October 14, 2020 • No Comments
With Xavier back in session this 2020 academic year, a number of retirements left the faculty with some holes to fill. Of the retirements, Mr. Magner's hit especially close to home, as he had just instructed me in Driver's Ed only a year prior. Ms. Peterson arrived on the scene to fill Mr. Magner's vacancy,...
What I Wish I Knew as a Xavier Sophomore
August 10, 2020
1. Slow and steady wins the race When setting goals, one would be well-advised to dial back his or her initial schedule/deadlines by 50% or more. It's much wiser to set humble goals that can be incremented further down the line than to set overly-ambitious goals that you cannot accomplish. My...
May 31, 2020
If you're anything like me - well, first of all, I'm sorry everything turned out this way. Second of all, you are probably well-acquainted with the psychological turmoil involved with trying to get out of bed every morning. You may have moderate-to-severe PTSD that is triggered by the sound of Apple's...
October 14, 2020 • No Comments
With Xavier back in session this 2020 academic year, a number of retirements left the faculty with some holes to fill. Of the retirements, Mr. Magner's hit especially close to home, as he had just instructed me in Driver's Ed only a year prior. Ms. Peterson arrived on the scene to fill Mr. Magner's vacancy,...
By Justin Caulfield, Assistant Reporter
October 12, 2019 • No Comments
Xavier High School has a long history of great and extraordinary teachers, each one of which with a different story. Ms. Walsh, from Suffield, recently started her career at Xavier and shared some of her story with the Kestrel. What do you currently teach at Xavier? I teach ninth and tenth grade...
By Kevin Galasso, Editor
March 6, 2019 • No Comments
Sister Act is this years Xavier/Mercy Drama Club Musical. It is a Divine Musical Comedy based on the 1982 movie of the same name. It follows Deloris Van Cartier as she is placed in witness protection program at a convent after witnessing a murder by her mobster boyfriend, Curtis Jackson. Upon arriving...
October 9, 2020 • No Comments
Released in 1977, Pink Floyd’s ‘Animals’ exudes the anti-establishment aggression prevalent in the 70’s punk scene while staying true to Floyd’s progressive rock roots. The album opens with an aesthetically gentle, acoustic ballad, ‘Pigs On The Wing, Pt. 1.’ The narrator reflects...
By Robert Mullins, Reporter
June 11, 2020 • No Comments
Lately, I have taken a break from my classics to read a more contemporary novel. This week, I am reading Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. It is a revisionist look at L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The novel abrogates readers’ prior...
By Robert Mullins, Reporter
May 8, 2020 • No Comments
In The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne, Hester Prynne is a Puritan woman accused of having an amorous relationship outside of her marriage. This claim is only substantiated by the birth of her daughter, Pearl, which effectively makes any possible defense of Hester untenable. As punishment,...
By Aidan Pesce, Assistant Reporter
October 15, 2020 • No Comments
They are not battle bots. Ok, now that I have that out of the way, we can begin the article. The Xavier robotics team has been building robots for the last few years, consistently doing well in competitions, especially last year. The FRC team only managed to participate in one event, but they got 4th...
By Sam Rector, Reporter
October 8, 2020 • No Comments
The 2020 NBA Playoffs have been played in an unprecedented situation. The NBA invited twenty-two teams down to Orlando to play in a bubble. The bubble format has worked to perfection, as the Playoffs have run smoothly. Now, only two teams remain: the Miami Heat and the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers...
By Sam Rector, Assistant Reporter
March 24, 2020 • No Comments
With the spreading of the Coronavirus, the sports world has all but shut down. March Madness was cancelled, and the NBA, NHL, and MLB seasons were suspended. However, the NFL has gone on as scheduled, with a frenzy of free agency moves and trades coming out last week. Among these moves were the trades...
By Aidan Higgins, Editor
1. Slow and steady wins the race When setting goals, one would be well-advised to dial back his or her initial schedule/deadlines by 50% or more. It's much wiser to set humble goals that can be incremented further down the line than to set overly-ambitious goals that you cannot accomplish. My fatal mistake this year was taking on too much at...
By Robert Mullins, Reporter
Every edition of my town's local newspaper, the Totoket Times runs an editorial written by my state representative, Vincent Candelora. Usually it is a brief update of the humdrum happenings in Hartford, peppered with complaints about the economic conditions of the state followed by the CT Republicans' proposed solutions. Oftentimes the proposals are...
By Alexander Pralea, Editor-in-chief
In May, within three short weeks, my senior year will finally be over. No more AP exams (hallelujah), no more biology reading guide questions, no more Edgar Allen Poe stories (I don't mean to offend my English peeps), and no more vain attempts to hide my lack of a top button (Mr. Guinan always snipes me because I am a terrible aspiring criminal apparently). It...
By Aidan Higgins, Editor
Once in a blue moon, the cruel, heartless television gods who reign down from the heavens above find themselves overcome with compassion and bless their earthly subjects with a television show that is flawless in every sense of the word. When the gods opt to act with such magnanimity, every element of the show they send down is perfectly crafted: the...
By Alexander Pralea, Editor-in-chief
As a senior, I am invariably asked a whole host of questions that I'd rather not answer: where are you going to college (maybe I should have applied ED?), what are you planning on studying (I don't think you can quadruple major), and what my summer plans are (do I really feel like planning ahead?). Still, as I embark on untested waters, I can't help...
By Aidan Higgins, Editor-in-Chief
September 20, 2020 • No Comments
An exclusive report by the North United Korean Establishment of Media Enterprising (NUKEME) revealed yesterday that North Korean athletes have won every medal awarded by the National Olympic Committee in the 2020 Summer Olympics. North Korea is poised to be announced the winner of the Olympiad at tomorrow's conclusion ceremony. The highlight of the...
By Aidan Higgins, Editor
May 31, 2020 • No Comments
If you're anything like me - well, first of all, I'm sorry everything turned out this way. Second of all, you are probably well-acquainted with the psychological turmoil involved with trying to get out of bed every morning. You may have moderate-to-severe PTSD that is triggered by the sound of Apple's "Radar" alarm, a sound that was engineered by the...
By Aidan Higgins, Editor
April 14, 2020 • 1 Comment
With the administration conducting a social media crusade to increase their online presence and capitalize off of the COVID-19 crisis by permeating the Gospel message throughout the World Wide Web, we here at the Kestrel have received an influx of cryptic letters that were taped to bricks and thrown through the front window of the office that we definitely...
By Eric Myskowski, Senior Reporter
April 3, 2019 • No Comments
Breaking News: A report just released this morning from Trump’s former campaign advisor Paul Manafort shows Donald Trump is a secret Democrat and was trying to help Hillary Clinton win the 2016 Election On what should have been ne of the happiest moments of his life, election night, Donald Trump was actually in utter distress and disbelief. Why,...
By Alexander Pralea, Editor
February 13, 2019 • No Comments
According to researchers at the CDC, the apocalypse that thousands of doomsday activists have foretold has finally materialized. The Post-Truth Epidemic is finally here, distorting all notions of normalcy and destroying the thread of American society. The plague first manifested itself in its current form in 2016, but leading epidemiologists suspect...
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