Saints SENTINEL Volume 1: Issue 4 March 2019 Seniors Are Victorious Saints Olympics 2019 by Theresa Wagner Saints Olympic Week is one Each day’s theme allowed week’s main focus. Throughout of the most anticipated weeks students to express their school the week, classes donated of the school year and for spirit and add liveliness to each canned goods and nonperishable good reason. School spirit and classroom. Purple and gold filled foods to the Pawtucket Soup friendly competition characterize the hallways on Monday morning Kitchen as well as clothing and the race to win the coveted and flags from every nation were toiletries to the Providence bragging rights that accompany paraded down Walcott Street on Rescue Homeless Shelter. The the trophy. This year followed Thursday afternoon. Tuesday’s money collected from the one of the most unexpected dress-down day benefited Foster “Coin Wars” competition was outcomes in Saints’ history—the Forward, as students and faculty donated to Saints’ sister school, class of 2021 upset last year’s members collectively donated St. Mary’s, located in Kenya in senior class to win Olympics. hundreds of dollars to the order to provide students free The competition was fierce. organization. education, housing, and meals. Juniors, sophomores, and even Although Friday’s pep rally The Class of 2019 was freshmen had a shot at a title is the week’s main event, severely underestimated, but that had once belonged to that donations to local, national, and on Friday morning half of the year’s senior class. international charities are the tables in the East Cafeteria were covered in the class’s donated clothing and food. They came out of the games with more than 10,000 points earned through their generosity and athleticism, qualifying as the class with the highest scoring total at the end of the week. One can only wonder who will take home the trophy in 2020, but one statement is certain: Never count out the underdog! photos by Gabriela Castaneda-Pineda Mock Trial Makes the Case by Anna-Marie Ferris the teenage boy who is being The Saint’s Mock Trial team charged with manslaughter, has just wrapped up their 2019 while the prosecution is trying to season. The team won two of incriminate the defendant,” said their cases, one as Defense Cooper Arnold, an attorney on against North Providence the Mock Trial team. High School, and the other as The Mock Trial team made it Prosecution against Lincoln High into the first round of playoffs but School. unfortunately lost to Providence Each year, the competing Country Day School. Isabella schools throughout the state are Calise, a member of the team, photo courtesy of Mrs. Alexandre given the same specific case. mentioned that her favorite part The coordinator, Mrs. Mary SRA parent, for volunteering his While all the cases are fictitious, of being on Mock Trial is the Alexandre, said that she is very time and expertise to help the they are similar or based-on real- experience because it “teaches proud of the team and enjoys team. life cases. This year the case, great leadership qualities and watching everyone work well Saint Rays is incredibly proud State vs. DeLuca, involved texting gives us opportunities to learn together. The Mock Trial team is of the Mock Trial team, comprised while driving. “The defense was from current people in the law very grateful to John MacDonald, of only underclassmen, and all it given the case of protecting profession.” a criminal defense lawyer and has accomplished this year. 2 News Women’s History Month We Are Wise. We are Worthy. We Are Women. by Emily Fournier March is a very important Jane Addams set out to prove month for women across that white, privileged women the country as it is Women’s were not going to gain equality History Month. Established by on their own, instead they Congress in 1987, this month reached out to women of every is dedicated to celebrating and background including slaves and honoring women’s contributions immigrants. to history, culture, and American That is what makes the society. This March in particular women’s suffrage movement holds a very special meaning so impactful: women standing for American women as 2019 by women instead of letting marks the 100th anniversary race, politics, and backgrounds since women received the divide them. Women proved right to vote. Although this is that they were powerful, is over—a brief gaze at today’s a voice and more freedom than a tremendous milestone for strong, and could not be headlines will prove that that ever, there are always incidents women and the fight for gender silenced or shackled forever. is not the case. There is still and conversations that remind us harassment. There are still that change is a gradual process, double standards. There are still and that there are those that still stifling societal expectations. put women down and view them Especially now, these issues as subservient beings. need to be considered when This March, it is important celebrating the history of to remember that despite the women in America if we want setbacks women still face today, progression to continue. It was they have still made tremendous only 2017 when the #MeToo progress in the fight for gender Movement started, and even equality. As it has been proven today it is an ongoing epidemic throughout the centuries, of hashtag activism in which women triumph when they survivors are still stepping listen to one another, learn from forward with recent stories of one another, and encourage one sexual harassment and abuse another. Becoming a successful in their homes and at work. woman should not be viewed as While movements like #MeToo a competition. Every woman is and Time’s Up attest to the idea worthy of respect, acceptance, that women now have more of opportunity, and success. equality, the prejudice and Despite their inferior status in injustice that women face in American society, they not only their own communities must not continuously campaigned for be overlooked. their suffrage, but they also To understand where we are SENTINEL made countless advancements Saints 2018-2019 Staff Members now, it is important to reflect in politics, science, technology, on where we have been. While and medicine which only Staff Writers: Staff Photographers: many may credit the petticoated reinforced the idea that women Gabriela Castaneda-Pineda Gabriela Castaneda-Pineda Sydney Charette Emily Fournier soldiers of the early twentieth were a force of nature and Anna-Marie Ferris Gianna Medeiros century as the champions of the perfectly capable of performing Emily Fournier Hector Padilla women’s suffrage movement, the same tasks as men. These Emily Gaboriault the fight for the right to vote women included Ada Lovelace, Jeremy Knox Copy Editors: can be traced back to 1848 in Marie Curie, Edith Wilson, and Ben Senra Gabriela Castaneda-Pineda Jordan Severino Emily Gaboriault Seneca Falls, NY, where Susan Eleanor Roosevelt, whose lives Kylie McLaughlin Emily Fournier B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady still remain prominent in the Gianna Medeiros Theresa Wagner Stanton famously introduced minds and hearts of today’s Hector Padilla their own declaration of courageous females. While it Jack Rigley Layout Editors: Jesus Santos Anna-Marie Ferris sentiments and opposition to is easy to look at our past and Ryan Sutherland Jeremy Knox the oppressive state of their come to the assumption that Theresa Wagner Gianna Medeiros country. Women like Sojourner the fight for acknowledgment, Faculty Advisor: Jordan Severino Truth, the Grimké sisters, and acceptance, and gender equality Heather Gaffney-Hsu Sydney Charette News 3 Spotlight: Mrs. M. Murphy by Emily Fournier families, especially in the field A: I want every student to Good teachers enlighten of social work. While she helped know that they are special, and the mind, but great teachers me recognize my potential for that God has a plan for each and enlighten the heart. It can be and interest in this job, Mr. every one of them. I want them said that what separates a good Murray’s psychology class is to know and understand that life teacher from a great teacher is what solidified that for me. They is a journey and that they are how one sees his or her students. both had a hand in my career well on their way to becoming A great teacher recognizes choice. the best versions of themselves students’ respectability, dignity, Q: What is it you love most that they can be; who God and individuality. While Saint about Saint Raphael Academy? intends for them to be. I hope Raphael Academy proudly boasts What is it about the school that that I model what that’s like. I an abundance of great teachers, inspired you to come back and hope that by me being imperfect, this month’s spotlight article is work here? by being real and honest in my devoted to the incomparable A: I love our students. I love we really are family. work with them, that I help Mrs. Malaina Murphy. working with each and every Q: What is the most rewarding them to see the opportunities Q: When did you know that one of them and their families. part about being a guidance that lie ahead for them. I want you wanted to be a guidance I love our Lasallian community counselor? them to know that I am driven counselor? of dedicated teachers and staff. A: I love watching students by helping students become the A: I always knew that I wanted They are all such incredible grow and transform into the best version of themselves, and to work with kids.