Who needs a sports-based Olympics when you can incorporate physics into it? That’s right, Physics Olympics. This is a competitive tournament that requires all physics students at CHS to complete challenging tasks. This year, there were four different challenges; students had the choice to do either the egg drop or the coffee can racer paired with either the catapult or the zero impact vehicle.
Living in New Jersey is an epitome of the east coast. A sign of this is not the Jersey Shore, the crazy roads, or the commute to New York City. There seems to be a Dunkin' Donuts around every corner, averaging to one to three franchises per town. Dunkin' Donuts was the definition of the East Coast for a very long time, rarely competing with it’s west coast competitor, Krispy Kreme.
The Freshman Boy’s Cross Country Team was dominant throughout its season this year, consistently placing first in multiple different meets. The roster excelled in their current state and mostly went unchanged going into the winter track season. The freshmen have represented the power of Chatham and showcased their strengths. This was made most apparent, however, with the Morris County Cross Country Championships, where Chatham won first place at forty four points, beating Delbarton by exactly eighteen.
This year, a new curriculum is being implemented in all ninth-grade health classes. It is a suicide prevention program called Lifelines, which is taught by Ms. Lattarulo, the Student Assistance Counselor. Lifelines is a four-day course, and each day focuses on a different aspect of suicide and intervention. It is meant to raise awareness of teen suicide and erase the stigma and myths surrounding it. By providing facts, warning signs, and models of possible scenarios, it is an important resource for teens to understand how to help a friend that is struggling or what to do if they are approached by someone who is.
With the first semester ending around a week ago, seniors are sure to be feeling a swarm of emotions. Some are excited for their final semester as high schoolers, as they’re eager to leave the bustle of Chatham High School’s hallways for a new school. Others may worry about their future, concerned about what might become of them as they move onto a new stage in their life.
In order to understand what seniors might be feeling, we interviewed a few CHS seniors. The general theme among seniors approaching the second half of the year is one of ease and excitement with many already having gone through the struggles of college admissions. It's a time to enjoy their last moments in CHS as well as anticipate what the future holds.
Chatham High School stands as an anomaly on Earth, and for that matter, the entirety of the Space-Time Continuum. For in these hallowed walls resides a swirling mass of astronomical proportions, a ceaseless agony from which even the greatest of men and women cannot escape: a vortex. Ushered in by the bells of Notre Dame, we are forced to trek in huddled masses to the chagrin of not just the men, but the women and children too. Day in and day out we see our loved ones, our friends, an acquaintance from our French class, inconvenienced by the populous halls. But I believe that this story goes much deeper, and I intend on telling you the true story the school has worked to cover up.
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