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Students struggle through a pile of sports gear in order to find a place for their bags. A new system could help to decrease the disorganization and help athletes of every sport. “A new system would help the organization process,” Rachael Brown ‘20.

Sports Shelves Organization

Leila Caplan, Staff Writer April 18, 2018

Every day, students at Hollis Brookline High School rely on the shelves outside the locker rooms to hold their bags until it is time for practice. It has become increasingly difficult to find a spot on...

Dr. Phillip Andrew Rice, Patrick Bloniasz, and Matthew Barbosa stand together during a hiatus in the Honors Choir workshop last Wednesday. “The fact that the experience our choir shared potentially could be felt by performers all around the world is really all I could have asked for out of my work” said Bloniasz on his poem “Onsra” being adapted into a choir piece. His poem is based on experiences during a choir trip in the 2016-17 year and the feeling of “knowing a moment exists here and now, and may not ever exist again.”

Remembrance

Adam McQuilkin, Staff Writer April 11, 2018

Last Wednesday, the Honors Choir and various members of the HB musical community participated in a workshop led by Dr. Philip Andrew Rice, a DMA in musical composition. Rice created a musical composition...

HB teachers and students participate in zumba.

World Language Week

Mitch Dreyer, Staff Writer April 11, 2018

National World Language Month is a month to recognize and appreciate all the cultures and languages around the world. It took place in March and the world language department at Hollis Brookline celebrated...

Xavier takes the court in the round of 64.

NCAA tournament

Mitch Dreyer, Staff Writer April 11, 2018

The 2018 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament was one to remember. There was a lot more NBA-caliber talent than usual, making for a very intriguing tourney. People across the nation filled out their brackets...

The SAT is run by The College Board, and is the most widely used standardized test for students to take when preparing for college. One alternative for the SAT is the ACT (or American College Testing). The ACT differs from the SAT by scoring people out of a possible 36 points, and includes a science section. “I took the SAT because it was free to take at the high school,” said Nick Franzini ‘18, SAT veteran.“Once I took one, I felt like I had to take it again so I can superscore it. It didn’t make sense to take a whole different test.”

The quest for 1600

Max Porter, Staff Writer April 10, 2018

The SAT is one of the most important tests of everyone’s high school career. Every year, students at HBHS eagerly walk into the gymnasium, nervous about what is to come. During the longest three hours...

Four seniors took part in the show and displayed their masterpieces. In the picture is Julia Stam, Katie Cerato ‘18, Emily Spooner ‘18, Maggie Conaway ‘18 and Mrs. Saunders. “Andres Institute people were happy to see the place alive in the evening,” said Saunders.

Art Show

Kaleigh Whalen, Staff Writer April 6, 2018

On March 23, Audra Saunders, an art teacher at Hollis Brookline High School, put on an art show for her current students’ recent pieces. The show took place at the Andre Institute of Art in Brookline,...

Just like many do after getting home from school or work, they log into Facebook and start scrolling. “This was a major breach of trust, and I’m really sorry this happened” Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview with CNN.

Cambridge Analytica’s Role in the 2016 Election

Harry Bates, Staff Writer April 6, 2018

British data firm and political strategist group, Cambridge Analytica, has come into light recently, after now former Research Director and part-founder, Chris Wylie, said the company assisted the 2016...

Kyle Kashuv speaking with First Lady Melania Trump on March 10, 2018 after a meeting in the oval office.

Survivors turned political activists

Joe Caswell, Features Editor April 4, 2018

Amidst the horrors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting of Feb. 14, 2018, many new national voices have emerged, speaking promptly and powerfully about what happened and what needs to be done....

The cast of All Shook Up stands together on stage in one of the last scenes in Act II. The cast members have been working on performing their show for two months and were excited to finally put on a splendid performance for all to see “The snow days were definitely effective in the timing of putting together the production...we had a lot less time to work on specifics of the musical that needed to have practice...but luckily, everybody in the production is very hardworking and able to cooperate with the near 40 hours of rehearsal time we lost,” said Evan LaFrance ‘20.

All Shook Up performances

Lindsey Wood, Staff Writer April 4, 2018

The talented and hardworking theater department put on four performances of All Shook Up on March 16, 17, 23 and 24. The students put in countless hours of practice to make the show their best performance,...

During tryouts, the boys baseball team prepares their base running skills in the gym, so that they can score ample runs this season. They paid close attention to coach Loftus as they would be called out if they didn’t watch closely. “We ring chasin’ this year. We’re winning the ship”, says HB’s Kaito Kramarczyk ‘19.

Boys baseball preps for spring

Sofia Barassi, Assistant Sports Editor April 3, 2018

The boys' baseball team kicked off their 2018 Spring season on Monday, March 19 with tryouts in the HB gymnasium. With a tough ending to their season last year when the boys were cut short of the playoffs...

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