STENTORIAN
VOLUME XXVIII, ISSUE 2
NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS
SEPTEMBER 2016
Students Chosen to Represent
Class as Junior Senators
By the 2016-17 Junior
Senators
The junior class recently
elected six new senators:
Wesley Block, Lu Cao, Giovani
(Gio) Leone, Shiv Patel, Aman
Singh, and Stephanie Yao. The
first election season of the year
lasted for about three weeks.
Nominations opened on
August 24, and during this
time period, any junior could
be nominated or nominate
him or herself to run for junior
senator. Primary elections
were held on Sept. 7, after
which the top 12 candidates
with the most votes moved on
to the final elections held on
Wednesday, Sept. 14.
These candidates presented
speeches in the ETC auditorium
before voting began later in
the evening, and juniors who
chose to attend were allowed
to leave supervised study. In
the end, there was about a 75%
voter turnout, which was not
as high as last year’s turnout.
Below, introductions by the
senators:
Wesley Block: 1 first want
to thank everyone who voted
for me. I won’t let you down!
To anyone who didn’t. I’m
going to dedicate myself this
year to making you question
that decision.
We’re going to become
an even tighter community, a
UNlStampede that achieves
the goals it sets for itself
We’re going to improve our
Junior Senators, from left: Wesley Block, Stephanie Yao, Lu Cao, Giovani Leone, Aman Singh and
Shiv Patel.
CKISTOPHKR Al.VAKADO
campus, our community, and
make student life the stuff of
legend!
I’ll be working to lengthen
library and PEC hours and
to plan fun events for us to
enjoy. I served on student
council my freshman year
and was class president
sophomore year, and because
1 love getting involved in tons
of activities. I’m in the school
play, rocketry club, NSBE,
improv comedy and SMUF,
just to name a few!
I’m so excited to be at
NCSSM and am honored to
have been chosen to represent
you!
Lu Cao: I have lived in
Cary, NC for my entire life
and previously attended Green
Hope High School, where 1
was actively involved in the
Key Club and Student Council,
holding the vice president and
president positions respectively.
In my free time, 1 enjoy
playing violin and play in
various chamber groups and
orchestras. 1 also play tennis but
unfortunately no longer have
the time to compete in USTA
tournaments.
This past Summer, 1 attended
the North Carolina Governor’s
School West, which was
probably the greatest experience
of my life. I also have an older
sister who is a Class of 2014
alumna.
Although I’ve only been
at NCSSM for a couple of
weeks. I’ve tried to immerse
myself in the campus life and
community as much as possible.
I’m currently involved with
ACC, HOSA, DECA, SPEAK,
KWave, Enthalpy, TSA,
Rocketry, Key Club, Chamber
Music, and Speech and Debate.
As a Junior Senator, my
main goal is to work as hard
as possible in order to reach
and exceed the goals of my
assigned committees while
taking initiative to follow
through with the ideas on
my campaign platform
such as the Human Library,
interhall health competition,
and schoolwide stress relief
stations.
With such a unique and
diverse student body, we can
unite to make improvements
to our community and
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Students Compete in Hall Olympics
By JULIA WANG
On Labor Day night,
five halls gathered for the
opening ceremony of a special
NCSSM tradition: The Inter
hall Olympics. This year, five
halls signed up to participate:
1E2E2D, 1C2C1D, Ground
Reynolds, Second West, and
First Hunt. A parade serenaded
from Hill House dovra to
Royall. Chancellor Todd
Roberts was present to light
the torch.
An event was planned at 7
p.m. each day from Tuesday
until Saturday. Each of them
fell into one of the five hall
activity categories: cultural,
social, emotional, athletic, and
intellectual. Tuesday’s cultural
event involved games from
all over the world combined
into a relay, the first of which
involved propelling a marble
on a string into a cup.
Second, participants played
“rock, paper, scissors” with
“ant, elephant, man” as
substitutes for words. Next,
contestants engaged in an egg
beating contest to see which
of two eggs would survive
a collision. The grand finale
was a marble toss, which
Adithi Rao, ‘18, considered
“very challenging; but, the
competitive spirit made the
event exceptional.”
Reynolds 1E2E2D
Residential Life Assistants
(RLAs) put together a
social scavenger hunt for
Wednesday night. The goal
was to accumulate the most
points from a list of tasks.
Participants took photos on a
designated phone to prove the
completion of tasks.
Maggie Mundt, ‘18,
reflects: “I really enjoyed
this activity because it was a
nice team building exercise:
from having to make a human
pyramid to having to take
SUE ANNE LEWIS
Reynolds 1E2E2D participated in the 2016 Hall Olympics.
pictures with strangers, we all
laughed and ran as hard as we
could.”
On Thursday, students
engaged in an emotional event.
Students were challenged to
memorize a personality chart
used by Yale. They were given
30 seconds to commit the chart
to memory and then raced to
see who could swap the pieces
on the team board to match the
model graph.
Kimberly Baxter, ‘ 17,
recalled: “Unfortunately, our
board broke, so we didn’t get
much of a chance.”
Friday night’s dodgeball
game consisted of multiple
rounds in the PEC wrestling
room. Long story short, the boys
dominated. Their teamwork,
speed, and powerful throws were
impressive. Tasneem Essader,
‘17, sums the game up in two
words: “it [was] intense.”
To end the games. Student
Life Instructor (SLI) Ross
Knight conducted a trivia
tournament in the music
room on Saturday night.
Knight had four rounds of
esoteric questions prepared
for the contestants, the first
of which was to guess who
stated a quote or to finish a
quote with given words.
The second round
was jeopardy-style. The
category? Geek games.
Third, contestants were
challenged with finding
connections among four
words or pictures. To finish
off, words were shown
without their vowels and
with their consonants
randomly spaced apart. For
example, “ST PH NH WKN
GND THR TCL PH SCS”
is decoded as “Stephen
Hawking and Theoretical
Physics”.