Nationals bound
Kiera Makowecki, Staff Writer
March 3, 2015
Filed under News, Showcase, Sports
The weekend of Feb. 21, the SMCHS varsity ice hockey team participated in the State playoffs that determined which team the league will choose to represent California in Chesterfield, Mo. for the 2015 High School Hockey Nationals on March 19-23. So now there is good news and bad news. Bad news: the...
Poets never stanza-lone
Maggie Morris, Copy Editor
February 24, 2015
Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes and you. That's right, your name can fall amidst those of the greatest poets of all time. That is…if you submit poetry to the first annual poetry contest being hosted by the library. Assistant librarian Maricar Lauda...
V-chur takes Florida
Carlie McCabe, Staff Writer
February 20, 2015
It's 6 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 5. A giant charter bus pulls up to SMCHS ready to make its hour-long trek to the San Diego International Airport. Twenty-four anxious, overly-ecstatic, spray-tanned varsity cheerleaders board the bus ready to take on the trip they’ve been working towards since last ...
What’s up with scheduling?
Anna Cannon, Staff Writer
February 19, 2015
Filed under News
In past years, scheduling had always been quite the event. There was an entire day planned out for counselors to come to classrooms and hand out important-looking sheets of paper. Students would travel from period to period, asking for signatures from their teachers to approve their choices on the following...
Behind the screens
Alana Mayes, Staff Writer
February 17, 2015
Lights, camera, paper? Before all the action, comes something that is the foundation of every good movie. The script. The very beginning of every good movie, from the James Bond series, to Harry Potter, to the Notebook, is the script. But how do you write one? Well here's your chance. SMCHS's new...
Mission egg drop
Avery Lewis, Staff Writer
February 4, 2015
Bombs ahoy! All students take cover. Eggs are falling with great velocity from G3. Friday Jan. 30, IB Physics dropped eggs with the mission of creating an apparatus to save the egg yolk from breaking through its delicate white shell. Many classroom-to-real-life applications are tested with the egg...
Bop to the top
Carly Desmond, News & Sports Editor
January 29, 2015
On Saturday, Jan. 10, the SMCHS dance team competed in their first competition of the season, the Aliso Dance Classic at Aliso Niguel High School. The team performed in a total of nine routines, six group dances and three solos and performed in the styles of lyrical, jazz and hip hop. A new season means a new ...
FUNdraisers
Carlie McCabe, Staff Writer
January 22, 2015
Filed under News
As the esteemed singer and songwriter Jessie J proudly sings, "It's not about the money, money, money. We don’t need your money money money. We just want to make the world dance, forget about the price tag." But SMCHS's Associated Student Body would indeed claim the exact opposite: it is about the mo...
Seniors take sail
Avery Lewis, Staff Writer
November 18, 2014
Filed under News
Senior year: the year to do it all before high school is over forever. There are some must-do traditions at SMCHS that the graduating class always looks forward to: senior prom, Kairos, ditch days, the faculty/student basketball game, grad night and, of course, senior cruise. Taking students on a...
Think pink
Monique Beals, Staff Writer
October 27, 2014
Filed under News
October has arrived and it seems like everywhere we look, we catch glimpses of pink. From the ribbon wrapped trees on campus to dashes of pink on the football field, everyone at SMCHS seems to be thinking pink. According to breastcancer.org, one in every eight, or over 12 percent, of American women develop breast cancer in their lifetimes. Even m...
Red ribbons tie the knot
Carly Desmond, News & Sports Editor
October 23, 2014
Filed under From our print issue, News
Don’t do drugs. Drugs are bad. Drugs will kill you. These messages have been repeated to us over and over again since the day we learned what a cigarette was. But as kids, we most remembered not the messages but the red wristbands. With Red Ribbon Week, it is the hope that a conversation about drug...
Greatest Homecoming on Earth
Paige Schuck, Staff Writer
October 21, 2014
Filed under News
Buses were full, girls made last minute beauty appointments, and boys frantically tied to find a tie that matched their date's dress color. It was Homecoming week, the week of Oct. 6-11. The spirit days kicked off the festivities, leading into a rally full of entertaining guests and games, and then:...
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Rodriguez returns
McKenna Sulick, Staff Writer
There's a new face greeting everyone with a smile in the activities office. The energy behind the desk is Miss Lauren Rodriguez, member of the class of 2013, soccer coach, and youngest of six Rodriguez kids to attend SMCHS. Rodriguez decided to return...
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The Senior Cruise is an SMCHS senior tradition. The class of 2018 set out on the Newport Harbor in an array of costumes for their first senior event on Thursday Aug. 24. Fro...
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College quest
Riley Davies, Copy Editor
Most parents only allow their children to tour college campuses after they are accepted. However, my family knew that waiting to visit until I got accepted to colleges was not ...
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