Fresh, funny, and personal – straight from the Courant staff.
Scott O’Brien
Sports Editor
This is the first time in March Madness history that there has been a final four without a single No. 1 or No. 2 seed. On top of that, this year’s bracket is the 2nd weakest in history with a total of 37 losses between the teams, falling short of 2000, which had 41.
Serra Oral
Blogs Editor
With junior prom just around the corner and the season of asking people to senior prom coming up, prom has been a constant topic of high school students lately. But with the discussion comes the problems or “proma”. Here are the top issues that tend to be faced in this period.
This year the editorial staff has tackled a lot of difficult issues; there haven’t been many “light” editorials.
Earlier this year, we wrote an editorial about the senior patio being closed due to a select group of seniors that preformed what looked like a “freshman Friday” to most people, even after the administration explicitly told them not to. The first print issue of the year, we decided to take the “side” of the administration and wrote an editorial that wasn’t taken well by some of our peers.
Ben Stryker
Cartoonist
Senior Austin Sandvik said this about his bracket-making tactics: “when the experts aren’t sure who’s going to win, I choose the team with the better mascot.” But what happens when you pick your teams ONLY by mascot. This got me thinking, which NCAA men’s basketball team has the best name?
Lily Kazemi
Reporter
If you haven’t heard the latest YouTube video gone viral, you must be living under a rock – thirteen-year-old Rebecca Black’s “Friday” has become one of the most-watched, and most-mocked, videos on the site. With over 31,000,000 views as of Monday night, almost ten percent of America has heard the song.
