Mid-October 2013

The Poly Optimist John H. Francis Polytechnic High School Vol. XCIX, No. 3 Serving the Poly Community Since 1913 Mid-October 2013 A sense Governance Council of security Considers Calendar Tech class offers Par- cuts that break in half and portions rots the skills to stop By Mayra Benitez Staff Writer the other half to the winter break,” hackers in their tracks. Bennett said. “We eliminate the summer learning loss.” School Governance Council Funding is the issue. By Christine Maralit members took up a number of issues “The school calendar change is Staff Writer during the committee’s second meet- going to cost money,” Bennett said, ing under the new Pilot held in room “because the District would make us Everyone knows a hacker can 61 last week. pay for the changes. It would cost spoil your day by crashing your hard First up was a proposal on the a signifi cant amount of money to drive or taking over your computer. budget process. run an intersession. That would take Now interested Parrots can fi ght “We’ll present the budget at one money from something else in our back. meeting and vote on it a week later, budget.” CyberPatriot, a high school so people have a chance to think “Where is the money going to program that teaches students how to about the budget,” Poly Principal Ari come from,” Bennett said. “Are secure a computer against hackers, Bennett said. has come to Poly. Governance Council President The CyberPatriot program was Jim Schwagle addressed the issues [ See School, pg 6 ] created by the Air Force Association of credibility and transparency for Photo by Lirio Alberto to encourage high school students to the Council. Schwagle wants to an- consider careers in cyber security or SONGBIRD: Poly Idol 2013 winner Audrianna Wilson relaxing on campus. nounce budget meetings a week in other science, technology, engineer- advance to allow plenty of time for ing, and mathematics (STEM) disci- those who want to attend. Former plines critical to America’s future. Advance notice should also Wilson Wins Idol happen for any discussion of issues “Anybody can be part of Cyber- Patriot,” said instructor Javier Rios. with the “Elect to Work” agreement, student is “If you own a computer, you should Mafi a voted best Dance Crew Schwagle said. be in CyberPatriot to protect yourself The Council discussed providing and maybe even help someone else’s in fi nal round competition. intervention and support or guidance cooking machine from getting attacked or to teachers involved in “Elect To being a victim of identity theft. unior Audri Wilson’s commanding perfor- Work” issues. By Joanna Rosales By Joanna Rosales “We want to clarify that process Poly’s KYDS program offers the Staff Writer mance of “My Immortal” by Evanescence Staff Writer CyberPatriot class in room 94 on (2003) won her the Poly Idol top vocalist so there won’t be any surprises or Mondays and Wednesdays. Students award that eluded her last year. A packed misunderstandings,” Schwagle said J Former cooking club student receive laptops to practice with at house attended the sixth and fi nal round of the com- Another issue under discus- home. petition held in the auditorium during fourth period on Friday. sion was the situation involving a Oscar Trujillo is back on campus. Dean Gilbert Ovanessian also Also competing were De Anthony Hawkins, who performed last year’s Governance Council member who But this time around it’s Chef teaches CyberPatriot “When I Was Your Man” by Bruno Mars and senior John Acosta, who sang is moved to a different assignment Trujillo, a brand new graduate of “I’m teaching a programming Barry Manilow’s 1975 hit “I Write the Songs.” and is no longer eligible to be on the the well-known Le Cordon Bleu class,” Ovanessian said, “and I saw Dance crew The Mafi a won Idol’s fi rst ever dance crew competition. The Council. culinary arts school. this as a great opportunity for our Mafi a is De Anthony Hawkins, Angela Lowenko, Anthony Melendez and The Council also tabled a discus- “I’m here to help the students to students to get involved in cyber Lewis Ambrad. sion regarding the balanced tradi- get more involved with the kitchen,” security and in I.T.” Below are the winners of all previous rounds. See interview with the tional calendar until the next Council said Trujillo. “To help them see a Lady Parrots are encouraged to Mafi a in separate article. meeting. different side of the kitchen than take the class. “Instead of a long summer break, what they’ve seen until now. And to see how much fun it can be.” “There is a shortage of females in [ See Poly, pg 6 ] the balanced Traditional calendar technology,” Rios said. “And there is Trujillo graduated from Poly in a need because women have a differ- 2011. He was in the cooking club for ent set of skills than males.” two years. “It was a fun four years,” said Competition Academic, Dr. Watson Trujillo. “I was pretty typical. I A national competition on cyber didn’t have anything that stood out security skills is part of the Air Force about me.” Association’s program. Poly’s English department uses ERWC to Trujillo, who was born and raised “The goal is to train students and in Sun Valley, fell in love with cook- then have them enter the competi- help seniors become academically literate. ing at an early age. tion,” said Rios. “A student must “Ever since I was a little kid I secure a computer system – guard it critical reading and writing problems “Brave New World,” said Matlen. was always fascinated by how every- By Lisa Guardado and prepare students to meet the “ERWC aligns well with the new thing works in the kitchen,” Trujillo against attacks, hackers and protect it Staff Writer against viruses and anything that can expectations of college and univer- Common Core standards and helps said, “by food and all the things that harm a computer.” sity faculty. students prepare for that shift.” you can create with it.” Students practice for the competi- Poly’s Expository Reading and “This year, Poly students who The University of California has Trujillo said he researched many tion on ‘images, ‘ simulations of an Writing Course (ERWC) is a two- have a conditional pass in their 11th approved the ERWC for area “b” culinary schools before deciding on operating system (windows, linux, semester college preparatory English grade EAP can take the ERWC credit from the “A-G” requirements. Le Cordon Bleu. windows 7) that are not protected. course for high school seniors. A class,” said Matlen. “Students who The ERWC course is composed “Cordon Bleu offered more Students secure these images by task force of high school and CSU pass with a C or higher do not have of a sequence of integrated reading courses than any other culinary pro- changing settings, turning on the faculty developed the ERWC to to take the placement test for col- and writing experiences, begin- gram in the state,” Trujillo said fi rewall and deleting unnecessary help high school students become lege.” ning with pre-reading, reading and To get into the school, Trujillo fi les and programs. academically literate. Course assignments are based post-reading activities followed by took an exam and had an interview Computer saavy is not a require- “The curriculum is rigorous and mainly on non-fi ction texts and em- informal and formal writing assign- with the student advisor. ment of the CyberPatriot program. intense,” said ERWC teacher Ethel phasize the in-depth study of exposi- ments. Trujillo learned butchering, cui- “We start from how to get into the Matlen. “I think this is a fabulous tory, analytical, and argumentative Students learn to make predictions sines from different cultures and the opportunity.” reading and writing. about their reading, analyze content and handling of catering events. Poly’s English department began “This year we added George Or- [ See Cyber, pg 6 ] using the ERWC in 2006 to address well’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s [ See ERWC, pg 6 ] [ See Chef, front page ] An eye Dance Crew for detail Maﬁ a at Idol Artist Kristianne Villarta Hip-hop quartet draws what he sees. entertains Parrots. Photo By Lirio Alberto INT. - page 3 Photo by Lirio Alberto MEDIA - page 7 2 Mid-October 2013 The Poly Optimist polyhigh.org/opt.jsp OPINION EDITORIAL 3000 iPads ”Beep beep beep” was the sound of my alarm playing to get something to do while the iPads are not working. up for school. By third period the wifi starts working just in time for the Like every other Monday morning and I’m not looking new history lesson forward to school, at all. Ms. Heilbron makes us take out our iPads when an an- I walk in my 1st period math class, extremely late, and nouncement from Mr. Bennett comes on the P.A. notice every student’s eyes glare from the light coming from the ”Hope every Poly student is enjoying their new iPad” said new iPads they were holding. Bennett ”but the wifi system is out again so teachers go back to ”This is awesome,” said Harry your usual ways of teaching. The bell rings and Mr. Loza tells us to open the algebra 2b So Ms. Heilbron makes us write a three page essay on WWII the OPTIMIST math app, scroll down the table of context box and press on School ends and I’m late to cross country practice VOL XCIX No. 3 ch.12 review.

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