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Freshman Drake Dabboul finds shelter in Northborough after hurricane
Weinstein should prompt sexual assualt conversation
Tom Petty’s death impacts millenial classic rock fans
Football team experiements with robotic equipment
Junior Peter Soboyejo creates helpful app for students
White supremacy can arise in any community
Other TV shows to watch for ‘Rick and Morty’ fans
Interim athletic director Fran Whitten brings back Athletic Council
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NEW YEAR,
NEW CHANGES Bathroom passes. Clipboards. Sign in sheets. A new year and new administration ushered in a plethora of changes. Students are left with the question: why?
Students this year are required to have a hallway pass with them when walking to go to the bathroom during class time. Pictured above are some teachers’ hallway passes.
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ew year, new administration, new rules. At least, that is what most of the student body seems to think. However, according to Principal Sara Pragluski Walsh, these rules have existed long before her arrival to Algonquin.
“There is a potential misconception or misperception that there is this major drastic change... That’s not true,” Walsh said. “We’ve tried to be consistent; us as an administra-
tive team are trying to be fair and consistent in our message... You’re treated the same way by all of the same individuals.” In alignment with her promotion of consistency, Walsh and the rest of the administration team are striving to ensure all rules are enforced the same way for all students. According to Assistant Principal Andrew McGowan, the team aspect of the faculty has been a benefit to everyone being on the same page. “We work together and bounce ideas off of each other and discuss what’s going on pretty frequently, and I think that’s a big part of it, the administration working together, but the administration working with the department chairs and the teachers, too, because really everyone is involved in this,” McGowan said. New changes, page 3 photo illustration Rebecca Poretsky
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World Language department initiates fundraising for Puerto Rico Paige morse
Editor-in-Chief The world language department is reaching far beyond the Algonquin community to make a difference by banding together to raise money throughout October for victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and surrounding islands. World language teacher Sarah Lawlor introduced the idea of department fundraising after seeing the detrimental impacts of the storm.
“I saw many stories in the news, and obviously [Puerto Rico] is a Spanish-speaking country,” Lawlor said. “Some of the islands that were affected speak French.” Lawlor wanted to involve world language students in fundraising in order to bring light to the devastation in Puerto Rico. “I wanted to donate myself, but I felt that it would be a good opportunity to have our students involved in something that would have an effect outside the classroom, not just
in our tiny bubble,” Lawlor said. “I wanted to help people in the world.” According to Lawlor, the goal for the 12 participating teachers is $2500, which averages out to $200 per teacher. Though Lawlor has raised $251.92 as of October 20, she has continued to raise as much as she could. “I am doing a one-day challenge on Monday [October 23],” Lawlor said. “I told them that the class that brings in the most amount just on Monday will get donuts and hot
chocolate in their next class. That’s only because I want to go higher than I have already gone.” According to Lawlor, the department has raised about $1500 so far. She has high hopes that the students will be able to reach the goal of $2500. “I hope we reach our goal,” Lawlor said. “No guarantees, but I think the students in general have been very, very generous so far.”
Puerto Rico, page 4