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201 S. Gammon Rd, Madison, WI 53717 jmmswordandshield.com “Sword & Shield” @jmmnews [email protected] DECEMBER 2019 VOLUME LIV James Madison Memorial High School Student Newspaper 4 // Tips for Driving in the Snowy Weather 9 // Things to do Over Winter Break 12 // Santa Clarita Shooting Kills 3 17 // Protests Rock Government Worldwide 19// The Artist of December! 22 // Which Holiday Character are You?! 28 // JMM Winter Sports Kickoff! 30 // Black Friday: Holiday Shapping or Capitalist Nightmare?! 32 // DACA: What you Need to Know! DECEMBER 2019 Hello everyone! We are Eliana Sauer and Amira Pierotti, your co-news editors. As news editors we keep you updated on what’s going on in the world, the country and our own community.We think being in- formed about world-wide events is extremely important. From government policy changes to natural disasters, the course of history is changes and millions of people are impacted. Likely, you or your community feel the effects too. Thanksgiving is over, and winter break is coming up fast! Give yourself a break over the holidays and relax, but be sure you’re staying Eliana Sauer Amira Pierotti on top of your classes, and don’t procrastinate Co-News Co-News studying for finals too much. Editor Editor Have a happy holiday season Spartans! STUDENT LIFE NEWS ARTS & ENTER. SPORTS OPINIONS LATINOS UNIDOS 4 //Cupcake 12 // Santa Clarita 19 // Artist of the 26 // Wisconsin 29 // Should 34 // Day of the Smackdown: What Shooting Kills 3 Month Football November we separate art Dead Drawing you need to know! 13 // Impeachment 19 // Poem: Erase Update from the artist? See a wonderful 4 //Tips on Driv- Timeline 20 // Frozen II 26 // National 30 // Black drawing of how people celebrate Day ing in the Snow! 13 // Represen- Review Football League Friday - Holi- of the Dead! 5 // Long-Term tative Katie Hill 20 // People’s Choice Recap day Shopping, 34 // What is Study Tips Resigns Awards Recap 27 // JMM’s or Capitalist Latinos Unidos? 21 // Holiday Play- 5 //Need to Cram? 14 // Jane Fonda Football Historic Nightmare? Learn about the 6 //Best Places in & Ted Danson list Season 31 // The JMM club Latinos Madison to Holiday Arressted 21 // Holiday Gift Learn how the JMM Complexity of Unidos, and what Shop! 14 // Keystone Ideas Football team did College Admis- they are doing in the this season, and why 7// You Got the Pipeline Shutdown 22 // Which Win- sions Memorial commu- we should celebrate! Message Interview 15 // Muslim Con- ter Holiday Charac- 31 // Trump’s nity! 28 // JMM Win- 7// Gender Equity centration Camps ter are You? Impeachment 35 // DACA: ter Sports Association Update 16 // Australian 22 // Jesus is King: 32 // The Com- What you need to Many student know! 8 //Simon vs. Fires Album Review athletes at JMM mercialization 23 // Pony: Did it Recent youth the Homosapien 16 // Greta Thun- are kicking off the of Christmas protests to defend Agenda berg Profile Make Your Heart winter sports season, 32 // Should DACA - their expe- learn what they are 8// Register to 17 // Protests Gallop? Cameras be on riences! up to! Vote! Rock Governments 24 // Holiday School Comput- 35 // What does 28 // Tiger 9// Things to do Worldwide Wordsearch ers ‘LatinX’ Mean? over Winterbreak 18 // Madison 25 // December Woods’ Comeback 33 // Youth 10// How to Stay Shooting Kills 63- Horoscopes to the Top Voice Matters Healthy this Holi- Year Old Man in Happy Birthday Sagit- day Season Devistation tarius!! 2 www.jmmswordandshield.com EDITORS Co-Editors-in-Chief Maggie Di Sanza & Jessica Jiang Student Life Editors Jassi Chahal & Alexander Hendrickson Opinions Editor Joylyn Gong Sports Editor Nic Braico News Editors Amira Pierotti & Eliana Sauer Arts & Entertainment Editors Evanka Amin & Amina Waheed Layout Editor Davis Hardy Operations Manager Brynn Sailing Copy Editor Aarushi Vyas ADVISOR Teri Parris Ford CONTRIBUTORS Evanka Amin Julianna Baldo Mia Braico Nic Braico Conley Burch Jassi Chahal Caleigh Christy Tanay Desai Emmie Digon Maggie Di Sanza Liam Gill-Sutton Joylyn Gong Noah Hadfield Davis Hardy Jessica Jiang Ava Kenny Jace Liu Naidelin Mendez Angie Munguia Sagarika Pal Amira Pierotti Grace Runo Brynn Sailing Eliana Sauer Mayra Serate Mihika Shivakumar Veronika Souzek Aarushi Vyas Elliot Weix Antonio Wu Noelia Xelhua 3 Amy Yao 3 DECEMBER 2019 STUDENT LIFE TIPS ON DRIVING IN SNOWY WEATHER By Nic Braico As Mother Nature rears its ugly head at us this year in the form of snow and ice, it’s important that you drive to school with extra caution this season. Here are some tips that will help you get to where you have to go safely this winter season. Make sure your tires are inflated - When your tires are at the right air pressure levels, your wheels will WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH have more tread, making it easier to navigate turns and untreated roads. CUPCAKE SMACKDOWN? - To avoid skids, By Brynn Sailing Accelerate and deccelerate slower hit the gas and brake pedals more gradually, rather In case you haven’t experienced the wonderful day that than just slamming on the pedals. Also, remember that has been dubbed the “Cupcake Smackdown” at JMM, you should give yourself extra time to slow down on it’s a wonderful tradition created by the Gender-Sex- icy roads. uality Alliance that always puts the profits towards a - This seems like common sense, but it’s still LGBTQ+ foundation to help people! Any students who Go slow worth mentioning. Most crashes in the winter are are interested can talk to Ms. Rongstad to sign up to spin-outs, which happen when a vehicle makes a turn create some original and unique cupcakes! There will be too fast for conditions. Basically, if you take it too fast several rounds of judging by a select task force of teach- on turns, you slide off course since your wheels have ers to taste-test and score each creation, and the winner less traction in the snow, causing a spin-out. These are will receive a grand prize! In addition to the high-stakes especially dangerous, because you can spin-out into competition, the cupcakes will be on display all day oncoming lanes of traffic, and then another car will hit Thursday in the Welcome Center for students to pur- you. chase, and then they will be available after school to pick Also, on untreated roads, you shouldn’t exceed the up and enjoy. If you’re interested in supporting JMM or speed limit of the road as a general rule while driving even if you just have a sweet tooth, be sure to stop by on in the winter. Thursday, December 19th to check out these cakes! Leave extra time- If you follow step 1, you’ll need to leave earlier, because going slower means it’ll take you extra time to get to where you want to go. Monitor forecasts ahead of time, and plan accordingly, so that way if it snows a few inches overnight, you’ll be ready to leave earlier than usual the next morning. Try not to stop if possible- By no means are we encouraging running red lights here, but remember that it’s going to take longer to stop your car, so once you get up to speed, it’s actually recommended that if it’s going to be close, you should go through on a yellow or red. But again, remember the rules of the road and only run a light if it’s close. 4 www.jmmswordandshield.com DECEMBER 2019 NEED TO CRAM? LONG TERM STUDYING By Brynn Sailing You TIPS List important terms, concepts, and ideas. By Elliot Weix can’t possibly study everything in a single day, so figure out what matters most, and then work on it. Focus Schedule. Make only on the most important skills and information. a to-do list and a If your teacher says it’ll be on the exam, study it. If it schedule for the comes up a lot in lectures or books, study it. If it’s built days between now on in later lessons, study it. And if it’s bolded, high- and your final ex- lighted, or underlined in your textbook, study it. ams. Try to break up your studying Look for summaries. If your course has a textbook, it should have summaries of the information at the into smaller units, beginning or end of the chapter. Study those, since they which will help compress the most important information into a few prevent that feeling of paragraphs. Anything labeled introduction, conclusion, being overwhelmed. or summary is something you should look into. Figure Are you a vi- sual learner Make more notes as you go. We learn better if we out how YOU learn best. write information down. Jot down anything you want that learns best by watching videos or reading? Are you to make sure you know. WRITE, don’t type. It’s not an audio-based learner that learns best by listening and nearly as effective for your memory. speaking? Or are you a tactile, hands-on kinda person? Figure it out, and then study using techniques that fit Charts, Graphs, and Mind Maps Oh My. By drawing and working out the connections between everything your learning style best. you’ve learned, you can fix it in your mind more Get started now! The most common lie we tell our- clearly. selves is “I’ll do it tomorrow.” If you know what you’re going up Teach a Friend. Pretend you’re teaching the informa- Learn the format. tion to someone else. Once you feel reasonably com- against, it’ll help you study for the test, instead of cov- fortable with the material, find a friend and present ering information that you’ll never see.