY LUCAS POMBO ‘22 regularly missing the play- This combination of a though he threw an im- I think that we can all change will be devastat- and CO2 pollution? The offs, the Giants’ collapse high powered offense and pressive 23 touchdowns, agree that we need to gen- ing. The political capital answer is: not really. In requires a deep rewind in an outstanding defense, he led the league with 20 erate cleaner power. In invested in such ideas has our hype, we have forgot- time. allowed them to go a per- interceptions on the sea- recent years, we’ve seen funded such changes, as ten the real costs we are The date is February 3, fect 18-0 on the season son, three of which were costs of renewable energy powerful politicians are avoiding, and we as the 2008, the New York Gi- and postseason before the taken back to the house. tumble, and now Califor- willing to use state funds American electorate have, ants are taking on the New Super Bowl. Before them, The team relied on the run- nia even has an 11% solar to bankroll such schemes, yet again, been caught up England Patriots in Super no team had ever played a ning back Brandon Jacobs power generation share. and shield them from liti- promoting ideas that won’t Bowl XLII. The Patriots perfect 16 game schedule. as their lead rusher. While We’ve pushed for renew- gation. Yet despite the po- work. Returning to our are coming off arguably The Giants have not he eclipsed 1000 yards, he able energy because we litical support such ideas California example, de- the greatest regular season been as remarkable. They rushed for just 4 touch- have to—after all, if we have received, are they spite its (relatively) wide- of all time. Superstar Tom finished the season 10- downs in the season. The generate too much car- actually the right way to ————— Brady became the first 6, losing two of their last ————— bon, the effects of climate combat climate change Continued on Page 6 quarterback to ever throw three games before the Continued on Page 4 Page 2 The Blazer Loyola School, 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10028 EARTH DAY, GREEN DAY, CARPE DIEM BY SOFIA PASTORE ‘22 Monday, April 22, each year. A total of one issues. As a result of human have also fallen by 40 per- there is still good news to life, you can replace plas- 2019: my birthday. Just billion people from 192 action, ecosystems face cent overall. It is estimated be found in the midst of the tic water bottles, utensils, kidding, it’s far more im- different countries take threats such as unhealthy that humans have affected bad. The rate of extinctions cups, and straws with reus- portant. April 22 is a day part in Earth Day, making production and consump- 83 percent of Earth’s land can still be slowed, and able alternatives. Addition- that many overlook includ- it the largest civic-focused tion. This trend cannot surface, which has ravages many declining, threatened, ally, you can avoid plastic ing, until recently, myself. day of action in the world. continue. If we continue to many ecosystems where and endangered species can shopping bags. To decrease Monday, April 22 is Earth There is a theme for Earth severely expend resources, species of wildlife used to still recover if we work to- excess production, you can Day. Day every year.