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Coffee
House tonight at 5:30 pm in the Middle School meeting room! Can ADub get a heck
yeah! We sure hope so! Come to Coffee House.
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT SPORTS
THING!
Tomorrow
is Girls’ Basketball’s officially unofficial and unofficially official Senior
Night AND their CIF Quarter Final against Horizon! It’s at 7:00 and is MANDATORY.
The Dungeon will be there with Hawaiian shirts and competitive
zeal.
Committed to Something
Approaching Almost Excellence
Colin
would like everyone to know that he has done three years of Bishop’s Squash and
two days of yoga.
Announcement from Dylan
DeWaart
Walk
for Water this Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm at Tecolote Shores Mission Bay! 3
hours of community service, free food, and free entertainment. Registration is
$20 (which will go towards funding water projects in Africa). Have fun while
preventing disease, empowering women, and saving the world!
DU T-SHIRTS
Are
super cool and for super cool kids only and cost only $12! Profits go towards
printing the end-of-year compilation.
Oscars
Are
on March 2nd! Sidebar filled!
Articles
Winter Olympics: Final Report Card
By: Chris Halter (Team USA)
The winter Olympics have officially ended and to
go along with my article last week here is the report card for the closing
ceremony and the 3 countries with the most medals. Let the judgement begin.
Closing Ceremony: A
The closing ceremony was actually quite nice. As per usual the
bulk of the ceremony was taken up by more Russian propaganda, but I think we
were all surprised by the self-deprecating humor the Russians employed in the
ceremony - who knew Putin would be so quick to make light of the mistake in the
opening ceremony. The look ahead to the next winter Olympics - taking place in
South Korea - was also quite interesting. The show stopper - and the
thing that made this grade possible - was the unbelievable fireworks/ light
show that capped the ceremonies; I was really impressed with the closing
ceremonies and they left me with a warm feeling in my heart. Thank you Russia.
Athletics: 1st Place, Russia: A-
Although the Olympics bring out fierce nationalism within me -
it can sometimes result in cheering against certain nations... - I have to
admit that the Russians had an incredible performance. They excelled in a
multitude of events and although one can speculate that Putin threatened to
send athletes who didn’t medal to Siberia the Ruskis put on a great show for their
home crowd. They lost points though for their embarrassing performance in men’s
Ice Hockey and for the supposed shenanigans in the figure skating judging.
Unfortunately, I must swallow my patriotism and pride to congratulate the
Russian team on a incredible performance.
Athletics: 2nd Place, United States: B+
Athletics: 2nd Place, United States: B+
I give this B+ with a heavy heart; the Americans were set up
to do incredibly well in this winter olympics but there were too many areas of
catastrophic failure. Shaun White’s meltdown in the half-pipe was enough by
itself to bring this grade down to an B, but luckily American domination in the
new freestyle events salvaged a decent grade. Speed skating was another huge
disappointment and I would rather not speak about either of our ice hockey teams’
performances. Highlights include women’s skeleton, men’s bobsled, and pretty
much every freestyle skiing event. The most depressing thing about this Olympics was how all the commercials featured athletes favored to win medals
and hardly any of them did. My advice to team USA, shake it off, the real
Olympics are in Rio anyways.
Athletics: 3rd Place, Norway: IDC+
It’s the Norwegians, good for them but I couldn't honestly care less.
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