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Contents Photography by Kevin Carpio 04 12 20 INSIDE POTATE LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION: MINTS AND DEODORANT by Rachel Zheng COMIC BOOKS poem by Luke Shannon by Athena Li An interview with POTATE’s It’s dark in the center of the President Jack Glenn. Comics are all the rage right now. desert... 06 15 21 THE GROWTH OF THE PARODICAL LIFE ADVICE FROM OUR TEACHERS 10 CLASSICAL MUSIC DISCOVERIES RELIGION: ALL HAIL SPAGHETTI survey by Maia Helterbrand by Lilly Schroeder by Alexander Shepherd “There isn’t a perfect path to meet your Recommendations for anyone interested What is Pastafarianism? goals.” in classical music. 07 16 22 FIFA WORLD CUP 2018 RECIPE REVIEW: WHITE CHOCOLATE QUICK TALK WITH MS. REID by Stanley Lee RASPBERRY CHEESECAKE by Maia Helterbrand by Helen Ye What you need to know Get to know Ms. Reid. about the 2018 World Cup. We tested out the recipe. 08 18 WIRED CITY LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION: photography by Kiva Joseph CASSETTEBOY by Ethan Caine The Brooklyn Bridge. VANTAGE MAGAZINE Mangled, out-of-context masterpieces... 2018 Spring Edition Page 2 | Vantage Magazine Vantage EDITORS IN CHIEF Lilly Schroeder Alec Iannuccilli Rachel Zheng CREATIVE DIRECTOR Lilly Schroeder VICE EDITOR Luke Shannon CONTENT EDITORS Athena Li Maia Helterbrand Ethan Caine STAFF WRITERS Alec Iannuccilli Alexander Shepherd Athena Li Catherine Dzekon Ethan Caine Maia Helterbrand Helen Ye Lilly Schroeder Rachel Zheng Photography by Kevin Carpio Stanley Lee Luke Shannon PHOTOGRAPHERS Kiva Joseph FROM THE EDITORS Kevin Carpio Welcome to Vantage Magazine! Vantage is a Crystal publication that has been running for GRAPHIC DESIGNERS over a decade. We provide a stage for students to express their opinions on everything from Helen Ye school life to extracurricular activities and current events and share them with the student body. Lilly Schroeder Last year, our focus was to revamp the graphics of our magazine, making our visuals more bold and dynamic than ever before. We believe that we made great strides in improving the de- COVER DESIGNER sign of our magazine, and we continued to work hard to make Vantage look great this year. We Natalie Brewster are very proud of the results, and we sincerely hope you enjoy the magazine! We would like to thank Mr. Huntoon for his continuous support of Vantage. He truly is a key SPECIAL THANKS player in making our publication possible, and we are so grateful for all of his help and advice. Mr. Huntoon We are so appreciative of all the time he takes to help out with our magazine. We would also like Ms. Richards to thank our Vantage team for their great work this year. Vantage would not be the same without Ms. Sortino our dedicated writers, photographers, editors, and designers. Their passion and excitement for Ms. Daughtry journalism inspires us and we are so excited to share with you their awesome articles, photos, and creative writing pieces! CONTACT US [email protected] Thank you, Lilly Schroeder, Alec Iannuccilli, Rachel Zheng Vantage Magazine | Page 3 INSIDE POTATE INTERVIEW BY RACHEL ZHENG POTATE, or the Proxy Organization of Tackling, Allocating, and Tending to Events, has a certain mystery to it. Besides hosting unanticipated events, not much is known about what goes on before and after the events, so we’ve gone behind the scenes to interview Jack Glenn, leader of POTATE. How many people are involved in POTATE? From what grades? “POTATE.” And then I filled in the rest of the words based on what sounded good. Potato is just a funny sounding word too, like waf- Jack Glenn: As far as really active members, I’m very proud of fle or potata or polliwog. grade distribution. We’ve got a lot of people from every grade. On average, we have 3-4 people from each grade. What have been some difficulties that you have experienced while running POTATE? How does POTATE work around the A and B week schedule and the different lunches? Jack Glenn: Well I think the biggest difficulty is, at the beginning especially, me not knowing how the school administration works. Jack Glenn: We meet at Office Hours. That’s how we work around Usually for smaller events, the school is pretty liberal and lenient. the lunch thing. We aren’t a club since one hour every two weeks You just have to go to Ms. Daughtry and she’ll be like “cool” and will not help. Usually the meeting cycle for events is like, there is you’re like “cool.” For the Haunted House, I needed to get chap- one super intense week of planning and there’s a couple weeks of erones, which I didn’t know about, and a cash box, which I also actual work where we don’t have meetings and there’s the actual didn’t know about. And I had to do it without the aid of the stu- event. It comes more in spurts. dent government, because I preferred doing things directly since I think it’s faster and because then I don’t have to worry about What is the best thing about POTATE (organization-wise)? going through two sets of administrators. But there’s definitely a very long process that I wasn’t aware of and also just like, even Jack Glenn: I think that the best thing about POTATE is that it al- knowing who to talk to and what form to fill out was really chal- lows members more creative control, independence, and creative lenging. I’d ask someone “hey can you help me with this,” and freedom. It’s entirely student run. For the first two events of the they’d be like “oh go talk to this person” and then they’d be like year (the Parade and the Haunted House), I was the tyrannical “oh talk to that person.” And I would sort of start going in a loop, leader. Now I’m letting other people become the tyrannical leader and I’d be like “oh no.” too. The next event we had coming up was led by Flo, which is cool. I’m hoping to get a lot more people involved with actually Getting people to do their jobs and meet their deadlines is also leading events too and teaching other people how the school tough. For the Fancy Melon Potluck Party last year, like no one met administration works. The other interesting thing is other people their animation deadlines so I basically had to cut out parts of the can learn from the horrible mistakes that I have made whenever song so I wouldn’t have to make the animations and I had to fill in I’ve tried to get events approved. the rest. I don’t really have much going on, so I have much time to give, but other people don’t have that much time. Not everyone How did you come up with the name POTATE? has as liberal a schedule as I do, so it makes things difficult. Even though everyone is really busy, everyone is still really passionate Jack Glenn: I was actually at a robotics competition when I came about it. We have a lot of fun. I remember in the Haunted House, up with the name. Okay, so basically I was just trying to think of we took so many videos of us dabbing in the costumes. I think funny sounding acronyms and I knew it had to have an E in it for that one of the most fun things to do with a group of people is “events” and an O for “organization,” so I thought “potato,” wait build stuff and make stuff, and that’s what we do. Page 4 | Vantage Magazine Where does POTATE get their inspiration from? turns out that we didn’t need that many trash bags, so I just have 7 boxes of dollar store trash bags sitting in my house. That was fun. My Jack Glenn: Oooh, I am an inspiration. Just kidding! Definitely for the family will not be ever wanting for trash bags. Haunted House, we took a lot of inspiration from a lot of horror video games. Like there is one video game called “Eve,” which is basically What is your favorite event for POTATE? about a haunted art gallery. So you’re like oh cool, okay, haunted art gallery. And “Five Nights at Freddy’s” was totally an inspiration. Jack Glenn: Oh I like them all. Let’s see here, probably the Soiree. Definitely, 100%. We basically ripped it off in one of our games. And That is the reason why I initially bought a top hat and I love top hats for other things, like musical influences, our influences are jazz and and dapper things. And it was also the first time I’d done a musical showtunes, soft-shoe stuff, and also just working around the fact number to promote an event. that we only use midi instruments and most of those sound terrible. What happens with the things you make after you’re done with the How long do POTATE’s projects take? What are some clever ways event? you’ve come up with to solve a problem and what was that problem? Jack Glenn: Right now they’re either sitting on this really big storage Jack Glenn: It really depends on the project and how big it is. The Pa- shelf in my garage or we throw them out. A lot of the posters and rade took around a month and a half to make everything. Haunted stuff, we throw out. We save the posterboard and use the back for House, well we didn’t actually start working on it as a group until a something else, but for the tablecloths and stuff we throw them out month and a half before the Haunted House happened, but I had because they’re completely ruined by the end of the event.