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The Tusker Tribune The Student Newspaper of Somers Middle School Issue Number 26 http://somersschools.org/domain/995 Spring 2017 World Language Day By Danielle Grillo and and eat authentic food Lily Mandel-Mueller in the classrooms Tusker Tribune that were transformed. Staff Writers There are projects A chance to see and decorations all different countries that uniquely represent You can witness places in the each culture world without traveling . For just one day we all experience You can learn all differ- something we have never ent games encountered before. B-Ball Challenge 6th Period Recess Tomorrow! By Owen Kerins three-pointers are insane. Even if JMAN takes a Tusker Tribune Staff loss, his mental toughness and basketball Writer abilities will never stop. He is the ulti- Jordan Berell strikes mate king of the playground b-ball game. at it again! However, JMAN can’t handle the papa- After all his wins and fame, razzi’s. No one’s photographed him play- the fans are now calling him JMAN, ing. No one will stop him and his easy as he takes on opponent after oppo- road to the NBA. nent and beating them not only phys- Breaking news: JMAN has been ically but mentally. beaten by Matt Demm and he is calling All he does is win and win and for a rematch tomorrow during 6th period win. His finger roll layuos are out of recess. Be there 1st half recess for the best this world and his jump shots and b-ball game of the century! New Cube Fosters ‘Fidgeting’ By Skylher use Fidget Cubes tend to do better Reyes and on their tests. The Fidget Cube has Allison Zattola been around for almost four years Tusker Tribune now. While making the Fidget Cu- Staff Writers be the manufacturers wanted to The newest craze this achieve two things. The first one is month has been Fidget Cubes. satisfying the need to fidget for eve- You may not know what a Fidget ryone. And number two, the mak- Cube is but it is a toy used for ers, Matthew and Mark McLach- people who get distracted easily lan, wanted the Fidget Cube to be and it helps them focus. used and brought everywhere, from a classroom to Fidget Cubes help people fidget without an- a board room. noying the people around them. Also, people who Continued on page 7 Page 2 The Tusker Tribune The Student Newspaper of Somers Middle School A 7th Grade ‘Will’ City of Calamity By Avery Kossow and Alisa Tierney Tusker Tribune Staff Writers Part 1 Editor’s Note: Avery and Alisa decided to write a story on what they would leave behind, or By Nick Cirillo “Bequeath” to other SMS students once they Tusker Tribune Staff Writer graduate from the 8th grade. As the destruction rains around When I, Alisa Tierney, graduate middle him, Tony look up at the sky, the layer of school, I would like to bequeath my pens and pen- ash that clouds it, and the crumbling cils to all the special people in my grade who buildings in this ghost of a city. I turn to Farooq. have been in school for about 8 years and who "What happened here?" Tony questioned. ALWAYS come to school without a pencil or pen. The destruction certainly didn't seem to have I would also like to bequeath my ability to been caused by weapons, nor what would've been have self-control to living humans. Only corpses remained now. all the people who "More like what didn't happen. Looks like scream in class as if this place faced, like, fifty apocalypses fifty times the class was a zoo. over. I dunno, man, we should get out of here… I would also Go back to like to bequeath my the hub and humor to all of the cash in what humorless, cold- junk we hearted, and cruel found," people in this grade. Farooq re- Finally, I plied, a wor- would like to be- risome look queath my ability to on his face. know when to shut my mouth to one really ob- noxious female whose name shall not be typed. When I, Avery Kossow, graduate middle "Whoa… DUDE COME LOOK WHAT I school, I would like to bequeath my niceness and FOUND!" Tony screamed. Farooq ran over to see knowledge to all of the spoiled brats in the grade his friend holding some kind of futuristic engine who think they are so popular that they put other system. It glowed with an acidic green highlight people down and talk behind their backs to try along its pattern. It could - no, would - be worth and look cool, because they're not. at least 5,000 credits… 10K if they really pushed Also, I would like to bequeath my ability it. to control what I say to all of the people in the "If we find more like this, we could be rich! grade who curse their butts off to look cool. Just Dude, we hit a gold mine here!" Farooq yells, ex- so you guys know, it's not. cited at what they had discovered. But shortly after Tony dove back into the pile of rubbish to find more tech, Farooq heard a rumbling behind him. He turned around, but nothing was there. The Tusker Tribune Staff The Tusker Tribune is Tony popped back up with two more gadgets and published online and let Farooq have a turn searching. Nick Cirillo is featured weekly on the Somers Middle "Hey Tony, I'm going to bury myself in this Skylher Reyes School Website. It is Allison Zattola entirely student- pile for an hour or so. It looks like it's a few dozen Hartin Bruncaj written by 6th, 7th feet deep, so if you hear me, blip me on your Lily Mandel–Mueller and 8th grade stu- comm. I won't be able to hear you," Farooq said. Ava Crecco dents from Zoe Rubin Somers Middle "Gotcha. I'll be here investigating these Brandon Armstrong School wonderful treasures." Then Trey heard a rum- 250 Route 202 Avery Kossow Somers, NY, USA. bling. Little did he know, it was the same one Alisa Tierney Any SMS student is Farooq heard, but Trey would sadly never cash in Gabby Roman eligible to write sto- all those gadgets they found. It got to him first. Jesse Heller ries. If interested, Nitin Seshadri please e-mail Advisor The creature. Eli Yates Dean Continued on page 4 Owen Kerins Pappas at DPappas @somersschools.org Page 3 The Tusker Tribune The Student Newspaper of Somers Middle School “Uranium” (Chapters 9 and10) By Nitin Seshadri "We know where that is. We all lived in Tusker Tribune Staff Writer New York before that damn asteroid hit the plan- Editor’s Note: Somers Middle School et. This area of the Sahara Desert is practically Eighth Graders have been writing novels the only part of the world that does not have fatal during the school year for the NaNoWriMo radiation levels. Weird, right? We live in New program. The name is short for National Novel York, and we wake up halfway across the world in Writing Month. Nitin Seshadri, a Tusker Tribune the middle of the Sahara desert." Staffer, will be presenting his NaNoWriMo entry "Well, I saw the asteroid hit in front of my chapter by chapter in the Tusker Tribune. Chap- eyes," Derek explained. "Then I woke up with two ters 9, 10 of his novel, “Uranium”, appears today. of my classmates from school in this underground hospital thing. The nurses were aliens—" Chapter 9 The people sitting around the campfire groaned. "The alien story again?" one asked. Derek was running and running and run- "Yes, they were. I opened my cell phone ning in the desert. I have to get away from those and they melted into green blobs. I escaped out of weird creatures, he thought. Derek had sensed that godforsaken place and somehow got here. My from the beginning that something was not right. friends disappeared somewhere and are presuma- And he had found it. That was why he had es- bly dead. I'm starving though, so I'll make my way caped. Now he had to find Andrew and Andrea, out. I need food, drink and a place to rest. Bye!" wherever they were. "Wait, don't leave!" the However, what was his Irishman said. "Tell us more priority right now was to about those aliens. I think we find a place to go for food might, just might, have seen and water. The Sun was them.” already high in the sky and Derek was starving. Chapter 10 After jogging for a few more minutes, Derek turned around. Derek approached a wa- "So you really saw ter hole. There were a these aliens?" Derek asked the few trees surrounding it band of people. and Derek could smell "Yeah, we did." said the pungent, smoky odor the bald guy. of a campfire. So this "How?" place has been civilized, "Before I can tell you Derek thought. Derek reached the edge of the wa- that, I need to tell you how the heck we even got ter hole—or was it a pond?—and took a quick sur- here." the bald man narrated. "We were in a bar vey of his environs. On the far edge of the water near Summertown, NY—" hole, there was a burning campfire and a pot sus- "That’s not far from my house! I lived on pended above it. Derek walked the distance Strawhat Road!" around the water hole and saw that there were "Exactly.