Fall 2005 PDF - Milton Academy

Campus PublicationsLaVoz“I remember the first article I wrotefor La Voz,” says Catherine Buzney ’05,co-editor. “It was about Ozvaldo Golijov,an Argentinian composer who happenedto live in Boston. It combined my love ofSpanish, my love of music—I’m a violinist—andmy love of writing. My firstarticle focused on his music. My secondwas about him, and his life experiences:I interviewed him.”La Voz is a student-run Spanish newspaper—news,opinion, regular departmentsand reviews. The genre alone makes LaVoz rare among school publications acrossthe country, as does its continuous publication(four to five times over each schoolyear) since the first edition in 1986. LaVoz earned first place in a national competitionfor Spanish print media at the 2003Sonoma State Language Festival.“We adhere to strict journalistic standards,”says Ana Colbert, who with JennyStortz, serves as faculty advisor to La Voz.“News stories, for instance, have to beresearched and represent multiple pointsof view. If a student’s research has led himto some passionate conclusions, he canexpress them in the opinion columns, butnot in the news reports.”Emma Sando ’05 co-editor with Catherineand with Sara Pulit ’05 also remembersher first La Voz article. “It was the oneI was most passionate about,” she says.“I researched human rights in LatinAmerica, and American relations withLatin American countries. Like everythingwe take on for La Voz, it gave me insightinto the Spanish-speaking world. I’ve writtenabout Bishop Romero and liberationtheology, and about the civil war in ElSalvador. Learning how to write inSpanish in a journalistic style, as opposedto literary analysis, is one of the advantagesof working on La Voz.”The final issue of 2005 highlights the400th anniversary of the publishing ofCervantes’ Don Quixote. “I was surprisedat how influential this book was onWestern culture,” Sara says. “For example,67 movies are based on this book; 13countries are celebrating the anniversary,from Japan to Australia; 11 celebratorysculptures have been commissioned inManhattan alone.” It affected cooking,people’s diets at the time, the role ofwomen—and had a different impact inFrance than in Spain. Among the surprises,Sara was most excited to learn aboutDon Quixote’s influence on artists such asDali and Picasso.30 Milton Magazine