Walnut Hills High SchoolVolume CIX, Issue 10 February 27, 2015

Teague tops 1,000 points in two seasons

TARA SALES/CHATTERBOXSENIOR Macio Teague spots up to receive the pass from SENIOR Caleb Tregre. This three-point shot pushed Teague over the 1,000-point threshold, joining SENIOR Taylor Darks as the second basketball player from the class of 2015 to reach this milestone.

Darien Jackson, ‘15

“I was just thinking, ‘Man, this is just an amazing experience,’” SENIOR Macio Teague said. “I am just glad I made the shot.” On February 13 in the boys varsity basketball game against Milford, in the second quarter with 1:23 left, Teague hit a three-pointer on the right side to surpass a total of 1,000 points in his Walnut career. This is a huge milestone for se-nior guard Teague, who has been at Walnut for two years. He played at

Summit Country Day his sopho-more season and IMG Academy prior to that. After the shot was made, the game was stopped and Teague was h o n o r e d with a game ball at half court, then with a pic-ture with the Nut House and a hug from his mother. Teague attributes this accolade to the countless hours

spent in the gym after practice when nobody was watching. According to the Eastern Cin-cinnati Conference website, Teague

averages 26.0 points, 7.2 re-bounds, 1.9 assists and 1.8 steals per game this season. “It was amazing to

watch a player score over 1,000 points in two years. When he gets going he can’t be stopped,” SE-

NIOR Crephat Grengonbondai, one of Teague’s teammates for the last two seasons, said. Teague was the second Walnut Hills player to crack 1,000 points this winter. SENIOR guard Taylor Darks scored her 1,000th point in a January 7 game against Loveland. Teague set another milestone earlier this season when playing in the Flying to the Hoop tourna-ment against Piqua High School. The tournament consists of 41 teams and is over a four-day pe-riod. Nationally ranked teams such as Huntington Prep and Findlay Prep were in attendance. College coaches from all over come to see some of the top teams and top players in the country. Teague finished with 51 and outscored Piqua, who had 48. This scoring outburst gave him Walnut’s record for most points in a game

and his own career best. The pre-vious single-game school record was held by Dennis Pierre with 39 points in 1990, according to ath-letic director Tom Donnelly. “This is a very prestigious event and it meant a lot to me. The night before, Luke Kennard had 47 points so I had to get one of his records,” Teague said. Kennard is ranked 23rd in the class of 2015 and has signed to play for Duke University next year. Teague has offers from Air Force Academy, Akron University, Bryant University, Liberty Uni-versity, San Jose State University, Seton Hall University, University of Oakland, Winthrop University and Yale University.

“I was just thinking, ‘Man, this is just an

amazing experience.’”-SENIOR Macio Teague

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Veronica Victa, ‘16

65 years and more than 30 mil-lion copies sold later, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is going to have a sequel. The sequel, Go Set a Watchman, will be released on July 14 this year.

It takes place in the same fictional town as To Kill a Mockingbird, Maycomb, Alabama, but is set 20 years in the future. Scout Finch, the child protagonist of the classic, is travelling back from New York to Maycomb to visit her father Atticus. There, she faces the racial tensions of the 1950s South while she remembers her Depression era childhood. Lee brought Go Set a Watchman

initially to her editor in 1957. Tak-en by Scout’s nostalgic flashbacks, her editor told her to rewrite the book, eventually leading to To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. The manuscript was lost until her lawyer Tonja Carter found it in a “secure location” attached to one of the original To Kill a Mockingbird manuscripts’. However, there is a controversy on whether Lee actually wants Go Set a Watchman published, stem-ming from Lee’s notorious reclu-siveness and ill health. Lee is also now 88 years old and has lived in an assisted living

facility since a stroke in 2007. Prior to this, Lee lived with her sister in a house in Monroeville, Alabama. Following the stroke, there is a

consensus that Lee’s health became worse although the extent of which varies. The 2007 stroke, according to

several Monroeville residents and critics, left Lee blind, deaf and forgetful—not in sound mind to agree to publishing an old manu-script. They also point out her de-sire to stay away from her celebrity, even claiming that she had sworn not to publish another book. However, Wayne Flynt, a long-time friend of Lee’s, says that when he visited her recently, Lee “dis-cusses the books of C.S. Lewis, reads with a magnifying machine and can crack jokes.” The cause for the discrepancy could stem from her withdrawal from town life after the stroke. In the assisted living facility, no one, journalists and acquaintances alike, sees Lee without her lawyer’s (Ton-ja Carter) prior approval. Regarding her alleged infirmi-ty, Carter has said that, “She is a

very strong, independent and wise woman who should be enjoying the discovery of her long lost novel ... Instead, she is having to defend her own credibility and decision making.” At Walnut,To Kill a Mocking-bird is on the English curriculum for all eighth grade students. . For-mer 8-Honors English teacher Bar-bara Stewart is excited for the new novel. “I’m especially interested in seeing an adult Scout…[and] see-ing how different her writing style is from [To Kill a Mockingbird],” she said. However, she woners, “Was [Go Set a Watchman] really lost? That’s what made me ques-tion whether she was willing [to publish] or not.” Another English teacher, Blake Taylor, is more skeptical. “Now at age 80-something, I hear she wants to publish something she’s never wanted to publish before. Sounds fishy,” he said. “I worry that some-one is trying...to make a buck off her.” Harper Calhoun, ‘16, who is named after the author and whose father is an expert on To Kill a Mockingbird, is of a different opin-ion. “I think she would like it pub-lished,” she said. She then points out, “I’m pretty sure if she passed away, then they would have pub-lished it anyway.” This is not un-common in publishing.

Confirming if Lee wants to pub-lish the novel or not would be hard. All her statements are released through her lawyer—Lee, with just a couple exceptions, has not given interviews since 1965. What is released is this: “[I’m] alive and kicking and happy as hell with the reactions of Watchman.” Despite the allegations of manipulation, the release of this book is met with anticipation—2 million copies are being printed for just the first run of it. After all, who wouldn’t want to see more of Scout Finch?

“You never really understand a per-son until you con-

sider things from his point of view...untill you climb inside of his skin and walk

around in it.”-Atticus Finch, To Kill a

Mockingbird

“[I’m] alive and kicking and happy

as hell with the reac-tions of Watchman.”

-Harper Lee

“I’m especially in-terested in seeing an adult Scout…[and] seeing how differ-

ent her writing style is from [To Kill a Mockingbird].”

-English teacher Barbara Stewart

Harper Lee’s newest novel, Go Set a Watchmen, is set to be released this July. Pre-orders have begun on Ama-zon.

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Disclosure:Taylor Darks is a staff member of the Chatterbox.

Wally Hill, ‘15

Remember Nerf Wars? Funny... I don’t. I stopped carrying my gun around a few weeks ago. Nobody is coming after me, the game is dead. The first two weeks of the War were quite possibly the most ter-rifying/fun-filled time of my en-tire life, and I probably won’t feel those emotions ever again. SE-NIOR Alex Ayers was destined to have more kills than Chris Kyle himself. Within thirty minutes, my man had four people killed, and the fifth was assassinated two days later. “The Champagne Papis” were erased from history, bringing us infamous tweets from a certain member of the team. “The Tra-plords since 1776,” I mean Ayers, was easily the “team” to beat in this paranoia-infused state. Before and after school would

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bring a slew of new kills, AND controversy. Will we ever know what really happened on Pleasant View? Is it legal to break into other peoples’ cars? I hope these ques-tions will be answered, but we still have 42 teams left out of 53. Out of the 11 teams eliminated, nine were because of the Valentine’s Day Rule, which stated that any teams without a kill by the 14th would be eliminated. Speaking of, when this rule was announced, everyone expected a massacre to ensue on Friday the 13. Instead, not a single kill was registered and nine teams seemed to have wasted $20. Everything went wrong when we started in the beginning of January; now we’re dealing with Boston-sized blizzards ravaging the city. I do not want to leave my house period, let alone to have a chance at shooting someone. I call on the leader of Nerf Wars himself, SENIOR Alex Persiani, voted by the SENIORS the Most

Opinionated Man in the Class of 2015, to postpone the games. No, they should not be cancelled. It should be stopped, and restarted in March. The weather will be warm-er, Senioritis will be stronger and killings will be plentiful. If he listens, which he has be-fore, this will help the game. The teams that are left all have at least one kill registered, so you know that they have a little passion in their hearts. People will camp out again; they will not be at the brink of hypothermia after five minutes of an outside stakeout. It is easy to stay home and hang out with your friends/teammates in sub-zero de-gree temperatures, but when it is 70 degrees and sunny? You can find me outside. Maybe I am wrong, but it is your job to decide. If you agree with me, tweet at him and let him know. He sure hasn’t had a lot of activity recently. Wally

Ner f Wars 1 Baby HitFirst Place Prize: $600

Total Teams53

Total Kills:

Naked Rule Used

Total Players:

TWICE...so far.

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Teams Eliminated11Most Individual Kills:

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Allison Meier, ‘19

On March 5, 6 and 7, the ju-nior high musical, “The Pirates of Penzance” will be performed. Starting at 7:30 p.m. in the audi-torium, the cast will tell the story of Frederic, Mabel and a group of pirates. The play takes place in the late 19th century and follows Fred-eric as he navigates his newfound adulthood while balancing his love

for Mabel and the pirates’ cunning actions. During the week, the cast re-hearses daily after school, exclud-ing Friday. From 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., they have been “singing and going over the songs and [for] the last couple days just smoothing things out and making things good,” said Isaac Smitherman, who plays Fred-eric. Because of the snow days dur-

ing the week of February 16, they have had to make up lost practice. The cast was not “able to access the auditorium, so [they] missed the entire week,” said Ben Hayutin, ‘19, who plays Samuel. For the remainder of their rehearsals, they are planning to practice from 3:00 to 7:30 p.m. However, the show must go on.“The fact that we missed the rehearsals because of snow days

Cast of “Pirates” ready to set sail on opening nighthas pushed us behind a little bit, but we’re still going to give a good show, so come opening night it’ll be in great shape,” Director Mi-chael Sherman said. One of the main characters, Frederic, is played by Smitherman. “Frederic is a boy who got ap-prent iced to some pi-rates, so he had to ba-sically live with the pirates for most of his life, but now he’s turned 21 and he gets to go out,” Smitherman said. “He doesn’t have to work for them or be with them; he gets to go out into the world, and he sees all these beautiful girls that he’s never seen before, and then all the pirates see them and they all want to marry them.” “The Pirates of Penzance” is known for adding comedy to the action-packed love story. Exagger-ated actions and comedic charac-ters add this to the musical and allows the actors to express their characters’ emotions more fully as they perform. “My favorite part is being able to

Ruby Krimmer, ‘19, who plays Ruth, sings “When Frederic Was a Little Lad” to the pirates, describing why she apprenticed him to a pirate.“I’m really excited about opening night, but kind of sad that the practices are gonna end. I’ll definitely miss getting to see the other cast members every day,” Krimmer said.

have the kids kind of put their own spin on it,” Sherman said. “There’s a lot of physical comedy and great bits that they’re sort of adding on their own, and that’s really fun to see.” One of the instances of this is when Frederic’s nanny, Ruth,

reveals in song that she had mistakenly apprenticed him to the pirates. In reality, she had meant to send him to a “pilot”

rather than a “pirate.” After practicing for hours a day, the cast is ready for opening night. “This is fun. You just get to hang out with friends and act onstage,” Hayutin said. Even though they have had their difficulties because of missed rehearsals, many of the cast members agree that they will be ready for opening night. “It’s gonna be a great show!”

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“My favorite part is being able to have the kids kind of put their

own spin on it.”-Director Michael Sherman

Correction from Issue CIX.9In “Bringing Walnut’s talents to life with Aurasma,” Richard Fu, ‘16, SENIOR Andrea Gutman Fuentes, SENIOR Sydney Link and Veronica Phelan, ‘16 were stated to be the only members of Chamber Ensemble. However, they are actually part of a quartet within the group.

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probably why “Fifty Shades” beat out “Kingsman” in the box office. However, although both movies are rated R and thus not suitable for people under the age of sev-enteen, “Kingsman” displays its provocativeness in a stylistic way, despite the fact that “Fifty Shades” was marketed as being more pro-vacative. The English film producer and director Matthew Vaughn adds a captivating sense of action. The ac-tion scenes were so spectacular and engaging, there were times that I did not feel like a mere viewer. I felt like I was a part of the movie. “Kingsman: The Secret Service” did what it was supposed to do and

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that was to excite. It kept me on the edge of my seat. “50 Shades of Grey” lagged in what was supposed to be its spe-ciality: the mystery and seductive-ness that allows a literature major to step outside her life of English literature and drunken Saturday nights. Of course the movie had to be watered down for mainstream consumption, but too much dilu-tion takes away from the mean-ing. Instead of being engaging like “Kingsman,” “50 Shades of Grey” kept you anticipating what was go-ing to happen next not because you were enthralled, but because you were bored. Christian Grey (Jamie Dor-

Nisa Muhammad, ‘15

On February 13, 2015, “Kings-man: The Secret Service” was re-leased in American theaters. Com-ing from the United Kingdom, the movie features actors such as Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Caine and Taron Egerton. It is only monetarily rivaled by “50 Shades of Grey.” In America, sex sells, which is

nan) and Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) lacked chemistry and substance. This resulted in a movie that was extremely bland for such an erotic plotline. Every single scene was dull. There was a more exciting relationship and more on-screen chemistry between Harry Hart (Colin Firth) and Gary “Egg-sy” Unwin (Taron Egerton). One would not expect the relationship between a submissive and a domi-nant to be less electrifying than a relationship between a spy and his apprentice. The two movies are polar op-posites of one another, even tak-ing into account their respective genres. The one thing that they have in common is that their sto-rylines are both taken from books. “50 Shades of Grey” is based off the best-selling book of the same name by E.L. James. “Kingsman” is based off 2012 spy comic series “The Se-cret Service” written by Dave Gib-bons. However, “50 Shades” did have an impressive soundtrack, featur-ing music from The Weeknd, Be-yonce, Annie Lennox, Sia, Ellie Goulding and Frank Sinatra. It premiered at #2 on Billboard 200. With all the hype surrounding “50 Shades of Grey,” I expected spicy, but it gave me bland, while “Kingsman: The Secret Service” was jam-packed with action and adventure. Hopefully, “Kingsman” returns with a sequel in the future and “50 Shades Darker” revs up its dynamics and creativity.

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Arcade & Peanuts 8Dear Piper Peanut, Normally, I’m pretty good at knowing what I have to do for homework each day and getting it all done on time. But with all the days off of school recently, I’ve real-ized something: I’m not really sure how to find out if any homework has been assigned to do on one of those days. I really don’t want my grades to drop just because a cer-tain homework assignment was given out and I didn’t know about it. What can I do to prevent that from happening?

Confused Clarence

Dear Clarence, On days that the school is closed, whether or not you will be given homework to complete will depend entirely on your teacher and how they handle this kind of situation. While some teachers will give you homework, others might not, so it’s always best to check to see which of these is the case. The best way to see if you have been assigned any homework is

to check Blackboard. Most of the time, the teachers who are giving out snow or cold day homework will post it in the announcements section, so it should be pretty easy to find. It may also be posted in the assignments section of Blackboard. However, teachers do not nec-essarily have to only post such homework assignments online; they may also post things such as updated lesson plans to make sure that you know what is going on. This makes it critical to check on Blackboard anytime there is snow day or cold day to see what your teachers have posted. Even if you do not have any new homework to do, extended due dates on projects, changes in test dates or any other important information may have been added for your benefit. If you do all of these things and continue to get your assignments done on time, you should be in the clear.

Sincerely, Piper Peanut