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The Tusker Tribune The Student Newspaper of Somers Middle School Issue Number 23 http://somersschools.org/domain/995 Spring 2018 School Shootings—A Preventable Tragedy By Izzy Youngs stopped. Besides making it harder Tusker Tribune Staff to buy a gun, we need better back- All around the ground checks. No more innocent world, about 35,141 a lives should be taken for no reason year people are shot and whatsoever. killed by guns. Almost all of Another thing is school shootings them are innocent and about should end and kids should never 2,737 of those people are kids. have to go to school with a little Kids whose lives were ended too worry that something might hap- soon just because bad people pen. School is supposed to be safe were able to get guns. That and keep you safe. That’s why we needs to be fixed! have all kinds of drills. One way to fix it is make guns harder to In 2017 there were a total of eight school get. Also, did you know, according to research it is shootings and in 2018, so far there have been 10 harder to get a marriage license than it is to get shootings, and counting. The recent shooting at an assault weapon. A MARRIGE LICENSE!!!! Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Park- Another group of people who don’t help land, Florida, resulted in 17 students and teachers with the situation is the National Rifle Association dying. And after what happened at their school (NRA). These people are the ones who always use they have had protests and are helping make a the Second Amendment—the right to keep and change in gun violence. bear arms—as the reason why there shouldn’t be Hopefully these things can be stopped, and restrictions on guns. people don’t have to worry about whether someone I don’t know why people who are mentally in their family might get shot and die simply be- unstable can have guns! That, too, should also be cause they decided to attend school. New iPhone is Shrouded in Mystery! By Ezra Weinstein there is a combination lock on the door. That lock Tusker Tribune Staff changes its password every 30 minutes to ensure As most of you might know, that no body besides Apple employees can access the iPhone X and the iPhone 8/8 the room. plus just came out last December. Of course, the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook gets If you think that was it for a while, you notified every time the password is changed. It’s are completely wrong! Apple has said Weinstein’s funny because in the movie Ocean’s 11, the casi- that in September, a new phone will be Wisdom no has a similar method for their money vault. coming out. The password also changes every 30 minutes, Apple likes to keep their new which makes it a challenge for the main charac- products very secret so it’s very hard for ter, Daniel Oceans, and his team, to steal the people to obtain information about them. money. Maybe Tim Cook liked Ocean’s 11! Everyone thinks when a phone comes I’m sure the suspense is killing you trying to find out, it means that they just finished true information on the phone but the only thing making it. The phone is usually created I know is that it is claimed to be a bigger version a couple months before the actual release of the iPhone X. C’mon I thought we were trying date. to make phones smaller! There is a new phone sitting on a If anyone has any more information on table inside a vacuum sealed room with the new iPhone, I suggest sharing it with your many layers of security. Supposedly, peers. The Tusker Tribune Page 2 The Student Newspaper of Somers Middle School BSA’s Sea Base: a Weeklong Sailing Trip! By Nicholas Cirillo Tusker Tribune Staff Just visualize for a mo- ment: You’re in the sunny Florida Keys, sailing on a boat, fishing lines dragging behind you, with three or four of your friends hanging out. The wind changes, and you hear your Captain yell: “Tack on the starboard side!” You grab the rope closest to you and pull with all of your might as your friend loosens the one opposite of you. Both of you sigh in relief as the sail changes direc- tion, and you tie up the knot in a cleat hitch. You take a step back, adjust your hat, and slap on another layer of sunscreen, ready (delicious) meal, and which adults and Scouts will to dive into the water once again. be taking which anchor watch. That’s Florida Sea Base, a high-adventure Speaking of anchor watch, each night, the program offered to Boy Scouts and Venture Scouts must keep a night watch by taking bear- Crews. Through the week of winter break, many ings and making sure the boat isn’t drifting. This boys in Troop 228 Somers (myself included) flew can be done in several ways. My boat did one down to the Sunshine State to sail in the beautiful Scout per one hour (admittedly, a bad idea, since Florida Keys. twice Scouts fell asleep during their shifts), while After we arrived at Sea Base, we pre- another boat did two Scouts for two hours. pared our things and were assigned our boats – Here’s another tip: Bring some kind of Crew A, led by fellow 8th grader pocket-sized board game, like chess or Battleship. Robert Moore, would be sailing You can play it on the boat before bed. It’s also a on the Hercules; Crew B, led by good idea to bring your smartphone if your par- your truly, would be manning the ents will allow it: NOT to use on the boat, except Jewel of Athena; Crew C, led by for maybe pictures and a call home, but for time at Somers High School student Jul- the airport or on the plane. ian Bruno, would adventure on On Thursday, our boats reconvened at the the Green Olive, and Crew F (I’m Marathon Marina, where we refueled the boat’s not too sure why letters D and E motors, emptied out the trash and (yuck!) the were skipped), led by SHS student Alex Witkie- head, and ate a delicious seafood dinner at the La- wicz, sailed on the Missty. zy Days restaurant. After that, we enjoyed one All four boats and their captains were more full day of sailing, and headed back to New fabulous, and the next morning, each boat set sail York for school. (Here’s a great tip: Don’t go to into the Keys! First up: Snorkeling! school that Monday. You will be getting back at 2 Snorkeling is a way of swimming in which a.m., on Monday, and it’s just not worth the sleep- the swimmer wears a mask, flippers, and often an lessness. Just remember to ask a friend for any inflatable life jacket. The mask is unique in that it missed assignments.) has a hollow stalk reaching above the head of the I’ve attached the photo of everyone who user, connected to a mouthpiece, enabling breath- attended Sea Base with us, and I’m sure you’ll see ing at a shallow underwater level. Snorkeling was some familiar faces. If you’re curious about it, be one of the highlights of the trip, and while my sure to ask one of crew did not see many coral reefs or catch any lob- us! ster, it was still a blast to swim in the water and All in all, watch the colorful fish. not once did the Another fun aspect of the trip was the awesome adven- sailing itself. There were three different sails, and turing at Sea Base the sail we used the most was the jib, a small, tri- get boring, and if angular sail towards the bow (front) of the boat. you are a Boy It’s also the hardest to manage, with bigger ropes Scout or part of a and manual cleating (tying off the rope). Venture crew, I The Scouts cook each meal and clean all highly recommend the dishes – which really isn’t that bad – as well asking a leader as select what each meal will be. Crew leaders like about Florida Sea me had to choose who will be cooking what Base! The Tusker Tribune Page 3 The Student Newspaper of Somers Middle School Two Views on ‘Fortnite’ By Nolan Kavanagh By Juliana Spano There are many Tusker Tribune Staff Tusker Tribune kinds of weapons and other Taking over the Internet, Staff objects to collect in the one gamer at a time. One single Fortnite is game. The game also has a video game. FORTNITE. the new craze feature called The Storm. The video game Fortnite amongst, well, eve- The storm is just like what was developed by the companies Epic ryone! Kids, teens and it sounds like: it’s a storm Games and People Can Fly. This free to adults are all joining the that closes in on you unless play as of 2018 game is a co-op sandbox game and are playing to you are in the storm eye. survival game considered by the creators win. Here's The eye shrinks of the game at Epic as a cross between the a little and shrinks two games Minecraft and Left 4 Dead. knowledge and eventually, The game has recently reached its I have on if the games go peak of a bit over 3.4 million concurrent the game.

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