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  • Long-time college counselor leaves position after almost two decades

    Monday, February 13, 2012 By: Yanni Dahmani

    After 18 years of advising students, college counselor Patricia Fels will step down from her duties next year, and English teacher Jane Bauman will become the new college counselor.

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  • Hey, men DO drink diet soda!

    Monday, February 13, 2012 By: Mollie Berg

    If you’re a girl who has thought about trying Dr. Pepper Ten, forget about it—the drink is “not for women” the new face of the diet soda says.

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  • Portraits of the artists as high-school students

    Monday, February 13, 2012 By: Mary-Clare Bosco and Jeffrey Caves

    Featured on the spread are student artists who represent various media and backgrounds. Scroll down to see their art and discover how they created it.

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  • Mock Trial’s role changes frustrate team members

    Monday, February 13, 2012 By: Ryan Ho

    Drama is common in a courtroom. But the Mock Trial team’s drama started well before they walked into court.

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  • EDITORIAL: Advantages of new school laptop program far outweigh the costs

    Monday, February 13, 2012 By:

    When the Board of Trustees announced its decision to provide next year’s freshmen with laptops, courtesy of the school, we were less than thrilled. But we've changed our minds.

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  • Country Day Conundrum: Exploring the Catch-22 of high extracurricular involvement

    Monday, February 13, 2012 By: Margaret Whitney

    To keep over 30 extracurricular activities going in a high school of 135 requires many students to do multiple activities. But does this high involvement weaken those very activities?

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  • MacBooks for all—kind of: Ninth graders will get laptops next year

    Monday, February 13, 2012 By: Mollie Berg

    In September, among pencils, pens, notebooks and paper, a shiny new MacBook will be in each freshman’s backpack, as SCDS becomes the first school in Sacramento to implement a 1:1 laptop program.

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  • Closing the point spread, basketball teams rebound

    Monday, February 13, 2012 By: Ian Cardle

    The headlines for the games look bad. But both the boys' and girls' varsity basketball teams improved remarkably over the season.

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  • Freshman tables other sports for pingpong

    Monday, February 13, 2012 By: Shaun Shah

    Meet freshman Michael Wong, the pingpong prodigy. The week before Winter Break Wong was in Virginia, competing in a national table-tennis event.

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The Octagon Sacramento Country Day School Sacramento, CA
Issue Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Issue: Vol. XXXV, No. 5 Last Update: Thursday, February 16, 2012
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At-a-glance

Jazz Band places third at Folsom Jazz festival
The Jazz Band placed third, one place better than last year, in the 23rd annual Folsom Jazz festival on Jan. 28. Four soloists also won individual awards.
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Thirty-plus-year-old P.E. lockers replaced
The 30-year-old blue-and-orange lockers in the P.E. changing rooms were replaced with new ones during the second week of January.
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The Octagon recently received its first nomination ever for a Crown Award, the most prestigious prize awarded by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
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Featured on the spread are student artists who represent various media and backgrounds. Scroll down to see their art and discover how they created it.
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Dr. Pepper isn’t the first franchise to poke fun at boys versus girls stereotypes. The English Yorkie Bar did it 11 years ago.
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For 10 years, history teacher Bruce Baird never missed a day of work—except for a court hearing. That was until Jan. 21.
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Succulent organ meats: why not give them a try? Succulent organ meats: why not give them a try?
Last issue I wrote that Catalán cuisine was rich in organ meats, and the copy editor remarked that this sounded disgusting. Why do so many Americans treat these cuts with such disdain?
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The best and the worst of the last month!
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Reflections on the freshman me
Senior Zach Lemos acknowledges just how much he's changed over the last four years.
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EDITORIAL: Advantages of new school laptop program far outweigh the costs EDITORIAL: Advantages of new school laptop program far outweigh the costs
When the Board of Trustees announced its decision to provide next year’s freshmen with laptops, courtesy of the school, we were less than thrilled. But we've changed our minds.
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