Shedding light on student trends and culture at the high school.
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.
Jana Persky
Editorial Director
If you drive on South Avenue, Oenoke Ridge Road, Smith Ridge Road, or Main Street, pay attention. These roads have been named the most dangerous in New Canaan by the New Canaan Police Department. “The speeds on most of these roads is above 30 mph, and people don’t even follow that,” School Resource Officer Roy Bentley said. “When you get farther out of town [the speed limit] goes over 45 mph and people go even faster.”
