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The Tusker Tribune The Student Newspaper of Somers Middle School Issue Number 5 http://somersschools.org/domain/995 Fall 2018 Yes, There’s Such a Thing as ‘Halloween Spirit’ By Allison O’Connor dy!” They take Halloween as a greed. Tusker Tribune Staff Some kids take Halloween as, “Oh, Halloween is an thank you so much!” They take Hal- annual holiday celebrat- loween as a blessing. ed each year on October Some kids can get a rock and 31, and Halloween 2018 they will be thankful. Some kids will occurs on Wednesday, October 31. get a rock and they will say “What is It originated with the an- this? I wanted something good, not a cient Celtic festival of Samhain, rock!” when people would light bonfires The main point is be thankful and wear costumes to ward off no matter what you get. Next time ghosts. The evening before was you go trick or treating remember known as All Hallows Eve. Today, it’s sometimes that some kids don’t have much. So, if you don’t known as “Mischief Night”. want it, donate it. Halloween to certain kids is, “Oh I get can- Don’t Support Animal Testing! By Jack Tremblay testing is because animals living in these Tusker Tribune Staff facilities have horrible living conditions Many people don’t that they are subject to live in their en- know the true extent of an- tire life. Some of these living conditions imal testing, but I've come include but are not limited to, barren to know that the truth cages, unable to make natural choices, no might shock you. Between horrible fresh air, no sunlight, behind bars, small living conditions, abuse, and tests crowded cages, and extremely loud nois- mostly not working, I think we es, note that these are not all the "living need to stop animal testing once conditions." And these conditions are hor- and for all! rible for animals or anything really. One of the many reasons The stress of these conditions can animal testing needs to stop is be- lead animals to, running in circles, biting cause the animals must endure a open wounds (which in small, crowded life of constant abuse. Tests can do cages, there are a lot of wounds to bite) horrible things to the animals such mauling themselves and others, and rip- as, traumatizing fear, paralyzing ping hair out of themselves. Would you pain, brain experiments, extreme want to be stressed to the breaking stress, being crippled, testing drugs, infecting the point? animals with diseases, poisoning for toxicity, The last reason I'll be telling you about is burning skin, irritating skin, brain damage, im- that most tests simply don’t work! Only 8% of all planting electrodes into the brain, maiming, tests conducted are released to the public. Every- blinding, long-term social isolation, electric thing I just talked about would be worth NOTH- shocks, withholding food and water, repeated ING because it didn’t even work! breeding and separation of infant, and most of the Lastly, take everything that has been ani- animals end up dead before the end of the tests. mal tested (makeup, medicine, perfume, etc.) and How would you feel if you had to live like this? throw it out! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ The second reason we need to stop animal Animal_testing The Tusker Tribune Page 2 The Student Newspaper of Somers Middle School How You Can Help Hurricane Michael Victims By Kaeleigh Picco Ocean. Tusker Tribune Staff While hurri- Although the summer has come to canes are horrible, a close, hurricane season has not. Hurri- and awful events, cane Michael is a horrific tropical storm they also can cause that devastated the Florida panhandle just over a a community to week ago. come together. If After forming in you want to help the southwest Caribbe- the victims of this an, the storm had only natural disaster, a few days before land- please visit the following websites for more infor- fall; it slammed the mation: shores with 155mph winds, which makes it https://www.samaritanspurse.org/article/hurricane a Category 4 storm, the -michael-barrels-toward-florida-panhandle-please- first to hit the Panhan- pray/? dle in the last 150 years. utm_source=Ggl&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campai This hurricane brought an incredible gn=m_YGHM-N18V_HM-NB-LP- amount of destruction to the Sunshine State; arti- homes, offices, and buildings were ripped apart, cle&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9sazqdf_3QIVEK_ICh0 and this beach ( above) in Bay County, Florida, pQQrTEAAYASAAEgLGnPD_BwE was hit so hard by the storm, it looks as if the town behind it is almost flattened. https://www.redcross.org/donate/hurricane- The storm also decimated a school (below), michael-donations.html/? collapsing part of the roof. cid=fy19hurmichael&med=cpc&source=google&sc On October 12, 1.37 million homes and ode=rsg00000e017&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9sazqdf businesses in the area were without power, twenty _3QI- two counties are under mandatory or voluntary VEK_ICh0pQQrTEAAYAiAAEgKws_D_BwE&gcls evacuation orders, rc=aw.ds&dclid=CLmcosnX_90CFWG4swodWTsP and 6,700 people 4A are taking refuge in fifty four shelters in https://give.helpsalvationarmy.org/give/166081/?pi Florida. After also d=cpc:red_kettle_national::google:::::uss:salvation_ hitting Georgia and ar- South Carolina, the my_brand:brand&utm_source=google&utm_mediu hurricane is pro- m=cpc&utm_campaign=red_kettle_national&utm_ jected to move East, con- and eventually die tent=uss&utm_term=salvation_army_brand/#!/do out in the Pacific nation/checkout What’s With the Giants’ Football Season? By Jacob Hauser ham, Jr., is one of the best wide- Tusker Tribune Staff outs in the league. He has had a The 1-4 NY Giants slow start to the season partly be- took another loss this past cause Eli Manning, the quarter- week. This time to the Phi- back, is not getting enough time in lidelphia Eagles, dropping the pocket to make accurate their record to 1-5. The Giants are a throws. young team with a lot of talent but Once again, the offensive continue to struggle. line is to blame. The Giants’ rookie running The Giants’ upcoming opponents back, Saquon Barkley, was the sec- are the Falcons, Redskins, 49ers, ond pick in the 2018 draft. He is a young, talented and Buccaneers. If the Giants want to win these running back with lots of potential to be great. games and make it to the playoffs, they need to The problem is the offensive line. improve the offensive line. The Giants star wide receiver, Odell Beck- Continued on Page 7 The Tusker Tribune Page 3 The Student Newspaper of Somers Middle School AJR ‘Burn the By Mario Mancini If you don’t believe me, do it in Tusker Tribune Staff your calculator. If you have a House Down’ nuber like 78 when you add 7+8, #1 you get 15. You add one to the Ask a friend to first digit and put the second dig- Music Review pick a number between 1-20. it in between and you get 858. Once your friend picks a number #3 ask them to add five multiply the This trick will help you By Will Underkoffler sum by three then subtract 15. guess someone's age. First tell a Tusker Tribune Staff Once your friend is done friend pick a number between First, this is one ask them what they have. Let’s two-10. Let’s say they pick five. of my favorite songs pretend they picked eight, so by Ask them to add five and multi- and I love to listen to the end of all of that, they should ply it by 50. Tell them to add it, but most of the music I like have 24. 1768 if their birthday did not to listen to isn't the kind most Then divide the number pass and 1769 if their birthday kids (At least in this school) they gave you by three and Abra- passed. like to listen to. Cadabra, you get eight. If they picked five, then So maybe I am biased, they should get 2518 if their and nobody will listen to this #2 birthday didn’t pass. Then ask song anyway, , but please lis- Here is a trick that will them to subtract their year of ten to what I have to say and definately help in math class. birth by that number. Then they judge me later. Say you have a problem like 43 * get 512. They take the five away AJR is a pretty good 11. The easy way to do it is you and you get 12 and that should band and I like to listen to add four and three and you get be their age. their “Sober Up” and this song, seven. Stick the seven in the Stay tuned for more math so I like their style of song and middle, and you get your answer. tricks next week! I think that most kids aren’t exactly into alt-rock, so this is a pretty good song for me and some old guys. My First College Football Game! This song is pretty good for listening to while doing homework or just plain work. By Pat Carino next day we woke up late and It is upbeat, and it makes me Tusker Tribune Staff started to leave for the game at happy when I listen to it. Last weekend on October 12:00 pm. We stopped for lunch So, this is my review of 12, I drove a very long car ride to at this packed restaurant. Once AJR Burn the House Down Pennsylvania to go we were done eating, Music Review.