Vol. 47 No. 9 Cherry Hill High School East: 1750 Kresson Road, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003 May 2013

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Inside This Issue We all scream for ice

cream and water ice Community Pg. 6

One East teacher fishesfor success

News/Features Pg. 2

East pockets threeCoaches of the Year

Sports Pg. 18

Yoga means union –union of the body andbreath. Teachers aroundEast express themselvesthrough this mind-easingpractice. Perhaps to easethe stress of the schooldays from their bodies, orsimply to do as a favoritehobby, yoga has becomepart of many teachers’daily routines.

English teacher Ms.Alicia DeMarco has beenpracticing yoga steadilysince the late ‘90s. Shepractices a variety ofmethods such as hatha,ashtanga (power), iyengar(alignment), bikram (theone in 110 degree heat, aset standard of 26 pos-tures for 90 minutes).Mrs. Helena Dobromilski,also an English teacher atEast, has been practicingyoga since 1975.

“I started doing yoga in1975 when I was diag-nosed with sciatica. I hadbeen reading yoga philos-ophy but not practicingthe asanas until I had aphysical problem,”Dobromilski said.

Dobromilski is now acertified lyengar yogateacher who practicesyoga daily.

Not only does yogacome in many differentvarieties, but yoga canalso be categorized asmeditative.

DeMarco said, “Onceyou understand how apose, or ‘asana’ works, itis easy to move in and outof it and really focus onthe breath as a way tofully open the posture,which opens the body andthe mind.”

She classifies theresult as a feeling of light-ness and happiness — anelevation of the mind andsense that all things are

as they should be. Alongwith the many differentforms of yoga, there aremany different poses onecan perform. Yoga cre-ates flexible bodies, andalso can also be an activi-ty that is flexible in itsperformance. Yoga class-es take place during allhours of the day and canease a mind on overdrive.

DeMarco said, “Mypractice is daily; I wish Iwas as disciplined withmeditation. I try to sitevery morning between 5and 6 a.m. to do breathwork and then simply

sit.”Yoga has many bene-

fits. Not only is it a greatwork-out, but it can alsowork as a stress reliever

for high school students’busy lives.

“High-schoolers areperfect candidates foryoga and its positive ben-efits,” DeMarco said, “thephysical challenge andstrengthening, the men-tal clarity and focus, thecommunity createdthrough practicing withothers.”

Dobromilski agreesthat yoga has many bene-fits.

“My favorite thingabout yoga is that it ismore than a physicalpractice. Yoga is a disci-

pline, a way of life, a men-tal and spirtiual practiceas much as, if not morethan, the physical dimen-sion,” Dobromilski said.

A Yoga Club wasrecently started up atEast led by DeMarco,after Kristen Hearn (‘14)came to her asking her tobe the advisor.

“I wanted to have aplace to do [yoga] atschool with other people,so we decided to start ayoga club,” Hearn said.“We are thinking abouttaking a trip to the beachthis summer to do yogathere.”

This beneficial hobbypracticed at school maynot only unite the bodyand the breath, but also

unite teachers and stu-dents.

“So far, it’s been work-ing out great,” saidDeMarco. “We did someguided mediations togeth-er, I showed them andtalked to them aboutwhat prahna is, how tokeep your spine straightwhen you’re seated...”

DeMarco said that themain focus for the pastfew meetings has beenproper breathing tech-niques to perform duringyoga. So far, there areapproximately ten peoplein the club.

“I love the after-effectof yoga...I love how itmade me calmer,”DeMarco said. “It’s toningthe inside of your bodyjust as much as the out-side and your mind iscalm.”

The club is open to any-one who wants to practiceyoga, no experience nec-essary.

“If you are a beginner,choose a type of yoga andstay with it. Do not mixthe various schools ofyoga. Choose the one thatspeaks to you and staywith it. Otherwise, yourun the risk of injury andwill lose the quality ofintegration that yogabrings to a sense of well -being. Do not let the egointerfere with your pro-gression,” Dobromilskisaid.

DeMarco summarizesyoga as a moving medita-tion. It has been part ofher life for fourteen yearsand she is thrilled to havebrought her pastime tothe East community.

English teachers relieve stress through yogaBy Allie Grossman (‘‘16),Kaylin Magosin (‘14), JennaWilson (‘15)

Eastside Staf/ Eastside News/Features Editors

Kayla Schorr (‘14)/ Eastside News/Features EditorDeMarco performs Natarajasana pose.

Kayla Schorr (‘14)/ Eastside News/Features EditorDeMarco performs a tree pose.

Additional research byKayla Schorr( ‘ 1 4 ) / E a s t s i d eNews/Features Editor

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If I couldc h a n g esomethinga b o u tSGA, Iwould tryto improveits organi-z a t i o n .SGA is

meant to not only get peo-ple involved, but also toserve as a group in whichpeople can have fun.Sometimes, however, itseems like a lack of organ-ization causes duties topile up at certain times ofthe year (such as SpiritWeek and prom). I believethat if we try to betterspace out our responsibili-ties and utilize our timewisely, the events we planwill be better than ever.

SGA ispretty wellr u n .However, ifthere weresomethingI wouldchange, itwould bethe way

SGA interacts with therest of the school. A lot ofother kids, not just the offi-cers or representatives,have good ideas, whichthey should be able toshare. If other studentswere allowed to sit in onSGA meetings, this wouldmake it easier for SGA toget new ideas relating toevents and other SGA-related activities. If I wereto change one thing, thatwould be it.

If therewere onething that Iw o u l dc h a n g eabout SGA,it would beto allow therest of theschool to be

more involved in whatevents we should have. Iwant to get the rest of theschool involved because Idon’t want students to say:“Why didn’t we do this orwhy didn’t we do that?” Ifthe rest of the school getsinvolved in the school-wideevents, then more peoplewill participate and morepeople will have a funexperience.

There isn o t h i n gthat Iw o u l dwant toc h a n g eabout SGA.So far, Ihaven’t hadany prob-

lems and it’s been a lot offun. It has not been toomuch of a commitment,and I think it is run verywell since I have manyopportunies.

Many faculty members at Easthave had quite interesting profes-sions before working at school.However, biology teacher Mrs. HollySassinsky’s prior occupation trulyseals the deal. From 1998 to 2003,Sassinsky worked at the New JerseyState Aquarium (now called theAdventure Aquarium), with fish,sharks, penguins and, of course,seals. Starting as an intern, shebecame a volunteer and ultimately afull-time worker. Sassinsky sure hasspent a considerable amount of timeunder the sea.

“After I graduated from college Ibecame a full-time seal trainer,”

Sassinsky said. “I worked on takingcare of the seals, training them newbehaviors, working on behaviors thatneeded a little work that they werejust learning. It was mostly brushingtheir teeth, clipping their nails andtaking blood.”

Sassinsky said that she spent quitea substantial amount of time takingblood from seals without acting force-ful. Drawing blood from an 800 -pound seal while trying to keep it stilldefinitely was not the easiest task.

Sassinsky was also a part ofthe entertaining showsat the aquarium in

w h i c hSCUBA divers per-

form tricks with the animalswhile speaking with anunderwa-

ter microphone.“We worked on behaviors that

would show off characteristics of theseals that we would show duringthese shows, like jumps and wavingthe flippers,” Sassinsky said.

A few years later, the aquariumopened a penguin exhibit with 17African penguins. In addition to herseal responsibilities, Sassinskyworked with the penguins.

“When we worked with the firstchick, that chick needed to be hand-raised because the parents were newand they didn’t really know whatthey were supposed to do,” saidSassinsky. “We had to come in very

early in the morning and stay untilreally late at night in shifts. We hadto blend up fish and feed it to the pen-guins with a syringe. We had to makesure it had the right food, it wasgrowing the way it was sup-posed to be growing, and then

reintegrate it back into thecolony.”

At the aquari-um,

t h e r ewere two distinct groups of

workers. Sassinsky originally wasassociated with the group in

charge of birds and seals; however,she later assimilatedinto the fish caretak-ers.

At one point, therewas a very highdemand for SCUBAdivers in order to takecare of the sharks. Atthe same time, theoriginal workers in thisfield were working onother projects, such asexploring the creaturesin the big sea tank.Sassinsky saw this as a

great opportunitysince she knewhow to SCUBAdive.

“Anytime they weredoing shark physi-cals or exams onthe sharks,I wouldge t

i nand help

them corralthe sharks into an

exam area and basicallyhelp out wherever

I was needed,”Sassinksy said.

Other jobs included put-ting oxygen tubes down thesharks’ mouths so they wouldbreathe out of thewater and protect-ing them from hurt-ing themselves while inthe water. At one point,Sassinsky and herteam helped raise ababy tiger shark andintegrate it into theexhibit with the rest ofthe sea animals. Althoughtiger sharks are considered“man-eaters,” the oneSassinsky worked with was complete-ly harmless since it was so young. Infact, Sassinsky played quite an inter-

esting role in this little pup’s life.“The shark did not know anything

about barriers or aquarium walls, so,when it was swimming, sometimes itwould hit the wall and it would justfall,” Sassinsky said. “They neededpeople twenty-four seven in the sharktank with this tiger shark, along with

all of the other sharks that were inthe tank to swim with

it and makesure thatif it did

hit a wall,we would

then pick it up anddirect it the right way.”

When Sassinsky reminiscesabout her under-sea occupation,

she remembers one thing specifi-cally.

“When I was there, one of the newprograms that started up was awaterwork program where we actual-ly got in the water with the seals,”Sassinsky said. “We were the onlyaquarium in the country to be doingthat.”

Sassinsky and other aquariumstaff were able to

influence the sealsto stray away fromtheir usual timidpersonas andadjust to humansswimming in thewater with them.Sassinsky even had

the opportu-nity to hold

onto thefront

flippers ofan 800-pound

gray seal while ittitled its head back

and swam upsided o w n .

Sass inskyperformed this

impressive trickin front of an audi-

ence at a few shows at the aquarium.In addition to this routine, Sassinskyadded that she also is very proud thatshe was able to train a blind baby sealnamed Luke to get out of the water,which takes a while for even a sealwith adequate vision.

Sassinsky now teaches biology atEast and often reflects upon heraquatic past during her lessons. Herfascinating former profession trulyproves very interest-ing to her current

students.

Art by Zoe Greenhall (‘13)/ Eastside Art Director

“Anytime they were doingshark physicals or examson the sharks, I would getin and help them corral thesharks into an exam areaand basically help outwherever I was needed.”

Sassinsky fishes for success at aquarium

PaulomiBanerjee

(’13)

Abe Granoff(‘14)

Sam Amon(‘15)

KennedyOmari (‘16)

By Kayla Schorr (‘14)Eastside News/Features Editor

Did you know...

Seals give birthon land, unlike

whales and dolphins.

As soon as aseal is born, its

mother forms a bondwith it by

smelling it.

The largest tigersharks are said to exceed

18 feet in length.

Tiger shark litters aregenerally very large, usually

consisting of 35 to 55 pups.

Information from:

www.nmfs.noaa.gov

www.snh.org

SGA logo by Joel Greenspan(‘13)/ Eastside Art Director

NEWS/FEATURESMay 2013 EASTSIDE Page 3

My tweets are all so different. Some are in all caps forEMPHASIS. I try to go for humor in some, but then I expressmy opinions on things like current events or sports on others.It’s weird.

My favorite person to follow on Twitter is Jose Canseco, theformer baseball player. He’s just so ridiculous with some ofthe things he tweets that I’m convinced that he’s not actuallya real person.

I originally decided to join Twitterso I could talk to my favorite (andnot so favorite) celebrities. It’samazing who will actually payattention to you on social media!

METEOROLOGISTS ARE ALWAYSWRONG. LIKE *MAYBE* IT ISGOING TO SNOW. OR *MAYBE* ITSGOING TO RAIN. OR *MAYBE* IT SMAYBELLINE.

I tweet about the the funny, the dumb and the deep. Noneof this real life stuff.

My favorite tweet I have tweeted is:“I feel so lied to. James Franco made it very clear that SpringBreak lasted forever #springbreakforever”

I re-tweet any tweet that I think “Wow, I wish I could havesaid that!”

If I could have anyone re-tweet me, it would be Nicki Minaj.Her tweets are so brutally honest, which is strange for a celebri-ty. I really commend her for it.

A typical tweet coming from my account would probably discusseither a song I am listening to, how I am feeling or a currentevent in the entertainment world followed by a hastag thatsummarizes the tweet.

A tweet from my account that has been re-tweeted alot is:“You know you have no butt when you wear yoga pants back-wards for 5 hours without noticing #dangit”

If I could have one person to re-tweetme, it would be Ellen DeGeneres.

I can t remember why I orginally joinedTwitter, but hey, no regrets.

My favorite person to follow on twitter is @AmandaBynes.

Twitter: the social network trending since 2006

My name is Tyler Drob, and my Twitter handle is“Drobitir,” which is a nickname my friends call me.

The things I tweet about range from important things,funny things, sports, or stuff going on in my life. I tweetless now than I used to.

I tweet probably around 15-20 tweets everyday. It used to bea lot more, which is why I have around 17,00 tweets.

One of my tweets that got the most favorites and re-tweets wasmy tweet about playing football for West Chester. It got 100favorites.

If I could pick one person to re-tweet me, it would be JohnStamos. Just because.

Twitterhas exploded

since its creationin 2006.

Now, seven yearslater, Twitter is a social media

site that is used by many East students.Eastside talked all things Twitter with theexperts Jenn Cha, Garrett Clayman,Tyler Drob and Ellie Trommer. All areseniors nominated for Best Personto Follow on Twitter and they dis-cussed what they tweet, why theytweet and why they have such a

large following on Twitter.By Jenna Wilson (‘15)

Eastside News/Features Editor

Art by JennCha( 13)/Eastside

Staff

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Culture Corner Logo by Joel Greenspan (‘13)/Eastside Art Director

Photos by Kaylin Magosin (‘14)/ EastsideNews/Features Editor

Videos by Jenna Wilson (‘15) and KaylinMagosin (‘14)/ Eastside News/Features Editors

The Bancroft school is a local school for kidswith special needs. The severities of their dis-abilities vary. There are some students withmore severe disabilities who live at Bancroftand require 24/7 care, though there are somestudents with less severe disabilities who onlygo to school there. The Bancroft school isalways in need of volunteers who can help withweekend functions such as field days and par-ties. Volunteers get to spend time with the kidsand help the aids maintain a controlled envi-ronment. Because there are so many kids andnot very many aids, the volunteers are a hugehelp! If you are interested in helping out, con-tact the main office at The Bancroft School formore information on how you can get involved.

Looking to experience Chinese culture? Hike in MachuPicchu? Or help out a small community in India? RusticPathways, a travel and service company for high schoolstudents, can help you fulfill those desires. This summer,I traveled with Rustic Pathways to spend four weeks insmall Tibetan communities in India. It was an extremelyinspirational and rewarding experience. While in India Ihad the opportunity to live and work beside the Tibetanpeople in their community. We taught English to the chil-dren training to be monks, we cemented a path for themto walk to school on and we also helped build a temple inwhich to pray.

The best part of this trip was having the opportunity tosee the people reap the benefits. The children smiled andlaughed as we taught them words that may have soundedsilly to their ears, such as “llama” and “hippopotamus,”and bowed down to us, thanking us for improving theirwalk to school. Just their smiles were enough to know howmuch they appreciated our work in their community. Ifyou want to help out people like those in India and expe-rience a culture very different from your own, go towww.rusticpathways.com for more information on howyou can broaden your horizon and lend a helping hand.

With summer coming up, manyteens are on the lookout for sum-mer jobs. One great option for asummer job is to be a camp coun-selor. There are some very well-known day camps in the SouthJersey area, such as TallPines Day Camp andthe JCC Camps atMedford, whichare always look-ing to hiremany eagerteenagers.

It cansometimes behard for stu-dents in highschool, espe-cially under-classmen, to getjobs. Most hourlywage jobs requireemployees to be seventeenor eighteen, a requirement thatmany job-hungry high school stu-dents cannot yet fulfill. The job ofa camp counselor does not requireprevious job experience, and youcan start being a paid counselorthe summer going into tenth grade

at both the JCC Camps atMedford and Tall Pines. Manyteens from Cherry Hill spendtheir summers as counselorsat these camps.

“[Being a camp coun-selor] was fun becauseyou really bond with thekids…it doesn’t even feellike you’re working

because you are hav-ing so much fun. It

feels like you arestill at campinstead of actuallyworking,” saidIlaina Edelstein (’15),who worked at TallPines last summer andis returning there thissummer.

“It’s fun being aroundthe kids and I enjoy play-

ing with them and lookingout for them,” said Wendy

Sherman (’15), a counselor atthe JCC Camps at Medford. “I likethat [the JCC Camps at Medford]have so many different activitiesand different things for the kids todo that it never leaves you bored.”

Both camps also offer greatcounselor in training (CIT) pro-grams. At the JCC, the CIT pro-

gram is going intoninth grade and

at Tall Pinesthe CIT pro-

gram isgoing intoe i g h t hand ninthgrade.

BrookeM i r o n(’16), who

after beinga camper for

many sum-mers, was a CIT

at the JCC Campsat Medford last summer,

described the CIT program as“amazing” and said that it com-pletely prepared her to be a coun-selor.

“At Tall Pines, being a CIT for abunk was fun, energetic, alwaysmoving, and the CITs were alwaysinvolved in the bunk activities,making it fun to be around the lit-tle kids,” said Marli Ehrlich (‘16).

Another benefit that comeswith working the job of camp coun-selor is the opportunities it pro-vides in the future. Even a smalljob like being a camp counselorhelps build a resume for future job

applications. It also helps to openyear-round jobs; many campers’parents end up hiring their chil-dren’s camp counselors as babysit-ters throughout the year.

Even though being a campcounselor does not pay as much asmany other hourly wage jobs, itgives the counselors the opportu-nity to enjoy their summers whilegetting a little money.

“I get plenty of time to be able todo what I want,” said Sherman inregards to free time after work.

Being a camp counselor offers ahappy medium between being ableto enjoy summer and having a job.

“The main job at both the campsis to take care of the kids and tomake sure they are safe and hav-ing a great time,” Kayla Livecchi(‘13), who has worked at both TallPines and the JCC, said.

If you think this sounds like afun way to spend your summervacation, you can apply for a job ata camp for this coming summerand bring smiles to young kids’faces in the sun-shining days.

To Cherry Hill residents, the storereferred to as “the British shop inHaddonfield,” otherwise known as TheEnglish Gardener Gift Shop, may beoverlooked amongst the many eye-catching shops that line KingsHighway. However, this specialty shopis truly one of a kind.

As the name suggests, The EnglishGardener Gift Shop houses an exten-sive collection of food and gifts import-ed from Ireland, England, Scotland andWales. Proprietors Gary and DeniseColeman opened the shop in 2007.Gary moved to the United States whenhe was three years old.

Gary said, “I was born in Englandand grew up in Haddonfield, so [theitems sold are] all food and culturalstuff I grew up with.”

The shop welcomes customers fromall ethnic backgrounds, but a good por-tion of the customers that frequent theGift Shop are British, as one mayexpect. Gary said, “The frequent cus-tomers are very familiar with all prod-ucts, especially the British ones.”

“[We have a] loyal ethnic customerbase [people] come pretty good distances to get

their food, especially at Christmas and Easter,”Gary said.

Directly across

the street sits The British ChipShop, the sister restaurant andbakery of The English GardenerGift Shop. The family-ownedrestaurant opened in 2010 andserves brunch, lunch, afternoontea, dinner and desserts. Allitems on the menu are uniquelyBritish, such as Fish and Chips,Cottage Pie and Welsh Rarebit.You won’t be able to find sand-wiches listed on the menu, butyou can order a “sarine.”Similarly, the word “soda” can-not be seen, but go ahead andorder a “fizzy drink,” instead.All meals are made fresh onsite, and The British Chip Shophas its own pastry chef.

Gary said that he wants peo-ple to walk away with a positiveexperience after spending timeat either the restaurant or thegift shop. He said he wants cus-tomers to know they are getting“a quality product at a fair priceand that [the] food at [the]restaurant is very authentic.”

Only a few places in SouthJersey remain as unique and

authentic as The British Chip Shop and theEnglish Gardener Gift Shop.

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By Kaylin Magosin (‘14)Eastside News/Features

Zoe Greenhall (‘13)/ Eastside Art DirectorPhoto courtesy of http://www.bancroft.org/

If you volunteer, please tell us about it in our nextissue! community@eastside-online.org

Flag by Zoe Greenhall (‘13)/Eastside Art Director

By Emmy Silverman (‘13)Eastside Community Editor

By Natasha Hauck (‘13)For Eastside

By Leah Korn (‘16)Eastside Staff

Say “Chip, Chip, Cheerio” at the British Chip Shop

Angie Nguyen (‘13)/Eastside Photo EditorThe British Chip Shop is located at 146 Kings Hwy E, Haddonfield, NJ.

Help Wanted: Now hiring camp counselors

Photo (left) courtesy of www.jcccampsatmed-ford.org/ Photo (right) courtesy of Jordyn Tobolsky(‘14)/ For Eastside

COMMUNITYPage 6 EASTSIDE May 2013

When most South Jersey residents picturethe face of Diane’s Water Ice, the familiar face ofManager Rachel Chain comes to mind. Toooften gone unnoticed is the man behind it all:Owner Mark DeCesare.

As a child, DeCesare enjoyed spending hissummer days going to his preferred water iceshop to enjoy a cold dessert. In college, hemajored in civil engineering and went into con-struction, but after an unfortunate run-in withbankruptcy, he decided to open Diane’s WaterIce.

“I wanted to try a business that I could do inthe summer and have time off in the winter sothat I could do construction,” said DeCesare.

In April of 1993, Diane’s Water Ice made itsdebut. DeCesare was so surprised to see manyeager customers flock to his water ice

shop on day one that he was doing fist pumpsin the back of the store.

“Atthe timew eo p e n e dthe storewe didn’te v e nr e a l i z ethat thislocationwould beas popu-lar as itis, but It h i n kpart ofthe rea-son forour suc-cess is weare on theborder ofthree orfour dif-f e r e n tt o w n -s h i p s , ”

DeCesareadded.

Contrary to popular belief, Diane does notactually work in the shop; however, she isDeCesare’s wife and co-owner of Diane’s WaterIce. When trying to choose a name for their newbusiness, the DeCesares bought a book of babynames, but could not find a name to fit theirimage of an “old italian lady in the kitchen cook-ing.” They came to the conclusion that the per-fect name to fit this description was Diane.

“She loves the name,” laughs DeCesare, “sheloves having the name on the sign becauseeveryone wants to know who Diane is.”

Never showing his face to the various crowds,DeCesare hides out behind the counter doing allof the dirty work. The water ice sold at Diane’sis made on sight from scratch, using the store’sown equipment and original recipe.

“I paid a guy to show me how to use the equip-ment and worked for a while and perfected our

water ice to be more of a sherbet or a thicker tex-ture. I thought that would separate us from therest of the crowd. I have stuck with [the samerecipe] ever since we opened the store,” saidDeCesare. “We make our own flavors. No onewill ever have our chocolate flavor water ice. It’sdifferent from anything you can find because wecook it. We make the chocolate syrup here, soit’s very labor intensive.”

Not only has DeCesare kept the originalrecipe alive, but he sells the same flavors thatwere available when Diane’s opened twentyyears ago and does not plan on changing them inthe future.

“We won’t change anything because peopleare so used to it. If I go with some different fla-vor, I’ll get in trouble,” said DeCesare.

Although the flavors have remained, the over-all business has evolved.

“I had one freezer that would hold 20 bucketsof water ice when I first opened... however, whatI didn’t realize was I would sell out the wholefreezer of water ice at 10 o’clock and I’d havenothing for the next day...We immediatelyripped the back of the store out and put a hugefreezer in that would hold 300 or 400 buckets ofwater ice, which is why we never run out of a fla-vor,” DeCesare said.

Diane’s Water Ice has continued to growmore popular with every spring that blooms. Onany given Saturday, DeCesare said there will beanywhere from 500 to 750 customers. This year,there was snow on the ground, but the shop stillhad a massive line out the door on opening day.

Due to their constantly increasing populari-ty, DeCesare wants to expand the business andopen at another location, but is conscientious ofsteering away from a franchise.

“We would set up a production facility, man-ufacture the products so I can keep control of thequality and then ship it off to the stores andthat s how we’ll expand our business,” saidDeCesare.

Regardless of the number of locations, manycustomers stay loyal to Diane’s with each newseason. Their familiar flavors and welcomingworkers make returning customers feel at homewhen they step through the door on any hotsummer day.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream(and water ice)

Diane’s logo byE m m yS i l v e r m a n(‘13)/ EastsideC o m m u n i t yEditorDiane’s photosby WendyS h e r m a n(‘15)/ EastsideStaffSundaes logoby RachelCohen (‘15)/E a s t s i d eC o m m u n i t yEditorSundaes pho-tos byB r i t t a n yNghiem (‘13)/Eastside PhotoEditorDiane’s andSundaes store-front by ZoeG r e e n h a l l(‘13)/EastsideArt Director

Whether it’s a long-awaitedtreat or a spontaneous pit-stop on the way to the shore, atrip to Sundaes, located inBerlin, NJ, is always sweet.Although this South Jerseyice cream parlor is not locatedin Cherry Hill, or even aneighboring town, the longerdrive is worthwhile and sureto cure your cravings.

Before Sundaes opened in1994, owners Phillip andNancy Kogan had an auto-parts business on the proper-ty.

When deciding to open an

ice cream parlor, theKogans’ kids were allfor it.

“[Sundaes] became a[family business],” saidNancy.

The Kogans alwaysloved cooking andwanted to make theirown product, so an icecream shop, which alsosells water ice, gelatiand soft serve icecream, was a great wayfor the family to do so.

All of the ice creamand water ice is home-made. Sundaes hasover 20 different flavorsfor both its ice creamand water ice.

It took some time forthe Kogans to figureout their great recipes.Nancy jokes that theycame up with recipes bymaking mistakes.

The Kogans occa-sionally try out differ-ent flavors, but they

have always hadtheir staples, suchas “Mint ChocolateChunk,”“Pieces ofReeses,” “GottaKnow It’s CookieDough,” “PhatterBatter” and“Sympathy for theDevil,” in additionto a variety of vanil-la, chocolate,peanut butter,coconut and coffeeflavors.

“We try out fla-vors, see how theygo; find out if theyare keepers or not,”said Nancy. “Mostof the staples we’vehad from the begin-ning…I keep the[flavors] that sell.You can go to an icecream parlor thatmight have 80 fla-vors, where only 70of them sell, I don’twant anything

that’s going to sit inthe case…we reallylook for the most popu-lar flavors.”

Nancy said thatSundaes uses top ofthe line products, andhas even upgradedstorage and refrigera-tion systems to makethe process of makingthe ice cream andwater ice more effi-cient and less time-consuming.

“My product is verydense…if you pick upperhaps a commercialice cream and our icecream, you’ll see howmuch heavier it isbecause I use a smallbatching machinewhich makes for muchless air,” Nancy said.

After nearly twentyyears of perfecting itsproduct, Sundaes is agreat spot to get atasty treat.

By Rachel Cohen (‘15)Eastside Community Editor

By Emmy Silverman (‘13) and RebeccaCohen (‘15)

Eastside Community Editor and Eastside Entertainment Editor

Each day, thousands uponthousands of United StatesPostal Service employees arefaced with the ever-presentfear of job loss, while, for oth-ers, unemployment becomes acruel reality. Now, why isthere talk of privatizing a gov-ernment agency that isinscribed in the U.S.Constitution? For profit? Arethe jobs of nearly eight millionemployees, over 235,000 ofwhom are veterans, worthwhatever short-term financialgain there might be?

The demise of the USPSarose with 2006 legislationthat requires the UnitedStates Postal Service to pro-vide pensions for futureemployees who aren’t evenconceived yet. Need some per-spective? Well, the parents ofthese employees would be evenyounger than we are, rightnow, in high school. Now, tellme, what business could possi-bly thrive off of that model?None. No business can.

The USPS isn’t failingbecause of a lack of mail in-transit, but is failing becauseof this legislation that Bush,and his Congress, stronglyabide by. And the USPS ispanicking!

The USPS has a board, yes,but not one that can pass itsown measures that are notsubject to the discretion ofCongress. So, why would thesecorrupt politicians, who arebeing bought out by theUnited Parcel Service (UPS)and by Federal Express(FedEx), pass legislation toprotect the USPS? The USPSis the only remaining factorstanding in the way of FedEx’sand UPS’ domination of theshipping industry. As privatecompanies, why would theycare about the deplorableaftermath that could resultfrom a deteriorating deliveryservice? They wouldn’t. That’swhy it’s so crucial to fightagainst these selfish compa-nies.

The United States PostalService does not use any tax-payer money, so why are we soafraid? Why do we think theUSPS is such a burden?Frankly, it’s not. It’s a nation-al asset that needs to be pre-served. However, untilCongress revokes that 2006law, the USPS will continue torot away. This, out of all of theissues regarding the USPS, isthe largest obstacle that needsto be conquered. If Congressfails to remove this legislation,or thus grants the USPS moreauthority over their agency, itwill be an unfortunate sin thatwill drastically plan for thedemise of one of the most cher-ished Constitutional institu-tions.

Long live the USPS!

OPINIONSMay 2013 EASTSIDE Page 7

By Amy Myers (‘13)Eastside Opinions Editor

By Peter Shivery (‘13)Eastside Staff

W a l kinto anyIntroductionto Businessclass and you

will learnthat a

business can onlyoperate if it achieves two cri-

teria: (1) provides a service thatmeets consumers’ demands and (2)

provides that service efficiently.There is a reason why SonyWalkmans, Pan Am World Airways,and Hummer are gone. All of thesebrands failed to either change in timeto meet the market’s demands, orfailed to providetheir serviceefficiently.If theU n i t e d

S t a t e sPostal Service (USPS) were any otherprivate company, it would meet thesame fate.

Now, the USPS certainly does nothave an ultimatum as they are pro-tected by Congress, but change will beinevitable for the agency. The onlylong-lasting worthwhile change is pri-vatization.

Forty-four cents an ounce is thecost to ship first class mail anywherein the United States. In this day andage where first-class mail has declinedsignificantly due to email, forty-fourcents an ounce could not equate to theoperating cost of sending mail to themost rural area of northern Alaska.UPS and FedEx, like any profitableshipping company, would charge theconsumer the operating cost plus aslight margin of increase for profit.

Why doesn’t this model change?Congress.

Congress, in recent years, has beenthe biggest preventive force in ensur-ing efficiency within the USPS. Theyhave prevented the agency from clos-ing offices in their most unprof-itable regions, stopping deliveryon the weekend (like UPS andFedEx), and furloughing employ-ees that are no longer necessary.Why might they be doing this

you ask?To gain votes of course! Who wouldnot love a hero that saved their localpostal office, despite it being$100,000 in the red?

In 2009, due to government agree-ments with unions, the averagepostal worker received $79,000 ayear compared to their counterpartsin the private industry making$61,000; 80 percent of the USPSoperating costs go towards wages, amuch higher percentage than UPS orFedEx.

The biggest telling number mightbe how efficient the USPS has got-ten. A decade ago, 35,000 letters took70 employees to process. Now, it onlytakes about two (a 97 percentincreas in efficiency); however, theUSPS staff has only decreased by 20percent over the last six years.

Privatization seems like the onlyoption. By removing the middle-man, we can prevent the USPS fromonce again becoming unprofitable

and adding to our already $16trillion in national debt. By

removing the middle-man, the USPS can onceagain flourish in theirfirst class mail monop-oly throughoutAmerica.

Privatize?

Publicize?

What should Congress do?TheUSPS is about $15billion in debt.

Over235,000 USPS

employees areveterans.

Truck art by Zoe Greenhall (‘13)/Eastside Art Editor

Envelope art by Amy Myers (‘13)/Eastside Opinions Editor

Column art by Zoe Greenhall (‘13)/Eastside Art Editor

The United States Postal Serviceis dying from a congressional choke-hold. No other federal agency isbeing strangled by Congress’ insis-tence that it fully fund futureemployees’ pensions. Especially thepensions of future employees whoaren’t even born yet. The PostAccountability and EnhancementAct has forced the USPS to pre-fundalmost 75 years’ worth of health ben-efits and pensions for its employeesin retirement. That means it’s pay-ing for employees that haven’t evenbeen born yet. Last year, the USPSdefaulted on its pension fund pay-ment for the first time in its history,and partisan fighting preventedCongress from doing anything tostop it. Congress and the USPS haveconsidered closing post offices inorder to save money, almost 80 per-cent of which are located in ruralareas. According to formerPostmaster GeneralWilliam Henderson,closing the offices

would onlys a v e

about $295 million a year, about four-tenths of one percent of the Office’sannual $70 billion in expenses. This iswhy postal deliveries andaccess must not be priva-tized. Nearly 90 percent ofAmericans without broad-band Internet access live inrural areas, so cutting thepostal branches from theseareas would severely hurtthese people. Paying bills,contacting relatives andreceiving packages wouldbecome more difficult.Cutting millions ofAmericans off from the civilized worldwould increase economic inequality,something this country is sorely suffer-ing from.

The USPS cannot be privatized. Itmay “save” the industry, but theeffects on consumers would be cata-strophic. Corporations, who are moreout to gain a profit than to help peopleas the government does, wouldincrease prices up to ridiculously highlevels. Privatizing the postal service

would end with corporations rollingin cash and the government withanother industry stolen from

u n d e rits nose.The USPS

employs morethan 574,000 peopleand privatization wouldmean that they would all be laidoff, a devastatingsetback to analready shaky economic recovery.Congressional interference hascaused the crisis facing the USPS.Congress needs to back off this one-

of-a-kind regula-tion and let the

USPS do whatit does best –deliver themail.

By Sam Lyons (‘14)For Eastsider

Photo of Sam Lyons by AngieNguyen ( 13)/ Eastside PhotoEditor

Photo of Peter Shivery byBrittany Nghiem ( 13)/EastsidePhoto Editor

OPINIONSPage 8 EASTSIDE May 2013

From a young age, American children picturetheir prom night down to the most intricatedetail — long, flowing gowns and dark tuxes,strings of pearls and cufflinks, party buses andblasting music to drownout the rest of the highschool drama.

However, when juniorand senior high school stu-dents start to prepare forthe big day, their lavishdreams come to a suddenhalt. The one detail thesestudents childhood dreamsfailed to acknowledge? Themoney it all costs to makeprom dreams into a reality.

In 2013, it is expectedthat the average familysending one teenager toprom will spend $1,078, anincrease of 33.6 percentfrom the average of $807spent in 2011 according toa survey done by Visa.According to the same sur-vey, in the Northeast, par-ents plan to spend the mostwith an average of $1,950.In comparison, Southernfamilies spend an averageof $1,047, with Westernfamilies spending an aver-age of $744 and Midwestfamilies spending an aver-age of $696 on prom night.

Regardless of the region

this prom takes place, these prices are still offthe charts, especially due to the fact that par-ents are voluntarily spending this kind of moneyon a high school dance.

In more recent years, prom habits havebecome synonymous with wedding habits. The

dress, for example, is well-known for beingamong the priciest items purchased for anygiven prom. As the president of promgirl.com,David Wilkenfeld, once said: if parents are goingto skimp, it is probably not going to be on thedress.

Often parents buy thedress first and plan every-thing else around it— theshoes, the bag, the hair,even the color of theirchild’s date’s tie. On prom-girl.com, Wilkenfeld hasalso brought up that retail-ers in the prom-industry areunaffected by any economicstruggles in the outsideworld.

At Cherry Hill East,prom-buzz starts aroundNovember. Constant chat-ter about dresses, make-upappointments, hairstylesand shoes take place insideand outside of classrooms.Separately, the individualaspects of prom do not seemlike big wallet-busters. A$50 blowout here, a $45clutch there -- all together,though, the expenses addup.

Overall, prom expenseshave significantly increasedin the past couple of years.While it is important to feeland look the part for a high-ly anticipated night out, is itreally necessary to dish outthe big bucks all for onenight of high school fun?

As prom prices rise, parents’ wallets take the hit

Sydney Steele (‘16)/ Eastside StaffFrom the salon packages to the dresses and tuxes, prom prices continue to rise.

By Abby Hoffman (‘14)Eastside Opinions Editor

Promposals take East by storm

If you take the anticipation andtechnique involved in planning a wed-ding proposal and mix it with giddyhigh school upperclassmen, you wouldhave a promposal. The newest promfad, a promposal is when someoneplans an involved scheme in whichthey ask their significant other orfriend to prom at the end of the schoolyear. While promposals are popular athigh schools all around the country,Cherry Hill East seems to have devel-oped an extra infatuation for the mat-ter.

This year especially, promposalshave turned into something of a tradi-tion. Junior and senior girls all expectto be asked in a newer, more creative

way than their other friends. Forexample, while one girl is asked with“Prom?” engraved into a necklace,another may be asked with a waitressserving a piece of cake with “Prom?”written in different colored icing.

Whereas some girls enjoy the grandgestures, others inquire about thepast simplicity of asking a girl toprom. For some, a phone call is muchmore intimate than a pile of balloonswaiting for her when she enters herbedroom, or the request spelled out inpaint on the torsos of the swim team.Many lavish public promposals domore to give an ego boost to the askerthan they do to flatter and please theaskee.

Overall, prom should be more aboutthe event itself rather than about theway someone asks their date.

By Abby Hoffman (‘14)Eastside Opinions Editor

Students share their opinions on thetopic of Promposals at East

Against Promposals: “Promposals are not nec-essary... Just send a message on Facebook ask-ing, ‘do you want to go to prom with me?’ End ofstory.”

-Dillon Rebock (‘14)

For Promposals: “Promposals are cute... theyallow the person to feel excited for the upcom-ing event. I hope that my date next year thinksof something outgoing!”

-Hayley Aaronson (‘14)

All information compiled by Abby Hoffman (‘14)/ Eastside Opinions Editor

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This year’s MulticulturalDay was a spectacular exhibi-tion of East’s cultural diversi-ty. This year, as in past years,the performances, museumdisplays and activities provid-ed a terrific window into theethnic lives of much of East’scommunity, a view not oftenseen on a daily basis. I com-mend all who were involved inplanning and performing inthis year’s Multicultural Day,and I truly believe that it is thebest school-wide annual eventat East.

Yet it seems that we oftenfail to acknowledge that Eastis not only multicultural theday before spring break, butevery day. I firmly believe thatdiversity is a privilege. In 50 ofthe 193 countries in the world,at least 90 percent of the popu-lation comes from the sameethnic group. In the UnitedStates, however, and in CherryHill especially, a much greateramount of cultural diversityexists. According to a reportcompiled last year, for exam-ple, in the homes of East stu-dents alone, more than 20 dif-ferent languages are spoken.

This past summer, I fell inlove with the concept of plural-ism. To me, pluralism meansinteracting with diversity. Notjust accepting that it exists,but actively seeking to learnfrom the varied experiencesand beliefs of those with whomwe interact on a daily basis.

Striving to embody plural-ism on a daily basis can havemany benefits. By listening tothe views of others, by learn-

ing how their culture, heritageand religion shape who theyare and how they behave, wecan learn so much about our-selves and strengthen our ownidentities. It creates a strongersense of community, as indi-viduals begin to feel more com-fortable sharing more aboutthemselves and engaging inmore meaningful encounterswith a wider variety of theirpeers. We begin to realize thatwe have more in common withour classmates than the factthat we sit next to each otherin class.

But how do we achieve this?It begins with conversation.Say hi to someone who sits onthe other side of your Englishclass with whom you’ve neverspoken before. Be curious.Respectfully ask a classmatewhat they think about a par-ticular issue or how they spenttheir weekend. I don’t claimthat this is easy, or that I do itnearly as much as I could. Tofacilitate these conversations,administration, teachers andculture clubs could getinvolved in helping to makethe overall environment atEast more conducive to thesekinds of encounters.

Together, perhaps we cancreate -- or at least get closer tothe creation of -- a true plural-istic community.

Change the lateness policyBeing on time for school, jobs, events

and activities is crucial throughoutone’s life. Currently at Cherry Hill Eastthe lateness policy states: Students whoare late to school three times receive awarning. If a student is late three moretimes for a total of six latenesses peryear, he or she will be required toattend a detention. If a student contin-ues to accrue latenesses, more deten-tions and/or Saturday School detentionsare the consequence.

Detention for receiving a total of sixlate passes is unfair. Beinglate for six out of theone-hundred-and-eighty days ofschool most likelydoes not impacta student aca-d e m i c a l l y .Therefore, oneshould not bepenalized. AtEast, most stu-dents under-stand theimportance ofschool andbeing on timeon a dailybasis. Thec u r r e n tp o l i c ymust change in order to meet students’needs. The school board should developan alternative that more effectivelyaddresses students’ best interests.

The existing policy presents certaincontroversies. Advocates of the latenesspolicy believe that a detention is neces-sary in order to teach students howimportant school and punctuality are.In addition, being on time for schoolprepares students for life experiences.Those opposed to the rule argue that adetention is not an appropriate punish-

ment for tardiness, and that tardinessdoes not necessarily have a significantimpact on students’ academic careers.

Many East students criticize the pol-icy. Abigayle Stoetzer (‘16) feels strong-ly that the policy should be different.

“The weather, the traffic and parentswho have to drive their kids to schooland rush to be on time for work areoften factors that make students late toschool,” said Stoetzer. “An alternativecould be to extend how many [lates] peryear students should obtain before adetention. Instead of six [lates], ten

would be appropriatebefore the punishment[is given].”

Damian Stuchko(‘13) also believes thatthe lateness policy isnot helpful.

“The lateness poli-cy should bechanged becauseit simply does notwork,” he said.“Especially nextyear’s 7:30 a.m.regimen will con-tribute even moreto students’morning late-ness. The conse-quences are notunfair; they’rej u s tineffective.”

A m a n d aLewis (‘14)

stands in between the two opposingsides. She said, “I think that there arecertain students who deserve a deten-tion for constant lateness, but overall Ithink that a warning will be sufficientenough to inform students that theyneed to arrive to school early or ontime.”

As to whether or not the lateness pol-icy will change calls for more discus-sions, meetings and planning.

Haley Schultz (‘14)/ Eastside StaffA student holds a straight-Areport card and a late pass.

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Finals this year are proving to beeven more problematic than usual.

This year, instead of finals beingheld by subject, they are being heldby class period. For example, a stu-dent can take a history final PeriodA, and his friend who has the sameteacher may not take her historyfinal until period H. This poses a

problem, as teachers will now haveto write multiple versions of thesame final since all their studentswill not be taking the final at thesame time.

Additionally, students will haveto report to all of their classes andare required to take a final in everyclass, including gym and electives

such as art and music. Classes suchas these, which have not required afinal in the past, are now requiredto administer final assessments,leaving students unsure of what toexpect. Students who are taking ahalf-year course second semesterare required to take a final, whilestudents who took that same classfirst semester were not required totake a final; this is completelyunfair to those who were placed insecond semester classes, as theirgrades could be negatively impacteddue to the final.

This new system was proposed inorder to eliminate the issue of stu-dents having two finals scheduledfor the same time, or facing one dayoverloaded with two or three finals.However, in the past, this issue hasnot affected a majority of studentsand has been easily remedied byallowing students in these situa-tions to take finals during themake-up days. The inadequacies ofthe new system, which will affect alarge percentage of students andteachers, greatly outweigh thisminor issue with the old system.

While the final schedule itselfposes a problem this year, anotherproblem is how this information hasbeen shared with students andteachers. Many teachers and stu-dents do not understand how thefinals schedule is supposed to work,and with less than a month untilfinals, the lack of information is dis-concerting.

The spread of new information isa continuing issue here at East: itoccurred last year when informationabout the new schedule was dis-closed in a disorganized, unprofes-sional and incomplete manner.Keeping both students and teacherswell informed should be a top prior-ity for the administration at East.

New finals schedule proves to be problematic

Zoe Greenhall (‘13)/ Eastside Art DirectorTeenage boy filled with angst ponders the best way to “prompose” tothe girl he wants to go to prom with.

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With the popularity of superhero movies on therise, Man of Steel emerges as yet anotherremake of DC’s classic Superman. Clark Kent(Henry Cavill) was adopted by Jonathan andMartha Kent after the destruction of his homeplanet, Krypton. He hides his powers untilEarth is attacked and feels obligated to save hisnew world. Look for it in theaters on June 14.

Man of SteelMan of Steel

The sixth film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconicnovel, The Great Gatsby, follows Nick Carraway (TobeyMaguire) as he uncovers the secrets kept by his enig-matic yet fabulously rich neighbor Jay Gatsby(Leonardo DiCaprio) in 1920’s New York City. Helmingthe movie is Australian director Baz Luhrmann, bring-ing the same flamboyant style that dominated hisMoulin Rouge and Romeo + Juliet. The movie opens onMay 10.

Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro’sfirst project in five years begins when giantmonsters emerge from the ocean floor to devas-tate humanity. When humans develop giantrobots to fight the giant monsters, giant actionensues. Pacific Rim hits theaters on July 12.

While many questioned the decision to split thefifth and final season of the acclaimed AMCdrama about a science teacher turned methkingpin into two parts, the payoff promises tobe worth every day of waiting. The first part ofthe season has already earned unanimouspraise, scoring 99 out of 100 on Metacritic.com,the highest of any season of any televisionshow ever. Breaking Bad returns on August 11.

Love for the ill-fated Fox sitcom has only grown in theseven years since its cancellation. Amid rumors of amovie, the series returns for a fourth season onNetflix with every original cast member returning. Thefifteen-episode season, which deals with a film based onthe events of the previous three seasons (hint), will followa different format from past seasons, with each episodefollowing a different character over the same amount oftime. All fifteen will be released on Netflix on May 26.

On August 31 and September 1, thousands of teens andadults will be found on the city's Benjamin FranklinParkway rocking out to various bands in this Jay-Z-curat-ed music festival. This year’s lineup has something foreveryone to enjoy. Headliners Nine Inch Nails, Beyoncé,and Deadmau5 have fans excited and ready for a crazyconcert. Other preforming artists include Drake, ImagineDragons, 2 Chainz, A$AP Rocky and many more. Ticketsare on sale now and can be bought through Ticketmaster.

As themed 5K runs grow more popular, the Electric Run con-tinues this trend. The Electric Run appears in big cities aroundthe country and will be in Philadelphia on July 20 at FairmontPark. Unlike most runs beginning at the crack of dawn, run-ners cross the starting line at 8:45 p.m., dressed in neon andwearing various light-up accessories to glow as they run. Therun path is also lighted, creating a bright scene and loud musicto encourage runners to finish the race while having a goodtime. This year, money from the Philly run will go to VarietyPhiladelphia. Be sure to register by May 2 to get the best deal.

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Virtually nothing is known about Kanye West’splanned follow-up to 2010’s My Beautiful DarkTwisted Fantasy, other than that its release isplanned for some time in the next few months.

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Jurassic Park to be buried againENTERTAINMENT

May 2013 EASTSIDE Page 13

After over a decade of devel-opment, Jurassic Park 4 wasfinally given the concreterelease date of June 13,2014...only for Universal toput the brakes on once again.

The studio released a state-ment early this month,promising to “bring audi-ences the best version pos-sible”.

Meanwhile, hype for thefranchise’s long-awaitedfourth installment hasbeen huge. Director ColinTrevorrow is a relativenewcomer to theHollywood scene.Trevorrow has promisedto stick to the pastmovies’ filming tech-niques, suchas usingp h y s i c a ld i n o s a u rmodels andprostheticsrather thanc o m p u t e r -g e n e r a t e dm o d e l s .Trevorrow’smovie direct-ing résuméi n c l u d e sSafety NotGuaranteed, ascience -fiction movie that revolves

around time traveling. Recently,the actual creation of the moviehas come into question, since even

though Spielberg announced theplans for the fourth installmentin the Jurassic Park series,

there has been a lack of soliddetails about the film. Keepingwith the series tradition of secre-

cy about the script andcasting, the mastermindsbehind the film havepromised fans that it will

not only appeal to old fans, butalso bring in new fans by usingnew innovations.

“It will be starting a newtrilogy that will go off in acompletely different direc-tion than the first three,”Jurassic Park III directorJoe Johnston said.

The most anticipatedd e t a i lthat fansare inter-ested inlearningabout thefilm isthe loca-tion off i l m i n g .T h eT i m e s -Picayunein NewO r l e a n sr e p o r t e d

that JurassicPark 4 filming

could be taking place in BatonRouge, since Universal reservedthe city’s Raleigh Studio from Aprilto November of this year.

The dinosaurs in Jurassic Park4, like those from the previousfilms, will be, according to experts,unrealistic. Their appearance willportray the idea that dinosaurswere scaly and leathery likelizards or dragons, rather thancovered in feathers. These realis-tic images of dinosaurs will not beshown in the newest movie, leav-ing avid dinosaur fans disappoint-ed.

Trevorrow tweeted "No feath-ers. #JP4". Scientists are disap-pointed in the decision not totruthfully portray dinosaurs asthey truly were in the past.

Paleontologist Darren Naish,from the University ofSouthampton, believes the move tobe a “disregard for knowledge,”saying “It helps perpetuate thenotion that dinosaurs were allscaly dragons, alien and unlikemodern animals."

Though Jurassic Park fans havea while until a new release date,they can satisfy their Jurassiccravings by seeing Jurassic Park3D, released earlier this month.The conversion from 2D to 3D took10 million dollars and 700 artists.If the 3D version is any indicationof the fourth movie, fans haveplenty to be excited for with therelease of the new movie and allthe leathery dinosaurs to come.

By Josh Cohen (‘16)For Eastside

Pixar has released a new trailerfor Monsters University, a sequel tothe 2001 movie Monsters Inc. Thefilm will be a prequel and takeviewers back to Mike and Sully’scollege days, following the charac-ters as they learn how to becomethe expert “scarers” that all audi-ences know them to be. The filmwill be released on June 21, 2013.

On the heels of this trailerrelease, Pixar has announcedanother sequel, Finding Dory,which will be released in fall 2015.It is a sequel to Finding Nemo,which was released in 2003, andwhile Pixar has released few plotdetails, Andrew Stanton, who co-directed 2003's Finding Nemo withLee Unkrich, said the film will cen-ter on Dory reuniting with her"loved ones,” and will be set on theCalifornia coast a year after theend of Finding Nemo.

Finding Dory will mark Pixar’sfifth movie sequel—they havereleased two squeals to 1999’s ToyStory as well as a sequel to 2006’sCars. While fans of Monsters Inc.had to wait 12 years for anannouncement of a sequel, fans of2012’s Brave may not have to waitthat long.

On April 17, Mark Andrews,who directed Brave, said that Pixaris considering a sequel to themovie. That announcement hasmany wondering if the folks atPixar have hit their peak, consider-ing that many critics were notimpressed by Brave, stating that itdid not seem to be up to the usualstandard of Pixar’s feature films.

But audiences who do not wishto view a sequel do not have toworry. Pixar has also announced

that Inside Out, an original featurefilm, will open in theaters on June19, 2015. This announcement wasconfirmed by Disney, who statedthat Pete Docter, the director ofMonsters Inc and Up, will be direct-ing the movie.

According to the Press Release,Pixar’s new film will “take you to aplace that everyone knows, but noone has ever seen: the world insidethe human mind” and be told fromthe perspective of the human emo-tions.

For fans who can’t wait until theJune release of MonstersUniversity, Pixar has releasedthree new short films entitledTales From Radiator Springs,which focus on the Cars charactersafter Cars 3. These can be viewedonline along with Pixar’s manyother short films.

The question many are now ask-ing is: why so many sequels all of asudden? Pixar has created variousoriginal and creative movies in thepast, so why not release some morenew movies rather than copioussequels?

Fans seem to be getting boredwith the same stories over andover. One must assume that Pixaronly keeps re-releasing new ver-sions of its old stories because ofthe success the first time around,but everyone knows the sequel isnever as good as the original.

According to slate.com, Pixar isnow more concerned with its boxoffice success than putting out goodmovies for families to enjoy, prov-ing this to be the reason for multi-ple sequels.

So, although these sequels willsurely bring in revenue for Pixar,fans would like to see more originalstories once again, like the ones wehave all grown to love.

By Jenna Wilson (‘15)Eastside News/Features Editor

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Joel Greenspan ( 13)/Eastside Art Director

Well, they’re back. ThePostal Service. No, not thegovernment agency (theynever left!), but the experi-mental pop band createdby Ben Gibbard, renownedfront man for Death Cabfor Cutie, JimmyTamborello (of Dntel), andJenny Lewis (of Rilo Kelly)whose infectious musicsurpassed the mundane,over-synthesized and repe-titious music representedby the early 2000s. Now, atthe sign of “The PostalService 2013” on their web-site, this amazing triowhose group derived fromno real foundation is ignit-ing a reunion tour to cele-brate its ten-year anniver-sary of the release of its2003 album Give Up.

Known for their highlypopular hit, “Such GreatHeights,” The PostalService has an efferves-cently upbeat quality in itsmusic that, regardless ofwhen a single wasreleased, still colorfullyrelates back to its albumrelease in 2003. Althoughmost of its music wasrecorded between 2001 and2003, many of the songswere gradually releasedyears later, like “Be StillMy Heart,” released in thebeginning of 2005, thesame year The Postal

Service would initially dis-band. Its top-charting song“We Will BecomeSilhouettes” is the band shighest charting song: ithit #82 on the BillboardHot 100.

It is a breath offresh air to seethis once lostside projectr e e m e r g ealongside twovery promisingsingles thatwere just releasedthis year. “ATattered Line ofString,” a just recentlyreleased song writtenaround the release ofGive Up, quickly capti-vates any inner PostalService admiration;the calming voice ofBen Gibbard revivesthe emotions felt whenone listens to ThePostal Service for thefirst time. Quite differentfrom their individualmusical ambitions, togeth-er this trio s musicalgenius is still adaptiveenough where it can easilyresurface among the alter-native community withoutany difficulty. Already, “ATattered Line of String”has crept up into the alter-native charts at #28, and itis expected that this singlewill continue to soar. Itwas widely received and isstill able to, regardless of

the fact that it in itself isabout a decade old, win thehearts of the younger gen-eration with ease.

Its other single, “TurnAround,” has a charming,

suspended qualitythat enriches the

listener with a

beauti-ful pianoinstrumental that quicklytransitions into to the sig-nature Postal Servicesound.

With all of this excite-ment of a unified band, itsthunderous return has not

been sold short. In fact,with the reissue of GiveUp, and the announcementof the band s 2013 tour,The Postal Service is offer-ing its uncanny album inmany different physicalforms, like vinyl, and audioforms, like covers of theirsongs by remarkable bands

like The Shins andIron & Wine.

However, ifyou’re interest-

ed in immers-ing yourselfin a liveper form-ance oft h i sa l b u m ,t i c k e ts a l e sa r esoaringand it is

absolute-ly vital

that eachp e r s o n

should pur-chase his or

her ticketsmonths in advance

because even con-certs in July have been

completely sold out. Withthat, here lie the highestregards to this wonderfulalbum and, hopefully, thecaptivating momentum ofThe Postal Serviceenvelops you, too, throughyour speakers.

... and look, dude, she'sPISSED at you. Totallymiffed. She can't believe youlet yourself forget thatDeerhunter is a punk rockband. "How could you!" shesneers; she demands toknow! Well, in your defense,the band has spent the pasthalf-decade weaving them-selves vibrant cocoons ofdense, intricate psychedelicsonic charter voyages intothe human psyche onornate, shoe-gazey albumslike Cryptograms andHalcyon Digest. Sometimes,you argue, it just felt soright to get lost in all that

vivid haze and for-get

thatthe tap-

estry of sound on whichyou found yourself so

willingly splayed was justmade of guitars and drums.

She blushes, but hidesher cheek in the ruffles ofzebra print blouse, andreemerges with a scowl.

"How quickly do you for-get," she says cattily, "thatwhen Microcastle leaked in2008 we released a whole

album's worth of strangeand penetrating besides,without warning? Or that atan Atlas Sound show lastyear I played a 65-minutecover of ‘My Sharona’ in aski mask? Or, that our firstalbum is called Turn It UpF*****, for god's sake? I betit's hard for you to forgetabout the whole cross-dress-ing thing now, ISN'T it, yousmug, spoiled internet-bredart-glutton?"

You stand agape at aConnie Lungpin pantingwith rage. You sigh.

"I'm sorry Connie. I guessyou were a snotty punk thiswhole time," youconcede,

breaking downinto guilty tears.

"Oh, honey. Oh. No, don'tdo that. No," she says, bit-ing her lip, "Come on. Here."

She hugs you."It's just... I saw you guys

on Fallon a few weeks ago,with the cross-dressing, andthe new extra guitar player,and the fake amputated fin-ger..." you manage betweensobs, " and it was just such aPERFORMANCE! So brash,so fun! Oh Connie, it waslike a whole 'nother world of

Deerhunter that I'donly seen come outin interviews. Iwanted to be apart of it, but Ijust didn't knowHOW!"

She looksdown on you withtender eyes.

"Oh, you poorthing. Listen, justbecause the new albumsees us stripping down thedense, exploratory form ofour past few records toa bristley garage-f r i e d

rock albumthat fills the space in

your record collectionbetween White Light/ WhiteHeat, the Jay ReatardSingles collection and HankWilliams Sr.'s darkestmoments, doesn't meanwe're not the same kookynoise-rock band we'vealways been deep-down. Abunch of songs on here justsound like louder, messierversions of unpublishedAtlas Sound demos, to behonest.”

She offers you a tissuefrom the breast pocket ofher blouse.

"I don't know... I wasjust expecting some-

thing different,"you say, accept-ing the tissueand wipingaway theremainders ofyour breakdown.

"I mean, youDID say in inter-

views leading up tothe release of

Monomania thatthe record was

inspired bySteve Reich composi-

tions."She chuckles knowingly,

and shakes her head."AND Bo Diddley. Don't

you get it? Monomania isn'ta return to form, nor a mas-sive departure from the'hunter you know and love.Instead, it's a super fun,loud, silly framework inwhich we can be ourselvesand let loose like the rockband we feel like we are!We're playing dress-up, likeBowie or," she laughs,"Gene Simmons."

You hug.*Connie Lungoin is the

fictional nom de guerre ofDeerhunter frontmanBradford Cox.

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Logo by Joel Greenspan (‘13) /Eastside Art Director

By Rachel Tinkelman (‘13)Eastside Humor Editor

By Amy Myers (‘13)Eastside Opinions Editor

By Jack Braunstein (‘13)Eastside Editor in Chief

The Postal Service Give Up the ghostwith reissue of popular 2003 album

Eastside’sRating:

9/10

New from Deerhunter: ConnieLungpin* has entered the building...

A combination of post-war disillusionment andthe popularity of film noirproduced several notableromance movies that wereexceedingly dark andcreepy compared to fellowmembers of the genre.They incorporate the icon-ic shadows of noir; howev-er, they can almost beplaced in a category alltheir own. They are char-acterized by a howling andalmost ceaseless wind thatis prevalent throughoutthe film, accompanied bythe eerie screech of theviolin. These movies aremuch like the gothicromance in literature, andin fact, the gothic novelWuthering Heights wasmade into one of thesefilms in 1940, filling therequirements of both adark subject matter and aconveyed sense of loneli-ness and empty space, aswell as an element of thesupernatural. Any whohave read WutheringHeights can imagine howthe director might haveinterpreted the adaptationto present the movie in away that is creepy andunsettling. As hard as it isto imagine, many of thistype of film go beyond thatlevel of darkness withoutpassing into the realm of‘horror film’.

One such movie,Portrait of Jennie (1948),is one of my favorite exam-ples. A struggling anduntalented artist, EbenAdams (played by JosephCotton) meets a young girlwhom he begins to suspectis not from his time period.His suspicions are con-firmed as he meets herseveral times, in a differ-ent stage of her life, atplaces she had been whenshe had lived. Adams hadmet a ghost.

The two fall in love, andthe film takes on a sense ofstar-crossed lovers, twosouls meant to be togetherbut foiled by the un-cross-able distance of time.Adams follows her memo-ry, tracing the occurrencesof her life up to the end ofit when she drowned atsea. When he looked forher spirit there, the samestorm that overturned herboat breaks outs, separat-ing them once again, thistime for good.

The entire movie fore-shadows this last moment,with the sound of fiercewind and that signaturedisturbing music, all con-veying a sense of loneli-ness and loss. In the end,the only thing left ofJennie was the singlepiece of art that Adamssuccessfully made. It wasall he could bring life towith a brush: a portrait ofJennie.

Eastside sRating:

9.5/10

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On April 19, I was fortunate enough to attendan Iceage concert. Hailing from Denmark, thisgroup of angry, emotionally impotent teens rodein on the current Scandanavian resurgence ofpost-punk; their music can be defined as animpressionistic mix of goth, hardcore and, ofcourse, punk.

After riding a much-delayed train and walkingin the rain for twentyblocks, I finally arrived atmy destination, the FirstUnitarian Church, a fineplace for a concert of thistype. At the venue, Iwalked in and saw a bar-baric mosh pit, a group ofpunks thrashing about in asweaty wild pit of nihilism,shoving whatever theycame into contact with. Icarried several crowdsurfers over my head andbrought them back to theground. I worked up one ofthe quickest sweats in mylife. I witnessed fans jump-ing on stage, runningaround to the other side, and jumping into themyriad of hands that were raised high towardsthe ceiling. I received several nasty bruises.This raw energy and ferociousness elevated myown spirit, allowing me to wash away the frus-tration and anger within myself, while listening

to lead singer Elias Ronnenfelt (who looks like ayoung punk version of Leonardo Dicaprio) beltout almost unintelligible lyrics such as“Pressure! Pressure! Oh god knows! Pressure!Can’t take this pressure!”

Ronnenfelt s stage presence is insane andpowerful; he lunges into the crowd, arms anddangling like a sweater over the blood-thirstyaudience--which reaches for his hair and body--screaming tenacious lyrics into the faces of the

fans. At one point, a fanjumped on stage only to bethrown down by Elias, backinto the pit. It was definitely awild and memorable night,ending with some tasty slicesof pizza and a relaxing trainride back to Ashland Station.

Even though my going to theconcert is vital to my apprecia-tion of Iceage s new album,You’re Nothing, it’s still a greatrecord to listen to on your iPodor when you’re cruising downRoute 73 in your car.Compared to their last album,New Brigade, You’re Nothingcontains more refined song-writing and tighter production.The songwriting, in particular,was something I grew quite

excited about on the first listen, savoringRonnenfelt s poetic and forceful anthems. On“Ecstasy,” which is one of the best songs on thealbum, along with “Morals” and “You’reNothing,” Elias loudly meditates, “Adorned incarnal ecstasy/ A hazy focus blurs and sharpens

sight/now my senses are leading me/a mere blowof wind could turn me into light.”

Iceage combines the delicacy of poetry with a

forceful edge when they deliver it with suchfierce sounds. Unlike New Brigade, You’reNothing is curiously tender and heartbreakingin some parts. I mean, it is a punk album, so Idon’t think it will elicit many tears, but it is def-initely emotive and somewhat sensitive.Nothing features a lighter-colored album coverthan their first album, which was covered indark plume smoke and a fervent flame burningdown a house, a perfect symbol for what theywere trying to convey. One doesn’t hear of manymodern punk bands making a significant dent inthe national music community, but I believeIceage has made an impact, and a very large oneat that. They also bring their own unique flairand pivotal energy, making You’re Nothing oneof the most interesting and enticing albums thathave come out this year.

ICEAGE: You’re Nothing

Best Albums of 2013! (Thus Far...)

By Nick Mitchell (‘13)Eastside Underground Editor

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In 2012, Sam France andJonathan Rado, otherwiseknown as the psychedelic rockduo Foxygen, released Take theKids off Broadway, an albumcelebrating psych-rock of the1960s, with breezy, sometimesderanged tunes backed by aquirky and humorous set ofidiosyncratic lyrics. Eventhough their music may seemlike a recycling bin of discard-ed sounds from the ‘60s, they are able to maketheir stuff sound something quite unique. Now,We Are the 21st Century Ambasadors of Peaceand Magic has come out; it’s a wonderful follow

-up, further exploring the myriadof psychedelic tones that tickle

both Rado’s andFrance’s ears.

“We’re trying toadd a little fun, a lit-tle color,” Francesaid in a recent inter-view with Pitchfork.They certainly suc-ceed in that regard,creating lush, tautsongs such as “SanFrancisco” and

“Shuggie.” In the lat-ter, France croons, “You don’tlove me/ that’s news to me.” in aaloof devil-may-care tone. The

album plays out like a greatesthits collection from a flower-child-era band that never existed;Amabassadors is less of a cohe-sive listening experience than abunch of really catchy songs thathappen to be on the same album.

By incorporating a variety ofinstruments, ranging from thexylophone to the guitar, Foxygenis able to serve up a scrumptiousplatter of ‘60s pop goodies thatstill sound unmistakably modern.We Are the 21st CenturyAmbassadors of Peace and Magic,a wacky and memorable album,has proven to be a necessary lis-ten for all ears.

Foxygen: We are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic

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There is nothingteachers and studentshate more than havingto use or observe aSmartBoard that hasnot been properly cali-brated. In fact, thereare many technologicalissues that have beenbrought to the school’sattention. This year,teachers, students,East faculty, theBoard of Educationand many other mem-

bersof the Cherry Hilleducation systemhave decided thatthe Cherry Hillschools (especial-ly East) need torevamp the tech-nology at theschools. Wemight be gettingtons of new tech-nology to improve ourdeficient equipment.

“I think it would beawesome if, like, theteachers didn’t have tospend half of our classtime looking for theSmartBoard remote,”said Zack Tinkelman(’16).

There are numerousimprovements wewould like to make toour machinery, if it

were possible. Firstoff, East might pur-chase holographicSmartBoards. Thisway, students will notbe able to fool teachersinto writing on theSmartBoards withdry-erase markers.

“We might be get-ting a lot of new tech-

nology soon,maybe. But

probably

not,” saidDr. Ron

O’Shmeeza.We may also be get-

ting new TI-NSPIRE 2calculators, which justscan math worksheetsand automatically doall of the work withoutany manual entry nec-essary. The school dis-trict may also considergetting universal key-boards that have thecontrol over the regu-

lar school desktops. Soif a teacher typessomething on theSmartBoard, studentswould then be able toedit anything withtheir keyboards, mak-ing necessary improve-ments to teachers’mistakes.

“We really don’tknow if and when thistechnology will actual-

ly be ordered,”said Boardo fEducationm e m b e rJuliannaN a s c a r ,

“In fact,w earen ’tsure if

t h i sapparatus

even exists,but we really

want it for ourschools!”

Because of the highdemand and cost forthis potential Eastequipment, studentsintend to fundraise inorder to pay for it all.

“I mean I guess wecould have a bakesale,” said IndianaHudson (’14).

Although plans forthe new technology arestill being worked out,East students havehigh hopes for whatmight come in thefuture. Maybe.

Recently at East, anEastside article about DJsusing the famous music-sharing website“Soundcloud” receivedmuch studentpraise. Eversince the arti-cle was pub-lished, a surgeof unheard ofDJs haveattempted togain someattention andto hopefully“go big.” TheseDJs range inage fromfreshmen toseniors, andwhile theire x p e r i e n c e svary, they areall united byone thing:their names.Eastside hasdecided tointerview fiveDJs to seewhat being aDJ at East is really like.

DJ #1: DJ Ying (’14)Q: So, DJ, what is your

real first name?A: I don’t feel comfort-

able disclosing that infor-mation. If people knew myreal name, there would beso much controversy that I

might have to stop being aDJ. My whole life I’ve beenknown as DJ Ying, and Idon’t plan on changingthat just because somearticle gets printed.

Q: Oh... ok then well,

anyway, how has being aDJ affected you, positivelyand negatively?

A: It’s cool, I guess it’sa cool name. I get cool nick-names from people, likeJay and Dee, so I guess it’sgood. I mean other thanthat, like, people call meDJ so it’s really just my

name.Q: What DJ do you

think you take after most?A: I stand by Derek

Jeter. Girls love both ofus, he’s famous, and some-day I’ll be famous, and also

he’s handsome, like me.Q: You mentioned you’ll

be famous someday, howdo you plan on becoming afamous DJ?

A: Well, first I’m gonnagraduate high school, andthen college and gradschool. Then I’ll get a goodjob and have a family. I

don’t actually think I’ll befamous, but people in theneighborhood might knowwho I am.

Q: And last question, doyou have a message forany other DJs out there

trying to suc-ceed?

A: Yeah, Ido. A wiseman oncesaid, “A goodDJ makeswhat he doesfun. He ist h a n k f u lthat he hashad the for-tune to be aDJ. A realDJ is dili-gent in hiswork. GreatDJs succeed;bad DJs getstuck at chil-dren’s birth-day parties.”My dad saidthis to mewhen I wasvery young,and it is

what pushes me to workharder every day.

To see the rest ofEastside’s Q&A featuringDarnell Jermaine (’16),Donald Josephs (’13),Javier Dodson (’15), andMr. DJ Houssard, East’sGerman teacher, clickright here.

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Curriculum approved for newelective on how to text inclass without getting caught.

Artisan match maker wishespeople would stop asking herto set up dates.

Security cracks down onschool promstitution ring;hordes of desperate studentsforced to go stag.

Promstitutionality ofstudent’s promposal broughtunder questioning.

Students dismayed at findingthemselves pranked aftershowing up for the AP SIKEtest.

Student shows up for APexam before proctors; isdeemed “late.”

Eastside editors seen tar-and-feathering those who turnedin Dodgeball forms late.

Eastside sits down with D.J.s of EastBy Jacob Borowsky (’16)

Eastside Staff

Photo illustration by Zack Becker (‘13)/ Eastside Humor EditorA cool caption about a nametag, like, really, what can you even say about this?

New technology coming to East maybeBy Kayla Schorr (’14)

Eastside News/Features Editor

Art by RachelTinkelman (‘13)/ Eastside

Humor Editor

An astounding trend hasthundered into East, therepercussions of it vibratingthrough the halls—in theform of “Photograph” and“Rock Star” blasting throughthe headphones ofNickelback’s new fan base.Although the fan base onlyconsists of two almost bel-ligerently fanatic girls, theirdevotion has inspired a waveof students to come out andproclaim their loyalty to has-been bands they have contin-ued to dedicate themselves toover the years.

When founder of theNickelback Club AngieNguyen (’13) was asked howshe felt about the way she hadinspired so many students topursue their musical pas-sions, Nguyen said only, “Ijust like Nickelback, okay?”

Asked the same question,President of the club ZoeGreenhall (’13) cried emotion-ally to the lyrics of ChadKroeger and said, “It wasChad that did all the inspir-ing, Chad and Avril. Theymake a beautiful couple.”

Perhaps what PresidentGreenhall said was true, forAvril Lavigne touched thehearts (and ears) of at least

three students at East, whoare now contending for Mr.Chia’s advisory skills with anew outcropping of BackstreetBoys fan. Yes fan, becauseAlex Jennings (’15) single-handedly formed the as-of-yet-unofficial Backstreet BoysFan Club.

Chia reportedly said, “I’mjust not sure which to choose,they’re both so good! I mean,on the one hand I really preferthe Backstreet Boys, but thenAvril has the ‘coolness’ factor.”

Jamison Burgess (’14), whoclaims to be East’s biggestmusic connoisseur, refused tocomment on which club hewould join and only said thathe would join a club. Hisexact words were,“Nickelback? The BackstreetBoys? Yeah, I’d like to join oneof these clubs and beat themover the head with it.”

He then deigned to say nomore. When asked why hethought so many people atEast had disguised their fan-dom for so long, the sole mem-ber of the Aaron Carter Clubsaid, “Well, they’re not verypopular.”

Whatever curse held backthese students from openlyenjoying their musical heroeshas been broken, and a tor-rent of vaguely rememberedtunes flood the halls of CherryHill East.

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Rachel Tinkelman (‘13)/ Eastside Humor EditorNickelback fanatics Angie Nguyen and Zoe Greenhall gaze longingly at the sky, picking out clouds they feel resemble their heroes.

By Rachel Tinkelman(‘13) EastsideHumor Editor

Sanjaya Malakar

Once a household name, this for-gotten treasure of the AmericanIdol annals has ventured on to morehigh-profile gigs such as “I’m ACelebrity Get Me Out Of Here!”More recently, Sanjaya was lastspotted headlining the New YorkCity subways, covering OtisRedding’s “Sittin’ On the Dock of theBay.” Although Sanjaya’s career hasbeen at a standstill for quite sometime, his music still lives on forev-er in our hearts. Vote for Sanjayaby texting 2006 to 1-800-IDOL.

Club members: 38

Club Advisor: Mrs. Willobee

Michael Bolton

How Are You Supposed To LiveWithout Michael Bolton? Helplesslyromantic hits such as “Can I TouchYou There?” and “How Can We BeLovers?” are perfect for nights alonesketching pictures from eidetic mem-ory of that cute guy/girl in your mathclass and/or sobbing. Ever since hisiconic revival role in The LonelyIsland s “Jack Sparrow,” Bolton’s fan-base has expanded exponentially. Forfans of smooth adult contemporaryand the radio show “Delilah.”

Club members: 4

Club Advisor: Mr. Jakbote

Kid Rock

Upon hearing the name “KidRock,” many would probably think ofKidz Bop or Hanson.

False. These people are just culturally

unaware. Kid Rock is a Grammy-winning, unrestrained, red white ‘nblue artist. He lives on Americanfootball, riding hogs, NASCAR anddoing ANYTHING he wants becauseIT’S A FREE COUNTRY.

Keep on truckin’, Kid Rock thisone’s for you.

Club members: 2

Club Advisor: Ms. Grulio

The Naked BrothersBand

America’s favorite fully-clothedbrethren starred in their ownNickelodeon mockumentary -ahem-ROCKumentary about the strugglesof upper-middle class living as parttime rockstar pre-adolescents.Rebellious tunes such as “I Don tWant to Go To School” brought abouta new wave of anti-learning institu-tion teenie boppers. Their girlish, pre-pubescent sound has touched the earsand captured the hearts of squealinggirls on a universal scale.

Club members: 1

Club Advisor: Mrs. MacMomboe

Tokio Hotel

When you hear “Tokio Hotel,” thinkLindsay Lohan’s Freaky Friday rockgroup “Pink Slip” mixed with aGerman happy grunge vibe. The high-ly popular German quartet from theearly 2000s created its name inEurope and slowly made its way to theUS. The most notable aspect of thegroup is the lead vocalist Bill’s porcu-pine-inspired hairdo and dramaticsmoky eye shadow. Their greatesthits, “Monsoon” and “Ready, Set, Go!,”have nothing to do with Tokyo norHotels.

Club members: 6

Club Advisor: Mr. Sachelbag

Vanilla Ice

Robert Matthew Van Winkle, alsoknown as Vanilla Ice, began hiscareer as a true Texan, competing inMotocross competitions in Dallas.After breaking his ankle from hisfrequent motocross races, V-Ice’smusic career began. Van Winklevamps up classic Bar Mitzvah jamsin his own old-school rap style, suchas Queen’s “Under Pressure” andWild Cherry’s “Play That FunkyMusic.”

Club members: 3

Club Advisor: Mr. Rupoe

All blurbs byZoe Greenhall(‘13)/ Eastside

Art Directorand Angie

Nguyen (‘13)/Eastside Photo

Editor

Brandon Stern (’15) hasquickly become one of East’ssuperior athletes in his firsttwo years of high school. Thesophomore has alreadyacquired two varsity lettersand is soon to get his thirdafter the spring season. Sternacquired his first varsity letterhis freshman year, startingevery game for the Eastlacrosse team. Stern playsmiddle and was the Cougars’third leading scorer his fresh-man year. He also madeSecond-Team All-Conferenceas a freshman.

This year, Stern steppedinto the spotlight during thethird game of the football sea-son, getting his first varsitystart at quarterback.

“It was very nerve-racking,”said Stern.

Stern’s first start as quar-terback was against Eastern;East went into that game witha 0-2 record. Unfortunately,the Cougars lost that game butquickly bounced back withthree straight wins after that.Stern was able to pick up hisfirst varsity win againstMoorestown. This was also theCougars’ first win in the newGroup V Conference.

Despite Stern’s recent suc-cess as the varsity quarter-back, he is most notable for hispresence on the lacrosse field.Boys’ lacrosse had a record of7-9 last season and was led bygraduate Sam Kotler (’12), fol-lowed by a young BrandonStern. Stern, the team’s third leading scorer lastyear, has been looking to bring that same skillset to the team this year.

“Even though I’m an underclassman, I thinkof myself as a leader,” said Stern.

Boys’ lacrosse is going through a difficult sea-son, as they have never had a winning season inthe history of the program thus far at East.

The team only has four returning starters:

Brandon Stern, Mason Stevens (’13), JohnMinion (’13) and Chris Hammerquist (’15). Still,the team is very young and has five freshmenstarting. The team is trying to stay positive andwork with what they’ve got to try and pull out a

solid team win. Stern did accomplish a nice goal of making

Second-Team All-Conference his freshman year,but said he really is not worried about personal

goals. “I’d rather have a

winning team and be abetter teammate thanbe a ball hog,” saidStern. “I’m trying to bethe best player and thebest teammate I canbe.”

Stern is very modestbut would not mindmaking first team All-Conference or evenfirstteam All-South-Jersey. These goals donot seem out of reach forStern, considering he isthe team’s point leaderwith fourteen (elevengoals and three assists)so far this season.

Certainly Stern hasacquired humble leader-ship skills from the posi-tions he has been in onthe football and lacrossefield. It is safe to saythat being the Varsityfootball quarterbackand the leading scorer ofthe Boy’s Varsitylacrosse team are twovital factors of bothteams’ success. Giventhat Stern has came sofar in only two years asa high school footballplayer and a high schoollacrosse player, justbased on his resume youwould think that hewould be getting readyto graduate and moveon to try and play one of

theose two sports at the next level in college. Luckily for Cherry Hill East, the school still

has two more years left of superior athletic abil-ity to look forward to from Brandon Stern inboth football and boys lacrosse.

SPORTSPage 18 EASTSIDE May 2013

East coaching trio reflects on humbling experiences

By Nick Ciocco(‘14)Eastside Staff

For the first time in school history, Cherry HillEast coaches have been named South Jersey Coachesof the Year in three consecutive seasons.

This run began last spring with Mr. AnthonyManiscalco, who was honored for his season withboys’ track. Mr. Karl Moehlmann then went out witha South Jersey Coach of the Year award of his own inhis last season coaching boys’ soccer this past fall, andmost recently Mr. Joe Cucinotti was named SouthJersey Boys’ Swimming Coach of the Year.

For Maniscalco, this award indicated how far hehas come in his time coaching boys’ track. The springof 2009 was his first season and by his fourth he hadalready won a Coach of the Year award. “I neverexpected this early in my career to be in such a posi-tion, said Maniscalco.

Obviously there’s a strong sense of self-satisfactionfor a coach in winning a Coach of the Year award, butManiscalco was quick to point to the rest of his coach-ing staff as a reason for his achievement. Most of all,he thanked the athletes who helped make the awardpossible, saying, “Our top athletes went out with theexpectation that they were going to win.”

Moehlmann had a very special final season withthe boys’ soccer team, winning only the secondCoaches Tournament in school history and advancingto the sectional semifinals of the state playoffs.

“I felt honored, humbled and excited all at the sametime. I was even a little surprised,” said Moehlmann,who knew years ago that this could be a season withlots of potential.

There were a lot of seniors on this year’s team,which meant things weren’t always as successful for the boys’ soccer teamas they were this year.

“Four years ago when I saw this group of seniors, I thought this could bemy last year. I saw a lot of cohesion and skill,” Moehlmann said in refer-ence to the growth and development of all the seniors on the team this year.

Things worked out perfectly for him as, just as he had planned four years

ago, this was his last season and Moehlmann was spot on with his assess-ment of talent in the class of 2013, culminating with a Coach of the Year

award for Moehlmann.Cucinotti was the master-

mind behind what ended upbeing the fifth straight sec-tional title for Cherry HillEast boys’ swimming. Muchlike Maniscalco andMoehlmann, Cucinotti hadnothing but praise for hisathlete, saying “It’s a demon-stration of what they’re capa-ble of doing.”

He continued, “They venever complained, neverquestioned, they have thefaith in me to put them in theright spot.”

There’s a lot to be said forthe coaching job thatCucinotti did this season inestablishing such a good bondwith the boys’ swimmers.Things came together at theright time, and after aveng-ing a regular season loss toShawnee in the sectionalfinal, the boys’ swimmingteam had another sectional

title and Cucinotti would laterhave a Coach of the Yearaward under his belt as well.

While it’s three differentcoaches, three different sports, and three different seasons, the best of allis the common thread between all three.

“It puts Cherry Hill East on the map not just as an academic school butproves we can also achieve athletically,” Moehlmann said.

If this is a sign of good things to come and more coaching awards are tobe handed down, then all athletes at Cherry Hill East should considerthemselves lucky.

By Greg Frank (‘13)Eastside Sports Editor

Angie Pacitti (‘13)/ Eastside Photo EditorFrom left to right, Maniscalco, Cucinotti, and Moehlmannpose for a celebratory photo.

Stern off to a terrific first half of East career

Alison Wooten (‘14)/ Eastside StaffStern winds up in a game earlier this season against Eastern. As a sophomore, Sternhas already asserted himself as one of the stars on the boys lacrosse team, and afterthe football team started 0-2, Stern stepped in and held his own, starting a quarter-back and going 4-4 as the team would finish the 2012 season at 4-6.

To say a strong person would make a good shot put thrower is the sameas saying a tall person would make a good basketball player, or a personwho can jump high should play volleyball--a straight-up fallacy. As muchas a tall person has the potential to be at good basketball, this does not nec-essarily mean that he will be. The same reasoning stands for field eventsin track and field, such as shot put, discus, jumping, pole vault or javelin.

Although strength is a major component in becoming successful at anyone of these events, technique is even more important.

Brandon Bryant (‘13) said, “Technique is everything. If you just try andmuscle it, you will never truly hit your potential. But most young throwersdon t realize that until too late.”

Fortunately, Bryant was never fooled by this misconception. Some of hisbest scores include 43’8” for shot put, 123’ for discus, 21’4” for long jump,40’4 for triple jump, 5’8” for high jump and 9’6 for pole vault.

Ellie Trommer (‘13) agrees with Bryant. Trommer said, “Technique, insome aspects, is more important than strength. If you don t have the prop-er throwing technique, then whatever you re throwing isn t going to go veryfar.”

Trommer is a javelin thrower, whose personal record is 80 feet. But Bryant and Trommer’s accomplishments would have been impossi-

ble without hard work. Both athletes give it their all in regular season practice and off-season

training. When it’s not time to compete, they have to maintain condition-ing, as well as lifting regularly. Also, depending on what season it is, theyhave to practice with indoor equipment.

During the season, however, the regimen changes. Practice begins with a team warm-up, consisting of two laps and plyo-

metrics to stretch out. Then, the team breaks apart into their respectedgroups to train for specific events.

“Practice can change from very long and hard [with] a lot of throws andtechnique drills, to very light with just form throws and a little bit of foot-work drills,” Bryant said. “Technique is important. Without it, strength ispointless.”

Just because a person is tall does not mean he can play basketball. Just

because someone can jump high does not mean she should play volleyball.Just because somebody is strong does not mean he or she can excel in fieldevents. Although strength comes into play, no field athlete can truly suc-ceed without the proper technique and skills.

Over 12 years ago, Ryan Spoon,a college swimmer, started a web-site hoping to make the collegerecruiting process easier. Student-athletes who would usually beoverlooked by colleges could makea profile for coaches to see theirbest swimming times. Now,beRecruited.comcaters to all sportsand is the largestsite that allowsstudent-athletesto market them-selves to collegecoaches.

In 2006, threemen created a siteto help coachesand student-ath-letes share filmand playbooks effi-ciently. Six yearslater, hudl.comstreamlines thefilm of potentialcollege athletes inaddition to being amain source forESPN’s highschool football andbasketball playerevaluations.

With the rapid growth ofrecruiting, sites like these haveflourished over the internet, givingstudents from small schools withless access to scouts a chance toget noticed and play sports in col-lege—and millions across thecountry have jumped at thischance.

Since its inception, over one mil-lion students and 35,000 collegecoaches have signed up withbeRecruited. While the number ofactive student accounts fluctuatesyearly, CEO Vishwas Prabhakarasaid that users rose from around125,000 in the class of 2011 toabout 200,000 in the class of 2012and he expects anywhere from300,000 to 400,000 students in theclass of 2013.

“Most of our growth has come

over the past few years,” he said.“One person will sign up forbeRecruited at a particular highschool and the next year you’ll seefive, maybe 10 kids from that highschool and then the next yearthere may be 20 kids from thatschool and it just keeps addingup.”

Websites like beRecruited havegrown extensively because of theease of use of the sites and the free

services. They make money byoffering premium services, like theability to see which colleges visitedyour profile and potential collegematches based on location. Butother fee-based sites like hudl.comhave become popular because oftheir multimedia services.

Though hudl started with thegoal of sharing of playbooks andvideos for teams, the companylearned to use its video expertiseto help students promote them-selves to colleges by partneringwith ESPN RecruitingNation. Thesite’s services cost from $261 to$6000 depending on the quantityof film and number of accounts ateam wants, and features used. Inan interview withSiliconPrarieNews.com, hudl’sCEO David Graff said he expected

to have about 10,000 high schools,colleges and professional teamsusing the site by the end of 2012.

Before, colleges could only sendindividual scouts out to watchgames and championships to findpossible recruits, making it nearlyimpossible for students fromsmaller schools to get noticed.Some students had the opportuni-ty to hire companies to help leadthem through the recruiting

process or used connections to getnoticed. Now, while these servicesstill exist, newer sites offer a free,simpler alternative.

“I would think of us more as amatch.com or a LinkedIn,”Prabhakara said. “We create thatinitial connection between a stu-dent athlete and a coach. We don’tvisit your games or do any record-ing or evaluation of you everythingwe provide is given by either theathlete or the parent or the coach.”

However, the self-reportingprocess drives some coaches awaybecause of potential inaccuracies.

“I don’t really pay attention toany recruiting services,” saidMichael Moynihan, NorthwesternUniversity girls’ soccer coach.“They’re very generic, with someprospects you can just tell that

they’re blanketing everybody andseeing who’s interested in themand that’s not the type of student-athlete we’re interested in.”

Moynihan has 19 years ofrecruiting experience, yet stillprefers the traditional recruitmentprocess of scouting and looking forthe players that fit and show inter-est in the team.

Prabhakara believes, regardlessof some coaches’ reservations

about sites like his, thathis site does not need todo anything else to provethe legitimacy of its ath-letes’ statistics.

“We do have a verifi-cation process,” he said.“High school coaches canlog on and verify variousinformation and there’sreally no incentive to lieon beRecruited. If yourun a 5.0 40 [yard dash]and you put up that yourun a 4.5 40 [yard dash]the first coach that seesyou will know that that’snot the case, so there’sno incentive to put falseinformation onbeRecruited.”

While these self-mar-keting sites may not begreat for all coaches,most students benefit

from them, giving them anotherchance to get noticed, play a sportin college and, especially in thiseconomic climate, save somemoney on an education.

“If you’re a senior and youhaven’t done anything in yourcareer to be worthy of a scholar-ship offer and you come out and allof a sudden you’re a great player,chances are it may have taken six,eight or 10 games in past years foryou to get noticed by the top col-leges and by that time they mightbe filled up,” Mitch Sherman, asenior writer at ESPNRecruitingNation, said. “But now,because of these services and theway recruiting is covered, twogames into your senior year thatsame player might get noticed andmight get a scholarship offer.”

SPORTSMay 2013 EASTSIDE Page 19

By Mike Reisman (‘13)Eastside Sports Editor

Colleges take recruiting to the world wide web

Screenshot by Darby Festa (‘13)/ Eastside Sports EditorRecruiting sites allow athletes to see which coaches have viewed their profiles.

Field is more than just strengthBy Darby Festa (‘13)

Eastside Sports Editor

Angie Pacitti (‘13)/ Eastside Photo EditorCoach Brown instructs a discus thrower on proper footwork.

After taking a fewyears off from coachingthrowing for East’s Boys’Track and Field Team,Coach Mr. Mike Brown isback, but this time hefinds himself in a positionin which he has neverbeen—coaching a girls’team.

“I wanted to coach aspring sport and one ofmy goals was I nevercoached girls and I reallywanted to try coachinggirls,” Brown said. “I sawthe position open and Italked to [Girls’ Trackand Field Head Coach]Mr. Troutman and he wasexcited to have someonewith experience coachingthrowing.”

Brown, also thewrestling coach at East,stopped coaching boys’track and field a fewyears ago to be able tospend more time with hiskids. Now that he isback, he has found coach-ing girls to be much dif-ferent from coachingboys.

“They respond differ-ently, you have to knowwhat motivates them and makesthem respond,” he said, “But sinceI’ve been teaching so long, I think Iwas able to anticipate it and adjustpretty quickly.”

Brown has also found the atmos-

phere of coaching girls’ track andfield to be very different from that

of coaching wrestling. While heenjoys the extreme competitive-ness of wrestling in the winter,Brown said that the more relaxedgirls’ track team also has its bene-fits.

“I like the lower level of intensi-ty here. Where everything in

wrestling is all about winning, Ithink the girls really enjoy beingpart of the team,” he said. “It’sbeen a great experience so far, I’vereally enjoyed it.”

While he does not expect the

throwing team to be as competitivethis year, Brown still expects a lot

of improve-ment anddevelopmentout of a veryyoung throw-ing group.

“We onlyhave twoseniors. Wehave a lot offreshmen sowe’re re-b u i l d i n gthrough thef r e s h m e nand sopho-mores,” saidB r o w n .“We’re con-stantly work-ing on beat-ing personalrecords. Wedon’t haveour mainfocus on win-ning events--we’re focusedon breakingp e r s o n a lgoals... thesegirls aregreat, theyreally are.They workhard andthey’re fun.”

So far, Brown has enjoyed bothcoaching throwing and workingwith the girls’ team, and if thisyear is any indication, he may becoaching girls’ track for a longtime.

SPORTSPage 20 EASTSIDE May 2013

By Mike Reisman (‘13)Eastside Sports Editor

Rowing is becoming amore popular sport inSouth Jersey, and,although it is not a schoolsport, there is a club atthe Camden County BoatHouse along the CooperRiver. It’s called theSouth Jersey RowingClub, and it is not onlyfairly successful, but alsoprovides the opportunityfor East students to rowon the Cooper.

In rowing, competitorsrace boats using oars topaddle the boats throughthe water. It is alsoreferred to as crew and isone of the oldest Olympicsports. To see a video ofthe South Jersey Rowingclub rowing click here.

But crew is also a verychallenging sport. LaurenRotkovitz (‘13), an experi-enced rower who has beenrowing since her sopho-more year, says that crewis “extremely difficultboth mentally and physi-cally.”

But she still loves it.Rotkovitz is going to col-lege for crew atMassachusetts Institute ofTechnology this comingfall. After she leaves theSouth Jersey club, hername will stay there as sheintroduced her younger sis-ter, Nicole Rotkovitz (‘14),to the sport.

Lauren Rotkovitz start-ed rowing when her tennisteam was cut and a friend

of hers thought rowinglooked cool and asked herto join with her. While herfriend quit right away,Lauren stuck with it andloves it.

“[Rowing] changed mylife and keeps you reallyfit,” she said.

Lauren Rotkovitz hasbeen getting attentionlocally for her success,

including a feature in anarticle from the Cherry HillSun.

Greg Waxman (‘14), whohas been rowing ever sincehis parents forced him todo a sport, says that racingis the best, worst and hard-est part of crew.

Lauren Rotkovitz alsosaid that the races arestressful. Rowers, she said,

have to stay at the river allday waiting around aftermultiple heats; sometimesthey have to row in pouringrain or windy weather,which can be difficult. But,both Waxman and LaurenRotkovitz agree that win-ning feels great after allthe hard work they put in.Rowers must work hardand cooperate with their

teammates really well.Besides racing,

Waxman said one of thebest things about rowingis the people you meetand the friends youmake. Plus, races allowteammates to end uptraveling to many differ-ent places. Coming up,Lauren Rotkovitz has arace in Miami for whichshe is very excited andalso races in Baltimore,Virginia and Kentucky.

South Jersey RowingClub members also do alot of races closer tohome: the SJRC regular-ly finds itself on theCooper River, where theclub practices, and alsoacross the bridge on thescenic shores of theSchuylkill River inPhiladelphia, PA.

In addition to the long,difficult competitions,the training for rowing isintense: rowers train sixto seven days a weekand, in the summer, notonly do they have train-ing early in the morning,but they also sometimeshave two practices a day.

For anyone consider-ing rowing as an extra-cur-ricular pursuit, LaurenRotkovitz and Waxmanboth say that you have tostick with it and stay moti-vated. No rower is good athis or her craft right away,but with time andperserverance, an amateurrower can struggle his orher way into success on thewater.

By Nicole Grant (‘16)Eastside Staff

Angie Pacitti (‘13)/ Eastside Photo EditorCoach Brown gives members of the girls’ track team instuction on how to throw the discus.

Brown steps in as new girls’ throwing coach

East students find success, enjoy rowing

Courtesy of Lauren Rotkovitz (‘13)Lauren Rotkovitz (‘13) and Sarah Haber, a junior at Lenape, row together during prac-tice on the Cooper River.