johnharrington – A Student Publication of the Roxbury Latin School

A couple of crosswords to pass the time

By Michael Allen IV

Michael Allen has developed a website for his crosswords. Go check it out right here: https://sites.google.com/roxburylatin.org/crosswordsbymichael/home

By Lucas Vander Elst V

1	2	3	4
5
6
7

Across:

1. Erin’s husband

5. Brand name that rhymes with [3 down]

6. Princess who was to nurse Zeus before replaced by the goat, Amalthea

7. Wolverine state org. for getting around

Down:

1. 70s Rock style

2. A marsh plant that sounds (not spells) like a certain Classmaster

3. Brand name that rhymes with [5 across]

4. Bridge troll’s enemy

Answer Key:

1G	2R	3E	4G
5L	E	G	O
6A	E	G	A
7M	D	O	T

By John Harrington I

Three departed faculty make room for Zoom interviews

By John Harrington I

Recently, one of my highlights of the quarantine was the opportunity to sit down (virtually) through Zoom with three esteemed former RL faculty members, Matt Dinger, Andrew Kingsley, and Cary Snider. They were all glad to share their fond experiences at school and to shed light on the next chapters of their lives. Here are their interviews, in the order of how much I liked them as teachers, along with my editorial commentary. I’m totally kidding. It’s just alphabetical:

Class presidents bring their personal touch to virtual homerooms

By Vishnu Emani III

As we’ve all been getting acclimated to the new school environment, we have been trying to make the virtual school experience as similar as possible to what school was like before. Other than the nauseating clanging of the rolly-bags in the hallways and the experience of standing right next to the monstrous bells in the Classics wing, most of the physical school experience is worth trying to replicate. Specifically, I want to focus on how homeroom is being run throughout the different classes.

Biden’s VP pick is the key to his lock on the presidency

By John and Robert Balson II

As Covid-19 has dominated the news cycle for the past 2 months, the once incessantly followed 2020 Presidential nomination process and election has been largely an afterthought. Joe Biden continued his strong performance after his domination of Bernie Sanders in South Carolina and again the following week on Super Tuesday. Seeing no clear path to the nomination, Senator Sanders dropped out of the race on April 8th, guaranteeing that Vice President Biden would be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020. He will be running, of course, against the incumbent President Donald Trump. One of the last major questions that is yet to be answered is who Biden will select as his running mate. He previously guaranteed he would select a woman, meaning his choice will likely be one of the following: Stacey Abrams, former minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives and Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia in 2018; Kamala Harris, senator from California and former-Attorney General of California; Amy Klobuchar, senator from Minnesota; Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan; Catherine Cortez Masto; senator from Nevada; or Elizabeth Warren, senator from Massachusetts.