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Megan Joyce
Executive Producer of the Ram Review
Look up from your tuna sandwich in the cafeteria and you should notice a colorful mural of students covering one of the walls. Take a walk outside of the Wagner Room and a painted tribute to the Class of 2009 seems to pop out of the otherwise bare tiles. Or, if you attend next week’s NCHS winter musical, Edwin Drood, immense portraits of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of England hanging on the stage may catch your eye…
Taylor Dunstan
Reporter
On March 1, the YMCA High School Leadership Board and the Outback Student Governing Board (SGB) held the second annual CAPT week Rave at the Outback Teen Center from 8 to 11 pm.
Last year, the Y High Leadership Board held the CAPT week dance, using The Rave as the theme of the upperclassmen-only dance. “The title stuck, so we chose to do the same theme,” Y High Leader Co-President, senior Dolly Meckler said. “At the dance, we cover the windows and use black lights. We also play a lot of techno music,” she said…
Emily Greene
News Editor
Tomorrow kicks off CAPT week. All classes will meet and it will be considered a Day 4, and for period E, an even day. Mandatory testing for sophomores only will begin Tuesday, March 2nd, and continue through Tuesday, March 9th. Lunch will only be served for test takers the first week, excluding Monday…
Meghan Guarnieri
Reporter
While the first week of March provides freshman, and many juniors and seniors with sleep-ins, it provides the remainder with number 2 pencils, scantrons, and the Connecticut Academic Performance Test, also known as CAPT.
Many upperclassmen who passed the CAPT enjoy the idea of an additional break from the school routine. “CAPT week is awesome because it triples our vacations,” senior Andrew Leslie said.
Some students are so gung ho over CAPT week, they see no reason to come to school…
Kelsey Anspach
News Editor
Wednesday February 24th, the Anime Club held a Super Smash Bros. tournament in the lounge to raise money for Haiti. Students who attended the event played against each other in the video game on a large-screen projection. According to the club’s president, senior Katrina Mondonedo, “It was really successful. We had a good turnout and raised about $300,” she said. “About 25 people came, which was better than we expected, and we had a great time…
