January 9, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES IV • Page 3 Ramsey On Jan. 22, the Ramsey Board of Education will host a presentation concerning a proposal that could bring a security camera system to Ramsey High School. Ramsey Superintendent Bruce DeYoung told Villadom TIMES that a committee, which was formed by John Nunziata, the past president of the school board, has been looking at security at the high school since last year. That committee includes Jim Meiman, Tim Finnegan, Richard Muti, School Board President Anthony Gasparovich, several parents, and school staff members. “This was in the works long before the Newtown (Connecticut) shooting,” DeYoung said. Promedia of Little Falls recently submitted a proposal that would cost approximately $300,000 for a security network at the high Security camera proposal to be outlined this month school. Promedia is a vendor on state contract, which means the company has been pre-approved to work in New Jersey school districts, and no public bid is needed. Gasparovich indicated that the board currently has money in capital reserve, so some funds are already available for this project. DeYoung noted that the presentation set for Jan. 22 will allow the full school board and the public to hear about the security measures the committee has been discussing. He added that, if the board approves the camera installation by Promedia, the work would likely be completed over the summer, and could be installed all at once or over the course of several years. The superintendent pointed out that security has been of particular interest at (continued on page 17) Up in flames! Jake Cohen, a senior in Mr. Manzo’s technology education program at Ramsey High School, is pictured with a Ruben’s tube he built in class. The Rubens tube is designed to demonstrate the properties of sound waves using flames as a visual representation. The tube displays constructive and destructive interference of sound waves at specific frequencies. These interferences create areas of higher and lower pressure that modify the height of the flame accordingly. When lit, the flames display the changes in pressure across the tube, which represent the nodes of the sine curve for each frequency. Changing the frequency results in a change in the distance between the nodes, or high points in the flames. The system is also capable of playing music, with the height of the flames changing to the beat.