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