A Student Publication of the Roxbury Latin School

Time Capsule: Students detail quarantine diversions

One snapshot of daily quarantine life from each grade

By Daniel Berk II

Quarantine can be a tough time. The days feel long, there are no friends to see, and there are few new experiences. If you are running out of things to do while social distancing or just want to hear someone else’s take on life as a quaranTEEN, look no further! Members of each class at RL have answered these three questions:

How do you spend your days?
How do you feel about the virus?
What are some recommendations for things to do?

Watch these video snippets from their quarantines!

Meme Central: Tweets, TikToks and more!

These memes, videos, and fake tweets were submitted by various students from across all six grades.

Faculty Tweets:

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.

Advice for dealing with quarantine

By Christo Velikin VI

Some stay inside and play video games all day long. Some are outside all of the time. Some are creative with things, and come up with their own fun. Some are optimistic, some are pessimistic. So what should you do during lockdown? Well, in this article, I will give you a couple of ideas about what to do when you are bored at home, which for me is probably 80% of the time.

18-5 season earns varsity basketball a playoff berth, first in a decade

By Tim Smith I

In terms of sheer results, the 2019-2020 varsity basketball team had a historic year. We finished 18-5, with wins over several league powerhouses like Lawrence Academy, Beaver Country Day, and Rivers. The team earned a Class-B playoff berth for the first time in about a decade. In the first round, we were slated to play St. Luke’s School at Cheshire Academy. We fought hard, but ended up losing 47-57. Although we came up short in the playoffs, each of us were proud of the effort we had put in, the results we achieved, and the growth we all experienced as players and people.

Professional sports grind to a halt

By Michael Allen IV

The night that we got out for spring break, the NBA’s greatest COVID-19 fear came true: a player had caught it. That player, all-star Rudy Gobert, was criticized for his carelessness towards the virus. In an interview a few days before his diagnosis where he was asked about potentially having the virus, he responded by touching all microphones in sight. Rudy’s situation was a turning point for how the virus has been handled in America. All professional sporting events were postponed or cancelled (save eSports, which continues to stand strong!).

Rudy Gobert and His Teammate Donovan Mitchell

Latonics drop new album: “Lose Yourself Again”

By Christian Landry I

After a long wait, the Latonics’ new album is finally here! Lose Yourself Again features songs from the 2016-2017 Latonics and 2017-2018 Latonics. After an unexpected backup in production, the album was delayed significantly, but it was well worth the wait. In addition, the Latonics are now going virtual! This album will be directly uploaded to Spotify, Apple Music, and more, instead of being released as an actual CD. The album art was created by former Latonics member Erik Zou ’19. You can find the tracklist below:

Newsies hailed as best Winter Musical of all time

Performances fill Smith Theater to capacity

By Christian Landry I

In a year full of firsts, Roxbury Latin’s first Winter Musical was a huge success. This year’s production was Disney’s Newsies, a story about a group of young kids who sell newspapers in New York. The group is led by Jack Kelly, played by Nick Chehwan I, an energetic and passionate leader who organizes a strike against the newspaper company The World, after Mr. Pulitzer (Ian Richardson I) raises newspaper prices. Jack unites the different bands of Newsies from all across New York and forms a union against the newspapers. He is only able to organize everyone with the help of his friends, especially Crutchie (Ale Philippides III) and Davey (David Sullivan III). Despite Crutchie’s capture and imprisonment in The Refuge, a children’s prison, and Pulitzer’s attempts to bribe and thwart Jack’s plans, the Newsies push strong and eventually, with the help of Governor Roosevelt (Teddy Glaeser III), are able to get what they want.

Should we have a May Day in October?

By Ben Brasher II and Max Hutter II

Ben’s view:

With Governor Baker’s announcement that all Massachusetts schools will be effectively closed for the remainder of the year, many RL students are feeling a wide range of emotions. Seniors may be feeling sad about the abrupt end to their high school careers, while others might just be feeling annoyed to be locked up in the house with their younger siblings. But one thing we’re sure we can all agree on is that we would all rather be at RL hanging with the boys right now instead of being stuck in this whole quarantine mess.