Blockbuster Summer Top events of 2013 school year
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TRITON HIGH SCHOOL Triton’s Student-Produced Newspaper June 12, 2013
Top events of
2013 school year Tragedies, triumphs make marks
By Neil Hanlon
Staff Writer Locally and Nationally, the events of this school year can
be remembered in two broad categories: triumphs and trage-
dies. From small changes, such as the lift on coffee at school,
to national heartbreak, such as the Sandy Hook School shoot-
ings, the school year made its lasting marks.
Here the Triton Voice has compiled a list of this year’s top
10 events
10. Why Triton?
Why come to Triton High? Because of our journalism pro-
gram, obviously—but more because of all the great things that
our school has to offer. The Why Triton? Program, which
explained the reasons students should attend this school, was
successful, and was really able to help show parents of eighth
grade students the many opportunities here.
9. Haunted Triton
Back in November, Triton was haunted for a day. Students
and parents got together to put on this great event to raise
money for the Stadium Project. It was a major success, and a
good time was had by all. But is Triton really haunted? There
are stories around that Joseph Liguori, a Triton student who
died in a car crash many years ago, haunts the auditorium, and
that he can be heard playing his drums when one is all alone in
that room
8. Coffee Allowed
Junior Liz Wilmonton put together a petition for a lift of
the coffee ban, and starting after April vacation, students were
allowed to have coffee, tea, or hot chocolate during their first
period classes, as a “test” of sorts. So far, things seem to be
going well.
7. Snowy Spring and Broken-up Beaches
The end of winter gave way to a whole slew of storms that
rocked the northeast. Seniors rejoiced because they did not
have to make them up; meanwhile the rest of the school will
look on in envy from the windows of Triton until the 21st of
June.
6. Merger, no; Changes, yes
In April, Superintendent Christopher Farmer withdrew his
proposal to merge the middle and high schools. He instead
pushed for several changes for the middle and high schools to
make together in an effort to establish more continuity be-
tween the two. Notable changes include: common schedules,
ninth grade teams, shared resources, and more.
5. Barack Obama’s Second Term
After all the debates, advertisements, and way too many
arguments, Barack Obama won the 2012 Presidential Election,
and has been given another four years in office.
4. Flu Outbreak
At one point in the year, it seemed as if half of Triton High
was sick…. The flu epidemic this year across the country
widely impacted students in all grades, and you could tell how
it affected Triton’s students. It was spreading like wildfire
because students didn’t want to stay home and miss school
work.
3. EEE turns “Friday Night Lights” at Triton into a
“Field of Dreams”
After much discussion, the outbreak of EEE (Eastern Eq-
uine Encephalitis) during the football season this past fall was
a major news event, affecting student athletes especially.
Many students missed the Friday night games under the lights,
and are hoping for a normal schedule next year.
2. Tragedy in Newtown
The Sandy Hook School shooting in Newton, Connecticut,
in December affected many students emotionally. Security
measures that Triton and schools across the nation put into
place made their impacts felt. The tragedy sparked debates
about gun control, how we treat those with mental illness and
school security internationally.
1. Marathon Bombing
The Boston Marathon was the biggest news event that
most of the students at Triton have ever lived through. We’ve
covered the events in other issues, but we still feel the event is
significant enough to place at the top of the list.
Blockbuster Summer June, July, August packed with super-big, super-
star flicks, but which will be remembered as best?
By Anastasia Small
Staff Writer
Junior Sydney Rybicki can’t wait for sum-
mer 2013. More specifically she can’t wait to
enter one of the local movie theaters, feel the
cool rush of the
AC against her
skin, sit down
in the plush
oversized
chairs and en-
joy the exciting
new films.
This sum-
mer there are
some major
movie block-
busters coming
to theaters, and
all seem to
promise lots of
action.
Rybicki is
particularly
excited for Monsters University, which is a fol-
low-up movie to the famous and well-liked
Monsters Inc. by Pixar. Monsters University will
portray the Monsters cast now living in college
and attending classes. However watching the
trailer it seems like there are more Monster par-
ties than study sessions.
“I can’t wait to see this interesting prequel to
the movie that I have grown up with. It takes me
down memory lane to my childhood summer
days,” Rybicki said.
Junior Kerstin Darsney is also anticipating
an animated film this summer. However she
believes that most of the blockbusters will not
live up to their full potential. She can’t wait to
see the film Despicable Me 2. The second in
the installation follows a similar plot line to
the first movie, with Gru and his three orphan
adoptees embarking on another topsy-turvy
adventure.
“I’m highly anticipating this movie be-
cause it’s one of the few that I believe will
actually turn out to be partially decent. I en-
joyed the first segment of this franchise, par-
ticularly the little yellow minions,” she said
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Behind the scenes at the Boston Globe The Triton Voice staff tours the regions largest paper
By Monica Hurley
Staff Writer
On Wednesday, May 8,
students from Triton’s jour-
nalism class and staff writers
for the Triton Voice took a
field trip to tour the Boston
Globe headquarters. Stu-
dents got a first-hand
glimpse at the processes of
real world journalism in
contrast to how they produce
the Triton Voice.
Students were led
through the newspaper by
tour guide Kara Thibault, an
undergraduate journalism
student from Northeastern
University participating in a
co-op program to work at the Globe. Thibault first
took students to the warehouse where the rolls of
paper are stored and transported by automated ro-
botic vehicles.
“I thought it was interesting to learn about the
process of shipping the paper,” sophomore David
Kwiatkowski said. “It was amazing how heavy the
rolls of paper were and how many rolls they had
stored.”
Next, students were brought to the second floor
of the press, where aluminum plates are laser-
pressed to create the template for each paper to be
printed from. With the paper being printed and sent
to millions of subscribers on a daily basis, hundreds
of aluminum plates were lined up ready to be
pressed.
“Each aluminum plate can only be used
once,” Thibault explained, “but we do
what we can to reduce our usage.”
The final stage of newspaper produc-
tion was on the third floor of the press
warehouse. This is where the three printing
presses print three separate editions of the
Globe. The first edition that is printed is
the edition that gets sent out beyond metro
Boston – throughout New England and the
entire nation. The second edition goes out
to the metro-west region, such as Worces-
ter and the North and South Shore areas.
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The entrance to the Boston Globe (Dave Kwiatkowski photo).
A collage of blockbuster movies coming out
this summer (image courtesy nerdson-
therocks.com).
Triton High School page 2 June 12, 2013
By Shannon Lyons
Staff Writer Looking at Mr. Andre Dubus’
ironed, gray suit and fancy leather
boots, one may already be im-
pressed merely by his authoritative
appearance. For this reason, it
should be no surprise that Mr.
Dubus is also the author of several
award-winning novels including
The House of Sand and Fog, which
has been made into a critically-
acclaimed movie.
Mr. Dubus has written an auto-
biographical memoir, Townie, as
well, where he shares his life story
growing up in towns such as New-
buryport and Haverhill. The Triton
Voice recently had the privilege of
interviewing Dubus, receiving some
insight into how he conquered his
life’s challenges and reached suc-
cess.
Triton Voice: You wrote the
novels House of Sand and Fog in
1999 and The Garden of Last Days
in 2008. How did you decide to
write your memoir, Townie, years
later in 2011?
Andre Dubus: It came the way
so much of my writing does. It’s
sort of like the phoenix that’s risen
from the ashes of what’s failed,
which is really normal. I was actual-
ly writing a collection of personal
essays for my publisher and the
essay was kind of fueled by the
question, ‘how come I wasn’t play-
ing baseball?’ I love baseball now.
My kids play baseball. Why wasn’t
I playing? I began to work my way
into the question of what I was do-
ing if I wasn’t playing baseball, and
five hundred pages later, I had
Townie.
TV: In Townie, the examples of
your personal drive are impressive-
whether it is in running alongside
your Dad for 10 miles in ill-fitting
shoes or in your passion to learn to
defend yourself, your brother and
your family. As I read Townie, it
seemed to me that some of your
personal demons growing up fueled
your powerful drive and were a
prelude to your writing career.
Whatever the source of one’s drive,
can it be nurtured in a writer?
AD: I found a lot of drive within
me around age 14 or 15 and it came
from pain and it came from desire to
live a more constructive life. That
led to some really helpful ages that I
still in this age have from that drive.
The drive for a writer can be nur-
tured and I believe it can be taught.
There is a wonderful line I heard
and that is that “writing creates
more writing.” The truth is, I just
started a new book and I know that
what is going to drive me to contin-
ue to work on it is what I don’t
know about what’s there -- the char-
acter, the situation, the place in
which they’re living. I am curious
about exploring it and that curiosity
is really all the drive I need.
TV: In high-school English clas-
ses, we are trained in analytical
reading and writing. While I under-
stand the importance of learning
these fundamentals, is there a way
in which the classroom can also
foster greater opportunity for writ-
ten self-expression?
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page 1 Finally, the
third edition, the
most recently-
updated edition
of the Globe, is
distributed to
Boston and the
immediate sub-
urbs. Most
changes between
the editions are
minor, such as an
additional quote
or updated fact,
Thibault said.
The Boston
Globe also runs
an internet radio
station, Radi-
oBDC; has a so-
cial media team
to stay on top of the latest news on
their website, boston.com, on Twit-
ter, and on Facebook; and prints
frequently for the Worcester Tele-
gram & Gazette, the Quincy-based
Patriot Ledger, and even for their
competition – the Boston Herald.
By contrast, the Triton Voice
produces a weekly paper for the
Triton community through Mr. Al-
len’s journalism class.
Students in the class are staff
members for the Triton Voice. They
brainstorm article ideas and produce
and pitch them to Mr. Allen. If ap-
proved, they write a first draft.
Drafts are reviewed by Mr. Allen
and returned to staff writers for a
final draft to be produced..
Students who have been on the
paper for a few semesters will lay
out the format of the paper and se-
lect articles to go in each edition.
The final edition of each paper is
then sent to principal Ms. Kathryn
Dawe for review before it gets
printed and delivered by students.
Additionally, each student is
assigned an editorial duty. Tasks
such as updating Twitter and Face-
book, tracking down weekly events,
formatting the newspaper, and pro-
moting the publication are among a
few of the duties assigned to staff
members.
“The Boston Globe is a lot more
complex,” senior Amanda Tarlow
said, “it’s done a lot faster than how
we do it here at the Triton Voice.”
The teacher-author Local writer and professor Andre Dubus speaks candidly about his life’s challenges
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page 1 Darsney also highly recom-
mended The Great Gatsby which is
out in theaters now.”
She spoke of The Great Gatsby
“being a great film that everyone
should go and see.” The Great Gats-
by by F. Scott Fitzgerald has been
read by many of the upperclassmen
here at Triton. This film will only
be out for a little while longer, so
make sure to check it out!
For those who prefer a more
action-packed theme, there are
many blockbusters that will leave
the audience hanging. The second
installment of Star Trek is coming
out (Star Trek Into the Darkness)
along with Iron Man 3 and the latest
Superman movie, Man of Steel.
Junior Alexa Bryant is particularly
excited to see Iron Man 3 in thea-
ters.
“I enjoyed the first two films
and like the action. This movie will
also set up for more avengers mov-
ies in the future. And besides who
can’t resist a good Robert Downey
Junior?”
Iron Man 3 takes the audience
on a journey through the life of mul-
ti-millionaire and Iron Man himself,
Tony Stark. Trailers show Iron Man
battling a new villain in order to
save everything and everyone he
loves.
From action-packed blockbuster
franchises, to drama romances and
animated family fun movies, there
is something for everyone this year.
AD: I hope so. You know, I take
my hat off to all high school English
classes across the country because
their task is monumental. They have
to teach young people the rules of
grammar, mechanics and punctua-
tion, which are important; you real-
ly need to know these. I tell my
college students this, if you’re a
really good writer and you’ve writ-
ten a lovely story but the punctua-
tion is off or the grammar’s off —
it’s like a really good songwriter
playing a song with an out-of-tune
guitar. But you also don’t want to
hit young people over the head con-
stantly with rules, so they feel con-
stricted or actually discouraged
from expressing themselves. I really
hope that in most curriculums
across the country there is some
time for just free writing and crea-
tivity, without paying attention to
the rules too much.
TV: Out of the classroom, do
you have some advice or sugges-
tions for young writers who aspire
to learn your craft?
AD: I think you have to learn to
trust your imagination. This is ulti-
mately a really humble act. It’s an
act of humility in which the writing
is larger than the writer. Stephen
King often said he feels these nov-
els that he writes are found objects
and it’s like an active excavation.
When he’s brushing the sand off,
he’s finding this world and it’s as if
this world already exists in another
medium and our job as writers is to
get it out, to this one.
TV: I understand that the role of
journalism is to report the facts dis-
passionately. But, we’ve been
taught that even just reporting the
facts involves a process of selection
and presentation. As a novelist, do
you see a role for personal expres-
sion in journalism?
AD: Yes, I do. I think journal-
ism is a wonderful craft. I’ve writ-
ten a lot of non-fiction pieces and I
occasionally get hired by magazines
to do a featured journalism piece,
usually on a person and their story
and to bring the tools of a fictional
writer to that job. There’s a wonder-
ful line from William Faulkner and
that is that the writer’s job is to
freeze time so that in one hundred
years when the reader reads it, it
will move again. That’s true for a
journalist
and a novel-
ist: to slow
down and
capture a
moment and
deliver it to
the reader.
It’s a beauti-
ful thing to
do.
TV: I saw on
your website
that you have
a new book
coming out
this October
titled Dirty
Love. Can
you tell us a
little about
the book and
what your
inspirations
were in writ-
ing it?
AD: It’s a collection of linked
novellas. They’re all between 75
and 150 pages, four of them. The
characters seem to walk through the
front door of one and out the back
door of another. It’s the first book I
have written where nothing dra-
matic really happens. It’s all about
relationships. It’s particularly based
on marriage and divorce. A lot of
my friends have been getting di-
vorced and my wife and I are just
shocked at some of the friends who
have broken up. There’s a lot of
exploration of love between men
and women and how to do it right
and how we screw up and how to
do it right again.
Author Andre Dubus spoke to students in May about being a
writer (courtesy image).
The basement of the Boston Globe houses a train station
where every day, hundreds of tons of paper are delivered
from northern Maine and Canada (Hurley photo).