Editors’ Blog: Adventures at Late Night

Tyler Kendall and Isabel Lawrence
Features Editor and News Editor

Hello Again!

The infamous “late night” was upon the journalism crew again last night. We basically lock ourselves in room 119 until 9 p.m. and, fueled by pizza and philosophical ponderings with McAteer, put the finishing touches on the Courant paper. Surprisingly, we all secretly enjoy bonding with each other, and appreciated the Mac computers, to which we owe our lives (well, for the solid five hours invested in late night, it sure seems that way.) As you can probably imagine, after around 8 p.m., the caffeine wears out, and everyone sinks into a printer-toner induced trance. But, when energy surges through the group again, this is what happens to the jliz crew:

John Green: The Biggest Nerd of Them All

Isabel Lawrence
Reporter

Though he is a New York Times best selling author, has been published in more than twelve languages, is the winner of the Michael L. Printz Award in 2006 and the Edgar Award in 2009, and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist not once but twice, John Green is not widely known. Other authors such as J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer bring instant Potter and vampire connections to mind; but to many, John Green draws a blank. This up and coming author, however, is gaining speed and quickly making a name for himself in the young adult (YA) literature world.

Library website re-design by a student, for the students

Harrison Burt
Reporter

A new edition of the library website was launched prior to the start of the second semester, once Library Department Chair Michelle Luhtala and senior Julia Hofer collaborated to update the site. After the commissioning of Jeanne McDonagh’s Photoshop class for a new website header, Julia’s work was selected because, according to Ms. Luhtala, her collage signified what makes the library a threshold for education advancement.