GIRLS’ HOCKEY HITS THE ICE AGAIN

by Erin Zach

L-A-N-C-E-R-S go, fight, win!

The Elmira Lancers girls’ hockey team had its first game of the season yesterday against the Bluevale Collegiate Institute knights.  Although fighting through fatigue and the humidity in the arena, and having a short bench, the team came out on top with an 8-2 victory. 

TIME TO TAKE OFF THE MASKS

by Tyler Lubberts

Thousand Foot Crutch released Welcome to the Masquerade this September. The album is the result of fan mail Trevor McNevan, the band’s lead, received. From powerful stories of personal hardships and struggles comes this rawk-awesome collection that any TFK, or even Skillet, fan will enjoy.

VAMPIRES GALORE!

by Hayley Clin

The war between the vampires started earlier this year. The battle contains three competitors: Vampire diaries, Twilight and True Blood. In plain light the first two are weak and lost immediately; their good standing is due only to the minds of pre-teen girls and older but extremely nieve teens.

So left standing above the rubble is True Blood, in all its bloody glory. Vampires, although fantastic ,are portrayed very realistically in this HBO drama that just finished its second season.

BEHIND THE BIG DESKS

By Caitlin Snider

 It is incredibly difficult to find a time to interview our principal and vice-principals. They are all so busy. Some days they’re not even here because they have meetings at the education centre to go to instead. It took a couple days work, but here are their answers to questions thought up by students.

Mr. Conlon

What is something that not a lot of people know about you but you wish more people could know?

I fly kites as a hobby.

What was the most interesting trip you have ever taken and why?

Traveling through Thailand about four years ago because of the culture, food and people.

If you could meet anyone who would it be?

PREDICTABLE LAUGHS

by Kassie Fritz

The audience is thrown from an uptight high scale New York office building to a questionable bar in Sitka Alaska. And what makes the movie The Proposal so funny is we get to witness Sandra Bullock at the top of her game being abruptly pitched to the bottom. And the rest of the movie is her just clawing on.

The Proposal is about a very in control book editor Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) suddenly hit with the fact that deportion back to Canada is a very real reality in the near future. And what does she do? Throw anyone else’s feelings out the window and force her assistant Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) to marry her. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking…only in the movies.

WHERE ARE THE GIRLS IN THE WEIGHT ROOM?

By: Jennifer Daniells

 Elmira school has a cardio room, and a weight room. At lunch you can go if you have a membership, for $30.00.

 But for girls, I never see any of them at lunch, or after school. The period at lunch is crowded with the male population at our school. If you don’t know any of the boys in the weight room, working out is uncomfortable.

LATE POLICY 2.0!

By Rob Abraham

 There has been a change in the late policy at EDSS.  This is a result of the recent surge of students arriving to class late too often.  In fact, there have been more lates this year than the same period last year. 

 A committee was formed from teachers and administrators throughout the school.  Their mission was to review the late policy and introduce a new system that will benefit everyone in a positive manner. 

ELECTRIFY YOUR STRINGS CONCERT HERE AT EDSS!

 by Murray Showers

Electrify string music? It can’t be done you say?  Come and find out.  Former Trans-Siberian Orchestra lead rock violinist Mark Wood is bringing his Electrify Your Strings program to EDSS.  This Emmy Award winning composer is a Juilliard trained performer who has made a name for himself by thinking outside of the box.  Instead of following the same road as other classical artists he turned to rock music enhancing the view that strings have an appropriate place in this genre.  Mark Wood has not only advanced string and improvisation techniques he has invented his own set of string instruments to play this music.  He has combined the fret and pickup systems from electric guitars and strapped the instrument to the performer’s body so they can move in a freer fashion with both the fingering and bowing arms.  As he performed he began to realize that the future of music innovation is in the hands of young student musicians still in the school system.  With this in mind he created the Electrify Your String program for school music students and has been welcomed into many secondary schools in the United States in the past few years.  This program has garnered much media attention but most importantly the students love it.

LET’S BE FAIR TO THOSE WHO SET THE STAGE

by Tyler Lubberts

 You never hear “Go Crew Go!” in the halls. You hear about the football team, the rugby team, field hockey, DECA, debating, but never, never the stage crew.

 The stage crew is one of the most active groups in EDSS. We are asked to help with assemblies, coffee houses, and the school productions. We’ve done commencement and helped out with the school’s Haunted House numerous times before. So how about a little appreciation, huh?

END THE STRIKE SO WE CAN GET ON THE ROAD!

by Emma Larke

The line-up of students urging to do a drivers test is increasing as the driver examiner strike continues in the Kitchener-Waterloo area.  The student drivers are the ones greatly affected by this ordeal as obtaining a licence in Waterloo region is not possible for the time being.  In my opinion, this is a problem that needs to be acted upon and resolved as soon as possible.