Shedding light on student trends and culture at the high school.
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.
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…
Chloe Davis
Reporter
“New Canaan is not a naturally diverse community,” Principal Tony Pavia said. It’s no secret that the high school could use a little more variety in its students, and that’s where foreign exchange students come in.
Serra Oral
Blogs Editor
In the lounge, the main center of activity in the first part of the day and lunch is the cafeteria. Beyond the three cash registers awaits a large variety of food in a number of sections. This year, personalized ice cream was added to the selection with two new MooBella Machines.
What are the secrets behind the food, behind the variety? The choice of the food that goes into the cafeteria is determined based on what the students want and what would be the best for them. “We try to find out what’s popular with the kids and what’s healthy,” Director of Food Services, Bruce Gluck, said. “We also take suggestions from students.”
Danielle Sorcher
Features Editor
Wandering around the school hallways, freshman Nicolette Lathouris attempts to find her TV Broadcasting classroom, a classroom located far from all her others. She begins to walk faster, fearing that she will be late. It’s her first day in the high school, and she’s completely lost. Nicolette asks random kids and teachers for help and finally manages to find her way to the correct classroom, where she tries to slip in silently, late on her first day.
Nicolette’s situation is one that many freshmen have shared on their first day, or even first week or two upon entering the high school. The high school is bigger than Saxe, and the entire shift is quite a change.
