LIVINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL, NEW JERSEY VOL. 62, ISSUE 7 MAY 2020 In This Issue… PAGE 3 Letter from a Fellow Senior By KENDRA BOYD Lance Contributor Dear Class of 2020: Senior year is a time to make lasting memories with PAGE 4 your friends and the entire class. It is a time to celebrate what the seniors have worked toward the past four years of high school and the last 13 years of learning in the Livingston School District. However, this was robbed from the class of 2020 at the beginning of March due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Our lives changed in an instant from seeing our friends every day in the halls, to only interacting during the hour-long Zoom PAGE 7 calls every other day. While we are initially inconvenienced by the potential of this pandemic in participating in important Lancer traditions - senior have many unanswered a memorable senior year. If prom, the game of Assassin, questions. anyone can get through this, our final sports season, dressing It is important that during it’s us. We have dealt with up on May 1st for decision day, this trying time that we first do prior threats towards our and even Graduation - the what is best for our wider school and ransomware bigger impact is the escalating community and our loved ones. attacks, but we came out of medical emergency It is important that we those situations stronger and compounded by individuals’ stay home and follow the more united. We need to fear of the unknown. restrictions put in place and demonstrate our resilience and The fear of not knowing help our neighbors and show leadership by banding how long this crisis will last. grandparents. Our teachers, together as classmates and The fear of how it will affect entire staff, Mr. Stern, all the continue to support each other PAGE 9 our friends, families, and Board of education and encourage our younger communities. We get a glimpse administrators and numerous peers to do the same in this of reality on the daily news unseen volunteers are on our time of need. feeds and from listening to the side. Because this is the best President, State and local They understand our year of our lives, we will make representatives addressing sadness and are doing what it up eventually. Let's make issues every night, but we still they can to make sure we have history, Class of 2020! PAGE 11 02 THE LANCE – MAY 2020. VOL. 62, ISSUE 7 SCHOOL NEWS/EDITORIAL A Worthwhile Quarantine! By MICHELLE LI enriching activities. Harvard and MIT, offers free Ballet are releasing home if productivity looks different Lance Contributor To start, here’s a friendly online courses from over 120 exercise programs, so if you this season. reminder to study for the AP top-ranked universities and have a nagging desire to If we can find new passions Dear Lancers, with this exams that are coming up in a industry-leading companies. become a ballerina, there’s no and direct ourselves to a new extended period of quarantine month. While studying for APs With courses ranging from better time than now to do so. purpose, we will be able to stay it seems as though we are losing is not the most appealing task, Chemistry to Education & These activities may not be as our best selves during this our connection with reality. our AP scores are one of the few Teacher Training, it’s a source impressive as our usual crisis. Outside of our schoolwork, aspects that we can still control of boundless information at the extracurriculars, but it’s okay our purpose was rooted in as a part of our individual tips of our fingers. extracurricular interests and profiles, so it’s important to not Finally, this is a great time summer aspirations, but it become complacent towards to focus on our physical health, seems that everything that the shortened 45-minute a topic that has recently been made us unique is being taken updated AP exams. brought to the foreground. away from us. If you are like me and need With school starting later It certainly is a trying some added activities to feel and fewer responsibilities to time, and it is only natural for productive, taking online attend to, we can sleep longer some of us to fall into a state of classes is a great way to stay and dedicate time to exercising aimlessness and dejection. occupied while becoming at home. To stay positive, the most brighter and more productive In addition to the videos important thing for us to do is at the same time. commonly found on Youtube, to shift our purpose by Edx, an online learning many institutions such as immersing ourselves in platform founded by Lifetime and New York PC: CollegeBoard Tips for a Stress-Free and Positive Quarantine! By JESSICA WOODLEE schedule. I know with the extra and family. I know that these These goals could be anything Store owners, delivery men and Lance Contributor you like! Learn to cook! Finally time it can be tempting to pull times can make you feel women and essential personnel organize your desk! Read a an all-nighter or sleep the day helpless and small with no way across the country. And I am Hello Lancer Community! book you haven’t had the time away, but by sticking to the to help. But you can help. By sure one day when our children to read yet! If you get up in the same sleep schedule you’ve staying home every single day ask us about this we will be I know that we have all been morning with a goal, you’re been following this past school you are saving the lives of able to look back and say, “it feeling the strain of social much more likely to feel year, you’ll feel much more thousands of doctors, nurses, wasn’t easy, but we got distancing. So, I decided to fulfilled when you get back into grounded and ready to tackle grocery store employees, through it.” take this opportunity to share bed at night. each day. my insights on staying positive High school leads to a lot of stress for millions of in this trying time. Maintain Normalcy Be Kind to Yourself teenagers, but is it all worth it in the end? (WSJ) Throughout this challenging Our bodies need vitamin D to Be Productive time, I know it feels like we’re function properly. Good news! Trust me when I say I know all grasping at the seams of You don’t have to go to any how tempting it is to just lie in what life was like before. grocery store to find it because bed and binge Netflix for the Although we can’t perform the everyone gets it for free from rest of eternity. But eventually musical or likely go to prom, the sun! Go outside! Just that begins to feel just as there are simple tasks we can because we are isolating boring as doing nothing at all. do to keep ourselves in the loop. ourselves from others does not The solution? Goals! Get dressed each day when you mean we have to stay inside. wake up! This five-minute task Walk around the perimeter of I know it seems somewhat silly indicates to your brain that you your home! Stand on your to plan when there's still much are going to do something with balcony! Take your dog for a unknown but setting specific the day. Make your bed! You’ll walk! goals and working towards be much less likely to crawl into them will allow you to bed with the chance of ruining Stay Connected productively use your time and your hard work! And finally, Make sure to designate time feel more fulfilled. try to regulate your sleep every day to contact friends PC: Bing These goals could be anything you like! Learn to cook! Finally organize your desk! MEET THE LANCE STAFF! Advisor: Joseph Trad Danny Hubert Tori Wang Jordan Kahalany Monica Chang Morgan Levy Jake Cohen Shannon O’Connor Lenny Kanchik Editor-In-Chief Features and Hard and Soft Sports and Entertainment Sports Entertainment Soft News Hard News News Editorials and Features and Features THE LANCE – MAY 2020. VOL. 62, ISSUE 7 0 3 HARD NEWS/SOFT NEWS Asian Americans face Racism from COVID-19 By STEPHANIE LI and the death rate for the virus Lance Contributor triggers unwarranted and authorities in Wuhan on descent. is around 2%. Moreover, an vicious harassment. December 31, countless acts of As with most cases of estimated 290,000 to 650,000 As COVID -19 continues to Ask Sam Phan, a student racism and xenophobia have racism, this pandemic of people die from the flu each spread, so does anti-Asian at the University of been reported, documented, prejudice has its roots in year, according to the World sentiment, manifesting itself in Manchester. He writes that to and circulated on social media. paranoia and Health Organization. Rather plummeting sales at Chinese be Chinese during the epidemic On March 4, Jiye Seong- misunderstanding. than allowing fear to breed restaurants and near-deserted is to be “part of a threatening Yu, a Korean interpreter who While the coronavirus has hatred and racism, people Chinatown districts. and diseased mass.” lives in the Netherlands, was infected more than 100,000 should focus on staying biking the 10 minutes home New Shanghai Deluxe, a However, Chinese citizens people and killed over 3,000, informed and compassionate restaurant in New York’s aren’t the only people suffering from dance class when two men around 57,600 have recovered.