Matthew Gromisch
Reporter

From Feb. 27 to Mar. 2, the National Honor Society’s (NHS) junior class will be selling green and gold shamrocks during lunch, to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. This project was established by Stamford High School alumnus James Lacerenza and focuses on sending children with muscular dystrophy to summer camps.

John Berger
Reporter

We’ve officially hit the date when pitchers and catchers report for spring training. That also means we’ve hit the date of starting a ridiculously long season, one that encompasses about 9 months of the year.

Baseball is a sport that can be incredibly fun to follow if your team is doing well, and rather boring to follow if your team is not doing well.

The Courant is collecting research for a Special Report on teenage sexual behavior, to be released in an upcoming issue. We have created a survey called NCHS Courant Survey: Sexual Attitudes and Activities of Current Students, and would value your participation. The survey is completely anonymous; no identities will be collected. Your time and full disclosure would be appreciated. The survey will be up until Friday, March 2. Click here to access the survey.

Steffi Badanes
Blogs Editor

Ever since the Obama administration announced that under the Affordable Care Act, the no-cost birth control policy would go into effect, intense debates and controversy have been stirring up. GOP members are up in arms, saying contraception coverage goes against the right to religious freedom. But what about the rights of women to affordable health care? Although these religious organizations say they are against contraception, the fact is, surveys show that 98% of catholic women have used birth control at some point during their lives. So by not covering birth control, religious organizations are denying a poor woman’s right to choose to use it or not. Some may be fortunate enough to still be able to make that decision. But for others, paying $100 a month for birth control may not be an option.

Gogo Jones
Sports Editor

Nothing makes a guy feel more like a guy than a quality workout at his local Young Male Christian Association facility. New Canaan’s YMCA is particularly nice, and has all of the machines you could possibly need to get as jacked as that kid who graduated last year and only wore sleeveless shirts (and sometimes fingerless gloves).