Students face off against teachers in Science Bowl Competition.
The fall musical ‘Oklahoma’ opens in Rugby Theater.
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CHRONICLE Football clinches playoff position By luke holthouSe
In ninth grade, Chad Kanoff ’13 threw two incomplete passes at the end of the 2009 varsity football team’s last playoff game. The Woltouchdowns late in the fourth
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PREPARING FOR THE WORST:
Upper school trains for disaster scenarios
By ally White
An LAPD mobile substation, two squad cars and two Fire Department’s Station 78 day for the Upper School’s most extensive disaster drill to date. After the deans took attendance, many students headed for the shade instead of listening to presentations on disaster preparedness by the police department. “It was too bad it was as hot as it was,” Security Guard Mark Geiger said. “Everyone was really uncomfortable, so we didn’t get as much out of it as we would have liked.” Assistant Head to the
Head of Upper School Michelle Bracken said attendance is pivotal because an emergency team cannot be sent out without everyone accounted for and the school cannot respond to worried parents. The focus of the drill was to assess the school’s ability to account for everyone in a 45-minute period. While there have been 30-minute disaster drills in the past, Head of Security Jim Crawford believed a more in depth drill was necessary. He had originally asked for a full day to run different emergency situations, but the administration allowed a 45-minute time frame. Bracken said the drill brought some issues regarding
accounting for faculty to the forefront. This includes faculty, especially those who are part-time employees or work on both campuses, who were unaccounted for. After third period, teachers stopped class and instructed students to duck and cover
Crawford said the chopper had initially been planned to land on campus but after a site survey, it was decided that
roll, students walked around gency personnel. The police informed the faculty and some students about how a command post works and how they would work with the school in the event of a disaster. Students were able to go inside the command substation. A police heli-
aid and the triage station about what should happen in the event of an emergency. ulty who had participated in Community Emergency Response Team training checked in and then collected their gear near the teachers’ checkin station. They then in-
88 percent of seniors apply early, some colleges extend deadlines
By Camille ShooShani
More students elected to apply early action to more schools than in past years though the number of students applying early decision has not varied greatly, according to Upper School Dean Beth Slattery. The top 10 schools that students applied to the most were early action except for the University of Pennsylvania. Last year, early decision schools Brown, Columbia and Stanford made the list. Newcomers to the top 10 this year
are the Harvard University, Boston College and Southern Methodist University. Fearing that Hurricane Sandy would prevent students in the northeast with power outages from submitting on time, more than 70 schools extended their early application deadlines, including six schools in the top ten 10. The University of Chicago application is due tomorrow and Southern Methodist University’s application is due today. About 88 percent of the senior class applied to at least one school either early action or early decision, Slattery said,
a 16 percent increase from three years ago. plying to nonbinding schools early because they do not have tober. Megan Ward ’13 applied to six early action schools: Georgetown, University of Virginia, University of North Carolina, University of Michigan, Tulane and University of Colorado, Boulder. “I would rather apply to more schools early and know about half of my decisions than apply somewhere restricting
pellets in the grass could damage the aircraft, and therefore the plan was canceled. students as well as those who
INSIDE
ELECTION: Upper school students voted by a large margin to reelect President Barack Obama in a nationwide mock election.
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VIBRATO: The Jazz Band combos performed at the at a local restaurant.
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Christian in the second round of CIF playoffs when then Head Coach Vic Eumont took ver Lowry ’10 to let Kanoff get his feet wet in a playoff atmosphere. The Wolverines Christian that year and have not appeared in a playoff game since. off game in his senior season, three years after the Wolverines last played in the postseason, when the Wolverines round of CIF Southern Section Western Division playoffs. “The atmosphere at a playoff game is a lot different,” Kanoff recalled. It’s win or go home, the game starts later, it’s colder because it’s later in the year and you’re playing a team that you don’t know, which is really cool.” Despite dropping their last three games of the season, the Wolverines did just enough to earn an at-large bid to CIF joining the Mission League. The Wolverines, who switched
FULL SWING: The girls’ tennis team fell to Tesoro in the second round of CIF.
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