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The `ROCK Report Inside this issue of Tom Brady: The Best Ever "Gold does not describe it... [it is] The ‘Rock Report: more accurate than a trained Ma- rine Sniper, stronger than CJ Her- Page 2: Around Feehan By Cole Firth ‘17 son after a good lift session [and Page 3: Around Feehan Since Tom Brady's escape from the big scrim], more clutch than Michael Page 4: Election 2016 Shawshank Prison that was his cor- Jordan in the NBA Finals." A tear Page 5: Election 2016 rupt NFL suspension, the Patriots have strolled down his face as he spoke gone 6-1. The 39 year old (112 in NFL these words, which he quickly wiped Page 6: Around Feehan years) has 16 touchdowns and only away with a humble dab. Page 7: World News one interception in seven games. I Tom Brady, who after the win this past Page 8: Sports asked Tom Brady connoisseur (and Sunday, is tied for the most wins ever Page 9: Dear Lucky great newspaper editor) Sean Gray, at the quarter- (Cont’d on pg. 7) "How golden is Tom Brady's arm?" Page 10: Crossword Page 11: The Continued’s College Admissions : A Senior’s Perspective The Back Page By Juliana Desimone ‘17 Upcoming Events: Have you gone to the bathroom re- lings, and yourself. If you haven't 12/9 11:15 Dismissal cently to find a senior in tears? Or drowned by this point, you must de- 12/13 STAND Coffee- maybe just seen one rocking back and cide WHICH SCHOOLS TO APPLY TO, house forth on the ground in Guidance? which only requires that you know 12/15 Christmas Concert While it easily could have been be- EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT TO DO 12/16 Santa Shop cause of the election results, the main WITH YOUR LIFE and, oh yeah, WHO cause of this suffering is the college YOU ARE. Still there? Great, because 12/20 Christmas Concert application process, a series of excru- now you get to fill out school-specific Assembly ciating and exhausting steps that serve applications! The colleges just want to 12/22 Modified TAG Day as a reminder to seniors in high school make sure your great aunt’s middle 12/23—1/2 Christmas of how imperfect they are. If you want name really is Shirley and that she is Break to apply to college, the first step in the in fact nocturnal, unless someone is 1/13 Quarter 2 Ends process in most cases is filling out the making spaghetti squash because extensive Common Application by de- that’s her favorite. If you have the 1/16 No School tailing the middle names, occupations, mental toughness to progress past this 1/17 Midterms Begin favorite foods, and weird sleeping pat- point, you may have school specific terns of all of your descendants, sib- supplements to (Cont’d on pg. 11) Around Feehan Chris Herren Comes to Feehan By Sarah Wiik ‘17 The silence of the auditorium was eerie. A pin mother, and the pain of bullies at school. His stories could drop and the sound would create an echoing sank into the hearts of the audience, for the pur- vibration over all 1,100 students in green. An ordi- pose of warning them about the harm their actions nary man, with a talent for basketball, stood in and words can cause to someone’s future. He front of the crowd entrancing every single person warned the students that believe they are the cool with his words. The only eyes that left him were ones based on what they do on the weekends to the ones who could not stand the eye contact as rethink themselves and think about their “Why?” tears rolled down their cheeks. Chris Herren told for the actions they chose. He targeted the older the Feehan community on November 18th not of siblings in the crowd, telling them how much their his struggles with heroin addiction, but of his pre- younger brothers and sisters look up to them. In- sent and who he has met through his current ca- fusing the story of a 7th grade boy who accidentally reer of public speaking to young adults. He told of a overdosed because his older sister who said Xbox young girl with old clothes hiding the cuts on her would be cooler to play after taking some pills, arms caused by a drunken father, a depressed Herron was able to create (Cont’d on pg. 11) A Thanksgiving for Others By Patrick Fuller ‘17 November 23rd was a half day deemed unneces- would like to extend my utmost thanks to all the sary by the majority of the student body. This per- homerooms, volunteers, and National Honor Socie- spective was quickly changed by the involvement ty members for allowing the tradition of Thanks- of every student in the Thanksgiving Mass. The un- giving baskets to continue so effectively. ceasing generosity of Feehan’s motivated students manifested itself in overflowing baskets of food destined to make a needy family’s celebration beautiful. The creativity of our school’s home- rooms shined bright in whimsical decorations, es- pecially in Mr. Tota’s homeroom winning “most creative,” with its rendition of the house from Up and Mrs. Luongo’s homeroom winning “best Thanksgiving themed,” for its festive design. On behalf of the entire Bishop Feehan community, I Around Feehan PSATS: Did You Have What It Took to Succeed? By Mary Rose Corkery ‘18 How did you do on the PSAT? Well enough to be a As for the math sections, the general consensus National Merit Scholar? Maybe, but myriad stu- [18] was that an exceptionally fast reading speed dents across the country are considering some- calculated for Abigail would have been useful for thing else over their impending college plans: am I all. No number of <DAB’s could help wearied stu- talented enough for Don Juan Ribero? dents through the dreaded problems where calcu- With this question arising at the start of the critical lators were banned. reading section of the test, students were forced to Even with this emotional rollercoaster of a test, overcome not only this existential distraction, but everyone managed to exit the building and move also the fact that calculators were specifically not on with their lives… at least until hundreds of thou- permitted. The test continued by highlighting the sands reached for their phones to make #PSAT one urgency of boiling bagels in kettles and by alerting of the most popular hashtags of the day. Despite everyone to the stickman's eternal presence in the having contracts of dependability [19] from every sky. test taker, The College (Cont’d on pg. 11) Feehan Fleece Takes the Fashion World By Storm Kelly Garrity ‘17 Every year, the sea of blue and white shirts in the wear over their sweaters during the darkest days Bishop Feehan halls changes to a murky, algae- of winter. The fleece will cure the annual sweat- clogged lake of green as students don sweaters and shirt epidemic (Unfortunately, well-constructed sweater vests for the cold winter months. Begin- rhetorical arguments such as, "I'm cold," will prob- ning October 1st and ending May 1st, the sweater ably no longer fly for regular sweatshirt-wearers). brings a festive, ever-green touch to the season. All the best memories at Feehan are made during Featuring a quarter-zip, a collar, and two zip-up sweater season: Santa Shop, Feehan's Got Talent, pockets, this fleece has everything including a midterms. However, recent cries of, “Brr,” and gen- quarter-zip feature, a collar, and two pockets. It's eral shivering throughout the student body have also super soft-looking, which hopefully translates led to a new development in bfhs.dfrcs uniform into being super soft-feeling. Rumor has that if the outerwear. fleece is successful it will be followed by its cousin, This winter, the sweater is getting a new best the fleece-vest. According to our sources, it'll pair friend: the fleece. Starting in a few weeks, students perfectly with the short sleeves. will have the option of purchasing a green fleece to Election 2016 Donald Trump Wins Presidential Election By Brendan Donoghue ‘18 Election Day is America at its finest. No matter the refused to answer polls on who they would vote for problems and disagreements people have about prior to the election ended up voting for Trump by government, every four years, the citizens of the a landslide. Also, Trump was able to tap into frus- United States speak and the government listens. On tration from working class voters. This does not Tuesday, November 8th, Donald J. Trump was mean that everyone who voted for Trump likes elected the 45th President of the United States. Af- him, but they were able to look past the flawed ter a long and controversial campaign from both messenger that Trump is due to their strong belief sides, Trump defeated Democratic candidate Hilla- in his message. In the end, voters did something for ry Clinton by a margin of 290 electoral votes to 232 Trump that they could not do for Clinton—they put electoral votes (with Michigan yet to be called) in their trust in him. Trump is an outsider, and the what was has been referred to as the greatest upset political elites despised him for that, but the Ameri- in the history of the election for President of the can people viewed that as his best quality. Did United States. What Trump was able to do was tru- Trump win by a massive landslide? No.
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