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  • Faculty consider senior skit alternatives

    Monday, April 30, 2007 By: Nick Abramson, Page Editor

    Last May, faculty and students arrived at school only to find the entire parking lot covered in toilet paper.And that wasn’t all. On the walls of classrooms, members of the graduating class of ‘06 had

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  • New portables first phase of lower school construction

    Monday, April 30, 2007 By: Analise Rivero, Reporter

    Students walking to the snack line in the morning have probably noticed the large portable buildings that now dominate the former lower-school basketball courts. These portables are replacing the orig

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  • Former soccer star discovers new comic talent

    Monday, April 30, 2007 By: Michael Lewis, Page Editor

    Grant Lyon, ’02, loves being the center of attention, so his friends and soccer coach at UC Santa Cruz encouraged him to try stand-up comedy.“Getting laughter on stage is addicting, so I started to go

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  • Fed up with Taco Bell? Try these!

    Monday, April 30, 2007 By: Omar Eltorai, Page Editor

    With so many Mexican restaurants in Sacramento, one can get lost among the choices. Many go for popular Mexican chain restaurants such as Taco Bell or Chipotle, but here are some more interesting—and

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  • With APs coming, which prep book will stand the test?

    Monday, April 30, 2007 By: Mike Needham, Page Editor

    With APs just around the corner, students need to study efficiently. I took a look at the following books and graded them on content, layout, and overall usefulness in studying for the AP US History

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  • Larrabee qualifies for May sectionals

    Monday, April 30, 2007 By: Daniel Zales, Reporter

    Sophomore Tyler Larrabee had the fastest time for the JV boys’ 100-yard butterfly and 100-yard breaststroke events at the Capital Athletic League championship meet, April 27, with times of 1:09 and 1:

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  • Defensive girls’ soccer now in three-way tie for first

    Monday, April 30, 2007 By: Miles Bennett-Smith, Reporter

    With a solid 4-0 victory over Bradshaw Christian, April 24, the varsity girls’ soccer team moved into a three-way tie with Faith Christian and Bradshaw Christian for first place in the Sacramento Metr

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  • Musical groups play at ‘happiest place on Earth’

    Monday, April 30, 2007 By: Vionna Wong, Business Manager

    “I bet you’ll never take this band to Disneyland,” exclaimed a middle-school student after Dan Ahlstrom, performing-arts chair, announced last year that the high-school band had been invited to play t

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  • Inspirational students aid Rulindo School

    Monday, April 30, 2007 By: Hayden Winfield, Reporter

    Imagine a school where the kids are malnourished and must walk many miles to get to school, the cost of uniforms is unaffordable, and there are no computers on campus.These are realities for the Rulin

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  • Letter from a Rwandan refugee

    Monday, April 30, 2007 By: Isabel Siragusa, Editor in Chief

    Students studying French at the Rulindo School in Rwanda wrote back and forth to SCDS high-school French students. Here is one letter from a refugee named Pascasie:“Hello! How are you, dear friend? My

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Editor:If the computer requirement is ever going to be cut ("Computer requirement should be cut in half," March 13), I want to know about it. Not because I'd stop it, but because I'd make sure that P.
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Orchids to...the senior bake sale. Many in the class participated, bringing cakes, brownies, and cookies; everything was bought, leaving only satisfied customers and more money for the senior gift.Oni
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“Welcome to McDonald’s! May I take your order?”“Yeah, I’ll have 1430 calories, please, with 59 grams of fat, 201 grams of carbs, and 1390 milligrams of sodium.”When someone eats at McDonald’s, this c
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EditorialSenior skits too special a tradition to lose
It was 8:20 a.m. on the first day of school, freshman year in teacher Daniel Neukom’s Ancient History Class. He stood before his newest group of students and told them, “In four years you will be grad
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Be careful what you wish for with ‘N.O.-Xplode’
“Oh my God, I’m tweaking out,” I thought to myself as I walked nervously out of the gym at Arden Hills Country Club. My hands shook. My eyes darted. My resting heart rate was 114 beats per minute.Only
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Students studying French at the Rulindo School in Rwanda wrote back and forth to SCDS high-school French students. Here is one letter from a refugee named Pascasie:“Hello! How are you, dear friend? My
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Imagine a school where the kids are malnourished and must walk many miles to get to school, the cost of uniforms is unaffordable, and there are no computers on campus.These are realities for the Rulin
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“I bet you’ll never take this band to Disneyland,” exclaimed a middle-school student after Dan Ahlstrom, performing-arts chair, announced last year that the high-school band had been invited to play t
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With late-night cramming and stress, nutrition might be the last thing on a student’s mind. However, the type of food that one consumes can have an impact on performance. “It isn’t so much certain fo
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