Academy times 1101 Kennedy Rd. Windsor, CT March 2020 http://aaen.crecschools.org/ Volume 6 issue x Editorial Board Adam LaBarre Editor-In-Chief ~ Nya Bentley ~ Jacob Baez ~ Greg Nowinski ~ Kiyari Hopkins and wash your face hands Corona Virus Update frequently. With the Coronavirus spreading through Europe like wildfire, Italy has gone into code red- a complete lockdown. On the other side, China and the rest of Asia are already beginning to see a let up of the virus spreading and releasing some previously imposed restrictions. The United States has been stuck between a rock and a hard place. The government needed to make some decisions and fast. They have An image of the Coronavirus County of San Luis Obispo implemented a joint travel and trade ban on products As of the time of writing, out of your house unless you and people coming from By Nya Bentley & there have been 116,152 are buying food or going to Europe. Greg Nowinski Acording to USA Today, “In Staff Writers confirmed cases and 4,088 work. All schools are closed deaths worldwide. until April 3rd. Bars and his televised speech outlining The Coronavirus (also Besides China, Italy has restaurants are open from 6 the ban on Wednesday, known as COVID-19) is the largest amount of am to 6 pm.” President Trump said it wil a virus that originated in confirmed cases (9,172). The Since COVID-19 is spread last 30 days, though the Wuhan, China at a wet entire country has been in through germs, limit the written proclamation made market, a type of food market quarantine since March 3. number of social gatherings. room for the possibility that sells exotic food animals. A 17-year-old Italian The more people thereof extending it based on One of the animals that were resident, Maddalena are together, the higher guidance from the Secretary being sold was a bat that was Lobuono, talks about her the chance someone gets of Health and Human assumed to be in contact with experience. infected. Services.” another animal that caused “The government said Try to not touch your face. Bottom line: the travel ban the virus. Once those bats that all of Italy is a red zone. The germs contacted can go wit Europe will remain "in were sold, the virus started to Being under quarantine is inside your body and weaken effect until terminated by the spread worldwide. very stressful. You can’t go your immune system, president." Socialize with us: Write in, and get yourself Current Events.................................................Page 2 published. Letters should not exceed 200 words. Lifestyle.............................................................Page 3 Editorial...........................................................Pages 4 School News.................................................Page 5-6 @ CREC_GHAMAS_AAE Columns...........................................................Page 7 @AAEAthletics on Twitter News ................................................................Page 8 Page 2 ACADEMY TIMES Current Events Aerospace HS Mar 2020 Mar 2020 ACADEMY TIMES Columns Aerospace HS Page 7 The 2020 Democratic primaries show what is wrong with American politics By Owen Roberts voter bloc. He finished with Biden stunned everyone by much money can influence Staff Writer 24 national pledged delegates, winning 10 of 14 states on the democratic process. He winning over second-place Super Tuesday, when no one donated $300K to the DNC Joe Biden is currently Biden by 15. Although most expected him to win more prior to the Nevada debate leading the delegate count candidates would receive than 6. Biden won Virginia, so they would eliminate the for the 2020 Democratic positive media coverage North Carolina, Tennessee, individual donor threshold primaries. He has 847 pledged following such a victory, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, requirement. delegates to Bernie Sanders’s the media had the opposite Oklahoma, Minnesota, He also donated $800K to 685. Elizabeth Warren, who response. Massachusetts, and Maine. the Democratic Grassroots recently suspended her Chris Matthews, former Sanders won California, Utah, Victory Fund, which is the campaign, is in a distant third host of MSNBC’s Hardball, Colorado, and Vermont. conglomeration of all the state place with 69. compared Sanders’ victory Sanders was expected to win parties, so local television Going into the Iowa Caucus, in Nevada with the German each of the states he won, stations would give him there were 11 remaining army’s invasion of France. plus at least Texas, Minnesota, positive media coverage. candidates, 6 of which “I was reading last night Massachusetts, and Maine. He also spent $500M on were considered viable: Joe about the fall of France in Although Sanders responded television ads where he falsely Biden, Bernie Sanders, Pete the summer of 1940. And the to his poor showing by going insinuated that President Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, general, Reynaud, calls up after Biden’s record with Obama had endorsed him. Amy Klobuchar, and Michael Churchill and says, ‘It’s over.’ regards to war, trade, and His unprecedented spending Bloomberg. And Churchill says, ‘How can Social Security, it did not help helped him reach as high as Most polls had Sanders as that be? You’ve got the greatest him one week after Super 13% in some national polls, the leader in Iowa, including army in Europe. How can it be Tuesday. when he hadn’t campaigned Emerson College which over?’ He said, ‘It’s over.’” Sanders won North Dakota in nearly any states. had him up 7 points over After Sanders had pulled and tied with Biden in Finally, the events that the second place finisher. within 2.4% of Biden Washington State, but he lost transpired from the reaction However, Buttigieg finished in South Carolina on Idaho, Missouri, Mississippi, to Sanders’s victory in Nevada with 14 national pledged February 22, Jim Clyburn, a and Michigan. Given that through Super Tuesday show delegates to Sanders’s 12, prominent African-American Sanders won Michigan in 2016 the influence that the political even though Sanders finished congressman representing over Hillary Clinton and the and media establishment have with 43, 581 popular votes to the state’s 6th congressional state represents his working on the electoral process. Buttigieg’s 37, 572. district, endorsed Biden. This class base, his loss there may The media didn’t cover Following a New Hampshire endorsement was arguably be his most damning so far. Sanders positively after his debate where both Sanders the turning point of the entire The events of the Democratic win in Nevada, saying that and Klobuchar performed race. primaries so far represent he couldn’t beat Trump and well, Sanders pulled out a Biden won a shocking 48.7% what is wrong with American would destroy the Democratic popular vote victory with of the popular vote and 39 politics: the influence of Party. However, after Biden’s 25.6%. This victory benefitted national pledged delegates, corruption and corporate win in South Carolina, they him going into a debate in Las compared to Sanders’s 19.8% media. For the Iowa caucuses, said he was the best person Vegas, Nevada ahead of the and 15 national pledged the Iowa Democratic Party to take on the president in state’s caucuses. delegates. Although this was hired a company known as November. With all the other This was the first debate to a decisive first-time primary Shadow to develop an app that candidates dropping out and feature billionaire and former victory for Biden, polling in was used during the voting the media’s positive coverage New York City mayor Michael the upcoming Super Tuesday process. The app was funded of Biden, rural and suburban Bloomberg. states did not indicate that by both Hillary Clinton and middle-aged and older voters In his first presidential debate his victory would carry him Pete Buttigieg, the latter who came out in droves for Biden ever, Bloomberg appeared back to his previously-held actually appeared on the on Super Tuesday, putting nervous and unprepared. The frontrunner status. ballot. IDP officials claimed him back into first place in the other candidates attacked When it became clear to the to have mistakenly forgotten delegate count. him over his support for stop Democratic establishment to stress-test the app. Results That is the issue with our and frisk as mayor and his that Sanders was the clear later showed that the app political system: it doesn't past sexist comments against frontrunner, Pete Buttigieg changed the vote totals from matter how much enthusiasm women. and Amy Klobuchar both Black Hawk county, among or support a candidate has, if Sanders demolished the dropped out and endorsed others. These “mistakes” were the party’s elites and the media Nevada caucuses, winning Biden. Elizabeth Warren not accidental. choose to work together to a staggering 51% of Latinos, stayed in the race through Bloomberg’s involvement deny that candidate and boost the state’s largest Democratic Super Tuesday. in the race shows just how their candidate, they can. Mar 2020 ACADEMY TIMES Columns Aerospace HS Page 7 History of St. Patrick’s Day Simp or Pimp? escaped slavery and fled Ireland, but returned years later to convert Ireland to Christianity. He established churches, monasteries, and schools throughout Ireland, and, according to legend, drove out the snakes from Mel Magazine Ireland. By Noel Angus It is said that he used a Staff Writer The word targets men Gallery Yopriceville shamrock to explain the that either want a woman’s trinity, which is now a Over the course of the attention, or to mock men By Aiden Lang worldwide understood Irish last couple of years, the for respecting women. Staff Writer symbol. The high number of word “simp” (sympathizer) An Aerospace student said, St. Patrick’s Day, also Irish emigrants from Ireland has been under a lot of “The word simp if used in known as feast day, is an to the Americas is why we speculation and criticism.