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TRITON HIGH SCHOOL Triton’s Student-Produced Newspaper October 8, 2014
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of the boycotts. In late August, the
Market Basket board, which had
previously fired Arthur T. Demou-
las, decided to sell him the company
for a reported $1.5 billion, according
to the Boston Globe. The student
workers at Triton got to experience a
big part of the whole process.
When students were not able to
work, protesting was how they said
they spent their days.
See MARKET on page 2
By Shannon Lyons
Staff Writer Directly across from Pearson
Plaza in Byfield, a group of Triton
students huddle together, patiently
waiting for their bus to arrive. In-
stead, a large truck flies off the exit
from Interstate 95, whips around the
corner, and spews black clouds of
exhaust in its trail.
Two years ago, Triton students
living in this area boarded their bus
at the intersection of Fruit Street and
Wayside Avenue. For convenience
purposes, parents and administrators
decided to move the stop to Pearson
Plaza, as it could then serve students
on Central Street as well. This seem-
ingly practical change in location,
however, soon proved to be a dire
safety issue for students of the area.
“The proximity to Interstate 95
on-and-off ramps creates a lot of
heavy traffic that exit the ramps at a
higher rate of speed than is posted,”
said Mr. Paul Gallant, a parent and
resident of the neighborhood. “The
parents must park across the street to
allow the children to get out and
walk across this dangerous speed-
way to wait for the bus. The traffic,
compounded by all the tractor trail-
ers entering and exiting the facilities
at Pearson Hardware, also pose an-
other significant hurdle for drivers
and the children crossing to get to
the bus stop.”
Mr. Brian Forget, assistant su-
perintendent at Triton High School,
noted that there is a very small num-
ber of high school students who take
the bus, primarily because the major-
ity prefers driving. For this reason,
he claimed that there is less of a de-
mand for transportation to be provid-
ed than exists at the elementary lev-
el.
This reasoning and hearing the
parents concerns led to the creation
of a new, consolidated stop across
the street from the plaza that parents
agreed was a better location. Since
then, strong frustrations have arisen
among parents, who claimed that the
safety issue is one of great urgency
and needed not be treated as an after
thought. Mr. Forget insisted that this
is not the case, and that administra-
tion would most definitely be mak-
ing the change.
See BUS STOP on page 2
Bus Stop
Controversy
Is Settled
Market Basket’s impact on students How students helped protest the firing of a CEO and became part of the change
By Kea Romani
Staff Writer “Work was boring, very bad,
even lifeless. You could play hockey
up and down the aisles,” said Mr.
John Martin, Manager at the New-
buryport Market Basket.
For two months this summer.
shopping at Market Basket was any-
thing but easy. The CEO of Market
Basket, Arthur T. Demoulas or “The
future of the company,” as Mr. Mar-
tin described him, had been fired.
Boycotts by customers began and
protests by workers loyal to Demou-
las broke out across Massachusetts
and New Hampshire, including lo-
cally. While there were protests
outside Market Baskets, trucks were-
n’t bringing in any food, and a lot of
workers weren’t getting paid. What
some people may not know was how
all of this affected student employ-
ees, including the ones from Triton
High School.
“I wasn’t paid for three weeks,”
said senior Brett Greenberg. “I
couldn’t drive without gas money. I
couldn’t go out with my friends. All
I did was protest, and to be honest, I
missed my job.”
Students couldn’t work if there
wasn’t anything to work with; the
delivery trucks weren’t coming in,
so the food wasn’t either, according
to Greenberg and fellow Market
Basket employee Keegan Leary.
They both agreed that they
missed being paid and that Market
Basket isn’t only a first job, but a
place where they have met people
who are now close friends.
Protesting was a big part of the
process that eventually led to the end
By Hannah McIsaac
Staff Writer Seated in the library, cell phone
in hand, senior Eliza Mullen typed
out a quick text message, checked
her notifications, and then slipped
her phone back into her pocket. But,
minutes later, the phone was out
again, and Mullen started fiddling
with the different apps.
Mullen is not the only one. All
around her, students take advantage
of the school’s new cell phone poli-
cy, which allows them to have their
electronics out in the halls or during
lunch.
While many students are rejoic-
ing at this change, the recent iCloud
hack that went on over the summer
should give students a new reason
to be cautious of what they’re tex-
ting, tweeting, and posting on the
Internet.
“We use technology to do eve-
rything nowadays,” said Mullen.
“We want everything to be easy,
and everything to be instant.”
While our electronics may seem
to make everything easier and more
convenient, it also leaves people
open to new, potential dangers.
Over the summer, hackers broke
into the iCloud, leaking compromis-
ing photos of numerous female ce-
lebrities onto the web. According to
a Time magazine article titled,
“How That Massive Celebrity Hack
Might Have Happened,” hackers
were able to gain access to the ce-
lebrities’ accounts through the “Find
My iPhone” service on the iCloud,
which is one of the only services not
protected against “brute force” tac-
tics. Brute force tactics, like the
service iBrute, are when hackers
repeatedly guess passwords, without
getting stopped, until they find a
match.
Once they have the passwords,
they can get into anything stored in
the iCloud.
See TECH on page 2
Technology or Trust? The iCloud hack, public trust violations, and why your privacy may no longer be safe
The Market Basket in Rowley welcomes customers back with a colorful
banner (Kea Romani photo)
Photo of Pearson Plaza exit, located
across from bus stop (Shannon Lyons
photo)
Seniors Eliza Mullen and Caitlin
Broderick check their phones in the
hallway before class (Hannah
McIsaac photo).
News in Brief
Compiled by Jessica Macey
PROTESTS IN HONG KONG
Citizens of Hong Kong have
been protesting in an attempt to
make their government more demo-
cratic. After the initial outbreak of
protests, tensions and demonstra-
tions have been dwindling.
Many feel that the protests have
been successful in that they have
put pressure on the government for
changes to be made.
- NY Times
CLIMATE CHANGE RALLY
A massive number of people
turned out for the People’s Cli-
mate March in Manhattan, NY in
September to call for changes to
be made in how the world handles
climate change.
This is potentially the largest
climate change protest in history.
- MSNBC
EBOLA PREVENTION
The US government has decided
to increase Ebola screenings on pas-
sengers entering the country from
areas impacted by the virus. These
measures are intended to ensure that
Ebola patients don’t enter the coun-
try and spread the disease.
The risk of an outbreak in the
US is “extraordinarily low,” accord-
ing to President Obama.
- Washington Post
Triton High School page 2 October 8, 2014
BUS STOP from page 1 To the majority of families in the neighborhood, this news brought
great relief. Senior Katherine Delacy, however, proved to be an excep-
tion.
“I hate that they moved the stop from the intersection of Central
Street and Central Court to someone’s driveway,” said Delacey, add-
ing that she personally has never had any issues with the prior loca-
tion.
Despite Delacey’s passionate distaste for the new location, Mr.
Forget affirmed that either way, the change would be made. Though
he too was initially hesitant to move the stop again, he said that at the
end of the day students’ safety takes priority, no matter what.
“In the end, we’ll trust and rely on the expertise of the police and
others to ensure we have the safest location for the stop,” said Mr.
Forget. “If it’s decided there is a safer location working within the
resources we have, then we’ll certainly be making a change.”
TECH from page 1 This event has led to an outbreak of questions,
mostly revolving around whether or not what we
used to consider “privacy” is still private.
Before, our phones, files and the things we
deleted seemed like they were hidden from the
public eye. It seemed anyone could post anything
without unsuspecting eyes sneaking a peek. Yet,
as technology advances, so does our ability to
hack, leading to incidents a lot like the iCloud
hack.
Mr. Dan Boyle, history teacher and Twitter
enthusiast, is not surprised that events like this
would take place due to the changing technology
frontier. “Younger people’s sense of privacy is
far different from mine,” he said. “There is no
self-regulated privacy.”
Boyle said that younger people, who now live
and thrive in this technology-driven community,
should not be wary of technology, but should
instead learn that, “once you post it on the Inter-
net, it no longer belongs to you.”
“If you aren’t proud of it, don’t post it,” he
says, offering some advice for this new genera-
tion of teens and twenty-something’s, who tend to
post, comment, and Snapchat without a second
thought. This feeling of invincibility is part of the
New computers in the
Library and classrooms
MARKET from page 1 “We made protesting fun. It wasn’t too bad
doing it with people that I’ve gotten to know really
well. I made more friends in the process,”said
Greenberg.
“I got the choice to protest or
to not protest and I did because I
felt that, for once, our company
came together as a family and we
all were supporting Arthur T,”
said senior Andrew Perilli. “It
was worth it.”
After almost two months of
protesting and boycotting, every-
thing slowly started to fall back
into place.
“Customers were hugging
workers for fighting through the
walk outs and boycotts and
(saying) ‘I’m happy to be back.’
The whole company became
much closer and being paid again
is always nice” added Perilli.
Arthur T. is finally back on
the job, food is rolling in and so are the customers
and employees. Although student employees are
still young to be protesting for such a major cause,
they made a huge difference and fought through a
hard time, employees said.
The Freshman Survival Guide By Hannah McIsaac
Transitioning from middle school to high school can be rough,
and sometimes it seems like finding OB1 or Mr. Jepson’s room is
impossible without a little help. Here’s a few helpful tips that up-
perclassman would like to pass on to those struggling freshmen:
Do care about your appearance and hygiene
Do read the Triton Voice to stay up-to-date on Triton and
worldwide news
Don’t yell down the hallway to your friends
“I’m glad to be back working. I missed every-
thing about Market Basket,” said Greenberg.
“Being away from it made me realize how lucky I
am to have a job I like with people that I care
about.”
Warm smiles and happy cus-
tomers filled the aisles on the
first couple of weeks back at
work. “It felt different. It felt like
people in the store were so much
happier, customers were wel-
coming us back. It felt great to
think that Market Basket as a
company had such a big impact
on their customers’ lives,” said
Greenberg.
The future is now set for Mar-
ket Basket. In the past eight years
it’s gone from a $2 billion dollar
company to a $4 billion dollar
company, according to Mr. Mar-
tin.
“There is a bright future for
Market Basket,” he said. “It’s
nice to see it come back to life. He (Arthur T.) is
the future of this company, and we are all glad to
have him back in the office. Now there is a future
for us, and it’s a good one.”
“I wasn’t paid for
three weeks. I could-
n’t drive without gas
money. I couldn’t go
out with my friends.
All I did was protest,
and to be honest, I
missed my job.”
— Senior Brett
Greenberg, Market
Basket employee
Students in the library and in English classrooms are using new
Chromebook computers to complete assignments, write papers and
conduct research (staff photos)
problem, leading people to say and do things
they wouldn’t do when faced with the situation
in real life. They’re reckless. They’re uncharac-
teristically self-confident that what they intend to
be kept private, will be private. And then, they
get placed in a compromising situation.
Yet, the blame cannot be placed entirely on
the celebrities who placed their faith in technolo-
gy – and humanity – only to get double crossed.
The iCloud hack is just one example of how peo-
ple’s sense of privacy, and of what’s wrong and
right, has been skewed due to the ease technolo-
gy provides, and how hackers feel entitled to
information simply because it is on the web. Peo-
ple should not have to question whether or not
their “secure” files will stay safe, and yet, they
do. These female celebrities in particular can no
longer do what they want on the iCloud without
suffering through comments from the media and
the public.
Senior Allison MacIsaac sympathizes with
them. Even though they were the ones to origi-
nally take the pictures, she says, “it wasn’t their
fault, and no one deserves this.”
MacIsaac, Mullen, and Mr. Boyle are not
surprised that something like this would happen,
and this should be a sign that technology’s influ-
ence on privacy could come with consequences.
Heard in the Halls, By Brett Greenberg Funny, off-color comments overheard in the halls of Triton
“It looks like sad day outside today.”
— Math Hallway
“Holy, Moly, Guacamole, it’s so cold!”
—Art Hallway
“I'm going to dress up like a hot dog for senior dress up day with real mus-
tard and ketchup.”
— Drama Hallway
Picturing the Topsfield Fair Photos by Kea Romani
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