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Students were challenged to expand their horizons and work for social change at a conference on social entrepreneurship held at school two weeks ago. Of the fifteen schools invited by organizer James Ruben (12), eleven sent student representatives. In total, close to a hundred people attended, Ruben said.

Social entrepreneurship is “when someone uses business principals and an entrepreneurial spirit and initiative to create social good,” Ruben said. At the conference, students had the opportunity to hear from successful social entrepreneurs through lectures, question and answer sessions, and more intimate conversations over lunch, Ruben said.

Keynote speaker Douglas Band, former presidential aide to President Clinton and current Chief Architect of the Clinton Global Initiative

spoke about his work with CGI, which is dedicated to uniting leaders around the globe in order to overcome obstacles facing society today. He also answered questions and shared stories with students, Ruben said.

“Mr. Band’s message was really powerful,” Sam Henick (10), who attended the conference, said. “The idea that even if you start out small, work as an intern, you can work your way up and achieve really impressive things like working with President Clinton, is even cool for a Republican like me.” “Doug Band was inspirational in that he’s helped so many, he’s a high-profile individual who is so successful, and yet he’s so modest,” said Ruben.

Other speakers included J. Alex Pruner of DonorsChoose.org, Jeff Li, the executive director of Teach For America in New York, Jonathan Tisch, CEO of Loews Hotels and president of Loews Cooperation, and Jessica Matthews, the founder of Uncharted Play and inventor of sOccket, a

soccer ball that stores power when it is kicked than can later be used as a source of electricity for impoverished families.

“For me, the most memorable speaker was the inventor of socket,” said Tyler Bleuel (9). “I thought the idea was tremendous and can really benefit many people in the areas where electricity is not readily available.”

Other students were inspired by Matthews’ age. “She was really young, and invented Socckit in a class in college,” Clara Pomi (11) recalled. “Now she’s running her own company. It really shows that it doesn’t matter how old you are, you can make a difference.”

“I hope that every student there was inspired to get involved in any sort of movement or start something of their own,” Ruben said. “These people used practical principles and business initiatives for social good, and showed how successful it can really be,” he said.

Team Ella walks for a friend at the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Light the Night Walk in Manhattan Chloe Albanese/ Contributing Photographer

Thousands of illuminated balloons lit the skies above the Brooklyn Bridge as members of Team Ella walked from the South Street Seaport to the City Hall during the Light the Night Walk on Wednesday.

Team Ella, a group of family and friends of Ella Landesberg (12), who was diagnosed with leukemia at the end of August, raised over fifteen thousand dollars at the walk sponsored by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, her brother Noah (12) and sister Maia (10) said.

It was “overwhelming” to see the amount of teams and people at the event Ella said. “I not only felt an amazing amount of support from Team Ella, but I also felt the support of everyone else who was there. The whole atmosphere of the event was really great.”

Claire Park (12) wanted to show

her support for Ella Landesberg and “to thank her for being so inspiring and staying strong,” she said.

Lucas Pergament (12) participated in the walk because it was a “good cause” and because he wanted to “support Noah and his family in their time of need,” he said. “He’s one of my good friends so I wanted to do that for him.”

The family first heard about the walk through a friend who was signed up to walk prior to Ella’s diagnosis, “I really liked the idea of a whole bunch of people coming together as a community in support of one specific cause which is why I wanted to make this event something that people I knew could really get behind,” Ella said.

The event is celebrated all across the country to raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and to bring help and hope to people battling blood cancers, the Light the Night website said.

“A more diverse group of kids

than I expected went,” in addition to close friends of the Landesbergs, Chloe Albanese (12) said. “A lot of people were there to show their respect.”

“Not just her closest friends, but our entire grade and community is here to support Ella,” Sofi Selig (12) said.

Altogether, the event was a “nice culmination of a lot of hard work in the month of September,” Noah said. “The weather was nice, it went well, and I’m happy that so many showed up.”

The Landesberg family plans to fundraise and create awareness in the community aboutblood cancer, Noah said. “Leukemia is a long process and we’re going to be supportive and active throughout the process and even after it. It’s touched our lives in a way where it’s always going to be a part of our lives.”

Light the Night: Walk for Cancer Chloe Tsang Staff Writer

Mirrors and Windows: Assembly Explores Individual Diversity

Poetry, videos, and presentations presented ideas about diversity through images of “mirrors and windows” at this Tuesday’s assembly.

Students and faculty spoke about their own personal “mirrors and windows”- the things that they could relate to, and the things that were foreign to them. “It gave the assembly a personal touch to it,” Diversity Team member Elliot Weinstein (12) said.

Director of Diversity Initiatives Patricia Zuroski and Associate Director of Admissions Markell were intrigued by the metaphors, which demonstrated that people are able to establish certain things that they can emotionally connect with and other things that they are unfamiliar with, when they heard them presented at a conference on curriculum, they said. ,

During a pizza night with students, both Parker and Zuroski proposed the idea of using this theme in one of the school assemblies. “We really wanted to ask the question: How can we as individuals become better connected

so we can be that caring community for each individual?” Zuroski said.

“The point of the assembly wasn’t to force people to get to know one another, but rather think about themselves in relation to others and how they want to improve the community,” Lia Ehrlich (12), who spoke at the assembly, said. “Our whole school community is heightened when everyone gets involved with more events, more people, and are more open-minded,” she said.

“I think the kids could really learn to appreciate what was being said because their friends and classmates were the ones speaking, not just an administrator, a teacher, or a guest speaker whom they’ve never seen before,” Weinstein said.

Rebecca Segall (12), who gave closing remarks, said that “Learning about the experiences of those around us provides a new way to look at the world, but we can also learn about ourselves by seeing our own experiences reflected in those of others.”

Sarah Heintz & Catherine LeeStaff Writer

James Ruben (12) addresses the audience of close to 100 students at the event he organized.

Victoria McKaba/Staff Photographer

Students Learn from Social Entrepreneurs at ConferenceRebecca Shaw Staff Writer

in this issue:

Mr. Bauld’s senior poetry class reads a collaboratively written poem that reflects the interaction between the individual and the group.

Carly Amon/Staff Photographer

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Brave New BoardThanks for picking up The Record today. Your doing so means that our

predecessors succeeded in making this paper something you find relevant, interesting, or maybe even necessary to read every week, and on behalf of them, we’re grateful for that respect. We plan to immerse ourselves even more deeply in the HM community this year, because there’s always more we can do. We have some lofty goals, but they’re all driven by the simple desire to be your paper, whoever you are. We want to represent the breadth of interests and voices that makes Horace Mann such a magical place to go to school.

We have a responsibility to do more than just report on the issues; we also must reach out to every corner of the community. Through the News section, we will make a concerted effort to report on clubs and events that in the past have been given less publicity. We aspire to use the Arts and Lions Den sections to help build interest in athletic games and artistic showings, bringing students together both in and out of the classroom. The Middle Division section will honor the accomplishments of HM’s future movers and shakers in addition to helping younger writers find a passion in journalism.

We plan to run Features on aspects of school life that affect HMers deeply and personally, and we hope you’ll think of the Op-Ed section as a forum where anyone with an opinion can share. The paper should be an opportunity for students to shine light on issues they find unaddressed.

Finally, we are excited for opportunities to reach past the newsprint, interacting with you in person at events like last year’s forum on student government.

Our school community is at a crossroads with regards to a number of issues: gender and sexual orientation, racial and socioeconomic diversity, the role of student government, and the relations between students and faculty are only some of the big topics that will influence the events of this coming year. Through it all, we’ll report honestly and fairly, and do our best to make this paper a source of inspiration and representation for each and everyone of you.

I was diagnosed with cancer on Tuesday, August 30th, 2011, just over a week before I was supposed to start my senior year of high school. I had been getting fevers every night consistently for a week, and my pediatrician

found something in my blood work that concerned her enough for her to refer to me the doctors at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. On that Tuesday, my parents and I met with the Pediatric Leukemia team there who gave me the official diagnosis. I learned that I have Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, which for those of you who don’t know is cancer of the blood. The doctors are 99.9% confident that I will be treated and cured but the treatment is going to be at least a two-year process. I started chemotherapy with a mix of a bunch of other drugs, most of which are to subdue the side effects of the chemo, on Wednesday, August 31st, and I have been going into the hospital for blood tests and treatment on average twice a week since then.

At the time of my diagnosis, I was in shock and I didn’t really know what to think or how to act. I’ve always been a very rational and level-headed person, which I think helped stabilize my initial reactions. After I learned that my chances of surviving are very high, most of my concern, frustration, and anger came from the realization that any shred of normalcy for my senior year of high school was going to be far from reality for me. I immediately knew that no school, limited social events, and limited contact with the outside world were going to suck. A lot. (Oh, and believe me, they do).

Coping with cancer is something that nobody knows how to handle but I’m definitely trying my best to maintain a positive attitude, not only for my own sanity but for the comfort and sanity of my friends and family. I decided to start a blog (which you can feel free to read at ellameryland.blogspot.com) to show everyone how I am coping and hopefully put my friends and family at ease with my attempts at straightforwardness and courage. As hard as it is for them, I want for people to worry about me as little as possible and I think reassuring them that I know that everything is going to be okay in the long run helps a lot.

I also started a blog so that I could share my story with complete strangers and maybe make a difference in someone’s life. I wanted someone to look at me and become inspired to never give up hope, no matter what life throws at him or her. I have always clung to the fact

that life goes on and that no one knows what’s going to happen tomorrow, so there’s no reason for people to complain about today. To make even one person understand and truly believe that would be amazing.

I want to acknowledge the amazing, superb, astonishing amount of support I’ve gotten from my family and friends and even complete strangers. An amazing example of that is the tremendous support that Team Ella received for the Light the Night Walk, run by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. This great organization works towards finding better treatments and cures for blood cancers so patients can live better, longer lives. Every year, they have a walk where supporters of loved ones struggling with Leukemia or Lymphoma can sign up and create a team that collects donations and shows their support by walking across the Brooklyn Bridge. My team raised almost $16,000 and we had over 50 people walk to show their support on October 5th, 2011.

This is just one example out of many, many examples of the overwhelming support that people have shown for me. I always knew that people would care if something bad happened to me but the extent of the warmth, the caring, and the kindness that everyone has shown has been overwhelmingly beautiful. It’s humbling to think about the number of people thinking of me and wishing for me to do well, so from the bottom of my heart, Thank You.

Love always, Ella Landesberg.

iCan change the worldThe man behind the iPads in our classrooms, behind the computers on

which we write our papers and this editorial, behind the iPhones on which we swipe at fruit or plug into our favorite music, will never lead another keynote. The tangible impact of Steve Jobs’ imagination will continue to fill our school, but he leaves behind another legacy: the example of a constantly questioning mind that never settled for the status quo.

In a speech at Stanford University’s 2005 commencement, soon after his diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, Jobs spoke of the importance of failure to success; of the need to embrace “foolishness” and creativity, even when it means deviating from the set paths to which we so often cling. It was advice that could have been tailored for our school community. He

We too often allow fear of falling to prevent us from taking the great leaps that characterized Steve Jobs, and that have the power to change the world. Whether it’s the terror of a B- test grade, the belief that a certain number of clubs is necessary for a perfect resumé, or the resistance to taking classes that might “look bad” to colleges, we constantly color within the lines in our school careers.

The creation of Pixar, the placement of a computer first within a beautiful frame, and then in the palm of our hands, and the change of technology from a niche product to a global phenomenon are all wildly innovative ideas that exemplify a willingness to imagine a world outside of the status quo. Jobs knew what we needed before we conceptualized the need, and the same imaginative force that drove him to leave Reed College after a semester enabled him to stay constantly ahead of the curve. While we’re not advocating that students put off higher education, his life is a fresh reminder that we have a choice in our next step.

In remembering Steve Jobs, we identify the many futures allowed to us, and we must recognize our own potential for unconventional paths to success.

In remembering our first iPods, the pink, blue, or green minis that held merely a thousand songs, we realize how much our world has shifted in such a short period of time, and how little we can predict what the world will be next.

We may have lost a visionary, but there are hundreds of us walking these halls, and the next Steve Jobs may be among us. The people who act as forces for progress, whose ideas move the world forward and leave it irreversibly altered, will be the members of our own generation. Our time is coming, the time to fill the shoes of inspiration and see how far they lead us.

Will you be afraid to dream?

Ella Landesberg

Coping with Cancer

As I walk through the hallways I notice that I naturally classify the people around me into categories: beautiful, smart, stupid, dorky, unattractive, unpopular, etc., the list continuing endlessly. I know, though, that casting people into rigid frameworks of identity is not the best way to operate my interpersonal relationships, especially at a school as diverse as Horace Mann.

I’ve come to this realization after being improperly labeled as a hipster several times, most notably last year in a Record article previewing my performances during Music Week of which the headline was “Hipster Sophomores, Opaque”. The truth is that this particular label has reached such a zenith of overuse as to lose all meaning. Many of HM’s artistic students have been assigned this label, but I feel that many labelers equate that term with pretentiousness, which I do not believe to be a common trait of our artistic community.

Fundamentally, whether you feel that classmates stereotype you because of your academic interests or you feel penned into one extracurricular engagement, it is uncomfortable to have your social identity dictated to you by someone else.

When we think about the question of labeling, a lot of old rhetoric regarding diversity arises, which understandably can grow tedious. However, discussing diversity effectively is actually very difficult, because there are two conflicting goals: celebrating our differences and unifying the community. We often get so caught up in the former that we perpetuate the compartmentalization of others into an infinite realm of labels.

Naturally the labels that are assigned to an individual by the community are based on some truth; “jocks” play sports, “potheads” get “high quality pizza”, and “geniuses” change the world through their own creative entrepreneurship. So why is labeling so problematic? What’s the big deal?

High school is the time in which we learn the most about ourselves, discovering what we like to do and learning who we are; this process of trial and error is why Horace Mann students have such a wide range

off abilities. While we are in this delicate stage, labeling is conducive to conformity to the label itself. In other words, because my high school years are the years in which I am learning who I am, then constantly being told by my fellow students that I am a hipster would influence me to conform to the label.

The other problem I’ve found with labeling is that it is often done without much thought to the object of the label or understanding of the term itself. For example, when political arguments dissolve into cries of “Communist!” “Socialist!” or “Social Darwinian!” the intellectual profits of political discourse are impeded, as those who assign these labels are rendered unable to understand the words of their opponents.

When other students label me, I hear someone else confine who I am to just a few words. And when those who label me watch me step outside of their expectations, they will react with surprise, probably quite negatively, because their system of seeing me through rigid frameworks failed them. Though not as easy, wouldn’t it be more accurate to understand that individuals cannot be summed up into just a few adjectives and nouns? We are all more complex than that.

Don’t Call Me A Hipster

Asher Baumrin

Vivien Ikwuazom/Staff Artist

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The horace Mann record Friday, October 7, 2011 3News

Parents and toddlers lined Saturday the 24th for the opening of alumna Suzanne Bellet Price’s organic children’s store Sprout. Located on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Sprout is Price’s East Coast outpost of her successful San Francisco store.

“Our San Francisco store has been open for two and a half years now and was the perfect place to test out the concept of an organic and natural baby store,” Price ‘96 said. “However, New York has always felt like my home and I wanted to bring what I created back there.

Price learned the importance of organic products by w o r k i n g at an investment bank f o c u s i n g on green and healthy consumer

businesses. When she and her husband decided to have a baby, she grew concerned about how to protect her daughter Hannah from the harmful chemicals in the environment. “After realizing there was no good place to find everything natural you need for a baby, where a knowledgeable staff can help answer your questions, I decided to create it,” Price said.

“A customer can come in, grab the items they need, and leave without the fear that they may have purchased something harmful for their child,” East Coast manager Staci Civins said. “It puts people at ease, and let’s them relax when everything else seems hectic in their lives.” While parents shop, toddlers can make new friends in a playroom equipped with drums, trains and rocking horses. Sprout sells

everything from cribs to clothing, and connects with the community by offering weekly classes ranging from Child Development workshops to Mommy and Me Pilates.

As a senior here I think I saw myself working for some type of non-profit organization that was going to save the world,” Price said. “Though it hasn’t worked out that way, I do hope that the mission I am bringing to Sprout will help a lot of people and bring about some change.”

Price’s “goal is for the business to be large enough for us to have a voice and change people’s behavior,” she said. “If consumers start to demand change, this might even lead to legislative changes, such as the ban on BPA that is happening now in many states or the 2009 ban on phthalates in plastic toys.”

Amy HoodStaff Writer

The English and History Departments celebrated yesterday the induction of Dr. Deborah Kassel ’84, and Dr. Glenn Wallach as the newest holders of honorary chairs in their departments.

“The honorary chair recognizes a teacher’s service to the school,” History Department chair Dr. Elisa Milkes said. English Department chair Dr. Adam Casdin likened the honors to a birthday or anniversary. “These honorary chairs allow us to celebrate and take a moment to think about one’s commitment to teaching,” Casdin said.

Kassel was named to the Alfred Baruth chair, which was endowed by 1,000 alumni in memory of longtime English teacher Alfred Baruth. Previously, William McCutcheon held the Baruth Chair.

The Stuart Chair in History “serves to remind the chosen faculty member that they are appreciated for their efforts in making the school a better place,” Milkes said. The chair was endowed by alumni James Stuart ‘81 and John Stuart ‘84. Claude Catapano was the previous holder of the Stuart Chair.

Wallach has been the faculty advisor to The Record since December 2002.

~ Alex Fine

Sprout, an organic children’s store founded by alumna Suzanne Bellet Price, opened a branch in NYC on the 24th. Amy Hood/ Contributing Photographer

Alumna Sprouts New Store in NYC

–News in Brief–

Advisories last week discussed the purpose and value of the Honor Code and the school’s policy on plagiarism and academic dishonesty. Before students signed the Code, advisors were suggested to go over with their advisees any confusing or vague points in which the policy on cheating stood unclear. According Dean of Student Life Dr. Susan Delanty, most students have no problems with signing the honor code. “The one issue that is raised every year however,” Delanty said, “is with the 5th rule on the list: I will oppose all instances of academic dishonest.” The trouble with this statement, Delanty said, is that people are not willing to betray their friends if one were to catch someone cheating. “That’s why we leave the issue vague enough, so it is up to the student to decide what they are going to do if ever presented with a situation where they were to find a friend plagiarizing.” By using the word oppose, it is up to a student’s discretion with how they will oppose instances of academic dishonesty.

Departments Name New Honorary Chairs

We say HM is a safe environment for everybody, regardless of sexual orientation. But how do we know this is true?

LGBt students are rarely brave enough to call attention to themselves by sharing their honest opinions about horace Mann as a safe environment; however, every time

a student is willing to bear the spotlight and speak his or her mind, our community matures a little as it learns about its behavior from a new perspective. We learn how

to make our school safer for everyone. not many hM students are openly non-straight, and those who are may not want to draw further attention to themselves by

speaking out about their experiences. But these experiences should be heard!

If you have stories or thoughts related to being LGBT at HM that you wouldn’t mind being anonymously shared at the next

assembly, please submit them to our Google Survey, which has been sent via FirstClass.

this is your chance to tell the school how you feel and what we could do better, without the pressure of being judged.

-Katie Bartel & Avital Morris, Co-Presidents, GsA

From the GSA: Let’s Hear Your Experiences

Illustrations by Amy Hood/ Staff Artist

Advisories Discuss, Sign Honor Code

The Class of 2015 elected three representatives to the Community Council this week. Michael Scherr, Ikaasa Suri, and Lucy Golub will represent the grade at the first meeting next Thursday. Because the Council has a less rigid structure than the Governing Council did, freshmen representatives may feel more confident in expressing their opinions, Dean of Student Life Dr. Susan Delanty said. She noted that “the intensity of the procedures” in past years might have limited participation. While seven students had been elected to the GC, the three slots for representatives left some defeated candidates like Tyler Bleuel (9) saying the election “seemed a bit like a popularity contest.” Delanty said that the process of changing the number of representatives from seven to three will slowly be implemented for all grades in the years to come.

9th Grade Votes in C.C. Members

The horace Mann recordFriday, October 7, 20114 FeaturesFeatures

When Conasia Watts (11), then a new student, saw Florence Ngala (11) on seventh grade visiting day she knew the two were destined to become friends. “I saw Florence and she had this hairstyle that also happened to be the hairstyle I wore all the time,” Watts said. “I knew that I had to be friends with her.” Now known as “Flonasia” to some, the two have received several complaints about invading people’s Facebook newsfeeds by constantly posting on each other’s walls, they said.

Today, adding new friends to your life and interacting with them can be done with the click of a button. But has the meaning of “friendship” and the means of socializing changed and evolved in the day and age of Facebook?

Psychologists at the NYU Child Study Center have found that exchanges between children today have become more superficial and more public than in the past, the New York Times reported. Some students, however, say they do not focus on Facebook as a major factor in their relationships.

Some students say that social networking sites facilitate preexisting friendships rather than create them. Facebook “makes it easier to set things up and see other interests, but all in all it doesn’t seem to play a big role. None of us became good friends online,” Yang Fei (10) said.

Fei and his close group of seven friends met through a combination of sports teams and mutual friends, he said. Similar taste in the “staples of life” – sports, music, food and humor – made their friendship possible, Stephen Sim (10) said.

Though Facebook strengthens friendships in some ways, it also has a negative impact on the definition of friendship in others because “it puts less value on actual friendships and stresses more of a superficial friendship with people who someone might not even know or barely be

acquainted with,” Sarah Lee (10) said. The students interviewed for this story said

that common interests and classes are the biggest way they make friends. Watts and Ngala participate in clubs together and find that they make other friends who are interested in the same things as they are, Ngala said. From clubs and other activities, “you already have some common ground to build a relationship on,” she said.

The self-proclaimed “Jake’s Crew” including Jeff Barg (11), Henry Warder (11), Alex Fine (11) and Justin Bleuel (11) became close during swim season. “We discovered Fine’s raw talent of falling everywhere and friendship was born,” Bleuel said.

Outside of the pool they share a common

interest in food. “Our group revolves around the consumption of edible goods,” said Barg. The boys dedicate two periods every other school week to have lunch together at Jake’s steakhouse down the hill. The time spent together and apart from the school environment is essential to their friendship because what they value most is that they can all confide in one another without fear of judgment, Fine said.

From being in Glee Club, theater, and dance together to participating in the same clubs outside of the classroom, Alex Smith (9) and Molly Minter (9) have become closer than ever this year, they said. In the Upper Division, being in the same classes helps foster friendships, Smith said. “If you don’t have

classes with someone, it’s hard and you barely ever see them,” Minter said. Having common interests is also something Smith looks for in a friend, he said.

Unlike some other students, Roya Moussapour (11) and Sam Holo (12) don’t look for common interests or specific qualities in making new friends. For them, a new friendship “just clicks,” Moussapour said. “I don’t think friendships can be reduced to characteristics that match up,” she said.

The Kaiser Family Foundation found that Americans between the ages of eight and eighteen spend seven and a half hours on average using electronic devices, while fifty percent of teenagers between ages twelve through seventeen send fifty or more text

messages per day.“What’s beautiful about all this technology is

that so much information can be relayed in such a short period of time,” Holo said. “However, what’s gross about it is that we don’t know how not to abuse it. I think spending time off chatting mediums is good if you want to take time off.”

An article published in the Guardian reported that “Social networking sites don’t deepen friendships,” and said that social networks “allow people to broaden their list of nodding acquaintances,” but that time and effort must be invested in a relationship to develop a “real friendship.”

When friends have disagreements, most

come from “misunderstandings or when one friend does something wrong to another friend,” Stephanie Chi(10) said. For Chi, direct contact between friends is important in resolving issues. She said the best thing to do “is to confront each other directly and just solve it with one another.”

While many in the community use Facebook and other networking sites, most depend heavily on time spent together in person rather than connections made online for maintaining their closest friendships.

Kate Puglia (11) said social networking is “good to maintain friendships but it’s hard when you rely only on that.” Puglia also said she was able stay friends with Olivia Rodriguez (11) despite Rodriguez’s leaving the school for four years because “we were always there for each

other and that kept us really close.”

For music teacher Timothy Ho, his friendship with science teacher Angelina Goater began during Faculty Orientation during Ho’s first year where he was instantly attracted to her humor and sarcasm.

“There was an activity where we had to do a dance move with the amount of syllables in our name. I was extremely uncomfortable so I think I said something about it and he laughed. We had lunch that day and our

friendship started,” Goater said. “I’m getting married in December and Mr. Ho is singing in our ceremony,” she said.

Although media affected the way people approach friendships, most students agree that contact in person is the basis to their closest friendships. While being online is great for long-distance friendships, “nothing can replace just spending time with somebody face-to-face,” Ho said.

Amy Hood & Chloe TsangStaff Writers

Navigating Friendship in a Digital AgeMolly Minter & Alex Smith (9) Florence Ngala & Conasia Watts

(11), aka “Flonasia”

Jeff Barg, Henry Warder, Alex Fine, & Justin Bleuel (11), aka “Jake’s Crew”

Ms. Goater & Mr. Ho

Roya Moussapour (11) & Sam Holo (12)

“In 6th grade, I[Molly] was nervous for a science test and I picked a random person to help me study and he ended up being my best friend!”

“We like to make buttons together, go on shopping sprees, obsess over Tumblr, and

we taught our grade how to Dougie.”

“We dedicate two periods every other school week to have lunch together at Jake’s steakhouse down the hill.”

“Sam can benchpress me[Roya], and we enjoy eating bacon every morning in the cafeteria.”

“I[Olivia] didn’t know how to spell ‘Kaitlan’ in Kindergarten so I nicknamed her ‘Kate’ and

now everyone calls her that.”

Kaitlan Puglia & Olivia Rodriguez (11)

“At new teacher orientation five years ago, we had to do a dance move with the amount of syllables in

our name. I[Goater] was extremely uncomfortable so I think I said something about being uncomfortable and he[Ho] laughed and we had lunch that day.”

We sat near the shore of Green Lake,Tufts of tall yellow grass sprang from the sandAnd the water lapped pensively against the rocky bank. A sailboat slid out from the hillsideThat enfolds the far end of the lake.It was almost evening – A cool, biting breeze wove through the pine trees And the scattered wooden cabins;Our arms hugged our legs; both of our knees were scraped And every few moments he blew his dirty brown hair out of his face.

SEEDS

~Jacob Moscona-Skolnik (12)

A plastic bag full of cherries sat on a flat rock between us;Eating them one by one we sucked and scraped everything we could off the seedAnd then spit it into the brush to either side.As evening began to wrap itself around the waterfrontAnd stars sporadically blinked themselves awakeI watched my new friend spit the last cherry seed over his right shoulderAnd wondered what the chance was that one of our seeds Would ever grow into a tree, its roots extending into the lakefront earthGrowing more stalwart, more complexWith the rolling decadesAnd the melting shoreline.

Photos by Rachel Essner/Photography Editor & Victoria McKaba/Staff Photographer

The horace Mann record Friday, October 7, 2011 5Arts & Entertainment

Acting seminar students studied animals from flamingos to antelopes and their different characteristics on a field trip to the Bronx Zoo last Wednesday.

So far this year, the class has been focusing on method acting, a technique used by actors to create thoughts and emotions in themselves. They used this experience to study animal behavior and incorporate it into their performance, acting seminar teacher Woody Howard said.

The twelve students studied various animals including giraffes, lions, tigers, birds, and flamingos and came up with a unique interpretation of the animal’s behaviors.

“As a group, we tossed around ideas and looked at different aspects of an animal’s behavior, David Zask (11), said. He enjoyed the altered prospected through this collaboration, he said.

Rachel Simerka-Smith (11), whose group studied the antelope, said that it “held the characteristics of a socially awkward teenage kid: very shy and typically walking with its head down.”

“It’s different from the usual tone change or facial expression,” Hannah Jun (12) said. Rather than indicating or imitating, the method is about “creation with the ingredients of your memories and experiences.” Jun, who had never seen a giraffe before, said that she was amazed by the way their long glides as they walked. “Videos I’d seen of giraffes before really hadn’t

done their elegance justice.” “Young actors are typically not exposed to

the different characteristics around them,” Howard said. “One method that can lead to good acting is observing other people and taking their walk or their smile into his or her own performance.” People commonly attribute animal characteristics to others – he has a very lizard-like appearance, or the way he walks is like a lion. That’s where the zoo trip comes into play, he added.

“I think it was interesting to look at animals and to try and find human qualities in them, or even animalistic qualities in us. It allows you to see more of the animal, basically relate them to people you know or draw connections to yourself,” Rachel Simerka-Smith (11) said. “We’re more like animals than we want to believe, and going to the zoo really brought that out for me.”

“It’s good to get out of the classroom and look at the world around us,” Zask said. “It gives us a new opportunity to learn something a different way.” Jun said that the experience was particularly special because it took place in a setting as fun and eye opening as a zoo.

“In a city with so many resources and such fantastic opportunities, its hard for teachers not to want their students to go on field trips,” Howard said. “However, the major problem our school has with field trips is the spacing simply because the timing of these trips is hard to predict and most of them intrude into time spent on other classes.”

Thomas Eng Staff Writer

Top: After a careful character study, members of acting seminar class do their best to embody

the flamingo. Above: David Zask (11) poses with a Bronx Zoo gorilla. Right: The wading

birds that inspired the students in their performances.

Photos courtesy of Elizabeth Weingold

Acting Seminar Goes Wild

Photography Classes Visit ICP

Photos from icp.org

Ben Lenzner

Now until 10/29

In The Gallery Now:

Coming Up In The Arts:Film Score Concert - October 27th

Adele’s song Someone Like You makes me think that I should have kept up my piano lessons as a young kid. This beautiful piano ballad speaks of a broken relationship and a love lost by British singer and songwriter Adele. Unlike so many of today’s current chart topping artists, Adele is a true poet; her lyrics convey the pain in her heart and the true emotions she felt as a consequence of her breakup. Her raspy and passionate low-toned voice is her signature sound, which

makes her immediately identifiable. It is incredibly refreshing to see a top female artist who does not need to wear latex on stage, put implants in her face, or put on an over the top, sexually infused performance in order to create her image as a famous singer. Rather, Adele is popular for her fervent voice and honest lyrics that speak to people without offending them. You can listen to Adele with your grandmother and not be embarrassed by the insane profanity so prevalent in today’s music. Someone Like You showcases Adele’s gifted voice and songwriting talents.

My Favorite Song: Someone Like YouAlexa MeltzerStaff Writer

Photography 1 and Advanced Photography 2 students travelled to the International Center of Photography (ICP) on Wednesday to see the current exhibitions, including Harper’s Bazaar: A Decade of Style, Remembering 9/11, and Signs of Life: Photographs by Peter Sekaer. These exhibits varied greatly, ranging from vibrant photographs of celebrities, images from the Great Depression, and photographs of the events surrounding September 11, 2001. These very different subjects allowed the students to see many different types off photography presented in many different ways, including black and white images, large-scale color prints, and video presentations.

~Cara Annunziata

The horace Mann recordFriday, October 7, 20116 Middle Division

Girls’ MD Tennis Slams Competition

The Middle School Girls Tennis team’s season opened with two wins against Rye Country Day and Dwight Englewood.

With a score of 9-3, the matches against RCD ended with victories against extremely strong players. Anne Rosenblatt (8) won with a final result of 6-0. “I played four doubles and we lost the first singles but overall, our team did really well,” Emily Weinstein (7) said. “Some of the matches were really close, but that makes winning more satisfying.”

In the match against Dwight Englewood the team won by a score of 10-1, losing one doubles match out of three singles and eight doubles. “Last year, Dwight and RCD were our top competitors but this year, we played really well against them,” Weinstein said.

New players said they like playing against each other and want to become more consistent in their swerves, backhands, forehands and outs in order to become stronger tennis players. Coach Diana Siegel said that the “team is extremely strong and will have a season of victory,” as the students become a more powerful team as a whole.

Siegal said she is looking forward to “helping with technique and making the girls more consistent in their matches and generally making better shots down the line.”

For Jessie Millman (7) being part of the tennis team is a “great experience because even though it’s an individual sport, it’s still a team effort and we get to do everything together.” During practice, the tennis players “warm up, run and stretch and then, we play ladder matches or just hit,” Anne Rosenblatt (8) said. “Practice is a huge part of the team building experience.”

“8th graders have more leadership responsibilities and we’re teaching the 7th graders more about what to do. Now, we have the opportunity to play singles and it’s more advanced,” Rosenblatt said. The eighth graders are getting ready to lead new 7th graders down a road of success as they wait for their teammates to step up and take their leadership roles on the team.. Seventh graders, such as Alexandra Mantz, said she appreciates the leadership and guidance provided by the older teammates and looks forward to a chance to “become one of the leading team members and playing more matches of higher difficulty.”

Mantz and her teammates are “looking forward to becoming better at the sport and having my teammates help me become better as the season progresses.” Rosenblatt said that “we have a really good team filled with strong 7th grade players.” Doubles player Isabel Kronenberg (7) is excited “to getting better and becoming a better tennis player while having a lot of fun with my friends and teammates.”

Diana LiStaff Writer

Anne Rosenblatt (8) serves in a singles match against Dwight Englewood on Thursday. The team ended with a final score of 10-1.

Viictoria Mckaba/Staff Photographer

Seth Arar/Contributing Artist

This is a nice country song for when I want to take a break from pop music. I really enjoy the melody of it and the harmonizing that is done between all the band members. The lyrics and meaning behind the song are sad but touching. Perry writes that if she were to die young, she would have no regrets. She writes that if she “dies young” her family should “gather up your tears, keep ‘em in your pocket, save them for a time when you’re really gonna need them.” The sad lyrics are complemented by a more hopeful melody.

if i Die YounG/the Band Perry

I think this song has a great beat and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine and Christina Aguilera’s vocals sound beautiful together. Levine and Aguilera originally performed the song on the reality talent show The Voice, which they were both judges on. Levine sings about dancing “like Jagger” to impress the ladies. But beware! The song is really catchy and you WILL find yourself singing the chorus over and over again.

MoVes LiKe JAGGeR/Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera

I feel like this song is the kind of song that when it’s on the radio you can open the windows and blast the

music. This song is very upbeat and it always makes me want to move. The song is about a guy who is going after a really outgoing girl, and the feeling

that goes along with new love. The good thing about songs like this is that you can have fun listening to

them anywhere anytime.

You MAKe Me feeL.../Cobra starship ft. sabi

What are Middle Schoolers Listening To?from the iPod of Emily Weinstein (7)

Viictoria Mckaba/Staff Photographer

The horace Mann record Friday, October 7, 2011 7Lions DenLions Den

Horace Mann Sailing Opens SeasonThe Horace Mann Sailing Club

kicked off their sophomore year with a strong finish in their first regatta, at Long Island Sound last weekend.

The Sailing Club, although not an official team, still wears jerseys and competes in races against other schools. “We are trying to work our way towards team status, but we just have to consider ourselves a team for now,” Erik Derecktor (12) said.

Created last year by Derecktor and Reinier Eenkema van Dijk (11), the club is drawing increased interest from students About 50 students signed up at the Clubs Fair, Derecktor said. “Although not everyone who signed up is going to sail, it still shows a good level of interest in the club.”

Many sailors in the club also race competitively outside of school. Eenkema van Dijk is part of a sailing crew that is ranked #1 in the country in many different categories of sailing, while Derecktor and Ashley Gerber (11), who joined the club this year, used to race competitively.

The two co-founders knew each other as sailors before coming to Horace Mann and had “always had the idea to start a sailing club in high school,” Eenkema van Dijk said. When the two of them realized that other students were interested in sailing, they decided to try to get as many people possible involved.

The club competed in their first

regatta of the year against several Westchester high schools, and the club battled well against the other teams that have had a lot more practices. “Considering that teams like Mamaroneck and Rye Country Day have so many more opportunities to practice, I thought

we sailed pretty well,” Eenkema van Dijk said. The Lions brought 4 sailors to compete, including Derecktor, Eenkema van Dijk, Eliza Dunne (11), and Adam Egelman (11). Horace Mann is the only Ivy League school with any type of sailing program, so the Lions joined a league consisting of

Westchester high schools instead. One challenge the sailors face is

finding a way to practice consistently. Some club members practiced together over the long weekend on Long Island Sound, but it is usually “ really difficult to find practice time for all of us,” Derecktor said. The team

has also occasionally trained with other sailing teams on the weekends. The club was able to practice with the Rye Country Day team, who has an Olympic level coach. “It was really cool to get to train with someone that experienced,” Eenkema van Dijk said.

Despite the difficulty in practicing during the school year, interest in the Sailing Club has spiked this year. About 50 students signed up for the Sailing Club at the Clubs Fair, which is a lot more members than the club had last year, Derecktor said. “Although not everyone who signed up is going to sail, it still shows a good level of interest in the club.”

Many sailors in the HM Sailing Club also race competitively outside of school. Eenkema van Dijk is part of a sailing crew that is ranked #1 in the country in many different categories of sailing, while Derektor and Gerber used to race competitively. It’s safe to say that the Horace Mann Sailing Club has both the experience and the skill to race closely with any team.

The team has two more regattas planned for this year, their league championship, and the Team Racing Championships on October 15, a qualifying race for the District Championships, so the Lions hope to succeed in qualifying for the Districts, “and hopefully the Nationals,” Derecktor said. In their final regatta, the Lions hope to take home the league title.

Andrew ArnaboldiStaff Writer

Horace Mann sailors compete in first sailing ragatta in Horace Mann history. Courtesy of Erik Derecktor

Boys’ SoccerWins in OT

When longtime Boys’ Soccer Coach Neil Berniker was asked what the strategy of Wednesday’s game against Trinity was, he answered with one word: “winning,” and the Lions did just that.

After roaring out to a commanding 2-0 lead with goals by Michael Chon (11) and Bernie Rawlins (11) before halftime, it seemed as if the Lions were going to cruise to their third straight win in Wednesday’s game against Trinity.

After halftime the Trinity Tigers came out of the huddle and quickly scored a goal, and used the momentum from that goal to score another one, which tied the match.

Since many players felt that the Lions were clearly a superior team than the Tigers, some felt the team consequently “became complacent and eased off a bit; thus allowing a few goals” said Andrew Silberstein (11). But the stakes were then high as neither team scored again during regulation and the game went into overtime.

With two minutes left in overtime Lyle Deshowitz (11) was set up on a breakaway by a perfect chip pass from Jeremy Roth (10) and was able to connect with a clutch goal, giving the Lions a 3-2 lead. “It felt absolutely amazing to pick up the team, and get the job done,” Dershowitz said. As a result of Dershowitz’s goal the Lions were able to hold on to seal the victory.

Berniker credited the team’s

cohesiveness as a factor in the win. “We kept our composure even into overtime,” he said. “We played our game and didn’t freak out.” Players echoed their coach’s sentiments. “Trinity had probably played the best game they’ve played all season, but we hung tough didn’t lose our composure and took care of business,” Silberstein said. “Onto the next one.”

Fieldston tied Wednesday, so the Lions’ victory propelled them to first place in the Ivy League. “Our hard work finally played off. It feels great to be atop of the league, and hopefully we can solidify our position in first place,” Chon said.

First place is not an unfamiliar position for the Lions, having been there for much of last year. “We are a young, but experienced team, and hopefully we can keep up this pace

for the rest of the season,” Andrew Arnaboldi (11) said. “Our goal is to stay on top and qualify for states. We want to have people chase after us,” Zach Dinan (11) said.

The Lions will face Fieldston twice and Poly Prep once in a 4-day span..“Next week will be a pivotal stretch for us in terms of winning the Ivy League,” Arnaboldi said. “We need to come out with a few more big wins.”

concerned and credited the win to Fieldston’s poor field as opposed to superior playing skills. Elliot said, “I don’t think Fieldston’s very strong this year so we should be able to win unless we go in like we did today with a lackluster performance.”

Sipprelle said, “we’re looking to get our heads back in the game and beat them.” A win is vital to remain at the top of the competitive Ivy League.

Rachel Essner/ Photography EditorBernie Rawlins (11) makes a move on a Trinity player.

Andrew SchwartzContributing Writer

Boys’ Cross Country Trains for

Championships

With 2.5 mile Ivy Developmental Meets spread across their schedule, the Boys Varsity Cross Country team has a lot of work ahead of itself to put up a good performance at League and State Championships.

“As a team, we didn’t do as well as we thought or hoped,” Captain Charles Scherr (11) said. “It was our first big meet of the season, with all of the best teams in New York there.”

Though the team finished third overall out of four teams in Van Cortlandt Park, some of the runners “had their best performances,” Captain Cory Taibleson (12) said. Stephen Sim (10) came in first place for Horace Mann, and Henry Warder (11) came in second.

“The problem was that a few of our runners started off slow, and others got tired by the end of the race, which made our time suffer as a whole,” Taibleson said. In addition to the long distance running through the hills and medium distance running to increase speed, there are going to be harder practices, starting this week.

“There will be less easy days and more challenging days to prepare for the most important races towards the end of the season,” Taibleson said.

“We ran well and are training hard. We have been focusing on longer speed workouts and it is now the time of the season where we train in the

back hills.” Coach Jon Eshoo said. With the new training techniques

in place, the Lions will be preparing for their upcoming races. With only a few races remaining on their schedule, the team has to take advantage of all of their practices wisely. They also need to take advantage of their access to Van Courtland Park, where most of the races are held. With Ivy League Championships only a couple of weeks away, followed by State Championships the Cross Country team will look to win the league and have their top runners place at States.

“This really is the hardest stretch of the season,” Scherr said. Cross Country is still having regular Ivy League meets, but they need to start worrying about Ivy League Championships and States.

Varsity Girls Cross Country did not participate in the Ivy Developmental Meet on Saturday, but they do have some upcoming races. They have a regular Ivy Meet next Wednesday, and they too have Ivy League Championships and State Championships coming up.

In the near future, Boys’ Cross Country has a regular Ivy League Meet and the Fordham Prep Cross Country Carnival on October 15th.

“We are having fun out there,” Scherr said. “We are still a young team, and we have not peaked yet. We are just going to continue to get better and better.”

Grant AckemeranStaff Writer

Lions’DenOctober 7, 2011 Volume 109, Issue 4

The Horace Mann Record

The Varsity Water Polo Team had an up and down week, suffering a 12-9 loss to Pingry High School on Monday but making up for it with a decisive win Wednesday versus St. Peter’s Prep.

“We had played them before and we won 10-8, but they were missing their best player. This time though, we prepared for a harder game,” co-captain Justin Bleuel (11) said. Despite the addition of Pingry’s top player, the Lions kept the game close.

“We worked really well as a team together and the team knows that we have to work on ball control,” Co-captain Harley Pasternak (12) said. Bleuel added, “We have to step up our game in the first quarter to set a tone for the rest of the game, and work on our communication.”

In previous games, the team came up flat in the beginning quarters, and would need to catch up in the later quarters.

“We usually have a hard start to the first quarter and have to make up for it in the second, third, and fourth quarters,” Bleuel said.

This is said to be repercussions from the team not being able to pump themselves up before the game. In the future, coach Duffy, as well as the other team captains, is going to try to pump up the underclassmen and the other upper-classmen in order to come out strong.

The team will also try to take advantage of a smaller Prettyman pool, pressing teams and denying passing lanes, players said.

The team played another match on Wednesday against St. Peter’s Prep. Trying to avenge their loss on Monday, the team trained for a faster team in practice on Tuesday.

“In order to be ready for St. Peter’s Prep on Wednesday, we have to do some swimming drills to build our endurance, work on shooting and working the ball around the pool, and we have to

practice our set drills,” Bleuel said. The Lions came out strong by blowing out St.

Peter’s Prep school 17-2. St. Peter’s Prep, having a premier swimming team, recently started a new water polo team. “They were very good swimmers, but they were not experienced at water polo. However, we were able to hone in on their weaknesses to rise over the team,” Bleuel said.

The Lions were able to win the game versus St. Peter’s Prep with their skill level, ability to work

the fast break, experience in their home pool, and also the ability to shift the ball from the defense to the offense.

They will continue to work on these skills in their practices in order to defeat their awaiting opponents. The Lions’ upcoming opponents are Trinity on Monday at home, Staples High School away on Wednesday, and St. Benedict’s Prep at home on Friday. “We will continue to work on our swimming endurance as well as our shooting and working the ball around,” Pasternak said.

Alessandro Van Den Brink (10) stuffs a St. Peter’s Prep player in the 17-2 win

Water Polo Breaks Even

Laurence Ge/Photography Editor

Robert HefterContributing Writer

The revamped Horace Mann Varsity football team is off to a solid start, posting a 1-1 record thus far. After losing the first game of the season to Forman, the Lions beat New York Military Academy for their first win of the season.

Two weeks ago, the team began their season against Forman, a boarding school in Connecticut. Both offenses started off slowly, and with tough defense the game remained at 0-0 until the start of the fourth quarter. On offense, the team drove the well, but stalled in the red zone and had a couple of crucial turnovers.

Forman was able to get its power running game going in the fourth quarter, punishing the Lions defense en route to scoring three touchdowns, all rushing, in the fourth quarter.

Defensive tackle Alex Talarico explained, “We were very tired by the start of the fourth quarter so there was a lack of pursuit when they ran sweeps to the outside, and those plays went for big yardage.”

With 30 seconds left, down 20-12, the team had a chance to come back, forcing a Forman fourth down. But the team was shocked when a fake punt by Forman in their own territory was taken for a touchdown, and time ran out for the Lions.

“The kids need to be ready to play all for quarters, and this game taught them.” Head Coach Matt Russo said. “One of our weaknesses has been mental errors, and that hurt us against Forman.”

Next, the Lions faced New York Military Academy, which was a key game because it was the only team the Lions beat last year.

The Lions took the lead early, with four touchdowns in the first half and dominant defense, allowing only a special teams touchdown to take a 26-6 halftime lead. They ended up beating NYMA 32-14 to improve to 1-1 on the season.

“It was a complete team effort for the victory. We were able to execute on offense and stop them on defense. This win will do a lot to increase the confidence of the team,” Russo said.

“We came out confident after having beaten NYMA last year, and having played three good quarters against Forman. We were strong in all areas and came away with our first win of the season,” Andrew Schwartz (12) said.

Many players stepped up, including Anthony Gagliardi (11) who ran for two touchdowns filling in for injured running back Matt Cott (12), and several new who got players their first game action due to the score and situation.

Horace Mann faces Sacred Heart this Sunday in the Lions’ first away game on Sacred Heart’s homecoming.

“This game will be an indicator of where in stand in the league, since we have not beaten Sacred Heart in a few years,” Andrew Schwartz (11) said.

Another win would be the best start in recent years for the team and help to accomplish Coach Russo’s ultimate goal of “competing in every game and building a successful football program.”

Evan ReinsbergStaff Writer

Two goals in the first half helped the Masters School defeat girls’ varsity field hockey on Wednesday.

“We lacked intensity at the start of the game, but we picked it up as the game progressed,” captain Emily Feldstein (12) said. In the second half the Lions kept the opposing team from scoring and cut the deficit to one goal.

Though the score at the end of the game had the Lions losing by one, they still played a competitively; during the entire second half, the Lions were able to keep the opposing team from scoring, and Emily Feldstein said that “it was indicative of our level of play.”

On the offensive end, the team was able to score against Masters during the second half. In the second half, tthey were able to control the ball more and remained on the offensive side of the field for most of the half, keeping the ball away from Masters.

Many of the younger players got to play and gain valuable time on the field as the team grows closer together,, Veronica Williamson (11) said.

“Many of the freshman were able to get some playing time which will hopefully build up their confidence,” Williamson said.

This season, the team is trying out a new lineup, and change is always difficult, but according to wins against Riverdale and Chapin earlier in the season, the team is adapting and improving. Emotions ran high for the first half of the game with the Lions down two. The girls seemed to be frustrated and it

was evident in their playing. Thanks to the team’s “great

chemistry,” they were able to work through their issues and work together as a team for the entire second half of the game, even against a faster Masters team.

Though Masters was able to take home a win, the Lions worked

together as a team, and were able to give the masters girls a run for their money. It is apparent that the field hockey team is very skilled, and will no doubt come back from this defeat stronger and have an amazing rest of the season.

Field Hockey Comes Up Short Against MastersNajatt AjararContributing Writer

Football Boots NYMA

Conasia Watts (11) beats a Chapin player to the ball in the 2-1 loss to the Masters School. Kimberley Sarnoff/Photography Editor