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Devils' Advocate

- Volume 8: Issue 4: June 2007

The following are stories from the current edition. Many older stories are available in the newspaper archive.

• Is Extended Learning Time in your future?

  By Ariel Rodriguez and Vilma Rojas: You watch the clock as it ticks away, and you're waiting for it to hit 2:20 when the bell rings another school day over. What if you weren't waiting for the clock to strike 2:20? What if you were waiting for the clock to strike 3:19 or worse yet 4:00? [More] (posted: )

• "Casino Royale" gamble pays off

  By Monica Aragon: Since the beginning of the school year, our senior class has held meetings of the prom committee every Thursday after school. I remember coming to the meetings and seeing everyone anxious to get started with prom plans because we wanted to make this prom a huge reminiscence for everyone. Some days I could feel the excitement of prom coming just by talking with my friends and listening to the girls talking about their intended dresses and hairstyles. Asking each other, "Who's your date?" was the most common question followed by, "What color is your dress?" [More] (posted: )

• Homerun or strikeout?

  By Lorenzo Recupero: With the exception of more home runs to right field, the new pool might be a strike out compared to the old Chelsea pool most of us remember. [More] (posted: )

• Senior Friday full of bittersweet farewells

  By Jessica Gelista: Standing outside for a few minutes in the heat on Friday May 25th was unbearable. But the heat didn't stop students from going out to Field Day to support their class. [More] (posted: )

• CWS?

  By Berlinda Mojica: CWS. Lately, these letters have been thrown around the school. However, the majority seems to be clueless. What does it stand for? What is it? The whats are driving me crazy! CHS, be prepared to be informed. [More] (posted: )

• The Renzi legend

  By Vilma Rojas: "My satisfaction is not in teaching but in having the students come back years later to tell me how much I affected and helped them." I never thought I would be hearing those words come out of Mr. Renzi himself. I remember receiving my schedule junior year and seeing "English 11: Renzi: B3207," and literally saying "Oh no!" because I had heard how tough of a grader he was. But now looking back on it, I realize it was a great opportunity, and so when I got the chance to interview him, I was intimidated yet really interested and honored. [More] (posted: )

• Failure is Unraveled Success

  By Mark Olejnik (Mark recited his poem as the close of his salutatorian speech at the CHS Class of 2007 graduation ceremony.) [More] (posted: )

• Multicultural Festival provides more than a bellyful

  By Daniel Cortes: The Multicultural Club held its annual Multicultural Festival and though the audience was small, it was shown a night of cultural exploration and all-around fun. [More] (posted: )

• Can't wait to sing? Don't hold your breath

  By Austin Hightower: This past year I had the chance to fall in love with music once again. At the fall concert I got the chance - along with the rest of Chelsea youth - to hear Boston University's own Treblemakers. The Treblemakers are BU's premiere co-ed acappella group. To get to see a show by them is close to impossible, however they came here to perform almost their entire repertoire: "Fields of Gold" by Sting, "Mexico" by Jump, Little Children, "Twentysomething" by Jaime Cullum, "Portions for Foxes" by Rilo Kiley, along with "Take Me Home Tonight" by Eddie Money. [More] (posted: )

• Is the emo label just another stereotype?

  By Monica Arigon: We all have so much going on in our lives. If we spend so much time devoted to our emotions is it possible we can lose the notion of our happiness? Each day I see more people dressing in tight black jeans. They slowly get into the "emo" scene. What does emo mean? Is it a state of mind? Is it a type of music? Certain bands? Perhaps depressed musicians whining about failed relationships? [More] (posted: )

• Farewell, Mr. Feinberg

  By Karla Barrientos: As the school year is finally coming to an end, we have to say farewell to the teachers who are retiring, but what makes this year special is saying farewell to the well beloved Senior English teacher, Mr. Feinberg. The teacher who always wears colorful ties has won the respect of many students throughout his 34 years working at Chelsea High. He stands out for his easy-going personality and his continual striving to teach his students that enjoying life is important. Whether discussing Dickens's, "Great Expectations" or Shakespeare's, "Macbeth," Mr. Feinberg never runs out of things to say, and he makes it easy for his students to understand what is going on. [More] (posted: )

• Think it's just the nurse's office? - Think again!

  By Vilma Rojas: When you're not feeling well or when your teacher catches you sleeping in class and says, "If you don't feel well then go to the nurse," you take that long walk all the way to the end of the cafeteria. You walk into the nurse's office and think, "that's all that's here." But NO! In reality you have just walked into the CHS Student Based Health Center (SBHC). It is definitely more than a nurse's office - it's the gateway to a hospital. [More] (posted: )

• Any Republicans at Chelsea High School?

  By Clifford Cunningham: Conversations about politics are not common with students at Chelsea High School. However, students in Mr. Weinberg's AP Government class are not the only ones who are capable of having those conversations. Each student at CHS has at least one issue that is important to her. While in AP Government class we took an online survey, answering questions intended to define where each of us stood on the political spectrum. After the survey results showed that most of the students in class were liberal (except one - me), I wanted to see if most of CHS was liberal as well. [More] (posted: )

• Ms. Whitley closes the book on CHS career

  By Devils' Advocate Staff: Head Librarian Ellen Whitley is retiring after a distinguished career spanning over 30 years as a teacher in Chelsea. [More] (posted: )

• Red Devils' Baseball steps it up to win championship

  By Chris Pazos: For the first time in 17 years, the CHS baseball team won its division. The CAC league championship banner is on its way, noting a stellar 8-0 performance in divisional play. [More] (posted: )

• Luna Eclipse: Chelsea Diablos' Jonathan Luna named Commonwealth Conference Player of the Year

  By Joe Resnek: Jonathan Luna is a beast. When pitchers on opposing teams are familiar with him, they pitch around him and when they aren't, they get shelled. [More] (posted: )

• Unraveling the Playoff Details

  By Joe Resnek: The technicalities in the rules for winning a conference championship are quite complicated - so much so that some members of the baseball team still don't get it. [More] (posted: )

• Softball: behind the losses, improvement

  By Jessica Gelista and Laura Umana: The next batter steps on up. She tries her best to redeem her previous teammate's failed efforts to knock in some runs. Strike one! Strikes two … wait no, three and she's out! I guess no dice this time around. The side's retired and it doesn't look like the game will get any better. In fact, it really doesn't. [More] (posted: )

• Girls' Track keeps improving!

  By Shikeba Shirzay: How did the CHS girls' track team get so strong this year? While most CHS students were probably still in bed Saturday mornings in early spring enjoying the chance to sleep late, we were at the track working hard to make a great season! In fact those Saturday workouts were the hardest of the week because we could rest on Sunday. Our extra time and sweat together helped us to not only improve in our events but also to gel as a team. [More] (posted: )

• Elements to success

  By Lorenzo Recupero: What are the elements to success? A lot of students fall victim to self-destruction - I've seen it happen. Treat these paragraphs as an outline for success. For all students at any stage of high school who feel they have lost their swagger and it's just getting too hard, believe it or not, there are ingredients to success. You can be the most intelligent, most capable student with the most potential, but if you don't apply yourself, then you are walking down a long, dark road wearing a blindfold. This guide goes beyond achieving success in school and can be applied to reaching any goal. This all happens within you. [More] (posted: )

• Our education down the drain

  By Jessica Gelista: As a young child I remember during report card time everyone would be worrying their brains out over the chances of getting a C (for me and a few other kids with strict parents, it was a B). Getting a C in any class back then was considered a sin to most parents. [More] (posted: )

• Sexual slurs sully city

  By Veronica Zamora: I am so fed up with the harassment on Chelsea's Broadway. I don't know if any of the guys here in Chelsea High have experienced this sort of situation, but I am pretty sure every girl in this school has. Every time a girl walks by Chelsea Square she is verbally harassed, either by being called a "Mamacita" or being told, "Hay, que rica estas" and there are many other phrases that the men there use that can be pretty insulting. [More] (posted: )

Photo credits to Mr. John Moody for Prom and Senior Friday images.

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