Not Vampires, Just Students Performing a Good DeedBy Dennise Romero

On October 17, an excit-ing event happened at Randolph - students age 16 and older got to par-ticipate in a blood drive. The overall purpose of the drive is to give a pint of blood to the hospitals and blood banks in order to save people who lost a large amount of blood through an accident or are in need of a blood transfusion for other reasons.

Many students appeared to take the blood drive into consideration be-cause they want to care for others than rather than just themselves. The students who helped organized this event are, Franchesca Kranwinkel, John Januda, Domenica Cotnina, Giselle Piedra,

Marc Gonzalez, Wilfredo de Jesus, Bemaly, Gabriel-la Velasquez, and Amanda Russell. The captain of the blood drive, senior Franchesca Kranwinkel said that “it’s wonder-ful to do something for somebody else and the best part about it is giving

the gift of life to someone who doesn’t know they are receiving it. So, you’re giving up your blood for a complete stranger”. She helped create schedules suitable for the student schedule and took the responsibility of being the captain for the blood

drive.

One student who donated her blood, junior Roselee Rodriguez, said “it was fun and inspirational” and senior Amanda Russell said “it’s important to have a blood drive be-cause you’re saving lives.“

Although most of the students who participated in the blood drive were juniors and seniors due to the age requirement, rising juniors will be able to do next year’s blood drive.

The staff advisor for the blood drive, Ms. Ruth Lac-era, reported that in all we collected 51 pints of blood. That not only beat the goal of 35 pints, but it also was the most blood the school has collected since 2002.

Thank you for the stu-dents who helped orga-nize the blood drive and thank you for the students who donated their blood. The next drive will be in January, 2015. Stay tuned for updates!

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Student Government Throwdown By Vincent Antwi

This year’s student government race seems to be a little unconven-tional. With only three declared candidates so far, there isn’t much competition going on, but it is still early in the game. Junior Frank Marti-nez has decided to run for office once again. Martinez believes that he will be a great class president because he is willing to connect with students personally and identify their needs in the school. He claimed that last year during his presidency, he went to every English class in his grade to properly introduce his position

in the school. What is his main reason for running for the office this time? “I want to run for office once again this academic school year so that I may ensure the success of school activities and prepare for my upcom-ing class’s senior trip.” When asked what he has planned for the lower classes (fresh-men), he stated “They could learn from what I do…what I expect from them is to learn from what I can do”. Frank Martinez isn’t the only candidate who has plans in place. Nazario Gonzalez, who is running for sophomore student president, has an

absorbing aim for the school year. When he was asked his main pur-pose as the president for this school year, he claimed “My [his] main focus is to establish a standing within the Na-tional Society of Black Engineers because of our history with the program”. He also promised to develop a tutoring system that would motivate the students to improve their grades or to get extra help in a particu-lar subject. Mr. Gonzalez is im-pelled to take an extra measure - not only to benefit the grade he is running for as a presi-dent, but to give every grade an opportunity by

introducing interesting clubs that won’t only educate, but entertain them. He affirmed not to dictate these clubs, but to let someone else get the chance to take over. He strong-ly believes that high school shouldn’t be just about coming to school to learn, but to be blithe in it and make it a memorable, pleasant period of your life. Enrique Hernandez, who is opposing Mr. Gonzalez, refused to comment on the record. These candidates indeed have a signifi-cant occupation ahead of them, and the race is just heating up. In the other grades, there is somewhat a crunch;

at this point, there are no reports of ninth or twelfth graders who are interested in running. Students who are in-terested should see Ms. Lacera in Rm. 151.

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Athlete Of The Month: Julissa Ramales

By Jorge Toribio

It actually caught Julissa by surprise when she found out that she was the most promising JV volleyball player for the month of October. When Julissa was told she was filled with emotions, one of those emotions being shock , but also joy. At first she could not believe that she was thought as the most promising because in all honesty she believed that it was going to be someone else, which made her happy that she was the one who was chosen. Julissa was chosen due to her hard work towards volleyball, and her ability to turn her bad days into learning experiences. Julissa was also chosen because of the way she “works her butt off” by diving for the ball and also that but she has also been a key player in some of

the scrimmages. Their next game will take place October 30th.

A New JV Volleyball Coach: Ms. Harris

By Jorge Toribio

It seems that Randolph has quite the coach this year for their girl's volleyball team. Re-placing previous coach Mr. Pruiss, Ms. Kristin Harris has become not only the coach for the JV girls basketball team but also the JV girls volleyball.

When asked about what she thinks about young people getting involved in their school sport teams she said, "Getting

involved in any P.S.A.L sport is the best way to stay in shape, be healthy and show your school spirit" and also that "Every student should be involved in some sort of club, activ-ity or sports team.”

Due to Ms. Harris' ex-perience as a volleyball player and as a coach for a basketball team, she seems remarkably well suited to coach both teams. Ms. Harris is known as one of the school's hardest sports coaches, pushing her players to the brink of all they can withstand. But with a lot of criti-cism and intense drills, she can truly bring out the best the team has to offer. And with that tough training, she has already seemed to have gotten the trust of her

players. That trust has already paid off with the volleyball team's latest 25-19 win against Murry Bergtraum High School. Ms Harris is aiming for the playoffs. To do so, she must motivate her team to train hard. Everytime she leads practice, she makes the girls do sprints, push-ups, and wallsits. These may be strenuous ex-ercises but they will be worth it in the end.

AdvertisementRandolph Ranks 53 In Top NYC

High SchoolsBy Justin Rivera

Finally, A. Philip Randolph is getting the recognition it deserves. On October 23, The Daily News issued a report on the top sixty high schools in New York City, and they placed Randolph at 53. That’s 53 out of over 400 high schools in the Big Apple, which is quite an accomplish-ment.

Some of the factors that put Randolph on the list are last year’s 74% graduation rate (well above the city

average), the wide offering of AP classes, and our relationship with organizations such as City College, the National Society for Black Engineers, and the Gateway program.

Randolph shares the honor with such schools as Frederick Douglass Academy, Beacon, Stuyvesant, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Brooklyn Tech.

Julissa Ramales

The Girls’ JV Varsity Team

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Game Line UpDate Sport Opponent Venue10/29/14 Girls’ Volleyball (Jr. Varsity) Washington Irving HS Murry Bergtraum

10/30/14 Girls’ Volleyball (Varsity) George Washington HS George Washington HS10/30/14 Boys’ Bowling Martin Luther King Jr, HS Astoria Bowl11/03/14 Boys’ Bowling Louis Brandeis HS Astoria Bowl11/06/14 Boys’ Bowling East Harlen Pride Astoria Bowl11/12/14 Girls’ Volleyball (Jr. Varsity) Baynard Rustin Campus Baynard Rustin Campus

For a complete schedule visit PSAL’s website.

Arts & Entertainment

SGO Movie Night

Nazario Gonzalez

On Thursday October 30th the Student Gov-ernment Organization will host a special mov-ie night in celebration of Halloween! Directed by Henry Selick, the Oscar-nom-inated animation film Coraline will be shown on the ground floor in the auditorium.The movie will take place 2:30- 5:00 PM. The best part is that it’s free admission. Just make sure you

bring a few bucks, re-freshments will be sold at a modest price.

Try A New Halloween TraditionBy Evline Gomes

As you know, the typ-ical American Hallow-een traditions are dec-orating Jack o’ lanterns, going trick or treating, wearing costumes, and dressing up in scary costumes! But other countries around the world (such as Austria) leave bread, water, and a lighted lamp on a table to welcome the dead souls back to earth. So you’ll be leaving dinner for some hungry spirits! In Korea they have a festival in which they pay respect to their

ancestors by visiting their tombs and making offerings of rice and fruits to the spirits. On the other hand, places like Germany put away their knives on Halloween night. You might be wondering why? The reason is they don’t want to risk any harm from the return-ing spirits. It’s not all about the spirits of the dead, though. In Ireland, girls would be blindfolded and go out into the fields and pull up the first cabbage they could find. If their cabbage had a good amount of

earth attached to the roots, their future loved one would have money. Another way of finding your future spouse is to peel an apple in one go; if done successfully, the single apple peel would be dropped on the floor to show the initials of your future spouse. So if you ever get tired of your Halloween tradi-tion, just head on an airplane for the week and celebrate your spooky day somewhere else.

Annabelle: Fact Vs. FictionBy Tamia Ejepokpo& Jenny Li

The most anticipated horror movie of the year, Annabelle, brings forth a gory and scary tale of a very “ attached “ doll. As many of you know, Annabelle is about a doll given to two college girls to serves as their “baby.” The movie is based on true events, but in typical Hollywood fashion, stories are known to be exaggerated. For example, one main difference between the movie version and the actual event, is the way the doll is depicted. The

ACTUAL Annabelle is simply just a Raggedy Ann doll. The movie version emphasizes creepy features because the director knew that the company that makes Raggedy Ann dolls would not allow their dolls to be depicted harassing and hurting people. Not only that, in the movie, there is a fictional couple who finds the doll, when in reality, it was two college girls who received the doll as a gift from their mother. One night, in the real event, one of the girls brought their boyfriend over. The boyfriend woke up to the doll clawing at his skin attempting

to suffocate him! In the movie, one of the college girls’ boyfriend throws away the doll, but in the actual event, they never ever threw the doll away. Some things that the movie and the real story share is the doll shifted places when the girls weren’t present. Not only that, the doll would leave messages for the girls to quiver to. The girls finally asked for help from Ed and Lorraine Warren, a well-known couple famous for investigating paranormal activity. The Warrens were quickly able to discover that the doll was possessed by a

demon. In the movie, a sacrifice has to be made to stop Annabelle’s wrath. In the real event, the Warrens took the doll to their museum and had it contained in a glass box. The museum is located in Monroe, Connecticut. Annabelle’s power is so powerful that one day a man and his girlfriend visited the museum and banged on Annabelle’s glass container. When the man and his girlfriend were escorted outside the building and went on their motorcycle heading home, the man got into an accident. The accident killed the man on impact,

but the girlfriend sur-vived. It is believed that Annabelle caused it. The doll is cleansed by a priest twice a month to make sure that Annabelle’s evil never touches the outside world.

10 Classic, Horror Thrills to Sink Your Teeth IntoBy Leslie Enofe

October always signals a time for sinister fun. The costumes. The candies. The Jack-o-lanterns and the pranks. Everyone has their own tradition for Halloween. So, why not add another?

Below is a list, in no par-ticular order, of thirteen classic horror films that every true horror fan should watch. Some cap-ture the essence of tradi-tional horror, while others create their own paths and alter the genre of horror in movie-making histo-ry. These films have had either a huge impact on a generation, a plot twist, a thoughtful meaning, or plainly and simply forced you to gape at the screen.

Shall we begin?

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) In-teresting fact: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was based on murderer and body snatcher, Ed Gein, who in the 1950s killed his mother, stole dead bodies from the cemetery and killed two women.

The opening scene of Texas, with only the music and those gro-tesque pictures, makes anybody’s stomach churn. There are moments in the opening titles were there is only silence, as though you were the last person on earth, adding to the suspense. You catch your breath, needing for something to occur. Then there are the scenes when the teenagers first encoun-

ter the old farmhouse and begin to separate (horror movie mistake #1). We, as an audience, see the kids being stalked through the hunter’s eyes.

The Evil Dead (1981)

The original release of The Evil Dead in 1981 blended horror and comedy in such a clever way that it spawned a franchise and a remake. Five friends travel

into the woods and reside in an old cabin without knowing they just released a bunch of demons from an old audio tape they discovered. The Evil Dead is so gory, so bloody and so intense that it will keep any modern day horror fan on the edge of their seat. With its trademark style in shooting the pos-sessed, believable acting from Bruce Campbell and simple plot, you cannot go wrong with this movie. It’s classic horror at its finest.

Jaws (1975)

Don’t go in the water. Di-rected by Steven Spielberg, Jaws is so scary because it’s realistic. It isn’t about demons or witches, but about a shark who just so happens to be surfing the tide with bodies of water

all around it. Over 67 million Americans went to see this movie when it first came out. You can only imagine that sales for bikinis and sunscreen were low. Jaws became the first ever movie to become a blockbuster hit over that summer. It not only won several accolades in America, but all over the world. And who can forget the theme composed by John Williams? You can

only grip your seat tightly as you hear it. You were in on the scare, before the victim was, but you still let out a yelp as the attack occurred.

Halloween (1978)

Interesting fact: Jamie Lee Curtis was destined to be a scream queen. Her mother is Psycho’s very own Janet Leigh.

The night HE came home. It’s pretty impossible to go trick-or-treating on Halloween without seeing at least one Michael Myers mask. This wouldn’t be a classic horror list without including this movie sim-ply because it popularized the sub-genre slash-er-horror (a psychopath stalking and/or murdering a victim(s) in a violent,

graphic way) for over a decade. Audiences relate to Halloween, because the protagonist outsmarts Michael Myers in a series of showdowns. She saves both the kids she’s babysitting and herself in an unforgettable night of terror. The director of the film, John Carpenter, even composed the frightening piano theme.

The Shining (1980)

Interesting fact: The Shin-ing movie wasn’t approved by the author, Stephen King, when the film was in production.

The Shining is a master-piece of terror. Several decades and documen-taries studying this film later and director Stanley Kubrick still has people questioning the ideas be-hind each scene. Shining isn’t your typical, classic horror film. It’s a kind of movie that demands not only your attention, but your critical thinking, too. It’s psychological horror. Even the music details the graduating change of the characters in the movie. Jack Torrance, the main character, takes his family to the isolated, eventually snowbound Overlook Ho-tel, where he slowly loses

grasp on reality. There are several elements of ghosts, supernatural powers and murder in this film. Jack Nicholson, who plays Jack Torrance in the film, gives a churlish, eye-catching performance that adds to the intensity of it all.

The Thing (1982)What you fear most…is among you. John Car-penter’s The Thing is by far the best version out there. You just HAVE to watch it. John Carpen-ter explains this movie flawlessly. He said that there were two types of evil: The evil outside in the woods, unknown, and the evil among us at the campfire, this evil is inside you and there is nothing you could do about it. The Thing details exactly this. A group of scientists in Antarctica encounters a shape-shifting alien. So, they don’t know whether to trust one another or to fend for themselves. The actors mesh so remarkably well with one another that the storyline comes off as sensible. When The Thing first opened it lost box-office success to Steven Spielberg’s E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, but today, with a remake already under its belt, it is known as a cult classic. Side note: if you get sick easily at the sight of blood, do not watch this film. Suspiria (1977)The Only Thing More Terrifying Than the Last 12 Minutes of This Film Are the First 92. Suspiria is like that friend you know that is so weird that you can’t help but be drawn to them. This

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movie is the strangest of the bunch. Dario Argen-to’s Italian-horror flick envisions every death scene as beautiful. You have these gorgeous girls being killed beautifully. From the blood, the col-ors, the lights, the acting, somehow Argento puts it all together and makes it come alive on screen. Horror, considered to be gruesome in the eyes of some, becomes an art in this movie. In the film, an American ballet dancer moves to Germany to study at a ballet school filled with prestige only to discover the school is run by a coven of witch-es. Suspiria is Latin for breathlessness or sighs, because all throughout the film you hear the whispers that haunt the American ballet dancer.

Night of the Living Dead (1968)If you want to talk about impact, we could talk about it here. Night of the Living Dead, many be-lieved, was used by 1960s America, because they couldn’t speak out about the growing war in Viet-nam. The government was depicted by zombies in the film who walked around in a sleepless mind frame. Then the main characters that fought these zom-bies were always socially relatable and underpow-ered: A black man and a woman. Night went on to influence Tobe Hooper for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, John Carpenter and even Stephen King. Although a bit outdated and cheesy for the average person nowadays if you

pull those few aspects aside this movie has still a couple scares in it left.

Alien (1979)Interesting fact: In The scene, the one that comes to mind had you watched this movie, the actors’ reactions were real. The director purposely failed to tell them what was going to happen.In space no one can hear you scream. Picture it: You’re in space, doing astronaut stuff with your co-workers when you come across uncharted territory. So, what do you do? Naturally, these crew members landed to check what was up on the quiet planet letting aboard a foreign alien creature onto the space ship. Alien holds nothing back when it comes to blood, while also messing with your mind. After watching this film, trust me, you’ll wonder how screenwriters and filmmakers come up with the things they put on screen. Sigourney Weaver creates a stunning perfor-mance in this film as the fast-thinking heroine, too. Enjoy!

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)Interesting fact: This film stars a young Johnny Depp in his debut perfor-mance.Sleep Kills. Wes Craven was at his best when he directed this flick. Something that the villain Freddy Krueger attains in this movie that other killers usually don’t is that he plays with you. He teases and taunts you

right before killing you in your dreams. The overall story line is very creative and fun to anyone who wants in on a light, fun thrill. Nancy, our main character, just like Jamie

Lee Curtis in Halloween, outsmarts the villain she’s up against. However, the two heroines turn paths when Nancy chooses to strategically stand up to Freddy. She sets him up, teases him back, and traps him. Whenever you see the dirty gloves with knives attached as fingers or a red/green sweater or a marked-up face you think of Freddy Krueger.

The Exorcist (1973)

The Exorcist was so good that people came back to see it for a fourth and fifth time during its original run. This film wasn’t a pretty, cute horror movie. It was one that slapped you in the face and forced you to watch it. IF you get offended easily, if you don’t like vulgar language, then this isn’t the movie for you. Everyone from across the globe went to see The Exorcist, it reached out to all races. In the film, a 12-year old girl gets possessed by a demon. Her mother tries desper-ately to win her back by letting two priests perform an exorcism on her. The impact on the generation was so strong, because

1970s America has never witnessed a film like it.

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)Interesting fact: Mia Farrow, star of the movie, popularized the pixie cut.

The trend was so big she had to give a press conference to explain why she cut her hair.Pray for Rosemary’s baby. This film is simple, clear, psychological horror. Mia Farrow’s

character in the movie, Rosemary Woodhouse, starts to suspect after getting pregnant that her new next door neighbors are practicing demonic rituals. Farrow is highly effective in this role when working with director Roman Polanski. After watching the documenta-ry, Polanski is as much of an actor as he is a direc-tor. He has the ability to act out any role to better explain to his actors how exactly he wants a part portrayed. Like most psy-chological horror though you’ve got to pay attention or you could miss some-thing important.

Psycho (1960)Interesting fact: Like Texas, Psycho was inspired by sociopath Ed Gein who was obsessed with his mother before killing her.

Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, had a major influence on horror. It pioneered slasher-horror and brought what was in the dark to the light when speaking about violence. 95% of classic horror filmmakers will point to this movie as a source of inspiration and influ-

ence. The main character Norman Bates is so eerie, so strange and so creepy it makes anyone’s skin crawl! And yet, whenever a new scene appears we hope that he is in it. When we first see him you get a sense that something isn’t completely right. The Bates Motel that Norman runs has 12 vacancies, in the middle of nowhere on a rainy, cold night. The spine-tingling theme for Psycho composed by Ber-nard Hermann displays also the uncanny change that Norman goes through as he struggles to hide his secret. Janet Leigh also stars in this movie!

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Meet Pumpkin Kathy By Elena Butuzova

This quaint little store area in New Jersey, Fort Lee named Garden Center sits on the side of a high-way this year holds an 889 Lb. pumpkin named Kathy. This year she has been chosen as the attraction for the store, Garden Center. A new pumpkin comes every year as a showcase and also as a product to buy at $2000.00. Garden Center holds different plants from flowers, little pump-kins and haystacks for the fall season, as well as lit-tle Christmas trees for the upcoming winter. I met a girl there named Kathrin Panchenko, a teenaged girl from Fort Lee High school and interviewed her about her experience and thoughts about the attraction, Kathy.

Elena (interviewer)- Why do they bring this pump-kin every year? Kathrin- Perennials, a farm in Closter, New Jersey every year finds the biggest pumpkin and choses the main winner as its candidate to bring to Garden Center, this is just an attraction for the store, as a way for people

to come in and take pic-tures with the very large pumpkin.

E-How long have you been visiting this attrac-tion? K- For the last four years. E- Is there a different pumpkin each year? K- Yes, Last year there was a nameless pumpkin

which I named Pumpkin Paul who was at 1400 lb. E-Why have you been coming and seeing the pumpkins each year?k- Well I live right by the store and every time I see the signs showing that the “big pumpkin” is back, it attracts me to go and see it once again. I’ve taken pictures of these

encounters for the last four years E-What were your initial thoughts when first seeing the pumpkin four years ago? k- I was like damn…that’s a big pumpkin. E-How does it make you feel once you see these signs if you’re so attract-ed to go back every year? k- Its brings me into the fall spirit and I always make my friends excited to take the pictures of me with the pumpkin. e- Any type of message you want to say to the New Yorkers in A.Philp.Randolph High School for the upcoming Halloween from the new jersey-ians in Fort Lee High School?k-If you want to buy a big a** pumpkin to throw on people this year, Garden Center will always have Kathy available! Have a happy Halloween every-one!

Jack the Ripper Revealed

By Marufa Jabin

The world’s most famous unsolved mys-tery has recently been put to light, just in time for Halloween. London’s notorious murderer with the alias Jack The Ripper brutally murdered five prostitutes back in the 1880s and sent horrify-ing letters (self-claimed as letters from Hell) to Whitechapel’s police station. These letters were supposedly written in the blood of his victims and sometimes contained body parts of them too, such as kidneys.Finnish Molecular biologists have been speculating that the real identity of Jack The Ripper was a man named Aaron Kominski, a Jewish-Pol-ish born immigrant that fled to London with his family in 1881 to escape the Russian authorities in fear of persecution.

When Kominski came to Whitechapel he started working as a hairdresser, but later in 1891 he was admitted to Colney Hatch

Lunatic Asylum where he eventually died. It wasn’t until Kominski died that authorities started to sus-pect he could be the man behind the murderers. More than a century

went by and there was no lead in solving this case...until a man by the name of Russel Edwards picked up a shawl rumored to

belong to one of Jack The Ripper’s victims in an auction in 2007. Apparently the shawl was picked up by one of the police officers back in 1888 next to Catherine

Eddowes’s lifeless body. He thought the shawl was beautiful so he took it home to give it to his wife, who was horrified

when she found out where her husband got it and put the shawl away into a box. For genera-tion to generation, the shawl was handed down in that family until it was

set up for auction where Edwards picked it up. Edwards was aware of the origins of the shawl and his taste for mysteries led him to hand the shawl over to molecular biolo-gist Dr. Jari Louhelainen. Since the shawl was never worn or washed af-ter the murder took place, bits of DNA from blood and semen were found on the authentic shawl. Dr. Jari Louhelainen used a process called “vacuum-ing” which gently allowed him to take samples of the DNA for further investigation.

It was confirmed that the blood on the shawl be-longed to Eddowes, spe-cifically from the slashing of her arteries. And as for the semen, the DNA found on the shawl was tested for match twice on a descen-dent of Kominski’s sister

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and the first time the result showed a 99.2% match and the second time, 100%. More characteristics were able to be conclud-ed from the DNA of the semen such as having dark hair and being from a Russian-Jewish lineage. However, although Kominski’s DNA is a match, experts say there is no way to conclude he is the one who killed Eddowes or he is the real identity of Jack The Ripper.“The shawl has been openly handled by loads of people and been touched, breathed on, spat upon,” Richard Cobb, who handles Jack the Ripper conventions and tours said. He also states “What’s more, Kosminski is likely to have frequented prostitutes in the East End of London. If

I examined that shawl, I’d probably find links to 150 other men from the area.” Sir Alec Jeffery says that although the DNA match with Kominski is not a re-liable evidence to say that Kominski is Jack The Rip-per, it does not necessarily rule him out as one of the suspects. However, Jeffrey also said that the lack of convincing evidence at a distance of 125 years does not rule out Kosminski as the prime suspect. “If I re-member correctly when I visited the Black Museum at New Scotland Yard...Kosminski was long re-garded as by far the most likely perpetrator.”

Other suspects include Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice In Wonderland, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, and even Mary Pearcey, also known as “Jill The Ripper”.

What adds horror is the fact that Aaron Kominski was not a butcher or a doctor, but just your typ-ical hairdresser. It really shines on the fact that we really can’t be too careful about who we socialize with. We see murderers happening among young adults all the time but yet we fail to see the conse-quences until it actually happens to our family, our friends, or even our neighbors. In behalf of our Newspaper Club, we urge you all to be careful on Halloween because you may not know exactly who is behind that mask

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer: Chills and Thrills for Every Audience

By Emilio Figueira

The Unbecoming Of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin is a supernatural, lov-ey-dovey, spooky, creepy, humorous thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Mara Dyer is a 16-year-old girl who wakes up in a hospital from a coma. She then moves to Miami, Florida with her family after the tragic deaths of three of her closest friends, including her boyfriend. Mara was with them the day they all died but can-not remember what hap-pened. As memories of the past return to haunt her, Mara says that she can see her dead friends. But is it all in her head? You will be wondering how true the hallucina-tions are even after the book is over.

This book also reminded me of Carrie because in the new town she moves in, everybody thinks she’s weird and she does not fit in but she catches the attention of the “bad boy” of the school. The one thing I really liked about this book is that it reaches out to multiple audiences. If you want to be creeped out, this is the book for you. If you want to swoon over romance, this is the book for you. If you want something that is going to keep you up until 3 in the morning, this is the book for you.I did have a few problems with the novel. One of them was the spooky, creepy part of the book took a back seat to the romance. Maybe for other people it was positive thing, but to me I wanted more of the creepy, spooky stuff. Also, some

of the hallucinations the main character would go through were at times confusing, not in a good way either. All in all it is a excellent read and I will be picking up the sequel at some point in the future. The verdict: 4 out 5 stars.

Randolph Talk!Who is your favorite scary movie villain?By Leslie Enofe

Jason from Friday the 13th “You never really know what’s real and what’s fake.”-Alejan-dro (11th grade) “The dolls from

Dead Silence are pretty scary.”- Lou-is A. (12th grade)

“Michael Myers is the scariest villain ever, because he never dies! He always came back to life.” - Imer and Victor (9th Grade)

“Chucky! The thought of a doll coming to life is pretty creepy.”-Daviel (12th)

Regan from The Exorcist “She’s the 1st person to scare me, because I’m reli-gious and the biblical terms she referenced was precise.” -Courtney

“The Joker is just too valid!” -Emmanuel (11th grade)

“He’s scary, because he skinned women and raped them.” -Diamond (12th)

“Hannibal Lecter from Silence of the Lambs comes to mind”-Gabriel (12th)

Jason Hannibal Lecter

Dolls

Bloody face

Chucky

The JokerRegan

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