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Restaurant Reviews
By Hannah Cunningham
Three fun, flavorfilled, fantastic restaurants
have been added to
Nashua, NH in the past
year.
Chipotle, a Mexican Grill, was added at 225
Daniel Webster Hwy. This
Chipotle is the only one
from Nashua to Newington.
It is known for using only
unprocessed, organic, seasonal food from fresh
sources. The way this is
accomplished is by offering
a limited menu – Burritos,
Fajita Burritos, Burrito
Bowls, Tacos, and Salad,
all of which range in price
from $6.25-$6.65, depending on the protein or vegetarian options that are chosen. Anna Rausa, a sophomore at Nashua High
School South (NHSS) and
vegetarian, said "Being a
vegetarian is hard, but
when I go to Chipotle, I
know that I can order whatever I want, meat free." "I
know I can be in and out
with my food in ten minutes. The food is amazing,
and wicked fresh." said
Rausa's friend and fellow
student at NHSS, Gabby
Boyle. Samantha Lamb, a
sophomore at Nashua High
School North said, "I've
only been a few times, but I
wish I went more. The
prices are good, but the
food is better! I'm not a
huge fan of Mexican or
spicy food, but I can sort of
customize my meal however I want." Overall,
Rausa said, "Chipotle is
fast, fresh, and friendlywhat can go wrong?".
Just across the
street, at 230 Daniel Webster Hwy, is a new International House of Pancakes
(IHOP). "Best breakfast
place ever." said Rausa.
Lamb claimed, "Breakfast
is my favorite meal of the
day! IHOP is... amazing."
Although IHOP is known for
their variety of pancakes,
they have other food such
as, "bacon, eggs, and
toast. I am pretty sure they
even have none-breakfast
food." Pooja Karane,
sophomore at NHSS, said,
"I love the cheesecake
pancakes. They are brilliant. On the other hand,
the service was only alright." Either way, Lamb
thinks the new IHOP, "...will
be there for a long time."
Continued on Page 5
All Star Goes to All State
By Abby Cote
On May 13 Alex Dupont
was set to begin a two-day journey
he would never forget.
Dupont is a junior, at
Nashua High School South, who
since around the time he was in first
or second grade, has had a strong
interest in art. Between art classes in
elementary, middle and high school,
and extra study outside of school,
Dupont had fallen in love with art.
Dupont still attends art classes outside of the ones he is taking at
South, and clearly they have landed
him in a good place.
On May 13 and 14, Dupont
was one of about 60 students, all
juniors, selected to attend Art
Allstate. Dupont was also the only
student to attend Art Allstate from
Nashua High School South. In previous years, this event has been held
at the Currier Museum of Art, however this year it was held at the New
Hampshire Institute of Art (NHIA).
Art Allstate is a two-day
festival where high school juniors live
in a dormitory while being instructed
by college faculty. They are told to
collaborate with their peers and professional artists to produce spectacular works of art. These works take
place in a variety of areas including
painting, illustration, digital photography, screen-printing and clay. The
finished pieces at the end of the
event are then exhibited at in a gallery, where parents, teachers, and
invited friends can view the magnificent work. After a view of the gallery,
the event then comes to an end with
a closing ceremony.
Continued on Page 4
A sample of Dupont’s artwork
Photo Courtesy of Allex Dupont
South Sister Staff
South Sisters Mission Statement
Andrea Sarasin
Heather Archambault
Sarah Peterman
Hannah Cunningham
Abby Cote
The Mission of South Sisters is to provide news to the students of Nashua High
School South while also providing a taste of the French language. We are dedicated to staying credible, accurate, and objective. We will not let our bias influence
our writing. The people will always get what they need to hear even if it isn't what
they want to hear. We will always give our readers a kick butt article.
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NECAPS et BAM et BAR, Oh La La
Jill Ryan suffering through a BAR test
Photo Coutesy of Andrea Sarasin
By Heather Archambault
Chaque étudiant dreads
entendre les mots "standardisée
test", mais elle est mentionnée au
moins une fois par an pour presque
toutes les qualités. Chaque année
scolaire, les élèves sont requises
pour tenir normalisé de test et le district scolaire Nashua peut se faire
une idée de ce que les étudiants sont
d'apprentissage et de ce que les
enseignants ont besoin de se
concentrer plus sur. Cette année,
juniors a pris les NECAPs et freshmen et sophomores a pris le BAM /
BAR tests. Mais le district peut être
reçoivent pas une représentation
précise puisque les étudiants ne sont
pas à prendre au sérieux les tests.
«Je pense que nous adoptons un
critère différent, tout le temps et
j'obtiens malade de répondre aux
mêmes questions maintes et
maintes fois,» dit Gabby Boyle,
sophomore au sud du lycée Nashua. Freshmen et sophomores a
pris les BAM/BARs au début de
l'année scolaire et prennent leur
nouveau le 17 mai et 18 pour voir
ce qui a été appris au cours de
l'année. «"Je crois que c'est inutile de nous tester parce que la
plupart des étudiants n'essaient
pas, Emily côte, également un
deuxième, exprime. «J'ai assez
travail des écoles à souligner, donc
je ne soucient vraiment le test», ajoute Boyle. Les étudiants sont testés au
début de l'année, la fin de l'année et,
parfois, tout au long de l'année.
BAM/BARs sont des tests qui le district a commencé cette année et les
étudiants ne sont pas bien répondre.
«Nous avons déjà NECAPs. Je pense qu'il est inutile d'avoir un autre test
à prendre,"déclare côte. La fin de
l'année n'est pas un grand temps
pour tester soit. Jill Ryan, sophomore, dit: «J'ai beaucoup de fin de projets d'année et des tests maintenant
j'évite plus penser.»
Juniors ne sont pas à prendre le
test trop bien soit. «Je déteste test
principalement parce que je pense
comme nous faisons tellement,» dit
du lycée de Nashua junior Samantha
Chmura. Année Junior peut être décrite comme l'année plus difficile du
secondaire pour certains. SATs sont
généralement un autre test l'année
junior face aux étudiants. «J'ai beaucoup de travail cette année et je ne
veux vraiment mettre l'accent sur les
tests plus», déclare Chmura. «Je
suis juste prête pour l'été à ce point»,
ajoute Chmura.
Chance pour les personnes âgées
de Nashua du Sud, ils n'ont à se
soucier de n'importe quel test standardisé dans la semaine à venir.
Tandis que le reste de l'école s'inquiète de tests, les personnes âgées
vont être dormait dans puisqu'ils ne
sont pas commencer l'école jusqu'à 9
h 35. «Je suis donc heureux que
j'obtiens dormir plus tard et mes classes sont plus courts», déclare Kevin
Archambault, un senior. Il ajoute également, «Il serait vraiment sucer ne
soit pas une personne âgée maintenant.»
Test n'est pas quelque chose que
la plupart des étudiants sont impatients de dans les prochains jours,
mais c'est quelque chose qui doit
être fait. Mettre le meilleur effort en
test bénéficiera finalement l'éducation l'étudiant donc même si il gaspille, le test doit être effectuée.
Le Dates dans Mai
5/17—5/18: BAM/BAR test pour sophomores et NECAP test pour juniors
5/18: Girls Lacrosse peuvent à Concord High School commençant à 4 h
Jeu de Freshmen Baseball garçons au lycée de Douvres à 4 h
Jeu de baseball universitaire des garçons à Bishop Guertin à 5 h
Tennis filles correspondent au lycée de Keene à 4 h
Jeu de softball filles au nord de Nashua à 7 h
5/19: Nashua Community College visites Nashua South au cours de tous les déjeuners
5/20: Nashua South viennoise à Barnes et noble 6: 30 pm
Nashua South musique ministère printemps concert 7 pm
Barbizon visites Nashua Sud, pendant toutes les déjeuners
5/21: Junior Prom 7-10 h
5/24: Marine peut visiter des Nashua South, pendant tous les déjeuners
5/31: Memorial Day, aucune école.
Sport Report
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Attack of the Black
By Sarah Perterman
Once you go black you
never go back.
During the past years, the
Nashua High School South varsity
softball team has been playing in a
uniform consisting of shorts and a
sleeveless top. These uniforms had
been passed on from team member
to team member as students graduated and the new classes rise up to
the varsity level.
This past year the South
softball team saw a change, they
received new uniforms. The team
had done fundraising through out
the off season for these new uniforms and the team finally was able
to see the results of all of their
hard work. Katie Bizeur a
sophomore at Nashua South
and a player on the varsity
team since her freshman year
said, "yes it (fundraising) was
worth it."
One large problem for
the team in their endeavor to
get new uniforms was the
school, although the school
supports all of the sports
teams in fundraising, they
weren't supportive of the softball team's choice of color for
their uniform. The team
choose black pants and purple
button up t-shirts. The school
objected because the colors of
Nashua South are purple and
white. Black is only an accent
color, this means that getting
black pants would be putting to
much black in the uniform.
Kaitlyn Belair, a senior at
South and one of the captains
of the varsity softball team,
said, "I think it was stupid that
the school gave us shit." Many
of the players on the team
agree with Belair including one
of the other captains on the
team, Mary Fontaine, a junior
at South. She said "They
shouldn't have gotten mad, it's
a damn color, it's not offensive
to anyone or thing. The baseball team has grey pants and
Sarah Peterman showing her love of her new that’s not even part of the color
black softball pants
scheme. But we get black
Photo Courtesy of Hannah Cunningham
pants and we get in trouble.
Even though black is part of the
color scheme. I found it very childish
of them to get mad about a color."
Jennifer Gagnon one of the pitchers
on the team disagreed saying, "The
school has every right to be mad
because it isn't technically a school
color, but they need to understand
that we took the time to raise money
for them. Therefore it shouldn't be a
problem."
One of the other reasons the
team decided to get black pants
apposed to white pants is that over
the years white pants could become
faded and the team could end up
looking like a mess. Gagnon said,
"Black pants are not see through
and they are cleaner, they are also
easier to wash." Fontaine agrees
saying, " With black pants we look
sharper on the field and as a team.
Black pants can last forever while
white pants stain very easily."
The new pants are also more
functional than the shorts were. The
softball season at South usually
goes from mid March to mid June,
this means that the softball team is
playing in a variety of weather conditions including rain, wind, and sun.
The new pants provide warmth for
when the weather is bad and protection for when the players need to
slide into a base.
The entire team likes the
new pants and plans on keeping
them despite the schools objection.
Only time will tell if the pants were a
good choice.
Sarah Peterman is a member of the
Nashua High School South varsity
softball team.
Entertainment Arrangement
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Summer Shakespeare
By Heather Archambault
Summer is a time for laying
by the pool, soaking up the sun, and
learning all about Shakespeare.
For Nashua and Hudson
high school students, learning about
Shakespeare is how they spend their
summer. Summer Shakespeare is a
theatre program that originated at
Alvirne High School in Hudson and is
meant to help students understand
Shakespeare. During the program,
students put on a production of a
Shakespeare show. The program
was held at Nashua High School
South last year and will be held again
this summer but at Alvirne this time.
Eric Mealey is a sophomore
at Alvirne High School who participated in the Summer Shakespeare
program last summer. Mealey is active in the drama club at Alvirne so
he thought he would try out the program. "I really enjoyed it because it
brought a lot of people from Hudson
and Nashua together," says Mealey.
He also liked it because "it was interesting to learn about one of Shakespeare's plays." Twelfth Night was
the play that was chosen for the students to perform last year. Although,
they specifically focused on this play
Mealey says he is able to understand
all of Shakespeare's work better. "I
was able to understand the eccentric
way of how Shakespeare thinks
about love and life in general," he
states.
Angeline Jacques, a sophomore from Nashua High School
South, also participated in Summer
Shakespeare. Jacques also found
the program extremely interesting, saying "it was neat learning to actually understand it
[one of Shakespeare's plays]
and trying to put it into a production that the audience
would understand as well." She
agrees with Mealey, saying
that she was able to understand all of Shakespeare's
pieces after the program. While
rehearsing for the performance, the group discusses the
themes in the play and by the
end of the show students have a
deeper meaning of what the show is
actually about. Understanding the
show in more depth allows students
to perform better because they understand the emotions behind Shakespeare's writing.
Both Mealey and Jacques
are considering doing Summer
Shakespeare again this upcoming
summer. Mealey states "It was such
a fun way to spend the summer and
then you realized that you are actually learning too. It's definitely something that I want to continue doing."
Mealey and Jaques pose for a picture at
Summer Shakespeare
Picture Courtesy of Angeline Jaques
All State
Continued from Page 1
Don't think that
Art Allstate is for anyone,
though. Getting in is a long
process, where only the
top high school artists in
the state of New Hampshire are chosen to attend.
First, Dupont had to be
nominated by an art
teacher at Nashua South.
He then was told to complete an application, answer a few essay questions as well as submit
three works of art. But it
doesn't end there; he also
had to receive two letters
of recommendation and
create a special piece of
work based on an artist's
quote that was provided by
the Art Allstate Committee.
The last step in the long
process, was to present
his piece during an interview with two of the representatives from the committee.
O n c e Du p o n t
arrived at NHIA, he was
eager to drop off his belongings in his assigned
dormitory and begin his Art
Allstate experience. They
were briefly introduced to
their professional instructors who would be directing them for the next two
days and then were off to
visit the Currier to look at
more art. When the students returned to NHIA,
they quickly began to work
on their group projects.
Dupont was placed in the
Illustration Group, which is
what his group project
would be relative to.
In regards to what
Dupont got out of Art
Allstate, he responded by
saying, "I think that this
event has also definitely
helped me eliminate career paths that I may have
previously looked into perusing myself. Overall, it
was a really great time!"
Fab Features
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SOUTH SISTERS—Tuesday, May 18, 2010—Page 5
Club Hub
By Hannah Cunningham
Cheerleaders, DECA, and National Honor Society are well-known
clubs, but what about the masses of
people who are pulled together by
their passion for astronomy, robotics,
or color guard?
Although there are over 40 clubs
at Nashua High School South
(NHSS), when asked to name all the
clubs they could think of, students
ranging from new freshmen to graduating seniors could only name up to
15 clubs. DECA, National Honor Society, and ACT were the most popular clubs that pupils could come up
with off the top of their head. No one
mentioned the Ballroom Dance Club,
the Red Cross Club, or Destination
Imagination, all of which are exciting
clubs that could help students make
new friends and get them into college.
"The stereotypes about high
school are true; people kiss the
ground that the cheerleaders and
football players walk on, while the
little robotics team is huddled in the
corner. I mean, they're creating
things the quarterback couldn't even
imagine," said Gabby Boyle, sophomore at NHSS. Pooja Karnane, another sophomore at NHSS, agreed,
"No one cares about people who
aren't in little skirts or all but killing
each other to carry a ball down the
field and across the line." Karnane
wants to know, "What ever happened
to the Yearbook Club? Or the Drama
Club? Do those even exist?"
The thing is, those clubs do exist,
but the other thing is, almost no one
knows about them. When asked how
to spread the word about the undiscovered clubs, Boyle said "Word of
mouth. Kids don't pay attention to
anything else." Karnane, on the other
hand, claimed, "Bright posters always catch kids attention. Color always makes me
look and read
what is on the
sign. I mean, that
is how the student body
spreads other
news. Posters
are the way to
go."
Even though
advertising clubs
might not be their
high point, Boyle
has a great time
in Drama club
and being on the
green team. Although Boyle is
only in two clubs she wishes she was
also in, "The pokeman club and
maybe the astronomy club." After
Boyle learned that there is over 40
clubs in NHSS, she said that she
also wishes she was in, "The National Honor Society...but I would
have to get good grades." Karnane,
after seeing the list of clubs, is thinking about joining, "Citizens of the
world, and Class Officers."
So whether it is Chorus, Math
Club, or Photography Club, it is
beneficial to be a member of a club
with people who share the same
ideas and passions.
A Poster advertising the Nashua South
club Gay Straight Alliance.
Photo Courtesy of Hannah Cunningham
Restaurant Reviews
Continued from Page 1
5 Guys Burger and Fries has a new location in
Nashua too. At 341 Amherst St. seems to be just fast
food burger joint, but is actually, "a great experience! I'm
not a huge fan of the greasy, slimy burger, but this place
is good! The burger was cooked to perfection, the bun
was alright, and the fries were awesome, with great potato taste and not at all greasy." said Lamb. Boyle
agreed, "This isn't just a McDonald's or Burger King! This
is 5 Guys Burger and Fries, which is way better!" The
atmosphere is better too, according to Lamb, who said,
"When you walk in, it isn't gross and dirty. It's bright and
clean, a nice change from the other fast food restaurants." Rausa was impressed, "Because I am not a meat
eater, I thought I wouldn't be able to order anything
there. But when I walked in, I was surprised to see that I
could get a veggie sandwich, or a grilled cheese."
Collective Perspective
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SOUTH SISTERS—Tuesday, May 18, 2010—Page 6
Dresses, Tuxes, and Booze
By Sarah Peterman
Prom, it is an important event that every
high school student looks
forward to and talks about
constantly. Proms have
been going on for years
upon years and while the
dress styles change and
the dancing gets dirtier,
one common thing has
been present at high school
proms, and most likely always will be, is alcohol.
Drinking alcohol during the
teenage years is something
that has been happening
for many years. These two
things do not mix very well.
Countless teens have died
from drunk driving and
many die on their prom
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In an effort to cut
down on the number of
teens drinking before during and after prom students
at Nashua South are not
aloud to bring dates over
20 years of age. Although
this may cut down on the
number of drunken teens at
prom this could also destroy a teens dream of going to prom with their boyfriend. Caitlin Brassil a senior at South who is going
out with a man over 21
said, "There is basically no
point of me going to prom
because they won't even
let my boyfriend in the
building. I want to go to
prom but there is pretty
much no point in me going
n
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w
.
"
Since teens are
not aloud to drink at prom
some may choose not to
go, making the choice to go
out with their friends and
drink. This could possibly
lead to driving drunk and
put adolescents in danger
of injury or even death. The
rule of no over 20 prom
dates is a hard oneto accept, but there is no other
way you can guarantee a
teen will not be drinking on
p r o m
n i g h t .
At prom everyone
wants to have fun and
dance the night away with
the peers they have gone
to school with for four
years. But even at prom,
peer pressure exists and if
a teen is offered alcohol at
prom, even if they have
never drank it before, they
will probably accept it. This
is why the rule of no over
20 dates is so important. If
someone brought a date
who was 21 and legal to
purchase alcohol then they
would most likely be buying
alcohol for the teen and all
of the teens friends.
The rule is a very
tough one because of people like Brassil, but in the
long run the rule is one with
a positive effect on prom
night as a whole. No adult
can completely control their
teen, especially teens that
are about to graduate, but
the rule of prom dates over
20 years of age is one that
could possibly make a difference in one teens life,
and save a life one day.
Cartoon Courtesy of
Andrea Sarasin