TAMS Newspaper - The McChronicle - Issue One - ION TAMS

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issue one december 2019 The McChronicle by REPLAY INTRODUCTION many events and with IN THIS ISSUE BY HARINI REPAKA AND ALEX ZHANG many friends. We hope this newspaper helps TCS Cookbook and Welcome to this first Club Announcements: issue of the McChronicle, you recollect the Pg. 2 TAMS’ first newspaper! memories that made up Club Feature (Replay): As we attended new our first semester of the Pg. 3 classes and joined the 2019 - 2020 school year! Interview with Meg TAMS family after the Here are some of the Winkler: Pg. 4 summer break, we also things you can look Humans of TAMS: Pg. 5 had lots of fun at forward to in this issue: THE TAMS NEWSPAPER by Replay | Page 1 the mcchronicle december 2019 DR. TAMS ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM TAMS CULINARY SOCIETY'S COOKBOOK: BY HALLE SUMMIT Ballot is holding SciMUN PEACH COBBLER on February 8th, and it's BY ERIC BAU After a night of completely beginner- performances at friendly! You can register Read for a quick peach cobbler Ambassador's Dr. TAMS , on Ballot's website, and recipe which tastes amazing. Great HOPE won the Crowd all profits go to charity! for all of your holiday needs! Choice Award for their Ingredients: performances by president -½ cup unsalted butter Rayyan Khoja and junior -1 cup all-purpose flour Rithi Kowtha. "My experience at Dr. TAMS -4 cups peach slices (about 5 fresh peaches) was pretty amazing, -2 cups sugar, divided-1 tbsp baking "For Dr. TAMS, I powder because not only did I learn -1 cup milk represented HOPE with more about various clubs at -1 tbsp lemon juice (if using fresh peaches) Rithi Kowtha as our junior TAMS, but I also got closer -¼ tsp salt representative. For the to all the talented people -Ground cinnamon or nutmeg (optional) talent portion of the representing each club. It competition, Rithi and I was so fun to be able to 1) Melt butter in a 13x9 baking dish performed an interpretive bring our own personalities while the oven preheats to 375 dance to the infamous “Mii to the competition, and I degrees. channel music” dressed in truly loved the overall suits. For the catwalk 2) Mix flour, baking powder, 1 cup experience!I definitely plan portion, we stuffed sugar, salt, and milk in a large on participating in it next numerous articles of bowl. year, because I'm so clothing into our pants in 3) Mix until the dry ingredients are grateful for all the club order to properly exhibit just combined and pour over butter execs who made it such a our voluptuousness as we - do not stir the butter and batter fun experience. I hope that I proceeded to 'throw it together. can help make it just as back' for the audience." amazing for next year's 4) Add sliced peaches, 1 cup sugar, - Rayyan Khoja juniors!" and lemon juice to a saucepan on -Rithi Kowtha high heat, stirring constantly. Cook until sugar fully dissolves. If using canned peaches, skip this step. 5) our the peaches and syrup over the batter (do not stir). 6) Sprinkle cinnamon/nutmeg over the top.Bake at 375 degrees F for 40-45 minutes until golden brown. Serve when warm; vanilla ice cream a la mode is highly recommended. Junior Siddharth Thakur (right) and TAMS Medical Society President Source: Rithi Kowtha (right) and Rayyan Khoja pose for their picture before Wail Aldahni won the Judge's https://www.myrecipes.com/recip Choice Award for TMS. Dr. TAMS. e/easy-peach-cobbler THE TAMS NEWSPAPER by Replay | Page 2 the mcchronicle december 2019 CLUB FEATURE: REPLAY BY ALEX ZHANG Throughout the year, we engage more with the Park wants to commemorate plan on highlighting general TAMS community. our time at TAMS by various clubs' contribution capturing "small moments to the TAMS community. One of the things we that I may not have been fast For this issue, we chose adopted was ION's enough to capture with a Replay, the club that tradition of Humans of camera. We are currently brings you the yearbook TAMS. Partnering with working on some interview and this newspaper. Project Smile, we take with seniors, which I will The activities Replay does weekly photographs and repeat at the end of the year certainly aren't new, but interviews of students to see our growth." In the club is: last year, the nominated by the staff. addition, she'll be producing Ion Newspaper and Photography Head Raffer the senior video shown at the Yearbook boards chose to Li said, "I chose to have end of each year. combine the clubs into [Humans of TAMS subjects] one. Said last year's in focus and the Design Head Sydney Zhou editor-in-chief Melanie background super blurred puts her effort into the Che, "We chose to combine out so that people can yearbook. When I asked her the yearbook and really focus on who is why she chose to be an exec, newspaper clubs because being pictured." You can she said, "I really enjoyed my we saw a lot of synergies read more about Humans time on the photography between the two of TAMS on page 3. organizations. The goal of team last year and I had both clubs is to share When I asked Editor-in- previous experience... TAMS memories and Chief Khyathi Reddy what designing spreads." events with the student she was most excited population, so it made about, she said she was If you would like to help out logical sense to merge the "super excited to build a with any of these projects, two. Ultimately, staff time capsule for the Class you can email us at support and general of 2020!" The capsule is a tams.replay@gmail.com or agreement among the project we are starting in message an exec. executives led to the the spring, to be opened creation of Replay." at the Class of 2020's ten- If you would like your club to As a new board, we were year reunion. be featured in a future issue faced with a daunting of the newspaper, email us task: bringing the club to Videography Head Alana or contact Alex Zhang. THE TAMS NEWSPAPER by Replay | Page 3 issue one december 2019 Speaking about her residents, she So I wanted to talk to you about Circle said, “you don’t act like other of Friends, where I have volunteered. teenagers [their] age.”“You’re What is Circle of Friends and what is really funny and mature,” she its purpose? continued, “I could see myself being Circle of Friends is a committee under friends with all of you.” As one of FEE and it promotes volunteerism and her residents this year, I can helping out the community, especially personally see the relationships [in] underprivileged schools. So the that Meg has helped cultivate two schools we work with are McNair throughout her wing. “I’ve always Elementary and Sam Houston liked working with people who are Elementary, and both schools have A CONVERSATION younger than me, and I wanted been recorded on a list of having more of a little sister relationship children who belong to financially WITH MEG WINKLER underprivileged families. In addition by Halle Summit [with my residents],” she said. I to that, [many] also belong to broken Resident Assistants are a staple of think I can safely say that my whole families. Tutoring children with special college life—the dedication they put wing loves Meg as our RA and needs is just another way to give back into helping their residents builds a appreciates everything she has to the community and it also sense of community in every done for us. She works really hard corresponds to the general mission of dormitory. At McConnell Hall, the at her job and through it, gives FEE. application to be an RA is a lengthy back to the TAMS community in process. Applicants are required to countless ways. Could you provide a general outline of provide references, a resume, and what Circle of Friends does? responses to six essay questions. So a general outline is that we tutor This application reveals the reason kids, [including those] with special behind TAMS’ use of Resident VOLUNTEERING: needs, and we have three groups of Assistants: our RAs have a second CIRCLE OF BY HARINI students who go [weekly on] job, as they also have to act as mentors to high-school FRIENDS REPAKA Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and In future issues, we hope to Thursdays. So we have one batch students. For this month’s highlight volunteering which is a junior lead batch and they newspaper, I interviewed my RA opportunities at TAMS. This time, I go to McNair Elementary School and Meg Winkler, of Wing A200, to get spoke to Maansi Srinivasan about the other two batches go to Sam a staff perspective of how the new Circle of Friends. Although the Houston Elementary School. Based on school year was going. Originally interview was too long to put in the placements [at] the beginning of from Temple, Texas, Meg is this paper, the full article will be the semester, [volunteers] are either studying Technical Theater with a online. placed with an individual with special concentration in scenic painting and needs, a regular student, or with a properties. Before Thanksgiving Hi Maansi, thanks for speaking classroom. So they could either work Break, I invited Meg to my room with me. Tell me a little about FEE, in a classroom and help with [tasks and spoke to her on behalf of which you are in charge of. including] passing out assignments Replay. “My stepmom was a TAMS FEE itself is a club and it stands for [and] helping teachers out with student, and so I’ve been kind of Facilitating Education Everywhere. mathematics concepts. So that is an emerged in the culture since I was a What we do is help example of what I do. teenager,” said Meg when I asked underprivileged schools around To read the rest of our interview with her why she wanted to be an RA. the Denton community. We are Maansi, go to replaytams.com. It’s clear that she still has a unique appreciation of that culture. looking towards expanding. THE TAMS NEWSPAPER by Replay | Page 4 the mcchronicle december 2019 Humans of This month, we partnered with Project Smile's TAMStar program to bring you interviews with twelve students who are taking initiative at TAMS, both in their social and TAMS academic lives. You can read all interviews at www.replaytams.com/humans-of-tams-1. 1) Aishwarya Mitra, Senior 2) Apsara Mitra, Senior 3) Puranjay Shori, Junior 4) Siddharth Thakur, Junior 1) Tara Roshan, Senior 1) Lexie Kwon, Senior 2) Grace Huang, Senior 2) Tara Roshan, Senior 3) Issac Matthew, Junior 3) Sage Copling, Junior 4) Sai Sarnala, Junior 4) Harish Suryadevara, Junior THE TAMS NEWSPAPER b y R e p l a y | P a g e 51 the mcchronicle december 2019 issue one december 2019 THANK YOU FOR activities entirely READING! outside of TAMS’ clubs). OUR TEAM HARINI REPAKA AND ALEX ZHANG We hope to improve Alex Zhang, Writing Head Though the first ourselves in any way Halle Summit semester of the year is possible so if you would almost over, there is like to make any Harini Repaka plenty yet to come. Our suggestions or give CONTRIBUTORS goal for future feedback to the Eric Bau and TCS McChronicle issues is to Khyathi Reddy newspaper creators, Raffer Li detail the stories of TAMS please contact us. Also Alana Park that don’t get told Sydney Zhou contact us if you have an Fre'Dasia Daniels (personal stories from idea for how you could staff members, students, CONTACT US contribute to the paper. and other members of You don't need to be Email: the community) and the tams.replay@gmail.com part of our team to opportunities that don’t write! Message: get sold (from small Alex Zhang, Writing Head clubs and committees to THE TAMS NEWSPAPER by Replay | Page 6