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201 S. Gammon Rd, Madison, WI 53717 jmmswordandshield.com “Sword & Shield” @jmmnews [email protected] NOVEMBER 2019 VOLUME LIV James Madison Memorial High School Student Newspaper 6 // 10 Things To Do Over Thanksgiving Break! 9 // Is President Trump getting Impeached?! 15 // West High School Students Walk Out For Marlon Anderson 18 // Artist of the Month! 20// Best Pumkin Pie Recipe for Thanksgiving 26 // Girls’ Tennis Ends Another Successful Season 29 // Plastic Straws: Should they be banned? 32 // Female Representation in Books NOVEMBER 2019 My name is Brynn Sailing, and I am the Operations Manager for the Sword and Shield. My job includes proofreading new articles and adding them to our website, www.jmmswordandshield.com as well as working on the website and our other online presences to help spread the word about the newspaper! As we head into the month of ‘No-School November’, I encourage all of you to stay on top of your classwork just as much as usual so when we have days off, you can take the time to get out into the community and into the fall spirit! It’s time to put first quarter issues behind us and focus on the future. The Sword and Shield this month is jam-packed with updates on all the important news from Memorial’s BRYNN SAILING, sports, upcoming events, and currents events this No- Operations vember. Be sure to give it a look to learn about all the Manager interesting things our community has to offer! STUDENT LIFE NEWS ARTS & ENTER. SPORTS OPINIONS GEA FEATURE 4 // JMM’s Win- 9// Can Speaker 17 // Malefiscent 24 // NFL Octo- 29 // Plastic 32 // Female ter Musical Re- Pelosi Impeach Movie Review ber Recap Straws: Should Representation in vealed: Come See Trump? 18 // Artist of No- 24 // Wisconsin they be Demol- Books Urinetown! 10// Immigra- vember! - Natalie R. Football Recap ished? 33 // Women in 4 // Spartan Youth tion Deal with El 18 // Joker Movie 25 // Boys Vol- Plastics straws Politics Service Recap! Salvador Reivew leyball Regular hurt not only From Hillary Clinton wildlife, but 5 // Rally for 10// Car Crash in Why does Joylyn think Season Update to Sarah Palin, how people! does the media im- Menstrual Equity Illinois that the Joker was an 26 // Girls Tennis incredible movie? Read 30 // Apple vs. pact their campaign? by Student Activist 11//Bidens Race to Ends Another Suc- to find out! Android 33 // The Myth Club and the Gen- the White House cessful Season 19 // Season 4 of 31 // Do AP Behind Non-Con- der Equity Club 12//Detainment 27 // Gymnastics Stranger Things Classes Really sensual Sex 5 // Mountain Bik- Centers in China World Cham- Revealed Matter? 34 // Calling ing Club Recap 13// Amazon For- pionships Make 19 // Outfit of the Despite the test Women Girls is 6 // 10 Things To est Fires far from History Month helping people Demeaning Over Eliana teaches us Do Over Thanks- Learn Jassi’s Tips to get into college, what went down 35 // The Harm- giving Break 13// Rats Drive looking your best this how much to at the Gymnastics ful Truths About 6 // SYS Penny Cars? they impact your November! World Champion- Women in Media Wars Results and 14// Nobel Prize 20 // Best Pumpkin education? ships 32 // Students 36 // Genders Be- Update Winners of 2019 Pie Recipe 28 // Milwakee Must be Mind- yond the Binary 7// How did 15 // West High 21 // Fall Word- Bucks Preseason ful when Choos- 37 // Gender Homecoming Week Students Walk Out search ing Where to go Equality Cartoon Go? to Support Marlon 22 // Horoscopes 8 //First 2 Months Anderson to College at Memorial?! 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 Nic Braico Jassi Chahal Tanay Desai Emmie Digon Maggie Di Sanza Melanie Golden Joylyn Gong Noah Hadfield Davis Hardy Jessica Jiang Jace Liu Ashley Nelson Julia Olsen Sagarika Pal Sanjay Palta-Hill Amira Pierotti Amy Qiao Gersely Rios Saivarshini Rishi Grace Runo Claudia Salgado Eliana Sauer Elizabeth Schultz Mihika Shivakumar Veronika Souzek Noucheng Thao Aarushi Vyas Emma Weitz Elliot Weix 3 Antonio Wu 3 NOVEMBER 2019 STUDENT LIFE SYS RECAP By Aarushi Vyas Spartan Youth Service has had a great month filled with a variety of events, great member turn-out, and new freshmen board members. If you’re interested in volunteering around the community, then this is the club for you! Some of the events we have include: Cat Care - play with cats and help take care of them! This is a weekly event. Scholastic Book Fair - remember these? Now, as a high school student, you get the opportunity to help JMM’S WINTER MUSICAL: with the set up of these book fairs. URINETOWN Farley Center - if you’re the kind of person who loves By: Eliana Sauer to be outdoors, then this is the event for you! Have you ever wanted to be part of a wonderful & many more! Stop by the Wisconsin Neighborhood production, and gain a bunch of new friends across all on Wednesday’s after school to learn more about the grades along the way? Well, you should consider au- club and discover other fun events to sign up for. ditioning for Memorial Theater Company’s 2020 mu- Besides events, SYS is a great way to make new sical: Urinetown! Urinetown is a satire musical about friends and meet other students. This past month club big business, that was written by Mark Hollmann and members voted for Claire Rozeski, Tanmayi Gol- Greg Kotis in 2001. In the show, citizens have to pay a konda, and Tomas Gonzalez to be the new freshmen greedy megacorporation (Urine Good Company) to use board members. We are excited to have them join the the bathroom, but the citizens revolt and take matters board and see what events we have planned for the into their own hands. It’s about empowerment, com- future. munity and its a ton of fun. There are many characters For more updates and information check out our to cast, so don’t be afraid to try out! Auditions will be social media @jmm.sys on Instagram and JMM SYS held on November 4 and 5, from 4-7 pm and callbacks on Facebook! We look forward to seeing you at the will be November 7 from 4-7pm. For your audition, next meeting! you should prepare a minute cut of any musical theater song, and a joke. At the end of each night there will be a group dance audition. Audition sign-ups will be posted across from the choir room. Performances of Urine- town will be February 7,8,9,14 and 15, and everyone is strongly encouraged to come support Memorial’s drama program. If being onstage isn’t your thing, there is still plenty to do backstage, join our DDAF Facebook group to stay updated on stage crew activities. We can’t wait to see everyone get involved with Urinetown! For more information and to stay updated on all things regarding Urinetown, follow @jmmemorialddaf and @dramaat- memorial on Instagram, and join the JMM DDAF 2019- 2020 Facebook group. Email [email protected] with any questions you may have. 4 www.jmmswordandshield.com NOVEMBER 2019 RALLY FOR MOUNTAIN MENSTRUAL EQUITY BIKING CLUB By Maggie Di Sanza By Elliot Weix On October 19th, 2019, rallies and protests all across With the fall sports season coming to a close, peo- the nation celebrated the first ever National Period ple are sorrowfully waving goodbye to some of their Day! The Gender Equity Association and Student Ac- favorite sports. tivist Club were privileged to be able to help lead and I, for one, will be sad to see the end of the first season organize the Madison, Wisconsin rally in downtown of the Memorial Mountain Biking Team. For those Madison right next to the State Capitol. The leaders who don’t know, mountain biking is a sport in which of the movement were Maggie Di Sanza and Anika one rides a bike through trails in the wilderness. Sanyal. It was a day full of protest, speakers, chants, Interestingly enough, it’s less dangerous than normal outreach, community, and youth voice. It was an biking. Road biking tends to lead to being hit by motor incredibly empowering experience. In the process, the vehicles, while mountain biking leads to injuries via volunteers and attendants made over 50 periods packs, faulty jumps and turns. serving over 50 periods in the Madison Community for The Memorial Mountain Biking Team sprang into those who do not have access to menstrual products. existence this year. For the first time, JMM had enough October 19th was a special day, as it represents student-athletes to form their own team. Until recent- thousands of people across the country prioritizing ly, the team had been folded into the Madison West menstrual equity. Because 1 in 4 women misses school Composite, comprised of West, Memorial, Verona, in the United States due to their periods; because 30% Mount Horeb, Oregon, Belleville, and Edgewood High of the menstruating population has trouble affording Schools. period products; because viagra is taxed as a necessity The team itself is open-minded and has a good atti- and tampons are taxed as a luxury; because the English tude. All members are encouraged to get involved to language has over 40 euphemisms for the word ‘men- whatever extent they are comfortable with, meaning struation.’ For too long, menstruating people have been racing isn’t mandatory.