You enter the library and on your right you notice a black dress hung over a black spider web. Only three feet in you are bombarded with millions of books. Relax. Sit on one of the four couches (three black and one yellow) near the large stand, which is filled with childhood nostalgia, like If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, The Rainbow Fish, Goodnight Moon, Green Eggs and Ham, and Where’s Spot? Stories that students have grown up with are available at their fingertips.

Sophomore Kirstyn Vitale explains why she loves this part of the library more than others. “I really like the children’s books

College. It’s a big deal. But the in-school college visits? Some see the in-school visits as just a way to show interest in a college they may apply to, whereas some are eager to escape the classroom. These visits have been at NCHS for 20 years now, and this year, 132 colleges are visiting our school. The question is: how valuable are in-school college visits?

The high school seems to be split 50/50 when considering the importance of the in-school college visits. “While some people do go to in-school college visits go to a lot, a lot of people don’t actually go to any…”

Suburbia is perhaps the only form of civilization in history that was established as an escape from the very same human senses that had once called for the growth of cities. The suburban dream was the ideal for a newly generated group of individualists who saw themselves as above man’s primitive social tendencies. The suburban man, unable to grasp the concept of a collective importance, must constantly judge his own accomplishments against those of his ‘friends.’

At NCHS, I rarely see students straying away from this idea of constant comparison…

This past Saturday at 1:30 pm, New Canaanites came together at Dunning Stadium to watch the much-anticipated homecoming game, and no one was disappointed by the outcome. New Canaan beat St. Joes 35 to 25.

“Winning is really important because it sets the mood for the rest of the night…”

“We knew it was going to be a hard-fought game,” said Cody Newton, co-captain and starting wide receiver. But the team wasn’t nervous. “We just wanted to get back at them,” he said.