It’s March Madness time again in America. March Madness, for all you athletically disinclined, is the bracket-guessing battlefront for college basketball teams. For sports fanatics, that means checking scores, watching games on their computers and devices during the day, and having the TV on at night to make sure their brackets hold up. Others that do not check ESPN.com hourly still engage in the filling out a bracket. They may not know why Otto Porter Jr. is an Orange-killer, or that Missouri can only win when they are at home, but they still fill one out. The over-arching reason that sports fanatics are glued to their screens and that non-sports fanatics fill out a bracket even if they just fill it out in alphabetical order or by seed, is because the tournament is...
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CCHS has always been home to a host of aspiring musicians, not to mention music fanatics. So when WIQH’s Battle Of The Bands was cancelled this year, it wasn’t quite enough to stifle the talent so many students have to offer. Studio Jam, presented by Pilar Broggi as her senior project, offered musicians and audience members the opportunity we thought we’d be missing this year: to hear all of CCHS’s best bands (and DJs) in one night. We heard from The Valle Brother’s Band, Rhombus, Senior and the Serious Boys, and finally the night’s headliner, Beeza. To no one’s surprise, it was not a disappointment. The Valle Brother’s Band (Joe and Mickey Valle Hoag, both ’14) opened the show with a self proclaimed folk-rock-reggae-funk set, featuring an impressive number of originals, as well as...
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CCHS has recently received the amazing news that President Barack Obama has been booked to speak at our graduation this June. We were all surprised to have such a high-powered speaker, but Obama insists that it is his pleasure. “I really appreciate the fine qualities exemplified by the Concord Carlisle High School students,” states Obama.  He praises CCHS’s four core values of commitment, citizenship, harmony, and scholarship. In order to make the president feel more welcome, the school will provide Obama with a CCHS Varsity football jersey (fully washed and ironed) and the key to Concord, as a show of how truly honored we are to have the president of the United States grace us with his presence. In preparation for the president’s graduation speech, a new red, white, and blue stage will be...
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Teachers at CCHS, fatigued from rattling walls, nauseous from writing on quivering ActivBoards, worried about falling behind on curriculum and thus on grading thanks to unpredictable weather patterns, and driven mad from noxious fumes and strange animal noises emanating from groaning pipes, have compiled a list of their pet peeves in order to release some steam in a healthy and hopefully productive way.  Here are some of them: Ms. Amanda Doran of Special Education says that students walking really slowly in front of a long line of traffic fries her enchiladas.  Ditto for those sauntering across the crosswalk into the L building entrance at 7 AM after teachers, anxious to set up their classes before the first bell, courteously allow them to cross. Ms. Jill Tracy, in the Guidance Department, complains in capital letters of...
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Seniors have started to reflect on their time spent at CC and are now lending praise to an essential facet of their high school careers: the unsung hero, as it were, of their education.  “I don’t know where I would have been without Facebook,” says one student, tear-stricken as she reminisces on all the good times she’s had staring at a computer screen.  “Without it, my procrastination abilities would have taken a serious hit.  It’s so hard to remember the important things in life when you’re so busy.  Facebook has rekindled my love of learning.” Many students point out the many lessons the website has taught them, which they feel could not have been solely met by the school’s curriculum.  Facebook teaches photography skills, social interaction, writing abilities, and of course, that all essential...
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Attention seniors: our nation’s universities have given up the ghost. What with more and more students throwing themselves off the Cornell gorge each year and stress levels at an all-time high, President Obama issued an Executive Order today decreeing that all colleges and universities close up shop immediately. Whether your Ivy Day results flooded you with pride or tore your dreams apart, those emails are now irrelevant. Those 163 likes on your ‘UNH Class of 2017!’ Facebook status? All those congratulations are for nothing now. As of 10AM today, all Harvard is good for is shopping and your Stanford sweater is now meaningless. So much for heading off to your dad’s Alma Mater: it’s now probably going to end up being a meat-packing plant. Sorry? At least you’re not one of those sad, sad graduate...
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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. As a result, the school has had to condense the building agenda. The construction must be more productive, and will soon occupy the current parking areas. All students and faculty, not only the juniors, will have no parking spots as of tomorrow, April 2. The school committee has recently sent out an announcement that everybody will simply have to “deal with it.” For example, it is suggested that everybody come by way of bicycle, especially with the warm weather approaching....
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Unfortunately, after much anticipation, the CCHS prom has been canceled. Due to a lack of teacher chaperones, the annual school tradition is no longer available As the treasurer of the Class of 2014, I would like to say that my class government and the Class of 2013 came to this decision with a heavy heart last Friday.  Mr. Badalament had previously set a deadline for us to have all the teacher chaperones confirmed and we failed to get any chaperones in time. Unfortunately, we had to cancel the prom. The Class of 2013’s adviser, Mr. Ray Pavlik, said, “although this is a disappointment, there is nothing we can do now. We are sorry for the last minute cancellation and we hope that the student governments can successfully plan prom next year.” This comes as...
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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. This racially charged graffiti has left many students upset; as quoted from a 7  News interview, Asia Council ’12 said,“Just to find out that it came from my school, it really hurt me.”  In a Boston Globe article (“Concord-Carlisle confronts racial incident,” March 15, 3013), Britny Rabb ’14, a METCO student, said “I was mostly hurt that I go to a school where I am not welcomed.” For many, this brings back emotions from an incident in which a white...
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