National Honor Society lends support to MDA

Teresa Montaneri
Reporter

This week, the National Honor Society (NHS) will be selling shamrocks for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) during lunch. The school got involved with the fundraiser at Mr. Pavia’s suggestion.

”Mr. [James] Lacerenza has family in town and has solicited local schools to support the MDA,” NHS Faculty Advisor Roger Hansell said. ”Whenever a request for community service comes to me, I forward it to the National Honor Society Student President or Vice President. They then contact the membership and organize the fundraiser…”

Documenting history, one tile at a time

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…

Rave brings upperclassmen out on a school night

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…

CAPT testing begins this week

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…

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