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Kruser Keller: Braniac Inventor Insight pg. 14 Volume 48, No. 4 Barnstable High School, Hyannis, MA 02601 April 2013 The WiFi Gets an Art Upgrade By Ana Coutinho computing, and cloud computing. Staff Writer If the school is to provide of the infrastructure, bandwidth, and wireless, the technology needs to Have you ever tried be calculated three to one instead to discover new hot spots in the of one to one, or so that there are high school that have the best three devices calculated for each service? You’ll be looking for a person. Ask while because temporarily, wifi is restricted to only teachers and By Russell Brillant “As I monitored school-owned devices. Staff Writer Barnstable has begun it, more and a new renovation of wireless For seniors, this time internet and bandwidth in all more people were of the year brings nothing but Barnstable public schools, not stress. Amongst the days spent just the high school. Barnstable’s accessing our scrambling to meet deadlines current wifi system is old and wireless that we for scholarship applications, does not have enough bandwidth keeping track of letters, waiting to sustain hundreds of devices. couldn’t simply to hear from colleges, work, and The network crashed still maintaining decent grades, earlier this year due to 800 handle it.” for some prom may slip under personal devices that were the radar. Others may just not roaming the wireless, said want to deal with it. Despite Bethann Orr, technology --Bethann Orr these obstacles, BHS has been department head. “I love the idea “We need big bandwidth witness to some amazing prom that kids are walking around with photo by Molly Marcotte for people to access the internet, proposals thus far and with time technology in their pockets. I Cian McEneaney and girlfriend Sara Hickey pose with the deck otherwise it just slows us all running short, as it so often does, completely support it. However, of cards he made to ask her to prom. down,” Orr said, “As I monitored hopefully those of us who have our current network infrastructure rest of BHS as well, creating a proposal, managed to pull off it, more and more people were not yet found a prom date can can’t support those 800 devices,” lot of talk in the days following a great prom proposal as well accessing our wireless that we take some inspiration from our said Orr. his proposal, which was seen by when he asked Tory Hitchcock. couldn’t simply handle it; it kept classmates. Having all of these everyone watching in homeroom Moore surprised Hitchcock after crashing the network.” Senior Gabe Fater, “rogue” devices slow the network that day. The creative and her dance class, storming in with Barnstable is the third recently finding himself a and in order for it to sustain all bold idea was the child of a flowers, chocolate, and a poster largest building on Cape Cod, local celebrity after his bid as 800 or more of those devices, a conversation involving Kayla reading “Tory will you dance with 2,000 people trying to access Mr. Mushnik in Little Shop bigger and better network needs Crook and Will Moore, and when with me at prom?” Fater held the the internet, added Orr. of Horrors, was the star of his to be built. asked if it all went as planned an sign, and obviously these two In early March, Orr own show when he asked junior According to the vision optimistic Fater said, “Yes, she have something figured out when wrote letters to staff and students Dayna Moylan to prom during of Barnstable High School, in said yes.” He also added that her it comes to prom proposals. to explain why the technology the morning announcements on order to be successful in school reaction was “priceless.” Moore actually was department is starting this wifi B2B last month. For those who with all of the devices students Will Moore, aside from going to ask Hitchcock on closing renovation. missed it, Fater serenaded her and staff encounter everyday, the his own role as Orin Scrivello night of Little Shop of Horrors, but “Until a long term with a version of “My Girl” by school needs infrastructure, larger D.D.S in Little Shop Of Horrors, “chickened out.” It wasn’t until he solution can be put into place, we The Temptations. Fater surprised bandwidth, wireless, one to one not only his date to be, but the and helping out Gabe with his and Carmen Sylvia brainstormed have limited access to the wireless Continued on pg. 9 Continued on pg. 9 BHS Bistro Impresses By Jillian Cahoon lunch there, and I was impressed. Staff Writer As I made my way around the corner, I was welcomed by students outside the If you get a chance to door. When I entered the room go to the BHS Bistro during I was shocked. The lights were lunch block on Thursdays then turned off, and there were candles you are one of a lucky few. The on the tables. Each table was eight available slots filled up neatly arranged with chargers, within 15 minutes of the email plates, silverware, flowers, and being sent out. The BHS Bistro candies for each place setting. is BHS’s own restaurant in the On the walls were paintings. The 1400s hallway. It is put on by the decor in no way resembled that of Hospitality class and their teacher a school. I felt as though I was in Ms. Robin Bergeron. A friend an actual restaurant. and I had the opportunity to have Continued on pg. 9 photo by Jillian Cahoon Bistro staff prepare a meal of pasta to one of the hungry classes waiting to be served. Inside Insight: Senior Center Spread pg. 18 & 19 Teachers’ Senior Pictures pg. 22 2 opinion Consider the Cost of College If you are a high school junior or senior, chances are you have been asked the question: “Which colleges are you applying to?” more than once. Enrolling in a university has become a rapidly growing trend among the American youth. In fact, enrollment in college has increased by a whopping 37 percent between the years 2000 and 2010. However, with college attendance climbing significantly each year, tuition has increased dramatically as well. College grads are finding themselves swimming in a debt of thousands of dollars once they are on their own, and jobs for young adults are becoming scarce. More and more it seems as though us young people are being judged by which college we attend rather than who we are as individuals, and if we choose another path entirely, we are being written off as something of lesser value by our society in which we live in. We have to ask ourselves: Will the thousands of dollars we invest in college pay off once we graduate? Is success always measured by the amount of money one makes? Or more importantly, are we selling out what we truly wish and dream for ourselves only to give in to new social illustration by Mark Russell “norm” that is college? After a long three years of waiting, senior Mark Russell was finally allowed to draw the editorial Yes, it is true that college is a time of self exploration and cartoon with the crying girl. maturity. But, despite the first true taste of freedom college has to offer, it is a huge financial expense. When asked why most students choose college as a path after high school, many kids respond by saying that having a degree equals a high-paying job after graduating. Within certain fields of study, this is a true statement. However, many Women in Science students who are applying to college are blinded by the possible reality By Ana Coutinho ratio of men to women who teach initiative to get more females of extreme debt and a lack of a job once they graduate. According to Staff Writer math and science courses. interested in these fields and USA Today, college students graduate with an average of $26,000 in Every April Junior Tech makes them aware of all the debt weighing on their shoulders. And to add another damper onto holds an expo at Mass Maritime emerging careers. Bethlehem Female the daunting strain of student debts, the Economic Policy Institute Academy for girls who are Debbie Sterling, an Seminary, Penn. in 1742 was reported that in 2012, the unemployment rate for adults under the interested in STEM careers. It’s engineer at Stanford University, the first college in which women age of 25 was 16.4 percent, twice as much as the national average. It on one Saturday every year. They is also taking an initiative in could attend, but they could only is proven that having a degree does raise one’s chances of getting a help girls find their passion in making women aware about be trained in teaching. Over the job, but in many cases the pay does not outweigh the financial debt STEM fields, which are mostly how underrepresented we are years, women have been more college puts people in. It is also proven that it really doesn’t matter male dominated, by having in STEM careers, and invented accepted into other areas of work at all which school you go to for your degree, even if it may be the an engineering toy to get little and make up about half of the highly underrated and inexpensive state school or community college. “I think it’s really girls interested in the field in workforce over all.