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By Kelly Du With the first month of school well underway, the BHS pep rally kicked off the fall sports celebration. The cross country team started it off with a dance routine number from the latest hit song, “Gangnam Style” by Korean artist PSY, with all the players appropriately decked out in suits and/or glasses. Some other notable highlights included: The boys’ soccer team took
By Alexandra Augustak Every four years when the countries of the world are given the chance to come together and battle each other with the peaceful prospects of the Olympics, the games are opened with a Parade of Nations. Noting the inspiring form of respect to nations all over the world, Branford High School has been carrying on the Olympic tradition each year, even with
by Marisa Kaplita Editor-in-chief Many of you may have been waiting for another Hurricane to delay the start of school, but unfortunately Mother Nature is being kind to us this year. Now, to those who had a boring summer, I’m sure you’re all too excited to start this New Year; and for those who would like an extra month of vacation, I apologize for not
by Vincent Roca Salapalooza has always been an event that students look forward to as the school year comes to a close. However, this year, lack of both funds and student motivation threatened to destroy not only one of the few school wide social events, but our school’s final goodbye to the graduating senior class. However, Student council did not give up. Due to their
A mini voting station was created in student commons to allow classes to vote for their favorite candidates for Youth in Government. The winning students got to spend a day shadowing town officers.
The Pep Rally originally scheduled for Friday April 13th has been postponed to the Friday after break, on April 27th. The cancellation is due to many reasons, but it is probably for the better, because no body wants to have a Pep Rally on Friday the 13th! Who knows what could happen?
By Meglin Bodner The upcoming musical at BHS is Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida. It starts out in a museum’s Egyptian exhibit where two people glance at each other and form a connection. Then, the statue of a female Pharaoh awakens and transports the audience to ancient Egypt where Egyptian soldiers and their captain, Radames (Noah Perito), are returning from a mission to conquer
Make sure you pick up our own copy of the Calliope next week! Calliope is the school’s literary magazine made up of artwork, poems, short stories and other types of writing from the students of BHS. This is a sneak peak of the new magazine coming out; the cover was created by BHS student Ziqi Wang. You can get your own copy of the magazine
by Editor-in-Chief Marisa Kaplita This past Tuesday on February 14th during period six 15 BHSers battled it out on the stage; Aria Jones, Henry Jin, Ben Shao, Christina Smith, Chrissy Beaulac, Kaity Robbins, Pompeo Mazella, Brianna DeNegris, Jennifer Lassen, Rachel Hanchuruck, Michelle Caron, Meglin Bodner, Jenny Flynn, Bryanna Willaby, and Ziqi Wang were all participators of the Poetry Out Loud Competition. For this competition all the students picked a poem from a list on this website: http://www.poetryoutloud.org/ ranging from different writers, lengths and
Come support the school’s Amnesty Club, by coming to their movie night this Wednesday, Feb 15th, at 5:30 pm in the F-wing Lecture Hall. You’ll get to watch the amazing Freedom Writers while snacking on Chinese Food. President Kelly Du says,”This movie night is just a great opportunity for everyone to come together and raise some money for Amnesty. It’s all for a great cause
