Walking through the school cafeteria, one often hears mumbles and complaints from students who realize that fewer and fewer of their favorite foods are offered. The school no longer provides past favorites such as hot cocoa, coffee, and ice cream in the cafeteria, s’mores Poptarts, traditional Chexmix, and vitamin water in the vending machines,...
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Tags: cafeteria, school lunch
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Evan Boynton’12 was recently named one of the two Muscle Milk High School Players of the Week. This year he played on the CC Varisty Football, Basketball, and Lacrosse team. Check out his feature here: http://www.bostoncannons.com/news/7346/muscle-milk-high-school-players-of-the-week/
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It is rare that high school politics are the highlight of hallway gossip but with the recent, unprecedented tie-breaker for the upcoming senior Senator election, elections have taken a turn from an annual, lack luster procedure to something slightly more nail biting. In the words of Senate Moderator Vineet Chandra’14, “Congratulations to now two-term...
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Tags: Anna Ringheiser, elections, stevie yang, student senate, tie-breaker
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We have the ability to watch our peers’ personal lives with the click of a mouse, and we don’t like it. We have the ability to see what that girl – the girl in the back of our E block Chemistry room, the girl at the water fountain, the girl working out at...
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Tags: facebook, facebook stalking, online phonebook, private vs. public, social platforms
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Although most CC students got the chance to listen to the Race Panel at various assemblies, most of the faculty and adults in the community could not attend. Therefore, on the Thursday before break, April 12th, the same Race Panel was held for the public at 7pm in the school auditorium. The panel itself...
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Many of the juniors have already felt the effects of the school construction, namely in the form of restricted parking. However, there has been news from the state department that CCHS needs to speed up the construction: there is a new state-mandated law that public construction cannot go on for more than 5 months....
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Tags: parking, Spoof
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Last Monday, March 11, 2013, a two-word message of hate – written in fruit snacks – was found in the CCHS library at around 10 a.m. One of the students who found the graffiti used his smartphone to photograph it and subsequently posted to Facebook and Instagram. Soon after it reached the school administration....
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Tags: don't hate, Graffiti, race relations, racial slur
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If you are trying to survive the strange environment of high school academics, you have to be able to write an essay. The essay is generally a multi-paragraph writing assignment that teachers assign to allow students to explore their literary horizons through edits, revisions, critical thinking, sweat, and blood. In order to write an...
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“I thought cheerleaders would be super popular, but they are not,” says Coline, a French exchange student with long dark hair and studded boots. Just as they do every other year in early March, around sixteen students from a high school in a suburb in Versailles come to Concord Carlisle to live with host...
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March is approaching, a time not only known for its lack of school holidays, but also of class scheduling for the coming year. Recently the Virtual High School courses have become more relevant in the class scheduling process. VHS is a company that has an online program that “provides the opportunity to take courses...
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Tags: course selection, online classes, online courses, online high school, VHS, virtual high school
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