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The Ten Commandments of High School
Kit Clemente & Giuliana Savini
We all know that there are unwritten rules in high school. But by senior year, when all your attention is being focused towards orientation in August, you begin to recognize the ways that you’ve been living your life. As we descend from Mount Sinai, with glowing rays of light emanating from behind our holy heads, we present to you the ten most important of the high school commandments.
Confessions of a high school Buddhist: Not ready for enlightenment
Taylor du Pont
Multimedia Editor
Over the past few years, I have struggled to accept a religion into my life. I was brought up in a Congregational family, but as the years of my childhood flew by, I began to question my Christian faith. After my best friend was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor when I was in seventh grade, my skeptical religious views turned into agnosticism. When I was a sophomore in high school, she died, and I became a pessimist, turning to atheism.
When I told my friends that I was going to convert to Buddhism, most of them thought that I had jumped off the deep end. I was tired of living my life like a zombie: emotionless and hopeless. I needed something to hold onto. I needed to make a difference in the world around me and be a part of something that was bigger than myself. In the beginning of June last year, without any warning, I started taking my first steps towards becoming a self converted Buddhist.
Teachers then and now reminisce
Elliott Cottington
Reporter
Although students spend hours in classrooms every day, the personal backgrounds of their teachers often remain a mystery. The truth is that students don’t really know their teachers very well; no one ever stops to wonder where the people that are employed to educate them were educated themselves. It may come as a surprise that there is a number of teachers who both attended and now teach at NCHS and have just as much New Canaan Pride as any alum.
Dr. Luizzi Reflects
Juan Pablo Rivera Garza
Reporter
This new school year saw the rise of a new administration under a new principal, Dr. Bryan Luizzi. Dr. Luizzi originally came from Brookfield High School where he served for two years as the assistant principal, and then five years as the principal. He has also worked as the assistant principal of Whisconier Middle School, the dean of students in Litchfield High School, an English teacher and master of technology operations for Newtown Public School. He has degrees from Columbia University, Sacred Heart University, Western Connecticut State University and Clemson University. Here, he reflects on what his transition has been like.