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Students looking forward to climbing Everest, guerilla gardening or composing muÄĽ sic at the end of senior year had best give up now.

At least if they want school credit for it, that is.

Seventeen years of Country Day tradition are no more, DQG VHQLRU SURMHFWV KDYH ¿ļ nally come to an end.

Despite a number of standÄĽ outs such as piano recitals and learning to race horses, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the quality as a whole just wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t what we wanted,â&#x20AC;? Sue Nellis, head of the high school, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some were great, but many seniors didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t put in the time.â&#x20AC;?

Instead seniors will attend school for approximately four hours a day during the two weeks they would normally spend on senior projects.

They will attend three to four seminars and lectures a GD\ RQ HYHU\WKLQJ IURP ÂżQDQÄĽ FLDO SODQQLQJ WR VHOIÄĽGHIHQVH At a faculty meeting last spring, the vote to eliminate the projects was unanimous.

The only question that reÄĽ mained was what to replace them with.

Originally, the College Board considered moving AP testing to the last two weeks RI 0D\ LQVWHDG RI WKH ÂżUVW giving seniors more time to prepare for exams and elimiÄĽ nating the time between the end of APs and graduation.

But not enough schools signed on to the idea, so the school was forced to resume its discussion of how to reÄĽ place senior projects. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wanted the seniors to ÂżQLVK WKHLU WLPH KHUH QRW MXVW with academic skills, but with skills for college and life after it,â&#x20AC;? Nellis said.

Kellie Whitedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s popular College Health and Nutrition class provided the basic idea. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think there are some reÄĽ ally great opportunities for students to learn some skills that adults take for granted,â&#x20AC;?

Nellis said.

The classes will be taught mostly by faculty and parent volunteers, with some outside experts, according to Nellis. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There has been so much ÄŞFRYHUDJHÄŤ DERXW WKH ODFN RI ÂżQDQFLDO NQRZOHGJH DPRQJ young people, particularly when it comes to massive stuÄĽ dent loans that people often have no way of paying back,â&#x20AC;?

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Students will likely be able See Senior Projects, page 3

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Administration reevaluates school emergency plan after Newtown shooting

By Yanni Dahmani

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n the past few weeks, headÄĽ master Stephen Repsher has been receiving emails from heads of schools around the state, all asking the same thing.

How can we improve our safety plan and help protect students from terrible events such as the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in NewÄĽ town, Conn, on Dec. 14? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been asking â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;What does your school do? Where can we go to get help?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Repsher said.

The killings have caused schools around the country, including CounÄĽ try Day, to reevaluate their safety plans. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When an emergency happens, it always gets you to rethink your plans,â&#x20AC;? Repsher said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Any organization has to conÄĽ stantly update their plans, or else they wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be ready.â&#x20AC;?

According to Repsher, the adminÄĽ istration started reviewing the plans and discussing possible changes on Dec. 18 and will continue meeting in the future.

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On the set of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Far,â&#x20AC;? !debuting at the Berlin Independent Film Festival in February" Marion Kerr rehearses with director Brian J. Crewe. Kerr, center, acts on the set of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Redesigning Your Life with Lainey Chase,â&#x20AC;? which won the New York Television Festival Critics Award. !Photos used with permission from marionkerr.com."

Break a legâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and lose it, too!

Alumna lands her biggest role in hit show â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Criminal Mindsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

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ecorded in a book every year were her age, number of teeth lost and what she wanted to be when she grew up. At 10 years old, Marion Kerr wanted to be an actress.

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Sophomores flock to Twitter

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She never went back.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;On Twitter, I can post things and my parents wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask me about them.â&#x20AC;? #Caroline Mehta

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just decided to try something new.â&#x20AC;? #Jaspreet Gill

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Only three members of the ski and snowboard teamâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;senior snowboarders Brandon Mysicka, Brandon Pefferle and Donald Hutchinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;competed in the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s race at Boreal on Jan. 18. Results were not available at press time.

The lack of participation of snowboarders and no skiers attending the race cost the team a large number of points and eliminated any chance they had at placing this season.

The remaining 10 team members were unable to compete because of upcoming final exams.

Coach Jason Kreps said that the ski and snowboard team will have more members at the rest of the races and, despite this setback, the team is ready to start the season. Their next race is Friday, Jan. 25. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Eric Hilton

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EDITORIAL: Students must become more informed, involved in school’s emergency plan

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hree hours after the deadly shooting in Newtown, Conn., headmaster Stephen Repsher sent an email to parents outlining the school’s emergency plans and assuring parents that lockdown procedures were established.

Yet as the staff of the Octagon read that letter, we encountered a problem.

Out of more than a dozen members of the editorial board, not a single one could remember the last time the school had a lockdown drill.

Everyone knew that the procedures were inside every room, tacked to the wall in a plastic envelope, but few had ever actually looked at them.

As it turns out, it has been more than three years since a lockdown.

Yes, teachers theoretically know the proper procedure in case of a school shooter or other threat, but isn’t it a bit of a problem that students don’t know it too?

In an emergency situation, some students would have a teacher close by to guide them and tell them what to do.

But what of those caught in free period? In the garden? In the Cave?

We need to have not just one lockdown drill as planned, but drills every year, multiple times—no dif-

MLYLU[ MYVT ÄYL KYPSSZ And what about the plan itself?

Country Day has a very open campus. That’s one of the things we love about it.

The constant presence of alumni and former students and teachers is a refreshing difference from other schools, reinforcing the sense of community.

But what should students do if they spot someone on campus whom no one knows?

According to the emergency plan: nothing.

Our emergency plan—unlike those of UC Davis and Christian Brothers—has no role for students.

Now maybe that plan makes sense for lower schoolers and middle schoolers, but it’s hard to believe that high-school students can’t be responsible for distinguishing alumni from strangers.

Who could be better at telling who is familiar and who is not than the students at the school?

So our school’s emergency plan needs to be revised to include the students. But even more importantly than that, it needs to be known. >L WYHJ[PJL ÄYL KYPSSZ YLN\SHYS` HUK `V\ ^V\SK IL OHYK WYLZZLK [V ÄUK H Z[\KLU[ ^OV KVLZU»[ RUV^ [OL procedure.

In light of recent school shootings, doesn’t it make sense for lockdowns to be treated the same?

The Octagon Editors-In-Chief Jeffrey Caves Yanni Dahmani Madeleine Wright Copy Editor Garrett Kaighn Business Manager Jeffrey Caves News Editor Yanni Dahmani Editorial Editor Ryan Ho Community Editor Darby Bosco Sports Editors Micaela Bennett-Smith Morgan Bennett-Smith Skovran Cunningham Centerpoint Editor Madeleine Wright Feature Editors Connor Martin Kamira Patel

Opinion Editor Emma Williams Online Editor David Myers Photo Editors Kelsi Thomas Will Wright Reporters Annie Bell Emma Brown Elise DeCarli Eric Hilton Madison Judd Grant Miner Aishwarya Nadgauda Max Shukuya Manson Tung Foreign Correspondent Margaret Whitney Cartoonist Shewetha Prasad Adviser Patricia Fels

The Octagon is published eight times a year by high-school journalism students of Sacramento Country Day School, 2636 Latham Drive, Sacramento, Calif. 95864. Phone: (916) 481-8811, ext. 347. Email: octagon@saccds.org, Web address: http://www. scdsoctagon.com.

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