Gabriel Gomez Speaks Politics Police Brutality in 2018
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
Volume CXXIII, No. 12 Friday, April 13th, 2018 Milton’s Archives: Admissions Gabriel Gomez Speaks Politics Class Divide Ian Glick ‘21 Idone Rhodes '20 News Writer News Writer “Student Center Divide As students return On Wednesday, April Raises Controversy” - Novem- from March break, a time 4th, Gabriel Gomez, a for- ber 16th, 2012 often filled with thoughts mer Navy SEAL and Aircraft about life after Milton, the Carrier Pilot, came to speak Shira Golub Traditionally, under- annual period of revisit days to the Upper School at the classmen have been the sub- remind us of the other ad- Conservative Club’s yearly jects of intimidating stares missions process that many assembly. Gomez attend- from upperclassmen peering students have experienced. ed the United States Naval over the railing in the stu- With over 1,600 applicants Academy (USNA) and went dent center. This year, Class this year, and an anticipated on to become a Navy pilot. IV students have reported 1,700 once spring and sum- After four years of flying, Go- incidents of thrown objects mer applications have been mez joined the Navy SEALs. and spitting, causing adults submitted, prospective stu- Gomez spent the majority and students alike to take ac- dents face a challenge that of his time on SEAL Team tion in an attempt to change grows more daunting by the Four, which was deployed upperclassmen ways. year. According to Mr. Na- in South and Central Amer- Dean of Students Jose tale, an Assistant Director of ica. Around five years after The Boston Globe Ruiz explained that he has Admission who has worked starting his service as a Navy Gabriel Gomez, Conservative Club speaker, laments his Senate loss “heard from Class IV Deans... in Milton admissions for six SEAL, Gomez left active duty reports from students who years, the amount of appli- and attended Harvard Busi- grams for first responders. the suggestion as a joke, but have experienced what they cants to the Milton Upper ness School, where he re- Gomez’s background as then realized that campaign- perceive to be either spit- School has grown “signifi- ceived a Master of Business a first generation American ing for the seat was his op- ting of some sort whether it cantly” each year since his Administration. influenced his perspective on portunity to serve the Unit- be liquid or actual spit itself arrival. After spending some time service in the United States. ed States once again. When or the flicking of items, food Those 1,700 applicants in private equity investing, Gomez noted that he feels Gomez considered running and things of that sort.” each hope to earn one of his interest in serving the “extremely grateful” that his a second time in 2014, the “There are a few in- only approximately 180 to- country was rekindled, and parents decided to move to GOP took him in, since, as dividuals in the upper class- tal spaces in Milton’s rising in 2013 he ran for a Massa- the US, and he wanted to both a more moderate Re- es who are throwing things freshman, sophomore, and chusetts’ Senate seat in the join the Navy to pay back the publican and a Latino, he down on the freshman,” and junior classes. That ratio of special election and won the country for the kindness he could attract a younger and “who for some reason find [it] spaces to applicants creates Republican primary, ulti- felt he was extended here. more diverse voting base. funny,” Mr. Fitzpatrick, Class an acceptance rate of ap- mately losing the seat to Ed Upon attending the USNA, Unfortunately, powerful Re- IV dean, shared. He conveyed proximately 10.6 percent. Markey in the general elec- Gomez felt an overwhelming publican senators like Marco that to his knowledge, “peo- Milton’s acceptance rate for tion. Gomez decided not to sense of service, duty, hon- Rubio and Ted Cruz did not ple had spit, [and] tic-tacs, students entering the upper run for Senator again in the or, and country. When one want another Republican paper, [and] banana peels school is lower than that 2014 election, and instead of Gomez’s friends suggest- Latino senator attracting [were] thrown down.” of 99.6 percent of univer- co-founded 02X, a company ed that he run for the Sen- their own supporters, so the An anonymous Class sities in the United States, which holds special training ate in 2013, he initially took CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 IV girl admitted that she according to data posted on seminars and education pro- witnessed “a junior [throw- Quora.com. According to a ing] a box of tampons at post on educationcorner.com, [her] friends.” Jacob Aronoff, Milton’s acceptance rate is also Class IV, disclosed that also lower than that of Dart- Police Brutality in 2018 he was hit by a bana. “I just mouth College (11.5%), Cor- though they made up just 13 looked up and it was on my nell University (14.2%), and percent of the U.S. popula- shoulder.” Duke University (11.5%). tion. Ms. Morin, head of To manage and optimize Week after week, we watch counseling at Milton, ex- such a competitive environ- the last few seconds of yet plained that she has also ment, the admissions staff another life, captured on vid- “been aware of students works tirelessly throughout eo recordings and body cams. throwing things down,” as the year. In September, Oc- We sit and watch as another well as “girls feeling judged tober, and November, when police department issues a by students that are over most of us are studying and twitter statement voicing the railing.” Mr. Beauchmin, re-adjusting to school, many their regret and sorrow, or, as a Class II dean, echoed this admissions staff members another police officer leaves sentiment, expressing how it are travelling the world and court free of charge. And can be “intimidating to have interviewing students. Ac- over and over again we have a large group staring down cording to the Milton Ad- The Root to ask ourselves: why does into the crowd below.” missions Catalogue, students Stephen Clark’s death sparks protests the color of someone’s skin The Class IV deans hail from 27 countries and Jana Amin ‘21 cans are 2.5 times as likely as make it 2.5 times more likely became aware of this issue 28 states. Milton admissions Opinion Writer white Americans to be shot that they will get shot? It’s a when they “decided that faculty travel to many of 294 unarmed people and killed by police officers. question whose answer goes [they] wanted to have gen- these places to raise prospec- have been shot and killed by It is clear that the incessant back hundreds of years, but der assemblies and at those tive students’ awareness of police so far in 2018. 987 were police murders of unarmed it’s one that we must remind meetings had specific ques- Milton. shot and killed by police in black men is a very real issue. ourselves of each time we tions [they] wanted to ask December and January 2017. As the Washington Post In 2012, black people ac- hear of a new police brutality about comfort level,” said Mr. mark the height of interview noted in an analysis pub- counted for 31 percent of lished in 2016, black Ameri- police killing victims even CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 NEWS OPINION A&E SPORTS THIS WEEK’S Meesage From Old and Phelps-Roper - Page 10 A Capella Night - Page 12 March Madness - Page 14 New Head Monitors MEASURE - Page 3 David Hogg - Page 11 “?” - Page 12 Game Schedule- Page 15 Friday, April 13th, 2018 Page 2 The Milton Measure est. 1894 Privacy The CXXIII Editorial Board Recently, Facebook has come under fire for break- Editors-in-Chief ing the trust of facebook users, with celebrities like Elon Alexander Chen ‘18 & Nina Taneja ‘18 Musk and Steve Wozniak publicly blasting the company, and deleting their accounts. This week, Facebook CEO Managing Editor Patrick Huang ‘18 Mark Zuckerberg came before the Congress to respond Senior Editors to questions Facebook’s use of consumer data. More spe- Layout Editors Edward Sheehan ‘18 Soleil Devonish ‘18 cifically, Zuckerberg was grilled on data privacy. Charis Palandjian ‘18 Nina Subkhanberdina ‘18 Maya Thakore ‘18 Olivia Risoleo ‘18 The focus on privacy stems from how Cambridge Ana- Web Editor lytica, a political consulting company, came to be in pos- Anastasia Sukharevsky ‘18 session of the private information of 87 million Facebook users — data which it may have used to influence the 2016 A&E Editors News Editors Opinion Editors presidential election. This specific breach started when a Kalaria Okali ‘18 Desi DeVaul ‘19 Eva O’Marah ‘19 Jack Delea ‘19 Nicholas Taborsky ‘19 John Albright ‘19 man named Aleksandr Kogan, a Russian-American neu- roscientist working at Cambridge University, created Sports Editors Photo Editors Faculty Advisor a personality quiz app that mined the data of Facebook Caroline McCarthy ‘18 Rebecca Karlson ‘18 Liz Matson Andrew D’Ambrosio ‘19 Leo Jin ‘18 users who used it. The use of this app resulted not only in the data collection of these users, but also, through a News Opinion loophole in Facebook’s software, the friends of the peo- Leo Jin ‘18 Jeffrey Cao ‘18 ple who used this app also had their data stolen. Kailee Silver ‘18 Catherine Gallori ‘18 Daming Cui ‘19 Jack Weiler ‘18 Facebook and other networks are served by algorithms Maria Geroukos ‘19 Alana Greenaway ‘19 utilizing user data to craft a better experience - in other Cameron Hoffman ‘19 Yunqing (Star) Hu ‘19 words, major platforms reasonably find out more about Charles Leonetti ‘19 Cade Rose ‘19 their users in order to present personally relevant con- Alexander McEvoy ‘19 Alexander Shih ‘19 Samantha Bateman ‘20 Dariya Subkhanberdina ‘19 tent, like advertisements and related posts.