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What Will Happen in 2018? World War III? Let’s hope not By George Mamatas Chieftain Staff Will 2018 bring World War 3? Let’s hope not. As Donald Trump’s fi rst year in offi ce comes to a close, tensions between the United States and North Korea con- tinue to rise. According to North Korea, Trump is begging for a nuclear war. I don’t know about you, but that defi nitely doesn’t sound great to me. Leave it to Trump to start 2018 off with a bang. Literally. But what will happen in 2018 if North Korea doesn’t nuke us? Let’s fi nd out: First up, the world of sports. Russia will be hosting the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The tournament will take place from June 14-July 15 and will include 32 international teams – but not the United States. Yep, that’s right, we didn’t make it. So I guess you could say that no one will really care about the forward to the halftime show, which World Cup. At all. will include the one and only Justin The Super Bowl is right around the Timberlake. corner. It will prob- ably just include another appearance from the Patriots for the fourth time in the last seven years. So, that’s nothing to look for- ward to. But, I’m sure we are all looking Barring war with North Korea, 2018 promises to be a memorable one Alumni Tops Leadership in Stellar Raffl e Brother Rice exceeds sales goal with ease By Jake Riem raised a total of $63,050. A great amount their competition by the narrow margin Chieftain Staff like that would win any other year. But of $1,942, raising $64,992. Mr. O. and The introduction of the two-team it was not enough this year. The winner Mr. Reidy will have to prepare breakfast system might have done the for the opponent’s trick for this year’s Raffl e. leaders as a result. Competitiveness and the Though the compe- will for the day off after tition is great, what Super Bowl Sunday was is most important is far too great for our goal of how the student body $135,000, as we raised about and faculty came $148,000 in total raffl e sales. together to better our This is the most Brother school. The money Rice has seen in years from will go to advance- a ticket raffl e. ments and other One could assume that improvements made the formation of Team in and around our Alumni and Team Leader- school, such as the ship played a role in the ones we saw this sum- success. This allowed each mer in B-wing, our band to pick what team new Science rooms, they wish to compete for last Summer. and join together with two Overall, the stu- Alumni and Leadership teams created a new idea to drive Raffl e sales other bands to form a team dents did very well, of brothers. Team Leadership, led by of the challenge, Team Alumni, led by and we should all be proud to be a part Mr. O. and Mr. Reidy, did very well and Mr. McGrath and Mr.Dilworth, bested of Brother Rice. B R OTHE R R IC E H IG H S C H O O L C H I E F TA I N P AGE 3 D E C E M B E R 2017