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by Baylee McDonald

Feb 1, 2019 1 min read

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This year I vow, I say to myself. This year I vow to throw away the mask I wear for everyday deception. This year I vow to, like many others, start healthier habits in my daily life. This year I vow to work on quieting my mind. This year I vow to continue to work hard and recognize my growth. This year I vow to believe in myself. This year I vow to use my time and be functional. This year I vow on progress, and not perfection, because last year all I gave myself was empty promises, fake smiles, and unnecessary tears shed. This year I vow, because tomorrow isn’t promised and I’d like to start living for today. This year I vow to be better that the me I was before.

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by Quentin Williams

Feb 1, 2019 1 min read

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Quentin Williams is a freshman here at the Hornet Hive. If his name rings a bell, you probably know him as the amazing Freshman Board Vice President. Quentin works very actively to make sure that his fellow freshman classmates have a strong and respectable voice in Student Council. While talking with Quentin, he continued to put emphasis on his love for his school.

 

When asked what his favorite part about our school is, he says:

    “That’s a very hard question. I think if I had to choose one thing I would say the school spirit. This school has so much love for each other, and I don’t think you can find that anywhere else. I feel very grateful to be among all of these people every single day of my life. I feel even more grateful that I get to make sure that every one of them have an equal voice at this school.”

    You can also find Quentin sprinting on the track team as well as being a member of the Speech and Debate team.

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Let's Move On

by Tevin Nguyen

Feb 1, 2019 1 min read

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To change is to be one with yourself.
To know your choices in life if they have been good or bad.
To know what to choose.
To know what to change.
Life is all about changing.
So it’s okay to change who you are.
Even if others don’t want you to.
Focus on a you and a better you.
Die knowing you have changed as a person born on earth.
Even if you have committed a sin.
It’s never too late to change for the better and live on.
To grow wings and fly from the past.
To sprout like a deciduous tree.

 

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Mr. Volle Announces Departure After 2018-2019

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Feb 25, 2019 1 min read

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Mr. Volle, long-time physics teacher and master of wit, has announced his intention to leave Booker T. Washington High School after the completion of this school year.

According to students in his class, Mr. Volle is moving from Tulsa to Colorado Springs, Colorado.

His departure is the latest in a long string of BTW resignations or sabbaticals, including that of Mr. Waldron (social studies), Mr. McCoy (film & art history), and Mrs. Deaton (social studies). In light of these departures, further questions have arisen concerning the general quality of a BTW education.

He will be terribly missed by his loving students, fellow faculty, the administration, and his Robotics minions.

Farewell Mr. Volle, thank you for everything.

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Mr. Volle, long-time physics teacher and master of wit, has announced his intention to leave Booker T. Washington High School after the completion of this school year.

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Through the eyes of anxiety… I come in the dark, when you least expect me and never asked for me. I come in the hushed whispers, telling you you’re never going to be good enough.

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by T.S.

Apr 16, 2019 4 min read

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Compared to most fiction stories you read, you may believe that this story is, well, fiction. But I assure you that this is a completely TRUE recounting of past events, although many parts of this may seem exaggerated. So, what am I talking about you ask? Well, it all started on a sunny spring evening when coming home after school. That day was completely normal; I had woken up early and gotten ready, then sat through seven classes and went to after school tutoring for help on my math. Then, on my way back home, my dad talked to me about how my day was, and, as usual, I replied with a short “Fine,” which abruptly ended the conversation. Afterwards, while getting out of the car, I noticed a grasshopper on the side of the driveway. I debated stepping on it. Now yes, I know you may be wondering, “Really, that’s what this is about?,” but hear me out.

If I were to leave the grasshopper alive, it may enter my house (and no one likes unwanted bugs in their house) and create an infestation or something. Plus it would probably just get killed anyways by someone or something else. Now, if I were to squash it under my clean shoes, it would be killing an innocent bug that had worked its entire life up to this point for absolutely nothing. Additionally it may create a chain reaction causing another animal (a bird or a spider or something) to not get a meal that day, causing the animal to be hungry and potentially starve due to no longer having any grasshoppers to eat. The grasshopper could also be a parent and, due to my stupidity, I could just have orphaned several baby grasshoppers. Not only that, but my little sister who was behind me could see me as a cold hearted killer. This could be comparable to a murder of a drunk father. On one hand the father may be the only source of income for his family and a star employee at his work but on the other, he is currently very dangerous to me and may kill me or ruin my life. So do you kill the grasshopper or do you leave it?

Several months later I was presented with another problem, although this one was more serious. I was at school one day waiting for everyone else to finish their test when all of the sudden I hear my phone buzz. I check my phone to see a text from a friend of mine asking what was on the test. For several minutes I debated what to answer—should I tell them or not? If I decide to not tell them, they would become frustrated with me and could cause them to fail the test. This could cause their grade to go down and cause a chain reaction that inadvertently cause them to not get into the college that they wanted to. I would be following the rules but hurting my friendship. If I tell them, there is a chance, albeit a small one, that I get caught. Additionally, they would have a better grade than me due to knowing beforehand what is on the test. That would create an inherent bias towards their class if the action is repeated. It could be compared to the robbing of a bank. If I work at the bank, do I tell the thief the layout of the place beforehand? Or do I ignore them, even though I know that they are stealing because they need money for their family and if I do ignore them, they could potentially try to get back at me? So do I help my friend or do I ignore them?

I once heard a quote I like: “For every person that makes it, 100 people don’t.” Recently this has made me think about what I want to do in the future. I would like to become famous by helping people. But in relation to this quote, would I help more people by becoming famous and inspiring the next generation, or by allowing one of the 100 people that could have become famous in my place to do so? Mathematically speaking, the latter would be true if both the other possible person and I could help the same amount of people because I would have helped one more, the person that I allowed to become famous. But if I believe that I can do a better job than them, then I would be the better choice. You could possibly compare it to committing genocide. If I were to kill one hundred people, would that be better or worse than having someone else do it Because if someone else does it, then technically that is one extra life killed due to the killer eventually being killed. Or do I think that I could do a better job than them? Do I take the selfish route and follow my dreams and potentially ruin someone else’s dreams or do I let someone else do it and not follow my dreams?

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by Betsy Martin

Apr 15, 2019 4 min read

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This year, prom was held at Caine’s Ballroom on Saturday, April 6th. It was planned and made possible by the class of 2020 and their sponsor, Ms. Walker. The theme was an Enchanted Gala.

Prom. One word, big meaning. When you hear it, what do you think of? Do images of velvet dresses and pristine suits dance across your mind? Do you look at your wrist and picture a flower corsage wrapped around it? Maybe you envision yourself arm in arm with your best friend or significant other, stepping through the floral entryway and into a world where time seems to tick slower, smiles seem to glow brighter, and songs seem to play louder.

​Or, maybe you’re one of those people who see themselves sitting in a corner, shifting through their phone as the music drones on, hoping that the movies got it wrong—that this isn’t the best night of your life. To you, prom is a night that washes over you and leaves you much the same as you were before. Watching those around you become completely drenched, you wonder if maybe… maybe there was something you missed. You like the music, you like getting dressed up, you like seeing your friends jumping up and down and singing off key. But, altogether, these things are an overwhelming sensation that barely gives you time to catch your breath. Feeling lost in a faceless crowd, letting the pulsating throb of people and sound pick you up and keep you suspended like a cloud. Watching everyone beneath you and wondering: Is this the night of their lives?

​Prom is an experience. It is a mark of high school that one carries with them after graduation, something they reminisce about once they turn thirty. It is not the defining moment of one’s high school career. It does not have to be the most important event of one’s teenage years. In a world full of Hollywood glamorization, prom has become this generation’s pinup model, an idealization of the perfect high school life. To a young, clueless freshman it is something to dream about and anticipate over the next four years. It is a dream that takes on many guises. Something to be held in reverent awe and yet, something to be feared.

​To those of you who danced at prom, sang your hearts out, and left the night laughing into the morning, I raise my glass. You found enjoyment in what should be enjoyed, happiness in a time free of worry, and memories in a year worth remembering. I admire you and your spirit of celebration. You took your dreams with you and carried them onto the dance floor. You left with a sadness that these high school days are coming to an end, a love that burned out too quickly. But, as you let go of those dreams you brought with you, new ones begin to form. Taking them by the hand, you walk forwards, searching for the next big thing that lies beyond.

​To those of you who sat on the benches, hummed quietly to yourself when a song you knew began to play, and swayed gently by yourself in corner, I raise my glass as well as my heart. For in all of you, I found a secret society of people who want to experience life and all of its flaws. I found a family who understands the sanctity of trying for the sake of trying. To you, prom was a dive into deep waters. It was a badge of honor showing that you survived these past four years, made it through to the next stage in life. Now, you can kiss these years goodbye with a smile on your face because you did it. You will not look back and wish for these moments; you will think of them and grin, glad that they happened but happier still for what came after. Kudos to your intrepid self.

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Rwanda 25 Years On: Do students know any more about genocide?

by Nathaniel Ijams

Apr 12, 2019 3 min read

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Twenty-five years ago, one plane was shot from the sky, the blue openness tinged by the red flame of the explosion. This tragedy, however, meant not only the political assassination of Rwanda’s President, but the eminent massacre of 800,000 innocents. 800,000 Rwandans. Women, men. Boys, girls. Sons, daughters. Husbands, wives. Parents, siblings, grandparents. Dead.

Three months was all it took. Almost 10,000 people a day.

But how many of us even know of it?

Rwanda, in 1994, consisted of three primary ethnic groups: the Hutu, the Tutsi, and the Twa. The Hutu were the majority, consisting of 85% of the population. The Tutsi were 14% of the population. The Twa only 1%. It was a time of struggle. Economic disaster, political tension, and the rise of extremists plagued the people. Then, in April, the Hutu president’s plane was shot down. Immediately, violence broke out as Hutu extremists, blaming a Tutsi rebel group for the tragedy, sought to completely wipe the Tutsi from the face of the Earth. For three months, the Hutu extremists carried out a pre-organized and deliberate genocide. Lists of Tutsi were given to soldiers, thousands killed mercilessly with the swipe of machetes, and teenage Hutu blocked roads as the Tutsi desperately tried to flee.

Where was the United Nations? The United States? France? Britain? Belgium? Where were those that had promised to protect those who could not protect themselves? The presence of UN Peacekeepers was useless as they were ordered to either withdraw or avoid fighting at all. Rwanda is the definition of international failure. Resources were at hand to save hundreds of thousands of lives, yet we watched.

Many students, after learning about the Holocaust because of its place in mandatory curricula, believe that the world has emerged into a peaceful world. A world without the unjustified and systematic murder of millions. Yet, in 1994, Rwanda.

Booker T. Washington, great though we may be, is no exception to this pattern of ignorance. In an informal survey, The Taliaferro Times found that most students had no idea that the Rwandan Genocide occurred. The few that did know were most often vague in their details, and only one student remembered ever being taught about the Genocide in a school environment.

Schools and teachers should make intentional efforts to teach about genocides beyond the Holocaust. A simple look at the Wikipedia page, “Genocides in history”, reveals the horrific fact of so many millions murdered.

Students, in our role as learners, ought to have known about such terrible truths. After all, knowledge is not just an empty cloud which floats in our brains, but also a path towards a brighter future.

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Compared to most fiction stories you read, you may believe that this story is, well, fiction. But I assure you that this is a completely TRUE recounting of past events, although many parts of this may seem exaggerated.

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Prom

This year, prom was held at Caine’s Ballroom on Saturday, April 6th. It was planned and made possible by the class of 2020 and their sponsor, Ms.

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Last Minute

I’m starting to write this poem on the night before it’s due. It’s certainly unpolished —​ the font may be askew​.

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Russia is cementing their hold on the Internet - The Wall Street Journal

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Boeing: How they are fixing their 737 MAX - Reuters

India just tested a weapon on a satellite in space: What could go wrong? - The BBC

How Egypt’s President might just stay in power - The New York Times

President Trump closing the Southern border would mean problems for your avocado addiction - The New York Times

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How you can stop using your phone so much

Stop asking kids what they want to be when they grow up

A California court is already trying to reduce the privacy protections of a recent law

A lot of the prices you pay for products online are determined by… computers

The latest about drug-resistant diseases

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A wonderful piece in The New Yorker: Before the Internet

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Sep 20, 2019 3 min read

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September 20, 2019. Seem like a familiar date? Well, you’re not crazy. Everyone and their mom knows about the Area 51 Raid. If for some reason you haven’t heard, here’s the rundown:

First of all, what is Area 51?

The U.S. Government has stated that Area 51, officially named Homey Airport, is a highly classified United States Air Force facility. It is located in Southern Nevada, 83 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Based on historical evidence and context, it is likely a facility that develops and tests experimental aircraft and weapons. However, we don’t have to believe that. Due to the large amount of secrecy around Area 51 and the government’s initial denial of its existence, countless conspiracy theories have surfaced over the years revolving around involving Area 51. These include but are not limited to:

  1. The storage and examination of crashed alien aircraft and development of aircraft based on alien technology,
  2. Top secret meetings with extraterrestrial leaders,
  3. The imprisonment of extraterrestrials,
  4. Development of exotic energy weapons,
  5. Development of technology that controls weather, and
  6. Development of teleportation and time travel.

Many of these theories include extraterrestrials and their technology. This was the platform for the Area 51 Raid to take form. Now it all started as a joke, obviously. If we trace it back, we end up at a Facebook page called “Sh–posting cause im in shambles” which is also under the category of “religious organization”. Under the events tab we find The Alienstock Movement taking place September 19, and the famous Storm Area 51,They Can’t Stop All of Us taking place September 20th. What started as a joke has now racked up over 2 million people that have signed up for the event. The creator of the event has even come out and said it is all a joke and advised people to not actually raid Area 51. This happened after the Air Force made a statement saying they would stand ready to defend the facility if anyone attempted to enter. Of course with blowing up in the way it did, everyone was and is talking about it. Tied to the joke, dozens of memes depicting the raid, and what the aliens might look like, have been seen all over the internet. They provided quite the entertainment over the summer.

Updated September 21st, 2019

The myth, the legend, the Area 51 Raid. What actually happened though? Well, despite all the hype, September 20th came and went, and nothing especially eventful went down. No one was shot, and no aliens were freed (allegedly). Surprisingly, the Federal Government was expecting thousands to show up. Of the 2 million that signed up to go, only about 100 came through. The most exciting thing that happened was public indecency. That means a man was arrested for urinating in public. The lesson here is to not take jokes on the internet (too) seriously.

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Music is She

by Jordan Kupetsky

Sep 15, 2019 2 min read

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“Music is She, She is Music” read the yellow blue and purple sign that hung over the Guthrie Green stage. On the same stage, seven incredibly talented female musical artists performed the night away, each offering their own unique experience. MisFest 2019 held a wide variety of talent. With everything from Bambi, a rapper with strong messages and an even stronger voice, to artist KT Tunstall, an internationally known scottish singer-songwriter, Saturday the 14th was truly one of the best nights to be at the Guthrie Green.

The day started bright and young in the late afternoon, as volunteers ran back and forth across the Guthrie Green in the miserable sun, setting up for the big show. Each musician eagerly awaited her chance to show what type of show she could perform. The festival opened with Shoulda Been Blonde, an all-girl rock band that kicked things off with a unique cover of “The Greatest Show”. As the night went on and the sun got lower, the music seemed to get progressively more contemporary. Contenders for winning this battle of contemporary-ness include Smoochie Wallus, a quintet/classic rock band that mixes the comforting sound of strings and the expressive strum of guitars; Bambi, a studio rapper who made her place producing music in mass quantities in order to deliver social messages to the public; and Good Villains, a band representing the underground genre of doom-pop, a dark storyteller rock subgenre.

KT Tunstall brought the show to a conclusion with her mini concert that felt more like a celebration sprinkled with unsubtle comedy. Tunstall showered her audience with her beautifully hilarious anecdotes about her experiences coming to terms with the fact that she is famous in between her one-woman-does-all performances of songs that will remind you that you certainly know KT Tunstall’s music, even if you haven’t heard her name. She finished with a heartfelt appreciation of the people of Tulsa and how great it is to just love each other; nothing else could have been more fitting to conclude such a festival, and nothing else was more deserving of such a conclusion than the Music is She Festival.

See video footage from the event: https://archive.org/details/misfest-footage-2019.

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Sep 7, 2019 2 min read

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To kick off the new 2019-2020 school year, the newspaper decided to write some poetry and short stories! Three minutes were given to each person to write something up and share it at our first meeting on August 30th, 2019. This is a small selection of the whimsical, joyful, conscious, and saddened results!

A haiku by Nathaniel Ijams

With just one year’s time

What can one do to be free

Me, my friends, Hong Kong

Website

I can’t stop thinking about how I volunteered to help run a website. I lay in bed each night shivering, fearing the newspaper elders. One day Nate will graduate, and I’m not sure what wild intellectually confusing substance of a website will be left for me to mismanage.

Inspired by the Amazon Fires and Climate Change

Fire blazing up bark

Everything left dark

Stop eating cows

The night is young,

Full of dazzling stars,

But no one to look with from afar.

The cold wind fells very lonely,

Kind of like a sad tone in an old, cold poem.

Mac ‘an Cheese by Ian Benway

I had three minutes to write this poem

So this was just from the top of my head.

But whether it’s good or whether it’s bad

I’d rather be making mac & cheese instead

Roses are red

Violets are blue

I’m illeterate

And so are you


But together we’ll change

And learn how to do

Things a normal kid can

At least, I hope to


With our education

We can change the world

So let’s get some learnin’

Let’s give it a whirl

Voices echo throughout the darkened structures, the hall so vacant of light that the shadows practically leap out to eat the man who stands within. Some audible phrases reach out to him, “help me!” cries the whispered tone.

It was raining out

Blurring my concentration

I don’t miss the sun

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There's Some Weird S*** In Minnesota's Woods

by Matthew Staires

Sep 19, 2019 9 min read

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You know this is one of those things that you’re not supposed to talk about. The kinda things considered “taboo” amongst those who know about it, but this has been aching at me for months now, living in the deep crevices of my mind, never really fading from my active thought. So here I am, breaking all kinds of taboos.
My family is from Northern Minnesota, and every year my parents and I go up north to hang out with my Mom’s side of the family, and every year I am bored out of my god damn mind for three weeks. The side of the state they live on is desolate, quiet, and almost completely forested. Last summer I found myself with my cousin Michael. He and I had been close ever since I was younger, and whenever I came up there we spent most of our time together. This year was no different. He was just as bored as I was, and one day we were sitting together, watching some game show I can’t remember the name of, when he turned to me and asked:

“Hey, have you ever been in those woods around the place?” I turned to him, my right eyebrow cocked in a questioning expression.

“What?” I asked at first, not paying attention to what he had said. He repeated himself,

“Have ya ever been in the woods ‘round here? Like the ones outback?” I leaned back into the cushion of the couch and thought for a moment. Surprisingly, in all my years of living, I had never been in the woods, just at the edge of the property. I shrugged as I looked back at him, and that sufficed as an answer to him. He responded by standing up and stretching before looking down at me.

“Do you want to?”

Curiosity took hold of me, and I stood up with some eagerness. Soon, we found ourselves out in the backyard walking towards the green woods that expanded across the horizon, never seeming to stop. The sun beating down on us directly overhead, the bugs buzzing and nipping at our skin. As we grew closer to the forest’s edge, I stopped, something came over me, and I just felt wrong. I stared deep into the woods at a tree that seemed off to me in some way; I was entranced by the structure, maybe it was the way it bent in some places, the way the branches hung, maybe it was the color.

“What’s up?” Michael’s words brought me back to reality, and I turned towards him, breaking my gaze from the tree in the process.

“Huh? Yeah yeah, I’m fine, let’s keep going.” With that, we continued on downhill towards the edge of the forest. When we reached it, I looked up past Michael towards where I saw the tree, only to not be able to find it. I shrugged it off at the time, not thinking much of it.
The contrast between the green field and the darkened woods was staggering, breathtaking almost. The trees cast shadows that loomed over the forest floor, the branches letting in small streams of light that lit up the ground like a Christmas tree. Michael and I began to walk through it all, being completely absorbed at the serene beauty of the place.
We walked for a few moments before we spotted an old, rusted out frame of what I could only guess was at one point a car. The rust-red coloration, contrasting the patch of green grass on which it sat, broke through the vines, which wrapped themselves around the frame like snakes constricting prey. Some of the vines seemed to take on the rusted coloration of what remained of the metal. Michael, in his infinite wisdom, climbed onto the roof and stood tall and proud.

“This place is awesome!” he exclaimed, then proceeded to scream at the top of his lungs, the sound echoing throughout the forest before he climbed back down.
We continued to walk, making jokes to each other while wondering to ourselves how far the woods went. We hopped over a small stream before finding a clearing, a hill in the center of it with a dead tree at its peak. Michael ran ahead of me, beginning to go up the hill at a quick pace before stopping suddenly and standing cold. I stopped and stared up at him, wondering what made him stop, and followed him up the hill.
I stopped dead in my tracks as I looked out at the horizon; the sky was streaked with red and the sun more than halfway down. I suddenly scrambled to pull out my phone and check the time; the digital clock slowly blinked as I stared directly at the number 8:27. Michael looked at me pointing down at his watch, it was the same time.

“No way…” I muttered to myself.

“We only left at, what, around fifteen till two right?” Michael asked with a hint of worry in his voice. I nodded. There was no way we could have been out that long—at most we had only been out for around thirty to forty-five minutes. Michael shook his head before looking away. He stopped again and began the color drained from his face, and I could hear his breathing increase. After getting him to calm down, he pointed in the direction in which we came. When I turned my eyes went wide with shock and horror.

The woods didn’t end.

It was as if we were surrounded by an ocean of foliage and wood that stretched for miles on end, we couldn’t even see the house from here. Suddenly a feeling swept over me, a feeling of unease like we were being watched. I searched around for what could be the cause of it and my eyes locked with an object on the edge of the tree line to our left. The strange tree, only this time it was out in the open, and I could see why it was different from the others.

Its bark was smooth.

No, no, it wasn’t even bark, it was smooth and glistened in the sun. It was skin. And I realized there had been only two outwardly stretching limbs and no leaves.

As these realizations came to me, my eyes widened with horror as I turned to Michael and told him to run. Not long after I was already near the treeline, adrenaline pumping, head pounding, and I refused to stop.
I turned to see if Michael was behind me, and in that split second, I saw what that tree was. A blur of a slender frame towering almost twenty feet in the air, the light of the setting sun glistening off of its skin as it reached with an outstretched limb. It was running, too. And fast. Michael and I ran even harder than before, the heavy crunches growing closer and closer behind us. My head was pounding even more; as if someone took a jackhammer to my skull, the pain was overpowering even with the adrenaline coursing through my veins.
I wasn’t paying attention and nearly ran into the rusted out car, barely dodging it and continuing forward. I could hear Michael telling me not to stop, and as soon as the words left his mouth, I heard the crunching and snapping of metal. I looked back for a moment to see the damn monstrosity lifting its foot from the remains of the car. It can’t be much farther now, I thought.
It was gaining on us, but we weren’t letting up. Michael picked up the pace and hopped over the creek, and I hopped over myself. Right as my feet touched the ground I heard the loudest snap I had ever heard in my life. I turned to my right just in time to see a tree crash down nearly half an inch away from me. It’s long slender fingers that looked like branches wrapped around the base of the trunk.
Michael screamed again in front of me, and when I looked forward I saw him reaching the dense forest edge he nearly leapt through it. As he passed through two trees close together, it was like he just disappeared. Before I could think much of it, the creature let out a deafening bellow, like a slowed down air ride siren. I could hear the trees being hit to my left, and with every ounce of my being, I leapt through the two trees and found myself falling face-first into the field. I crawled for dear life to where Michael was standing and turned back to see the creature’s outstretched arm grab hold of the edge of a branch.
Slowly, its arm withdrew back into the dark of the forest, but we couldn’t hear it walking away.
Michael helped me to my feet, checking the time on his watch.

“2:15,” he whispered, as the sweat glistened on his forehead in the afternoon sun.

For several days after that, Michael and I barely left the house. I couldn’t even sleep—all I did was look out the window towards the woods in a feeble attempt to make myself feel safer. Some nights I’d see the trees sway, and I’d break into a cold sweat. Others, I’d hear nothing at all, which made me even more unnerved.

Near the final days of my stay in Minnesota, my family had a barbeque out front. I was out eating with Michael telling him about school or something when my grandfather approached us.

“Did you boys go into those damned backwoods?” he asked in the sternest voice I’d ever heard the man use. He was a sweet, soft-spoken man, so this caught us off guard.
When Michael and I asked what he meant, he asked again, “did you, or did you not?” Michael turned to me, a look of concern on his face, and we turned back and nodded slowly to Grandpa. “God damn it boys…” he began, rubbing his brow softly, “don’t speak of what you saw out there, and, for God’s sake, never go back.” And with that, he went back to socializing with the rest of the family.
To be fair, he didn’t even need to tell us, Michael and I were scared shitless just being outside. And before I knew it, it was the end of my trip, and I was on my way home. Michael and I swore to never speak of it again, but I just couldn’t get it out of my head. What was with the forest? What about the time? Just what the hell was that thing? I’m terrified of going back, but a part of me wants to know.
Fall is coming, the leaves are falling. Strangely enough, though, there is this one tree near my neighbor’s yard that’s already bare. And I always find myself looking at it at dusk.

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by Aria Hansen

Oct 31, 2019 3 min read

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There once was a village of small creatures who lived together in peace. The creatures looked unlike anything that had existed before—small, with big yellow eyes that glow in the dark and silky blue fur ranging from the palest of ice to the deepest of midnight. They almost resembled bears in their physique, except they were much smaller. The Tarulu village was deep in the mountains, hidden in a valley where the sun shined bright in the day but where the violent winds were blocked at night. Their houses were small, made of stone or wood with tall thatched roofs where they hung their beds. Most wildlife was sparse in the area because of its obscure location, but that didn’t bother the Tarulu because they didn’t really like deer or wolves or rabbits. These meats were too tough for the little Tarulu’s teeth to chew. Humans also didn’t visit the village often, mostly because of its remote location, and the people who did stumble upon the village always mysteriously disappeared off the face of the planet soon after.

Once a group of hikers found the village and were very curious about the small, adorable creatures that welcomed them. The Tarulu were not afraid of the hikers because they had encountered their kind before, and actually preferred them to all other creatures. The Tarulu welcomed the humans into their village and fed the tired hikers roast vegetables and sweet water before showing the satisfied humans to the sleeping shelter the Tarulu always kept ready for guests. Little did the humans know, the food was cooked with a sleeping herb that knocked the foolish humans unconscious as soon as they lay down. There was something else in the food that took longer to work and that was grown by the elders of the Tarulu community, an herb they called Sweet Death. This herb sweetens food for the Tarulu, but is lethal to most other creatures. In the morning the Tarulu go to the ‘guest’ hut to gather their prey as they always do after humans arrive. This time, they were surprised to see one still breathing, one of the younger females, who was crouching in the corner away from the corpses of her companions. The woman was crying and didn’t notice the Tarulu enter at first, but when she did, she tried to flee out the entrance through the Tarulu, underestimating their strength. They grabbed her and bound her hands and feet with thick vines. She watched as what her friends had thought were cute animals dragged her companions out of the hut on large leaves and piled them near the cooking fire.

The woman was filled with grief and disgust as some of the Tarulu were assigned to guard her. The transfixed woman watched as some of the larger Tarulu prepared her companions’ bodies as if they were steak and left them to cook. Another of the creatures brought her some food like that of the previous night. She was skeptical and refused to eat it, but they forced it down her throat until the bowl was empty. Soon after, the woman began to feel funny. She thought that she was dying, but to her surprise, she began to shrink and grow fur similar to the Tarulus. At this point her bonds were removed and the transformation was complete. As she stood up and saw the world for the first time, all the memories of her human life flew away. A few of the creatures greeted her warmly, as if she was family. She followed them over to the fire and sniffed the air. Something cooking smelled delicious.

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Nov 4, 2019 4 min read

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In 2019, it has become impossible to keep technology outside of the classroom. Schools have been forced to adapt to it. We use programs like Google Classroom, TurnItIn, USA Test Prep, and Amplify just to turn in and complete assignments. Even some standardized tests are now taken through computer screens. Entire curriculums have been developed around “adaptive learning” technology which aims to teach a student while assessing what the student already knows. Websites like Khan Academy provide virtual instruction, including entire courses on hundreds of topics. Without a doubt, technology has followed us into the classroom, but is it helping us learn?

A recent paper published in educational psychology wrote, “Exam performance was poorer for material taught in classes that permitted electronic device use both for students who did and did not direct attention to an electronic device for a non-academic purpose during those classes” (Glass & Kang 2018). As a high school student in 2019, I notice that all of my peers struggle with reading comprehension as well the ability to score high when tests are offered online. Some of my peers also have a difficult time when they are not around electronics because they have become very dependent on them. In this day and age, many adolescents have addictions to screens. A common debate among educators is whether or not screen time should be allowed in the classroom as part of the learning process.

As more teens are constantly surrounded by electronic devices at home, how will more screen time impact their brain development and, as a result, how will it impact their learning? Does an increased emphasis in electronic learning have a positive or negative impact on teen learning? How does excessive screen time exposure impact the teen brain’s development? Should curriculum be different for teens with varying exposure levels to electronics? And, is it even possible to design a curriculum for teens who have lots of screen exposure?

The debate of how much screen time should be available in the classroom has been ongoing for the past couple years now; however, now that screens are in the classroom, they don’t look like they are leaving soon. Educators and parents are now reflecting and trying to figure out how it will affect students in the future. Since screens haven’t been around for that long, we don’t have much information on this.
I interviewed a local college professor, who asked to remain anonymous. The professor has noticed many students with an apparent dependence on electronic devices can struggle in the classroom. Based upon her personal observations, she believes that some students now rely too heavily on the ability to quickly find an answer using technology. There seems to be less of a focus on truly learning material and critical thinking. “It’s like they’ve never been taught how to learn,” she says. “They don’t know how to read a textbook, study for a test, or think critically about a topic. Many of them simply want to use their devices to locate the answer to the question and move on to the next question or assignment.”

She also questions, “Are screens the reason why her students struggle in the classroom?” “Is this happening in every classroom?” With phones at most student’s’ fingertips, they are able to access millions of websites and virtually infinite information online, including answer keys. Because they are relying on the answers found online rather than reasoning through the problems and solutions on their own, students struggle to retain the information.

On the other end of the spectrum, some kids don’t have access to technology at home and can be left behind. This “digital divide” can create one set of students who are overly dependent on technology and another who are completely unfamiliar with technology. It has become normal for teachers to assign homework through Google Classroom or other online learning websites, and, although teachers make efforts to make those resources available to students without technology at home, it can sometimes be difficult to provide those resources to all students. This becomes its own barrier in learning.

Considering how rapidly the classroom has changed in the last 20 years, one has to wonder what will the classroom of 2040 would look like? It seems that technology, regardless of the problems it might create in learning, will likely be a part of the classroom.

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Orion Point has been a team for many years. They had been through some ups and downs in many different seasons, but they never expected to be placed in the Forage Sector during the oddly named Turkey Day. Mia wasn’t quite sure what a turkey was or why people enjoyed eating it, but from what she gathered from her childhood books, a turkey was a flightless bird that people ate on a special day known as Thanksgiving. Along with the turkeys there were trees with beautiful red, orange, and golden leaves that made the world beautiful. But there were no longer many trees left, except for in a few places, like the Forage Sector. Mia had lived on rations her entire life and had never had a fancy meal, nothing extravagant like the Sector heads got. But then again, who ever got what the elites got?
“Earth to Mia!” Caden said, waving her hand in her face. Mia snapped back to the dull roar of the road and distant sounds of gunfire. Caden was charming, with light brown skin and short curly hair, all accentuated by her deep brown eyes flecked with gold. She was a few years older than Mia and was married to Cameron, a black man with no hair (he claimed it was a fire hazard but everyone knew it was because he couldn’t grow it out) and emerald green eyes.

Mia looked at Caden. “What? I was thinking!”
Cameron snorted, not looking up from cleaning the barrel of his gun, and Caden elbowed him in the ribs as she turned her attention back to Mia. “G2 says we are almost to the camp. And he also said that he drew a mustache on Max.”
Mia sighed, knowing what G2 had used to do it. She stood up and stuck her face in the divider between the front and the back of the truck. “G2, you need to stop using your oil for childish purposes!”
She chided the robot as firmly and kindly as she could muster; G2 just fixed her with two glowing optics, one blue, and the other green. Mia had tried to do her best at patching him up after the explosion a year ago, using old equipment she had been able to find at Servicebot Citadel for dirt cheap. Mia was honestly shocked at the advancement of the robots, originally generalizing the existence of all of them to be identical but coming to realize the diversity of their usage and character. Of course, they ended up exploding the oldest building in the city square before being chased out by powered people as they overtook the Citadel.
“Hey Mia, have you seen the trees? The leaves are like we always imagined them to be, and so much more!” Max called over the roar of the dirt road they were driving on. That’s another thing about the Forage Sector—it was a farming community because it was one of the few places that still had good soil.
“No, I haven’t,” Mia said, looking at Max who was trying to rub the oil mustache off his face. He grumbled something under his breath about “disabling that bloody bot.” Max was handsome in many ways, with his dark brown hair and almond colored eyes. Not to mention his dark brown (almost black) skin. He had a scar on the inside of his nose that was overly conspicuous. Mia knew exactly when he got that scar: it was from the first year they were deployed. He had taken a knife to the face, and Mia had to stitch him up.
“I’ll go look now. And Max, if you disable G2 you are going to be in some hot water. He’s bloody ancient and trying to put him together is going to be a pain,” Mia said with a smile as she turned back to the opening in the back of the truck. Trees like she had never seen before lined the dirt road and the scents that filled Mia’s nose were unlike anything she had ever smelled. It was the scent of things that were living, the scent that made you believe that maybe things could change, one day.

“It’s beautiful, isn’t it? I remember when almost everyone in my little neighborhood had trees. Granted, they lived in fear but the beauty remained, like a light in the darkness. But now…I don’t know how much longer this war is going to go on for,” Caden said with a faraway look in her eyes.

Mia smiled at the thought of a young Carson trying to raise a young, headstrong, independent Caden. The comm unit in the ears of the Unit sparked to life and Carson’s voice could be heard. He was sitting back at the camp, having been injured the year prior in the explosion.

“This is Stronghold T-10 requesting verification. State your unit’s designation.”

Cameron was the new group leader so he was the one that answered. “This is Unit Orion Point, transporting Designations Cameron and Caden Jax, Max and Mia Delgado and Buzzerbot abbreviation G2. Requesting permission to enter camp.”

Mia swore she could hear the older man’s smile as he responded.

“Designation accepted. Prepare to be searched and have your Buzzerbot inspected upon your arrival. Welcome to your new home, Orion Point.”

The comms shut off as a cluster of buildings came into view, surrounded by a barbed wire fence. Two men in camo with GT39’s, the standard war rifle, slung over their chests. One of them checked the back of the truck, asking to see dog tags and identification tattoos, while the other checked G2 over.

“Who’s your mechanic? He must be brilliant to keep this Buzzer in such good shape.”

“She is one of the best.” Max said, putting emphasis on the ‘she’ part. The man looked taken aback as he finished diagnostics on G2

“Sorry mate, honest mistake. Your ‘bot looks fine and your identities have been checked. Continue on through the village to the building on your right. You will be scanned for any signs of powers and asked a couple personal questions to verify that you’re you and not a shapeshifter.”

Max nodded and shifted the covered truck into gear and through the power dampening gates that made up the camp and tiny village. Mia peered out the back, her feet hanging over the bumper as she let the wind blow through her hair. Max pulled the truck into the warehouse he was directed to and the constant vibrations of the truck died down as Max powered the car off. He got out and walked to the back, gathering his rifle and helping Mia down. A man greeted them and took them one by one to answer questions, before returning everyone to the hanger and raiding Carson who showed up a few minutes later leaning heavily on a cane.

“Welcome home Orion Point. And Happy Thanksgiving! Tonight you get to experience a smaller version of what Thanksgiving used to be.”

“Dad, if they are fattening you up, we can take a few of them out and get you out of here.” Caden said in a whisper shout with a wink at her dad. Carson just laughed and led Orion Point to a main building that was decorated in dull orange Christmas lights. The building was like a large farm house with a wraparound porch and peeling bright yellow paint. Chairs were scattered around with kids weaving in and out of them, parents watching from a porch swing. As the unit stepped up to the porch the kids stopped running and gawked at the unit, who were by no means clean. After months of being on the front lines, you kind of forget that you are covered in dirt and blood. Carson pushed open the old fashioned screen door.

“Don’t let that slam,” he said as Mia passed through and she grabbed it, easing it shut. The living room was scarce of furniture and what was there was very old. A couch and two rocking chairs surrounded an old coffee table and a threadbare rug. A fire was roaring in the fireplace and from what Mia could see of the dining room, a large table was set up for a large dinner. Carson led them up a set of creaky old status and to your small bedrooms all near one another.

“Shower and put on the clothes laid out on the bed. I know they are not much, but Lina and Oliver wanted to do something nice for you all seeing as how this is your first thanksgiving. So don’t take too long, hot water runs out quickly. And just come downstairs when you’re done.”

Mia smiled a little as she walked into the room Carson indicated and grabbed the dress off the bed. She hopped into the shower and washed away all the grime that was caked under her nails and behind her knees and elbows. As she got out and got dressed she heard a knock on the door. She quickly ran a comb through her long hair and strode to open the door. She came face to face with an elven looking woman with delicate features and flame red hair. She had startling silver eyes that didn’t match her appearance.

“Hello, my name is Lina. I thought I would come by and see about washing your clothes for you.”

“No, thank you, I will wash them myself. I don’t want to be a burden, you’ve already loaned me such a beautiful dress,” Mia said, indicating the green and yellow sundress dress she was wearing. She still had on her combat boots and the gold heart necklace she never took off.

“No no it’s no problem, I assure you. But if you don’t mind, you could repay me by watching my two young children…”

Mia’s eyes lit up like someone getting a toy for Christmas. She loved children and hoped that one day, when the war was over, she could have children of her own.

“I would love to help you. Has anyone else gotten out yet?”

Lina shook her head and Mia sighed, a little miffed at what was taking them so long. She followed Lina down the stairs and she saw two young children, a boy and a girl, both with flame red hair, playing with wooden swords in the living room, Carson watching with amusement from a rocking chair.

“Ruby! Carter!” Lina said, calling over the children who stopped fighting each other and ran over, grabbing onto Lina’s legs.

“Mama! Help! Carter is trying to slay me! He says I’m a powered person and that he wants to kill me!”

Even through the playful tone in the child’s voice, Mia could see the all-too-familiar fear in the girl’s eyes. Mia crouched down next to the girl and held out her hand.

“Well, I am sure you are perfectly normal. You and your brother both. Besides, I have seen a lot of powered people and you seem way too nice to be one,” Mia said with a soft and comforting smile. Ruby detached herself from her mother’s leg and looked at Mia.

“Are you one of the nice people coming to stay with us for a while?” Carter asked, and Mia chuckled a little.

“Yeah I am. And I am going to watch you for a little bit to make sure you don’t get into trouble,” Mia said, bopping both Ruby and Carter on the nose as she straightened out. Ruby squealed with delight and grabbed one of Mia’s hands while Carter grabbed the other and drug her outside. Lina mouthed sorry and Mia just shook her head saying it was no big deal.

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Ruby and Carter had been called in to wash up for dinner not too long ago, leaving Mia alone in her thoughts for a bit before Max appeared. He hugged her from behind before letting her go and talking to her.

“Lina says dinner is almost ready. And to be thinking of something you are thankful for, we’re going to be sharing at dinner.”

Mia smiled. “Well I’m thankful to be here, to be alive, for you, for Caden and Cameron and Carson, and that G2 is still functioning, just to name a few.”

Max chuckled, a look of mock surprise on his face. “I am thankful for the same things,” he said as Lina called for dinner. Max looked deep into Mia’s eyes for a little bit longer.

“And to think I was going to kiss you…” He trailed off.

“Why not?” Mia said, standing on her tiptoes and planting a kiss on his cheek. She dragged him inside as the smells from Lina’s cooking filled the air. It was the first ever Orion Point thanksgiving, and one that the members would not soon forget…

Correction: A printed excerpt from this article spelled the author’s name as Megan Webber instead of Megan Weber.

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Nov 19, 2019 1 min read

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Before I Run

by Sara Allen

Nov 18, 2019 3 min read

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This weekend I will be running a half marathon. As the race date gets closer, I grow to be more anxious. So here I am, writing down my thoughts before I run.

It was about two months ago when I started to feel disconnected from my body. Once again, I began to struggle with simple daily tasks. I knew that I was capable of taking care of myself, but I was frustrated that I was struggling to do so. In response, I impulsively signed up for a half marathon. Running was starting to grow on me, always giving me a sense of strength and capability. I’ve never been great at running, but it has always given me a reason to make sure I was eating, sleeping, and taking care of myself. As I began to slip away from that reason, I brought it back to me. Training for a half marathon has been a reminder of how powerful our bodies can be when treated with care.

I’ve been known to be the complainer of the running group, constantly protesting workouts and trying to opt-out of them. People have always asked me why I even joined the cross country team when I constantly told them I hated running. Even I asked myself why I was still apart of something that I supposedly didn’t like. As much as I grew to dislike running, some part of it always drew me in.

Just months ago I had a breakthrough. I was running a race and instead of zoning out or complaining to myself, I reflected on why I was so drawn to running. I felt grateful to be able to have a body that allows me to run and carry myself. I felt angry at myself about the times where I felt hopeless and I wanted to change the body that I was born with. The anger fueled the fire I had in myself and, on that day, I ran a personal record.

Everyday I grow to love exercise. I feel extremely grateful to be able to have a working body. I am grateful for the opportunities it has given me and the opportunities that it will give me in the future. As I grow older, I learn more and more about how important it is to take care of yourself.

In the final week, as I prepare for this race, I plan on focusing on mental preparation since there is not much physical work I can do the week before the race. This week I will lower my mileage and come up with a strategy. And of course eat lots of pasta!

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The Bradford Pear

by Raven Arterberry

Nov 6, 2019 4 min read

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Over the summer, my family and I sold the house we were living in and moved out to a fairly small lot just inside Osage county. We are currently living on five acres of tame field, but that was not always the case. 

During the month of July, we bought our little lot from the Lyons, our neighbors. As soon as we signed a contract for it, we started working on it. Our lot had a rundown, little house that hadn’t been lived in for twenty or so years, so it was pretty overgrown when we got here. There were a lot of Bradford Pear trees all over the property. Dad had a friend of his come out and brush hog the land for us so that we could get to the trees and trim them. As soon as all the thick brush was cut back, we grabbed the pruning shears and got to work. 

Isaac, my mom, and I began trimming the first Bradford pear tree. Mom raised her shears to the lowest and thickest branch and closed them right where the branch met the trunk of the tree, causing it to fall to the ground. As soon as Isaac’s hands closed around the fallen limb, he hollered and quickly drew his hand back. He looked closer at the branch, then carefully picked it up and showed it to us. It was covered in thorns. Not little thorns, like you’d find on a rosebush. These were three inch long thorns. 

When I stepped on one of the branches, the thorn went all the way through the tread of my boot and poked my toes. While trimming, I accidentally dropped a branch on my mom. One of the thorns dug into her arm and snapped off at the tip. You can still see the scar. 

Another time while I was trimming, I forgot to tell my mom to move before the branch fell, and it hit her. She claims it almost poked her eye out, but I think she was exaggerating. Every time I mow around one of these monster trees, its spiky branches reach out like claws and entangle my hair into their thorny mess. I am rendered motionless as I cry for my mom to come help me. We had never, ever dealt with these trees before, so we decided to find out where they came from:

Callery pear trees put off beautiful white flowers in the spring, and turn vibrant red in the fall. They’re hardy trees that will grow in most any soil, and are resistant to a lot of diseases. On top of that, the Callery pear’s flowers are sterile and will not pollinate, meaning the trees will not put off messy fruits. For these reasons, it was brought over from China for hybridization experiments to improve disease resistance in our local pears. 

During the 1950s, the Bradford Pear tree was widely used as an ornamental tree in landscaping. As they developed more types of these pear trees, they began planting trees of different genotypes in close proximity, and they cross pollinated. The supposedly self-sterile Bradford Pear tree began producing fruits. The birds and squirrels ate these fruits and distributed them across the land. Bradford Pear trees quickly began to pop up everywhere, and have begun to take over our native wooded areas. They will outcompete the native trees, grow into dense thickets, and shadow out the native wildflowers trying to grow beneath them. Because of this, the Bradford Pear tree is now regarded as an invasive species.

I believe that these trees are worth the hassle of trimming every year to make them look nice. And I think the beautiful autumn colors they become are worth getting a few scrapes and cuts. But these trees need to be maintained, and new ones trying to grow should be cut back to prevent any further harm to our native woods. 

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Hornets Against Hunger For Hornets

by Izabella Pollett

Nov 11, 2019 3 min read

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Hornets Against Hunger: “a club that works towards the alleviation of food insecurity in Tulsa, by running the food pantry in Booker T. and working in other local non-profits”; their mission summed up by President Anna Hartshorne. Having had the opportunity to speak with her, I received greater insight into one of the most popular clubs at school.

Having joined her freshman year, then a group of about seven students, Hartshorne has been able to see and experience the growth that has taken place since becoming president her sophomore year. She states that back then, “Hornets Against Hunger was a club that met a few times a year and volunteered once a month at the food bank.” With a majority of the members being seniors, Anna was bestowed the reigns for the following school year. The following October, it became apparent that this was a project she felt passionate about and wanted to continue into high school. That year, she ran the club on her own, but junior year she added a board of current senior girls. Together, they have produced the club we know today.

When deciding their range of operation, the school’s food pantry became an area of interest. Seemingly unadvertised, there was never a defined audience that utilized the pantry. Therefore, it became clear they wanted to make food more accessible for Booker T. Washington students.

This past week they hosted a canned food drive. In alliance with their mission, its purpose was to restock the food pantry. These items are used as groceries then given to Booker T. families as packages for the weekend or long school breaks: Thanksgiving, Winter, and Spring break. Each is composed of four vegetables, four proteins, three grains, and two fruits for the use of one person. For example, if there is a family of four, then each individual would receive a box.

Food packaged

On Friday, during activity period, they were to begin a new program in which students will be set up in an assembly line and fill bags with necessary food items. This is similar to the Backpack Program organized by the Food Bank where students take home nutritious foods in their backpack for the weekend. Hartshorne believes club membership has grown because students are now able to see the physical items that will be distributed to classmates, classmates that remain anonymous to them, but, nevertheless, they will have left a lasting impact. She continues to say that making it a “student to student service” helps create the desire to help a fellow classmate in the Booker T. Washington community.

Volunteers at lunch

At the end of our interview, I asked Anna whether there was ever an ultimate goal she wanted to achieve with the club by the time of graduation; in response, she replied, “with the satisfaction in knowing that Hornets Against Hunger will continue once I leave… ultimately, that was the goal for me: to create something that, when I left, it didn’t matter that I was going to be gone, it was going to be able to stand on its own, and I think we have gotten to that point, which is really cool.”

Food Pantry: Mr. McCracken’s Room
Food Bank: 1304 N Kenosha Ave, Tulsa, OK 74106
Hornets Against Hunger: Activity Period - Ms. Mejia’s Room

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Improve Our Tulsa: Vote Tuesday!

by Nathaniel Ijams

Nov 10, 2019 1 min read

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Tomorrow morning, Tulsans head to the polls to vote on the Improve Our Tulsa project. The proposal would allocate $639 million to projects on transportation, streets, capital improvements, and emergency funds. Voting is open from 7am to 7pm at your local poll place. Go to okvoterportal.okelections.us to view sample ballots, find your poll place, and get information about the election. Importantly, the proposal will not raise taxes. To echo the words of the Tulsa World, “Frankly put, Improve Our Tulsa is key to the city’s ability to grow and thrive. It’s a balance package that puts the priorities of the citizens first. All three questions deserve the public’s support Tuesday.”
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The Weekly Digest: November 20th

Around the World Bolivia‘s president, Evo Morales, resigned from his position. At the same time, the Vice-President, leaders of both legislative bodies, and others left office, leaving the country effectively leaderless for many days.

Nathaniel Ijams
Nov 20, 2019 - 2 min read
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An Orion Point Thanksgiving

Orion Point has been a team for many years. They had been through some ups and downs in many different seasons, but they never expected to be placed in the Forage Sector during the oddly named Turkey Day.

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Nov 19, 2019 - 11 min read
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Inside Purdue Pharma’s Media Playbook: How It Planted the Opioid “Anti-Story”

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Inside Purdue Pharma’s Media Playbook: How It Planted the Opioid “Anti-Story”

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Nov 19, 2019 20 min read

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In 2004, Purdue Pharma was facing a threat to sales of its blockbuster opioid painkiller OxyContin, which were approaching $2 billion a year. With abuse of the drug on the rise, prosecutors were bringing criminal charges against some doctors for prescribing massive amounts of OxyContin.

That October, an essay ran across the top of The New York Times’ health section under the headline “Doctors Behind Bars: Treating Pain is Now Risky Business.” Its author, Sally Satel, a psychiatrist, argued that law enforcement was overzealous, and that some patients needed large doses of opioids to relieve pain. She described an unnamed colleague who had run a pain service at a university medical center and had a patient who could only get out of bed by taking “staggering” levels of oxycodone, the active ingredient in OxyContin. She also cited a study published in a medical journal showing that OxyContin is rarely the only drug found in autopsies of oxycodone-related deaths.

“When you scratch the surface of someone who is addicted to painkillers, you usually find a seasoned drug abuser with a previous habit involving pills, alcohol, heroin or cocaine,” Satel wrote. “Contrary to media portrayals, the typical OxyContin addict does not start out as a pain patient who fell unwittingly into a drug habit.”

The Times identified Satel as “a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and an unpaid advisory board member for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.” But readers weren’t told about her involvement, and the American Enterprise Institute’s, with Purdue.

Among the connections revealed by emails and documents obtained by ProPublica: Purdue donated $50,000 annually to the institute, which is commonly known as AEI, from 2003 through this year, plus contributions for special events, for a total of more than $800,000. The unnamed doctor in Satel’s article was an employee of Purdue, according to an unpublished draft of the story. The study Satel cited was funded by Purdue and written by Purdue employees and consultants. And, a month before the piece was published, Satel sent a draft to Burt Rosen, Purdue’s Washington lobbyist and vice president of federal policy and legislative affairs, asking him if it “seems imbalanced.”

On the day of publication, Jason Bertsch, AEI’s vice president of development, alerted Rosen to “Sally’s very good piece.”

“Great piece,” Rosen responded.

Purdue’s hidden relationships with Satel and AEI illustrate how the company and its public relations consultants aggressively countered criticism that its prized painkiller helped cause the opioid epidemic. Since 1999, more than 200,000 people have died from overdoses related to prescription opioids. For almost two decades, and continuing as recently as a piece published last year in Slate, Satel has pushed back against restrictions on opioid prescribing in more than a dozen articles and radio and television appearances, without disclosing any connections to Purdue, according to a ProPublica review. Over the same period, Purdue was represented by Dezenhall Resources, a PR firm known for its pugnacious defense of beleaguered corporations. Purdue was paying Dezenhall this summer, and still owes it money, according to bankruptcy filings.

Purdue funded think tanks tapped by the media for expert commentary, facilitated publication of sympathetic articles in leading outlets where its role wasn’t disclosed, and deterred or challenged negative coverage, according to the documents and emails. Its efforts to influence public perception of the opioid crisis provide an inside look at how corporations blunt criticism of alleged wrongdoing. Purdue’s tactics are reminiscent of the oil and gas industry, which has been accused of promoting misleading science that downplays its impact on climate change, and of big tobacco, which sought to undermine evidence that nicotine is addictive and secondhand smoke is dangerous.

Media spinning was just one prong of Purdue’s strategy to fend off limits on opioid prescribing. It contested hundreds of lawsuits, winning dismissals or settling the cases with a provision that documents remain secret. The company paid leading doctors in the pain field to assure patients that OxyContin was safe. It also funded groups, like the American Pain Foundation, that described themselves as advocates for pain patients. Several of those groups minimized the risk of addiction and fought against efforts to curb opioid use for chronic pain patients.

Purdue’s campaign may have helped thwart more vigorous regulation of opioid prescribing, especially in the decade after the first widespread reports of OxyContin abuse and addiction began appearing in 2001. It may also have succeeded in delaying the eventual reckoning for Purdue and the billionaire Sackler family that owns the company. Although Purdue pleaded guilty in 2007 to a federal charge of understating the risk of addiction, and agreed to pay $600 million in fines and penalties, the Sacklers’ role in the opioid epidemic didn’t receive widespread coverage for another decade. As backlash against the family swelled, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September.

“Efforts to reverse the epidemic have had to counter widespread narratives that opioids are generally safe and that it is people who abuse them that are the problem,” said Caleb Alexander, co-director of the Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who has served as a paid expert witness in litigation alleging that Purdue’s marketing of OxyContin misled doctors and the public. “These are very important narratives, and they have become the lens through which people view and understand the epidemic. They have proven to be potent means of hampering interventions to reduce the continued oversupply of opioids.”

Satel, in an email to ProPublica, said that she reached her conclusions independently. “I do not accept payment from industry for my work (articles, presentations, etc),” she wrote. “And I am open to meeting with anyone if they have a potentially interesting topic to tell me about. If I decide I am intrigued, I do my own research.”

As for Purdue’s funding of AEI, Satel said in an interview that she “had no idea” that the company was paying her employer and that she walls herself off from information regarding institute funders. “I never want to know,” she said. She didn’t disclose that the study she referred to was also funded by Purdue, she said, because “I cite peer-reviewed papers by title as they appear in the journal of publication.”

The sharing of drafts before publication with subjects of stories or other interested parties is prohibited or discouraged by many media outlets. Satel said she didn’t remember sharing the draft with Rosen and it was not her usual practice. “That’s very atypical,” she said. However, Satel shared a draft of another story with Purdue officials in 2016, according to emails she sent. In that case, Satel said, she was checking facts.

Satel said she didn’t remember why the doctor with a patient on high doses of painkillers wasn’t named in the Times story. The draft she sent to Purdue identified him as Sidney Schnoll, then the company’s executive medical director, who defended OxyContin at public meetings and in media stories. In an interview, Schnoll described Satel as an old friend and said her description of his patient was accurate. He left Purdue in 2005 and now works for a consulting company that has Purdue as a client, he said.

Purdue, in a statement, said it has held memberships in several Washington think tanks over the years. “These dues-paying memberships help the company better understand key issues affecting its business in a complex policy and regulatory environment,” it said. “Purdue has been contacted over the years by policy experts at a variety of think tanks who are seeking additional context on industry issues for their work. Our engagement has always been appropriate and aimed at providing a science-based perspective that the company felt was often overlooked in the larger policy conversation.” The company declined to discuss specific questions about internal documents and emails reviewed by ProPublica.

A spokeswoman for the Times, Danielle Rhoades Ha, said in an email that the company doesn’t know the details of how the Satel story was handled because the editors who worked on it are no longer employed there. She noted that the Times labeled the article as an “Essay” and cited Satel’s connection to AEI. Currently, she said, Times editors “generally advise reporters not to share full drafts of stories with sources in the course of fact-checking,” but there is no formal rule.

Purdue launched OxyContin in 1996, and it soon became one of the most widely prescribed opioid painkillers. By 2001, it was generating both enormous profits as well as growing concern about overdoses and addiction. That August, a column in the New York Post opinion section criticized media reports that OxyContin was being abused. The piece — headlined “Heroic Dopeheads?” — mocked a “new species of ‘victim,’ the ‘hillbilly heroin’ addict.” The real victims, the article contended, were pain patients who may lose access to a “prescription wonder drug.”

At 5:17 a.m. on the day the article was published, Eric Dezenhall, the founder of Washington, D.C., crisis management firm Dezenhall Resources, sent an email to Purdue executives, according to documents filed by the Oklahoma attorney general in a lawsuit against opioid makers.

“See today’s New York Post on OxyContin,” he wrote. “The anti-story begins.”

Purdue had hired Dezenhall Resources that summer. Dezenhall’s hard-nosed reputation fit the blame-the-victim strategy advocated by Purdue’s then-president, Richard Sackler. “We have to hammer on the abusers in every way possible,” Sackler wrote in a 2001 email quoted in a complaint by the state of Massachusetts against the company. “They are the culprits and the problem. They are reckless criminals.”

Purdue later followed this approach to fend off a New Jersey mother who was urging federal regulators to investigate the marketing of OxyContin. Her daughter had died while taking the drug for back pain. “We think she abused drugs,” a Purdue spokesman said without offering evidence. Purdue later apologized for the comment.

However, pain patients with legitimate prescriptions for OxyContin and similar painkillers can and do become addicted to the drugs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that “anyone who takes prescription opioids can become addicted to them,” and that “as many as one in four patients receiving long-term opioid therapy in a primary care setting struggles with opioid addiction.” A review article in The New England Journal of Medicine reported rates of “carefully diagnosed addiction” in pain patients averaged just under 8% in studies, while misuse, abuse and addiction-related aberrant behaviors ranged from 15% to 26% of pain patients.

Although Dezenhall Resources was working for Purdue until recently, it rarely has been linked publicly to the company. Purdue paid Dezenhall a total of $309,272 in July and August of this year and owes it an additional $186,575, according to bankruptcy court filings. The total amount paid to Dezenhall since 2001 was not disclosed in records reviewed by ProPublica.

Dezenhall Resources has also defended Exxon Mobil against criticisms from environmental groups and former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling as he fought against fraud charges, according to a 2006 BusinessWeek profile of Eric Dezenhall that called him “The Pitbull of Public Relations.” (Skilling was later convicted.) It reported that Dezenhall arranged a pro-Exxon demonstration on Capitol Hill to distract attention from a nearby environmental protest, and that the company discussed a plan to pay newspaper op-ed writers to question the motives of an Enron whistleblower. “We believe a winning outcome can only be achieved by directly stopping your attackers,” Dezenhall Resources states on its website.

ProPublica reviewed emails to Purdue officials in which Dezenhall and his employees took credit for dissuading a national television news program from pursuing a story about OxyContin; helping to quash a documentary project on OxyContin abuse at a major cable network; forcing multiple outlets to issue corrections related to OxyContin coverage; and gaining coverage of sympathetic pain patients on a television news program and in newspaper columns.

“Dezenhall has been instrumental in helping with the placement of pain patient advocacy stories over the last several years,” Dezenhall Executive Vice President Sheila Hershow wrote in a 2006 email.

Eric Dezenhall told ProPublica that he does not confirm or deny the identity of clients. While declining to answer questions about Purdue, or comment on the BusinessWeek article about him, he said that his company acts appropriately and seeks fair and truthful coverage.

“We regularly work with experts and journalists, including Pro Publica, to ensure accuracy in reporting and persuade and dissuade them regarding various storylines with facts and research,” he wrote. “Ultimately, these journalists and experts decide how to use the information provided.”

One of Dezenhall Resources’ first moves, after being hired by Purdue, was to cultivate Satel. In July 2001, Hershow reported to Purdue officials that she and Eric Dezenhall had lunch with Satel and the doctor was “eager to get started.” Hershow said Satel had read a “debunking package” and was “interested in doing an opinion piece on the medical needs of patients being sacrificed to protect drug abusers.”

Satel said that the meeting with Dezenhall was not unusual, and that “I often talk to people who have interesting stories.”

Satel was raised in Queens and has an Ivy League pedigree. She attended Cornell University as an undergraduate before going to medical school at Brown University. She was a psychiatry professor at Yale University for several years and then moved to Washington. For a little over a decade beginning in 1997, she was a staff psychiatrist at a methadone clinic in the city.

She has become an influential voice on opioids, addiction and pain treatment. Her writings have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Atlantic, Slate, Health Affairs, Forbes, Politico and elsewhere. She frequently appears on panels, television shows and in newspaper articles as an expert on the opioid crisis and pain prescribing guidelines. “We’ve entered a new era of opiophobia,” she recently told The Washington Post.

Satel has been a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute since 2000. Among the notable figures who have spent time at AEI are the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and former Trump national security adviser John Bolton. Current fellow Scott Gottlieb returned to AEI this year after serving as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which approves and regulates prescription drugs like OxyContin.

Purdue said its annual payments of $50,000 to AEI were part of the institute’s corporate program. That program offers corporations the opportunity to “gain access to the leading scholars in the most important policy areas for executive briefings and knowledge sharing,” according to the institute’s website. Corporations can choose between three levels of donations: At $50,000 a year, Purdue was in the middle level, the “Executive Circle.” Besides the annual payments, Purdue has also paid a total of $24,000 to attend two special events hosted by the institute, according to a company spokesman.

Internal emails show the main Purdue contact with AEI was Rosen, the drugmaker’s in-house lobbyist based in Washington. In one email, Rosen described the leaders of the think tank as “very good friends” and also noted that former FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan ascended to that job after a stint at AEI as a scholar. Rosen also organized a group of pain reliever manufacturers and industry funded groups into an organization called the Pain Care Forum. It met to share information on government efforts to restrict opioid prescribing, according to records produced in litigation against Purdue.

Veronique Rodman, a spokeswoman for AEI, said the institute does not publicly discuss donors. She said that the institute does not accept research contracts, and that its researchers come to their own conclusions. “It makes sense” that Satel would be unaware of AEI funders, she said.

Dezenhall’s courting of Satel soon paid off. A month after the lunch with Dezenhall and Hershow, Satel defended Purdue’s flagship drug in an article for the opinion page of The Boston Globe.

“Something must be done to keep OxyContin out of the wrong hands, but the true public health tragedy will be depriving patients who need it to survive in relative comfort day to day,” she wrote.

In February 2002, AEI held a panel discussion at its headquarters to answer the question, “Who is responsible for the abuse of OxyContin?” The panel of experts included Satel, a Purdue executive and a Purdue lawyer. Covering the event, Reuters Health reported that the panel “mostly agreed that Purdue Pharma should not be viewed as the culprit in the problem of the abuse of its long-acting painkiller OxyContin.”

Two months later, Purdue approved spending $2,000 to pay for Satel to speak to the staff of a New Orleans hospital about addiction, according to internal company records. Satel said she had “absolutely no memory of speaking at a hospital in New Orleans.” The physician who organized the planned event said he doesn’t recall if it took place, and the hospital no longer has records of medical staff talks from that period.

In 2003, a Dezenhall staffer recommended Satel as a guest to a producer for “The Diane Rehm Show” on NPR. The firm and Purdue executives, including Vice President David Haddox, helped prep Satel for the appearance. Haddox passed along what he called “interesting intel for Sally” that Rehm’s mother suffered from chronic headaches. “Thanks for helping us get her up to speed for the show,” Hershow replied.

A spokeswoman for WAMU, the NPR station in Washington that produced the Rehm show, said there was no policy to ask guests about funding of their organizations, or if there was a financial connection to the show’s topic. “For most segments, the producers would try to bring as many perspectives to the table as possible so that listeners would be better able to make their own informed judgment of the topic at hand,” wrote the spokeswoman, Julia Slattery.

ProPublica was unable to reach Haddox for comment.

Also that year, when conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh revealed that he was addicted to prescription painkillers, Purdue declined a request from CNN for a company representative to discuss the news on the air. Instead, Purdue recommended Satel, who assured viewers that OxyContin was a “very effective and actually safe drug, if taken as prescribed.” Dezenhall’s Hershow told Purdue executives in an email that she was “very glad Sally went on.” Hershow, a former investigative producer at ABC News, declined comment for this article.

In September 2004, Forbes magazine published a Satel article under the headline, “OxyContin doesn’t cause addiction. Its abusers are already addicts.”

“I am happy this morning!” Purdue’s then general counsel, Howard Udell, emailed other company executives and Eric Dezenhall with the subject line “RE: Forbes Article.” Three years later, Udell and two other Purdue executives would plead guilty in federal court to a misdemeanor criminal charge related to misleading patients and doctors about the addictive nature of OxyContin.

As part of that 2007 settlement, Purdue admitted to acting “with the intent to defraud or mislead” when it promoted OxyContin as less addictive and less subject to abuse than other painkillers. In an article for The Wall Street Journal headlined “Oxy Morons,” Satel defended the company. “The real public-health damage here comes from the pitched campaign conducted by zealous prosecutors and public-interest advocates to demonize the drug itself,” she wrote.

After Purdue and Dezenhall launched their “anti-story,” media reports of OxyContin addiction and abuse declined for several years. In 2001, there were 1,204 stories that included the words “OxyContin,” “abuse” and “Purdue” published in media outlets archived on the Nexis database. The number plummeted to 361 in 2002 and to 150 in 2006.

Purdue’s counterattack against an ambitious investigative series about OxyContin abuse may have contributed to that drop. An October 2003 series in the Orlando Sentinel, “OxyContin Under Fire,” found that Purdue’s aggressive marketing combined with weak regulation had contributed to “a wave of death and destruction.”

The series, however, was marred by several errors that were detailed in a front-page correction nearly four months later. The reporter resigned, and two editors on the series were reassigned. While acknowledging the mistakes, the newspaper did not retract the series, and its review upheld the conclusion that oxycodone was involved in a large number of the overdoses in Florida.

Dezenhall Resources, in an email, took credit for forcing the newspaper to issue the corrections. “Dezenhall’s efforts resulted in a complete front-page retraction of the erroneous 5-day, 19-part, front-page Orlando Sentinel series,” Hershow wrote in a 2006 email summarizing Dezenhall’s work for Purdue under the subject line “Success in Fighting Negative Coverage.”

Purdue officials and the company’s public relations agencies came up with a 13-point plan to generate media coverage of the errors. It included getting a doctor to talk about how the series “frightened and mislead (sic) the people of Florida” and having a pain patient write a newspaper opinion column on the subject. The Sentinel series, one Purdue official wrote to other company executives and Dezenhall’s Hershow, was an opportunity to let the country know about “all of the sensational reporting on OxyContin abuse over the past 4 years. The conclusion: this is the most overblown health story in the last decade!”

In the six years after Purdue challenged the Sentinel’s findings, the death rate from prescription drugs increased 84.2% in Florida. The biggest rise, 264.6%, came from deaths involving oxycodone. The state became a hotbed for inappropriate opioid prescribing as unscrupulous pain clinics attracted out of state drug seekers. The route traveled by many from small towns in Appalachia to the Florida clinics was nicknamed the “Oxycontin Express.”

In 2017, 14 years after the Sentinel series was published, the Columbia Journalism Review described it as “right too soon” and said it “eerily prefigured today’s opioid epidemic.”

Purdue couldn’t hold off restrictions on opioid prescribing forever. Since 2011, a growing number of states, insurers and federal health agencies have adopted policies that have led to annual declines in prescribing. Advocates for pain treatment have complained that this turnabout has gone too far, and the CDC recently advised doctors against suddenly discontinuing opioids. Still, the U.S. remains far and away the world leader in per capita opioid prescriptions.

Under increasing pressure, Purdue enlisted other public relations firms known for aggressively helping corporations in crisis. Burson-Marsteller, which after a merger last year is now known as BCW, signed an agreement in 2011 to provide Purdue “strategic counsel.” Burson-Marsteller represented Johnson & Johnson as it responded to the Tylenol poisoning case and Union Carbide after the deadly Bhopal explosion in India. According to documents, it helped Purdue identify and counter “potential threats,” such as congressional investigators and the group Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing. A 2013 proposed work plan between the companies called on Burson to perform as much as $2.7 million of work for Purdue. BCW did not respond to requests for comment.

Purdue also employed the services of Purple Strategies, a Washington-area firm that reportedly represented BP after the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Purdue paid $621,653 to Purple Strategies in the 90 days prior to the drugmaker’s Sept. 15 bankruptcy filing and owes it an additional $207,625, according to court filings. Purple Strategies did not respond to requests for comment.

Purdue also added Stu Loeser to its stable. The head of an eponymous media strategy company, Loeser was press secretary for Michael Bloomberg when he was mayor of New York City, and he is now a spokesman for Bloomberg’s possible presidential bid.

Soon after Loeser began representing Purdue, Satel wrote in a 2018 piece for Politico headlined, “The Myth of What’s Driving the Opioid Crisis,” about “a false narrative” that the opioid epidemic “is driven by patients becoming addicted to doctor-prescribed opioids.”

Loeser told Purdue executives in an email that “we are going to work with AEI to ‘promote’ this so it comes across as what it is: their thoughtful response to other writing.” His team was working to target the Satel story “to land in social media feeds of people who have searched for opioid issues and potentially even people who have read specific stories online,” he added.

Loeser said in an interview that he didn’t end up working with AEI to promote the story. He said Purdue is no longer a client.

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Have you ever needed help in math, but didn’t have the time before or after school to find it? If so, stop by Room 414 on activity periods to check out Math Club! In Math Club you can receive math help from students that are able to help with almost any problem. If none of the members are able to help you, then you can get help from our sponsor, Ms. White. She teaches calculus and is a good choice for help if need be. If that’s not enticing enough, she also has an axolotl named Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who could enjoy some visitors! If you need help during any activity period and you just don’t know where to go, you should come to Math Club. Help is closer than you think!

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The Pursuit of Peace

Peace Peace can be thought of as many different things, whether that be freedom from civil disturbances, freedom from disquieting or oppressive thoughts and emotions, or simply harmony in personal relationships.

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Nov 10, 2019 - 4 min read
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Around the World Armistice Day is celebrated today, November 11th, around the world. It marks the 101st anniversary of the day the First World War ended with the signing of the armistice between the Allies and Germany.

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Sylvia!

Several days ago, I had the opportunity to interview some of the cast of the upcoming play Sylvia! If you have not heard already, Booker T students will be performing the play beginning at 7 pm on Wednesday, November 13th.

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by Mya McCue

Nov 5, 2019 3 min read

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On Sat. Oct 26, the BTW Pom team had their first competition of the 2019-2020 season. It was held at the Union Multipurpose Activity Center, or UMAC. Against 5 teams, we placed 4th in Pom, which came as a shock to most of us because, compared to previous years, we thought we performed this routine better than most. After a talk about the scores we received from the judges, the team was able to gain closure on our scores.

For my final year on the team, I was able to spend an exciting morning with all the girls in the field house. After we finished getting ready for the most part, we went to have a team lunch before heading to the competition venue. When we arrived at the competition, we still had around two hours to kill before we had to get focused, so our coach let us relax and watch the other teams perform. When it was time to focus, we started practicing our skills, like turns and jumps. After much anticipation and about 30 minutes of practice, it was time to perform our dance all the way through in the warm-up room. We performed it for our coach in the warm-up room, and then we were ready to go on the actual competition stage. After getting set in our spots on the stage, the music starts and we begin our dance for the final time. If I’m being completely honest, I sort of blacked-out during the performance. The rush of adrenaline was just enough to not let my mind think about the routine. After the dance ends, we heard a huge round of applause from the crowd and we ran offstage smiling. Once we caught our breath, we headed back up to our seats to relax once again before all the teams were called down to the stage for the awards.

After the final dance team performed their routine, all the dancers were called down to the floor for the awards. The announcer went through each of the dance categories, hip-hop, jazz, studio, then finally pom. The announcer started off calling the third-place winner, not us, then the second, then the first. Once the MC never called our team, the reality of what had happened set in. We had not placed. So, after the awards were over, we went back to gather our things and leave the venue. Nevertheless, our coach told us that we did a great job, regardless of our place.

Overall, I think this was a good way to start our season. Though we did not place, we know we have the potential and ability to win our next competition.

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Peace

Peace can be thought of as many different things, whether that be freedom from civil disturbances, freedom from disquieting or oppressive thoughts and emotions, or simply harmony in personal relationships. For lots of people, including myself, the topic of peace can seem uncomfortable and simply unrealistic in the world today. Our society craves wealth, attention, and making a name for oneself. We want to be successful and accepted. However, we lose the ability to slow down. Peace is foreign to us.

Superficial Freedoms

As Thomas Morton said, “A superficial freedom, to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of ‘choice’ when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses.”

People find peace in many different manners, such as meditation, silence, alone time, prayer, music, personal expression, or talking with someone they are close to. I talked with a friend that said “it starts with not hating yourself”. Solving inner turmoil was addressed many times when asking others how they find peace, but when asked how often they address their inner turmoil, the response was much less defined. People didn’t know how to answer this question. I believe you must observe yourself nonjudgmentally to grow. Many people, including myself, fill their spare time with distractions and worries. Whether through technology, artificial means, or pointless busy work. It takes a firm, conscious effort to break these patterns that have become habit.

Dan Zadra, an author and mentor, says, “worry is a misuse of imagination,” which is also presented as “worry is simply an unproductive use of imagination” by Michael Hyatt. Instead of worrying, have hope for the future and find peace in whatever the results may be. Peace in a moment can be as simple as being content within yourself and your life, even through all the hardships and struggles. In essence, worry and imagination are quite similar and both involve the future but the latter has a more positive connotation than the former. To have a more positive outlook on life, consider being present and not anticipating the future, or past for that matter. This new outlook makes peace seem more pursuable in our lives. Focus on what is at hand and what you are grateful for. When focussing on the future, you miss the journey.

Take a moment to think about what it would be like if everyone pursued peace verses anxiety?

How different our world would be.

Liminal Space

A few weeks ago I attended a conference where Susan Stabile, speaker and author of The Road Back To You, presented the idea of liminal space, or an uncomfortable threshold/barrier. It is the space between what was, and what is to be, the line between conscious and unconscious. As humans, we naturally tend to secede or find a quick solution to leaving liminal space, yet it is where we learn best. If we are constantly fleeing liminal space, we are no longer learning or gaining anything, especially peace. It is uncomfortable to us. In Susan’s speech on The 4 Mantras Of Relationships, she said “we must show up, pay attention, tell the truth, and not get attached to the results” and try to “respond instead of react to free falling anger and anxiety”. In order to pursue peace, we have to constantly practice not reacting, but responding to outcomes, people, and situations. She believes rhythm between work and rest is necessary and that often “we miss the quiet that would give us wisdom.”

To work together, with others, and within ourselves to reach wholeness or a goal; this challenging concept presents the exile of emotions we find ourselves pulled under by daily, like anxiety and fear. Just imagine if everyone imperfectly pursued peace. The phrase “peace and quiet” could not be more on point with this concept. Peace comes through harmony, through tranquility, through quiet. How hard it can be thought to sit with silence that you haven’t met in a while. Wrestling with the vastness of it, I find my mind trying to fill it up, to clutter it with problems and troubles. A conscious effort is required to resist these patterns.

I like to think of myself as an optimistic pessimist, or a realist. I stay positive, but tend to prepare for the worst and try to be content with whatever results I get. Personally, pursuing peace is hard but something I aspire to. You may be wondering, ‘where do I begin’? How do we pursue peace in such a busy world where we are constantly putting our toes to the flame? I believe the key is to pursue peace within little situations and within yourself first. Only then can others be affected by our peace.

Oh, how amazing it would be to be in wonder of our (and other’s) peace instead of having to focus on when we will gain it.

It’s all in the pursuit.

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by Woodrow Wilson

Nov 19, 2019 3 min read

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The school production of Sylvia left good impressions and a newfound feeling of appreciation. The good line delivery, perfect character development, and even just the transitions were all key factors in making this production a success on numerous levels, and I found myself frequently resisting applause.

The characters of Sylvia all showcased their personalities quickly and efficiently. As soon as you saw Greg (played by Charlie Mcdonald) walk onstage with Sylvia (played by Ceanna Simms) you could playfully foretell the extent and the future of their relationship. The same can be said for Sophia Ricketts’ character, Kate, who progressively got angrier and crazier, but is delivered in such a way that made you love her character more and more. Phyllis (portrayed by Emma Stacy) seemed to be a calmer version of Kate. She had many jokes, making her character lovable in the short time we saw hers. Leslie (characterized by Gaven Cruz) was one of my personal favorite characters. The wit that Cruz portrayed made the whole thing seem unscripted. No character without personality or delivery comes to mind while I watching or reviewing the play.

The line delivery and character development aided each other, making for its own success. I had counted during the production and there were perhaps one or two stammers from the actors, but they were minimal and did not affect the quality of the show. Kate’s lines stood out as angry and powerful. With most of the other characters usually talking as normal people, Kate almost always had that hint of anger or annoyance towards whomever she was talking to, which furthered her character development. Greg’s lines were, in a sense, awkward. Not awkward coming from the actual actor, but awkward as in he was perfectly playing a slightly flustered character, making it seem less rehearsed. Sylvia was another demonstration of a clear character, being excited and lovable, but also humourous and mischievous. Sylvia had the energy of naive optimism, which aided her canine character. Tom’s character and lines suited each other, having a slight sarcastic or know-it-all undertone in the delivery. Leslie had that tone of very slight annoyance, mixed with wit, giving it what I call the “advice voice.”

The character development was its own brilliant category, not only with Greg’s growing obsession with Sylvia, but also with Kate’s growing obsession with getting rid of Sylvia.

The character development deserves its own category. For example, Leslie’s final decision to advise killing Sylvia, or Sylvia and Greg’s growing impatience with Kate, all made contributions to the lovable character development. Perhaps the biggest character development was in the end. Kate and Greg walked onstage, and announced that they had Sylvia for eleven years, and as the years went by, Sylvia and Greg talked less and less, while Kate and Sylvia talked more and more. This wasn’t in or of itself a dramatic twist, but rather a shock of development that hit at the end, which actually went over surprisingly smoothly.

This production, in short, was a great one. The character development was clear, the delivery was expressed, and the characters themselves had strong personalities, making this production of Sylvia a success. Even down to the costumes the characters were wearing and the backgrounds of the stage setting. It was enjoyable to watch this play, and I give my extreme gratitude to everyone who contributed to the play.

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Several days ago, I had the opportunity to interview some of the cast of the upcoming play Sylvia! If you have not heard already, Booker T students will be performing the play beginning at 7 pm on Wednesday, November 13th. The play centers around a lost dog named Sylvia (Ceanna Simms), her owner Greg (Charlie McDonald), and their unbreakable bond. Kate, Greg’s wife (Sophia Ricketts), becomes jealous of Sylvia and does not want her to stay.
Sophia, a sophomore who has been acting since the 3rd grade, said that this was “a very unusual character. She has many monologues and several layers to her character.” But now, after practice and study, she feels she has “really gotten to know Kate and appreciate[s] her personality and importance to the show.” Gavin Cruz, in the role of Leslie, a therapist, is a junior who has been acting since the 7th grade. He finds the play to be “really fun and interesting.” He also recommends that everyone comes and sees the show. Emma Stacy is also a junior and plays the role of Phyllis. She “likes the story” and says that “being in a play is always fun, you hang out with people, it’s pretty chill.” All of these students have worked very hard to get to where they are, staying late after school for hours rehearsing, and even running lines during activity period.
Tickets will be sold at the door Wednesday night, $2 for BTW students and $5 for adults/non-BTW students, so be sure to show up and give your support for our wonderful students!

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Nov 20, 2019 2 min read

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Around the World

Bolivia‘s president, Evo Morales, resigned from his position. At the same time, the Vice-President, leaders of both legislative bodies, and others left office, leaving the country effectively leaderless for many days. Now, the leader accused of corruption has said he is willing to return to power to restore order.

Turkey‘s president, Erdogan, visited Washington D.C. and the White House last week. This comes amid increased tension with the country about their offensive in Syria. The United States has dozens of nuclear weapons stored in Turkey. Some American diplomats and policymakers are encouraging the US to consider options for removal of the warheads from the potential control of our NATO ally.

The United States announced that it would now consider Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory as legal, a reversal from the previous position affirming their illegality.

Around the Country

The House of Representatives continues its second week of public impeachment inquiry hearings.

Disappearing Spanish media in the US have some onlookers concerned and nervous about the future. See the NPR story: n.pr/spanish-media.

Around T-Town

Tulsa voters overwhelmingly approved all three Improve Our Tulsa proposals last Tuesday. Over half a billion dollars will now be spent over the coming decade to improve road conditions, purchase new equipment, buffer a rainy day fund, and more.

A faculty vote at the University of Tulsa voted ‘no confidence’ in both University President Clancy and Provost Lovett. The vote has no authority, and the Board of Trustees of the University support the President and Provost fully. Some faculty refused to vote because of their criticism of the voting procedure itself.

Around the Hive

Speech and Debate students leave Thursday for a tournament in Chicago. Good luck to those competing!

Model United Nations delegates leave Friday morning for the Arkansas Model United Nations conference. The students will represent Brazil in various mock UN bodies.

Various organizations worked together to present the Native American Heritage Assembly. This comes the week after the Rock Your Mocs event. Speakers emphasized the importance of plurality, of avoiding stereotypes, and of isolation in their speeches.

After multiple weeks of delays, Yearbook Club Photos took place on Wednesday, November 20th.

Biology experiments on animals continue in Mr. Welker’s class.

Other Writing

Sarah Manguso writes:

Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments — an inability to accept life as ongoing.

As a period of thanksgiving arrives, and the stress of the final moments of the semester draw near, I encourage all readers to remember that life is ongoing.

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by Nathaniel Ijams

Nov 10, 2019 5 min read

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Around the World

Armistice Day is celebrated today, November 11th, around the world. It marks the 101st anniversary of the day the First World War ended with the signing of the armistice between the Allies and Germany. In the United States, we celebrate today as Veterans Day. Last year was the centennial celebration. I recommend you listen to “Christmas in the Trenches” by John McCutcheon, a beautiful piece on the hope and memoryof an unlikely moment of peace in the chaos and violence of WWI.

Iran is taking concrete steps towards complete disregard for theNuclear Deal which would, in an ideal world, reduce the risk of nuclear weapons spreading to further states. Iranian State TV reports thatactivity at Iran’s major underground nuclear facility, Fordow, has increased rapidly. Reuters reports that the facility has now left its permitted role as a research facility to become an active nuclear plant. Earlier this week, Iran held an inspector from the International Atomic Energy Agency and seized her travel documents. Read more: reut.rs/iran-one and reut.rs/iran-2.

Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan agreed on November 6th to work towards a deal on Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project by January 15th, 2020. The risk of violence and war has increased dramatically as continued concerns about the future of water supplies become more prevalent. Egypt relies on water from the Nile river to survive, and considers the dam a severe threat. The UN estimates that two-thirds of the world’s population could be living under water stressed conditions by 2025.

China is imposing time limits, spending limits, and further restrictions on video game-playing minors. Gamers will have daily time limits and be prevented from playing overnight during weekdays. Read more: bbc.in/video-games-ch.

T-Mobile has sued an insurance company, claiming that it holds exclusive rights to the color magenta. Initial German court decisions have now ordered that the company, Lemonade, stop using the color in any promotional materials in the country. Lemonade is appealing and claims that the color they use is pink. Read more: bit.ly/magenta-mobile.

Around the Country

Boeing continues to have problems in finding regulatory approval for the re-integration of its 737 MAX fleets to airline fleets. The FAA refused to approve recent software changes by Boeing, saying they were subpar and under-documented. Multiple airlines have announced they will continue to ground the planes until March 2020.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced that a likely culprit in the surge of recent vaping injuries is Vitamin E acetate, commonly used in vaping supplies which contain THC.

Around T-Town

Tulsans go to the polls tomorrow to vote on the Improve our Tulsa package. This paper endorses all three questions on the ballot. Go vote! See “Improve Our Tulsa” within.

Homeless populations in the Tulsa Metro area number around 7,500.

Oklahoma will begin distribution of REAL IDs in April 2020. These IDs will allow Okies to continue flying nationally without a passport or other valid form of ID.

Around the Hive

TU Physics Journal Club will include a special presentation Tuesday evening by Ian Benway, a senior at BTW. The event begins at 6 p.m. More information at bit.ly/physics-club.

BTW Drama will present “Sylvia”, a play by A.R. Gurney on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 7pm. Entry will cost $2 for BTW students and $5 for others.

Other Writing

In honor of Armistice Day, I have copied below a poem by Siegfried Sassoon, written in 1918:

Suicide in the Trenches
I KNEW a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.

In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you’ll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.

Sassoon was a prominent anti-war poet and writer. Having been decorated for his service on the Western Front, he was later condemned to a psychiatric hospital for expressing his dissent. The poem is not meant to glorify suicide, but to express the horrors and harm of war. Also read his poem “The Poet as Hero”: bit.ly/poet-hero.

Wendell Berry is well known for his novels, poetry, and essays. Below is an excerpt from his masterpiece The Way of Ignorance and Other
Essays:

There are kinds and degrees of ignorance that are remediable, of course, and we have no excuse for not learning all we can. Within limits, we can learn and think; we can read, hear, and see; we can remember. We don’t have to live in a world defined by professional and political gibberish.

But… our ignorance ultimately is irremediable… Do what we will, we are never going to be free of mortality, partiality, fallibility, and error. The extent of our knowledge will always be, at the same time, the measure of the extent of our ignorance.

Because ignorance is thus a part of our creaturely definition, we need an appropriate way: a way of ignorance, which is the way of neighborly love, kindness, caution, care, appropriate scale, thrift, good work, right livelihood…

The way of ignorance, therefore, is to be careful, to know the limits and the efficacy of our knowledge. It is to be humble and to work on an appropriate scale.

Read more about Wendell Berry: bit.ly/wendell-berry-btw.

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by Tevin Nguyen

Dec 16, 2019 1 min read

There was a time when I was lying in my bed, half an hour to midnight. The clock was ticking softly but loudly. It was the only thing I could hear, repeating slowly. I was tucked in with a very warm black blanket. It was like it was hugging me, it was like it cared for me. I started to think about myself and others around me. How they treated me, how they matter to me, how I shouldn’t care for them. I then started to realize the truth in people, especially “friends”, but importantly my own father. How cold and empathetic he can be sometimes. I do this every time I feel angry or upset. I start to overthink and wonder why? Why am even thinking about these sad thoughts? Why do they even matter to me? Why are there tears dripping down my face? Why do I feel like I’m alone, even though I have “friends?” These thoughts are too cold for me.

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Poetry Club

Just last month, we got to talk with Kelanni Edwards, a junior at Booker. T Washington, about the new club she recently started: Poetry Club.

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Fancy pen on paper.

Just last month, we got to talk with Kelanni Edwards, a junior at Booker. T Washington, about the new club she recently started: Poetry Club. Edwards says she had the idea at the beginning of the year but struggled to find a sponsor and create a curriculum. After Mr. Thater took on the position of sponsoring the club, Poetry Club was finally able to have their first meeting on Friday, November 22nd, during activity period. During this meeting, they started decorating poetry journals with the intent to add to them during each meeting.

When asked what inspired her to create this club, Edwards responded with, “I wanted to provide an outlet for Booker T. students who liked poetry but didn’t really know what to do with it.” Edwards says she found poetry in 8th grade when she was struggling. Writing her first poem gave her a sense of relief; making her feel better. “My main goal is to allow them that outlet of expression, even if they just come in and write down their feelings and feel better walking out,” says Edwards. She encourages anyone with interest to come and check it out!

Poetry club meets during activity period in Mr. Thater’s room (328). They plan on holding a poetry slam in April and anyone who has been to the meetings is welcome to participate!

In the future, Edwards says she wants to continue writing poetry while pursuing a major in children’s ministry with a minor in public speaking.

See our interview with Edwards:

  • What inspired you to create this club? “I wanted to provide an outlet for Booker T. students who liked poetry but didn’t really know what to do with it.”
  • When will you be meeting? “Right now it is only during activity period, in the spring we will be holding a Poetry Slam so we will have to meet beforehand.”
  • Main goal? “My main goal is to allow them that outlet of expression, even if they just come in and write down their feelings and feel better walking out.”
  • What about poetry interests you so much? “How broad it is, anything can be a poem, it doesn’t have to rhyme, it can be three sentences long or three minutes long. What draws me to it, is the fact that it is just words you can say anything, do anything, anything can be a poem.”
  • What brought you to poetry? “8th grade was a hard time in my life, and my parents tried to put my into therapy and instead of talking to others I decided to write things down. I wrote my first poem in 8th grade and it was such a relief, it made me feel better.”
  • How long did you work on getting the club set up? “I had the idea at the beginning of the year, and it was the problem of finding a sponsor and preparing a curriculum so I wanted to make this in the beginning of the year and now its near the end of the first semester so.”
  • What grade are you in? 11
  • Are you going to continue to write in college? “Yes, when I go to college I want to major in children’s ministry, and I want to minor in public speaking.”
  • Are there any big plans for poetry club? “Yes, in April we plan to hold a Poetry Slam.”
  • Do you have to be in poetry club to participate? “I’d like for you to, you can show up at a few meetings and participate.”

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Dec 3, 2019 1 min read

#TeamTrees screenshot from website showing over 20,000,000 trees.

For several months now, the #TeamTrees fundraiser has been happening on YouTube. If you haven’t heard of it already, YouTubers Mr. Beast and Mark Rober partnered with the Arbor Day Foundation to start the initiative to raise 20 million dollars to plant 20 million trees by 2020. At this point, just over 17 million dollars donated, so that means there’s only three million dollars left to reach the goal by January! Thousands of other creators have made videos promoting and joining what is now the largest YouTube collaboration ever. There’s still time to donate if you can, and every dollar helps plant a tree somewhere that needs it. The link will be on the newspaper website or can be found by just googling Team Trees.

Written December 3rd, 2019.

Update from the Editor:

As of the 19th of December, #TeamTrees reached their 20 million tree goal! Their website encourages readers:

We did it! But that doesn’t mean we’re done. Come back anytime you feel like planting a tree!

See https://teamtrees.org for more information.

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To do or not to do

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Dec 13, 2019 1 min read

A stack of colourful books.

Ms. Walker’s AP Literature class has been reading Hamlet for the past month. We were asked to rewrite Hamlet’s famous soliloquy “To be or not to be”, this is my version:

To do or not to do - that is the question:

Whether ‘tis better for thyself to be subjected to the pain

The agony and torture of homework

Or to give in to teachers assignments against my mind’s desire

And, by resisting, failing. To plan, to answer -

Never again - and by pen ink to run out

The hand cramps and the late nights

The students’ grade is heir to, ‘tis a requirement

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To think - perchance to complete on time: ay, there’s the rub;

For in that blue light of computers what assignments may come

When we have pulled all-nighters

Must give us pause: there’s the respect

That makes calamity of the final grade.

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Feb 24, 2020 2 min read

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There was a blue moon and a girl with her laptop on stage. I was sitting alone in the crowd, watching her in fondness as if the moon shone a spotlight solely on her. She dazzled me with wonder. Something about her presence gave me chills…I couldn’t explain it. I felt like she was analytical and I was glitched, a dynamic that gravitated us together. So I went on stage, wanting to introduce myself, but her ephemeral gleams blinded me with angst.

But then her glasses shimmered away and we made eye contact, like she was trying to program me to say something. I blushed and darted my glance away fast, acknowledging my robotic demeanor. I was scared of getting hacked. Would she accept me for me? What if my code is errored? My coding has always had negative pop ups and traumatic errors of thoughts of why someone like a gifted hacker would want to fix me. Why would they try to fix my glitches? But then music started to play, she got up and walked towards me, observing me in her peculiar way that made me smile. I was nervous and I could tell she was too. I liked her but I was too broken to be with her, to help her. My functions were unstable and I couldn’t give her what she wanted.

But she looked at me with a smile that said “it’s okay.” Her name was Matti, she was the extraordinary hacker of her time, she fixed me in the moonlight of her heart, unaware that she did. All I could see was the blue moon and her laying right by me, she had tears in her eyes and heart, I smiled and left the stage knowing I could never hurt my hacker again. She smiled and looked at the moon, walking back to her laptop where she was meant to be.

“I’ll miss you…” those last words were said as the blue moon had disappeared.

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Feb 24, 2020 - 2 min read
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Interview with Julia Huckaby

I interviewed Julia Huckaby over her experience going through the IB program. Julia graduated from Booker T. Washington in 2019 and now attends Tufts University in Massachusetts.

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The Invisible Workers

by Monica Martinez

Mar 30, 2020 2 min read

The effect that COVID-19 has had on the economy is apparent to everyone. Stock markets crash, gas prices drop, local businesses shut down, and those who cannot work from home are without a job. Our government, of course, has had to take immediate action to try to fix these growing issues. On Friday, March 27, the House of Representatives gave final passage to the $2 trillion economic stimulus act, the largest economic stimulus package since the 2009 Recovery Act signed into law by President Obama. Included in this package is:

  • A one time payment of $1,200 for adults whose annual salary is $75,000 or less,
  • A one time payment of $2,400 for married couples with no children who earn $150,000 or less per year, and
  • A payment of $500 per child aged 16 years or younger.

Most people with a Social Security number are eligible for these benefits. However, a large group of the population is being left out. There are approximately 8 million tax paying undocumented immigrants living in the United States. They contribute about 13 billion tax dollars to Social Security. They are essentially invisible workers. Working undocumented, yet still paying taxes with an ITIN number and receiving no taxpayer benefits. These mostly blue-collar workers now have no way of making money if they are not working. This situation may lead many of these workers to continue going out trying to find ways to earn money.

This means they wouldn’t be practicing social distancing, which is critical to reducing the number of COVID-19 cases. Choosing to exclude undocumented workers from this act works on a the idea of “putting Americans first”. However, many of these undocumented workers are parents to children who are United States citizens. Unfortunately, to qualify for the money, everyone in the family must be legal residents or citizens. Therefore, not only will adults be negatively affected, but the approximately 6 million U.S. born children with undocumented parents will feel the blow too.

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Feb 21, 2020 2 min read

Julia Huckaby with violin.

I interviewed Julia Huckaby over her experience going through the IB program. Julia graduated from Booker T. Washington in 2019 and now attends Tufts University in Massachusetts. Julia is majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in music engineering. She wants to become an acoustics consultant, which means she wants to be someone who designs performance halls and lecture spaces based on what they should sound like.

How has being a part of the IB program impacted your college experience so far?

IB definitely taught me how to manage my time, which is a really valuable skill going into college.

What was your hardest assignment or class?

My hardest class was IBSL world history with Waldron, but it’s the class that taught me the most. I learned an entirely new way of thinking and approaching problems.

Any classes you recommend taking?

I would recommend taking an IB history class. I learned how to write an IA in the class and how to answer open-ended questions.

Is there an IB class that you didn’t take but wish you had?

I wish I would’ve taken Math studies because I’ve heard it’s a really interesting class and helps you to prepare for the ACT and SAT.

Did you find that being a part of IB helped in the application process in college?

I think IB was most valuable during the college application process. We had to write a practice college essay junior year in IB english, which was very helpful because I had a good rough draft of my essay before starting senior year. Senior fall, I was writing supplemental essays constantly, which was difficult, but I felt that having taken full IB for a year was a huge help.

What are some strategies you can give to someone who is preparing to take the IB exams?

When studying/preparing for IB exams, I often studied in groups with friends. I also found it helpful to share IAs with my friends so we could teach each other about what we chose to study individually. Teachers are also very helpful and there are lots of good test prep guides online.

Anything else you’d like to share about IB?

To anyone thinking about taking IB, I would tell them to try it. It’s definitely a challenge, but you learn a lot and are pushed to be your best.

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