Spotlight of the Week: Burberry Winter Storm 2010

Lucia Molina
Features Editor

This winter, Burberry continues its class with its new collection of coats and trenches that are perfect for New Canaan’s northeastern weather. These essential pieces to any wardrobe are chic and will keep you warm once the Holiday Stroll comes to town. Colors are classic and range from green, navy, beige, burgundy and olive-gold.

Eight ways to define Santa Claus that prove that definitions aren’t good at defining

Ellen Trinklein
Opinions Editor

1. Little and old—terms given to slow, overly cautious drivers or the frail, sick, and weak elderly we sometimes like to shove into retirement homes

2. Dressed all in fur—either this means he facilitates the murder of innocent animals (can you say cute baby seals?) or he is a member of an Alaskan Inuit tribe.

3. Clothes tarnished by ashes and soot—is he an orphan-forced-chimney sweep in 19th century England? Or a hobo straight of the streets of New York City? You decide.

The new vacation: college visits

Jackie Ouellette
Reporter

For most juniors and seniors who plan on attending college, now is the time to start narrowing down choices. Throughout the country, colleges and universities offer visits to their schools to give a first-hand look at what each of their college experiences are like. Student-led tours of the campus, information sessions and an interview with the admissions office are all available to visitors.

Features Editors

Lucia Molina & Danielle Sorcher
Features Editors

This year has been a pretty tough year so far. Settling as the new features editors, we have to learn to help the new reporters become comfortable as the eyes and ears of the school. Managing a section isn’t what we thought it would be (not that we thought it would be easy). As we begin to really settle into our positions this year, we also begin to endure junior year’s toughest challenges…