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Interim delivers new friendships, new experiences, and memories by amanda tsao It destroys academic schedules, invites brushes with death and risks breaking the law,

but few can deny that some of the best moments of their year occurred on interim semester.

Junior Patrick Bousky described

the highlight of his trip as meeting the Dalai Lama and shaking his hand.

Although the Dalai Lama did not speak formally with them, the group was able to take photos with him despite heavy security.

“There were these women in front of our group and they just broke down. It made everyone realize what a big deal it was,” junior Chloe

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Seniors Sandy Morris and Colin McDowell get friendly with a tribal chief on their Interim Semester trip to Kruger National Park, South Africa. Photo by Mike Meguid

Horowitz said.

“He looks exactly how he looks like in all his pictures, and he was so serene,” junior Emily Brotman said.

“It was amazing to meet someone you read about.”

On an immersion trip in Spain, the group stayed in Pamplona, a city famous for its annual event: the Running of the Bulls. The event falls

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Some trips marked by ills, chills and pills A bathroom’s interior was not the kind of architecture senior Josh Smith hoped to see most

on his Interim Semester trip to Greece. Halfway through the trip Smith experienced stomach pain and a fever after eating at a “deserted place” for lunch.

“That night I had a fever. I pretty much slept in the bathroom. The toilet was my best friend,” Smith said.

Smith saw several doctors in Greece. All offered different diagnoses: diarrhea, travelers’ diarrhea, gastrointestinal infection.

He was given medicine and injections, but the symptoms persisted. Back in Singapore, Smith’s doctor said he had E. coli.

Most E. coli infections come from drinking contaminated water, raw milk or eating undercooked meat.

Symptoms include abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

“Overall it was pretty much torture,” Smith said. “All I knew was that I wanted to go back home. When

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I think about Greece, I just think about being sick.”

Seniors Pradeep Mahtani and Teng Wee spent time in a Petra, Jordan medical clinic. A leg wound that Wee obtained during the rugby season became severely infected.

A large abcess formed around the wound. The instructor and tour leader cleaned the wound and expressed some puss, but the wound was serious enough that they called a doctor around 11:30. The doctor arrived at the hotel within ten minutes. “[The doctor] squeezed out all of the puss and blood, then he put [a tar-like substance] on it and wrapped it up,” senior Clarissa Vainus said. “[Teng] was in a lot of pain. He was biting on a pillow.”

Mahtani started the Jordan trip with a slight sore throat that grew progressively worse. When he noticed “white stripes” on his tonsils, he started to worry.

“With Teng’s leg I didn’t want to make mine a big deal, but I knew it was kind of serious,” Mahtani said.

“Every time I swallowed it felt like I was swallowing glass.”

Mahtani joined Wee at the clinic the next day and was diagnosed with tonsillitis. For the following three days the two went to the clinic to receive antibiotics injections. According to Jordan sponsor Mark Clemens the cost of three clinic consultations, one house call, and multiple injections of antibiotics was around 140 Dinar (S$272), considerably less than Singapore rates.

Medicine is not the only product that is cheaper in other countries.

Cigarettes are significantly cheaper in less developed countries, and students capitalized on the lower prices. A male junior was caught by Singapore Customs with nine packs of cigarettes. He was fined $1800 by the Singapore government for bringing cigarettes into Singapore undeclared and untaxed. Deputy Principal Doug Neihart added two days of out-ofschool suspension for violating the Interim Semester rules.

Also apprehended by Customs were 16 students with Gurkha knives they bought as souvenirs in Nepal.

The students were not punished, but police confiscated the knives

in July, but the group improvised.

“We reenacted it so that the boys played the bulls, and girls were the people. We did it in the streets,” freshman Abby Gigante said.

On the Surfing in Australia trip, a girl looked out a bus window on a man running after the bus.

“Umm Ms. Pong? There’s a man running beside our bus,” junior Gyda Sim said.

The man kept chasing until the bus stopped at a traffic light.

for inspection and returned them on the followingWednesday.

Multiple sources confirmed infractions that went undetected by teachers. On a trip to Japan a student was found passed out, naked and drunk in a bathtub. On a trip to Europe three senior males and a female went to a strip club where one student spent 140 Euros (S$297) on lap dances.

On another trip, four senior males dressed as Arab terrorists and “raided” other students’ rooms in a hotel, frightening not only them but guests on the same floor.

He then licked the windows.

The Australian man was not alone in acting desperately. On this year’s Italy trip, a student who had run out of money decided to earn some on his own.

“He pretended to be a beggar and sat down in the middle of the street,” senior Michael Kim said.

“Then a child came over to him and put something in his cap. After he left we checked to see what he put inside.

Everyone thought it was money but it was a rock.”

Then there were times when disaster bound a group together.

“On our [Nepal] trip, the bus broke down ten times,” senior Chi-Chi Lin said.

The group had to get out and push the bus through the snowy slush to start it up again. “It was all fun though,” Lin said.

If Nepal is known for its lessthan-perfect infrastructure, Bhutan is remarkable for being one of the most culturally intact countries in the world.

“The country was so Buddhist that you could see it in every aspect of their lives,” Liou said. “You could really see it was in their blood. It was so interesting to see how it affected them.”

Junior Michael Nguyen who was on the same trip recalled another memorable incident in Bhutan.

“We forgot to count the number of people, so three people got lost. We had to look for them for nearly and hour,” Nguyen said.

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First homecoming a hit; inspires changes for next

by Alexandra Boothe As the Homecoming Committee and Student Council desperately tried to gain their footing with last minute preparations, parents, teachers, students and athletes began crowding around the ticket booths and entrances to the gym.

Within twenty minutes things began to iron themselves out, and the crowds, in a sea of T-shirts red, started to flock to the stands to catch the second half of the pre-game: faculty against alumni. The warmup turned out to be just as interesting as the “Big Game,” with the crowds’ constant “oohs” and “ahhs.” The game was a nail-bitter in the last minutes with a final score of 35-32, a win for the faculty.

When the Eagle boys entered the gym for the big game the fans erupted with cheers of support.

“It was nice to have a large crowd,” varsity player David Small said, “As a player I would have loved to have [homecoming] every year.”

The opposing team, Kuala Lumpur’s Panthers, won muffled cheers form a small group of loyal parents seated on the far side of the gym. The game didn’t offer much

Feathers Fly: Seniors and Freshmen battle for spirit points on Pyjama Day during homecoming week. Photo by Malavika Singh

suspense to fans with SAS holding a strong lead for most of the game.

“It was fun,” junior Dominique Wilson Smith said, “even though they kind of won by a landslide so it wasn’t intense.”

At half time, Student Council kept the fans involved with raffled for a PlayStation Portable (PSP) and an iPod touch. The people drawn from the raffle had to go down on the court and had to participate in a basketball

shoot-out. The first person to get the ball in the basket walked away with the prize. In one of the contests it came down to a shoot-off between a student and a father, the challenge lasted for over three minutes even with the contestants shooting from directly under the basket. In the end the student was the one who walked away with the PSP. “We thought it was pretty clever the way they did the raffle,” Wilson

Smith said.

By eight-thirty the crowd, worn out from the festivities, decided to call it a night. By the start of the dance only a few students, parents and their small children were pushing to keep the night going.

“As an idea I think it sounded good to have an entire school dance where all ages were involved, Student Council sponsor Eric Burnett said. “I think that was an error on my part.”

Poor attendance at the dance prompted the committee to end the event early. The committee is considering revamping the schedule entirely.

“A lot looked at the dance as a failure, but it wasn’t,” Student Council President Belal Hakim said.

“We just tried something new and it didn’t have a good response so now next year with some modifications, we can find something that works.”

The plan would be to cancel Winter Ball and instead create a Homecoming Dance the night after the Homecoming game. The dance would be more formal and it would give athletes the chance to attend.

“I didn’t really know about the dance, and on top of that I was pretty tired so I really didn’t see a reason to go,” David Small said.

For now, those plans are just a possibility, but it could boost attendance and school spirit, two goals Student Council is striving for according to Burnett.

“For its first year I thought it was pretty good, but next year I hope they step it up and maybe get more people involved,” Wilson Smith said. bootheattheeye@gmail.com

Teacher exodus includes well-seasoned veterans

by Ravindran Shanmugam

The height advantage the Social Studies faculty enjoys over other departments will largely disappear next year.

The departure of the towering Michael Stagg and Patrick Hopkins, along with department chair Ellen White, who will become the Director of Admissions, represent a combined loss of 26 years of experience.

English teachers Dr. Roopa Dewan, a 17 year veteran, and Patricia Kuester, who has taught at SAS for 21 years, leave at the end of the year. With Mandarin teachers Hung Hua Charbonnet and Sarah Mar, and Japanese teacher Eric Shreiber leaving in June, Modern Languages will be badly hit.

Counseling will lose “L - M”, a.k.a.

Beth Kramer.

White said that when her son Luke graduates this year, she is ready to move to a new challenge at SAS, although she will miss interacting with kids. Chinese History and AP Art History students will remember White’s trademark energy and passion, which she says she will bring to her new job.

“Wherever I am, I find a high level of energy and engagement,” White said.

As Director of Admissions, White will remain at SAS to deal with an ever-increasing waiting list and the pressure of a growing school.

“Ms. White is a terrific, dedicated person who has given a lot to the school,” Kuester said.

Hopkins started at the high school in the same year as White. He and his wife, middle school teacher

Jennifer, are moving back to be closer to their families, as they prepare for the birth of a son in May. “I’ll miss the students, supportive parent community, and colleagues,” Hopkins said.

The class of ‘09 will have to come up with their own nicknames; no longer will the affable, gangly “Staggo” be there to add an “o” to their names as he slaps them on the back. Stagg and Kramer leave for the States after six years at SAS. Their youngest daughter, Hannah, graduated in 2002.

Kramer said they w e r e moving back to be close to her mother, who is ill.

She has loved “working with students with a wide range of talent,” and will especially miss counseling secretaries Ylva Bracken and Linda Lajim who, she said, “make my day.”

Kramer said her favorite place at SAS is the Eco Garden. In the States, she might do some private

counseling, but has no plans to work in a school.

AP Lit has become almost synonymous with Dr. Dewan. She made the school’s most challenging English course her own, injecting an enthusiasm in Camus, Hardy and Shakespeare that her students will long remember.

“Lit is such a powerful medium

for talking about life,” she said.

Dr. Dewan introduced Global Issues to SAS, which spawned many service and environmental clubs, like Global Giving, and SAVE. “It’s funny that I’m a teacher because I was a horrible student.

I spent more time out of class than in,” she said, adding that she would miss “sharing the great moments of students’ lives.”

Patricia Kuester is best known for directing high school productions like “Chess” (‘07), and “Noises Off” (’06). She teaches drama and acting, along with English.

Although she has increasingly specialized in Drama and Arts, she “loves teaching lit classes,” and “will miss interacting with the fabulous kids.” Kuester is moving to Ireland, where she plans to work in theatre and help in former English teacher John Hurst’s bookshop.

“It has been a real privilege and gift for me to work here,” Kuester said, but added she

increasingly finds teaching draining.

“I’ll move on,” Kuester said.

This summer, Modern Languages will have to recruit a new Japanese teacher. Eric Shreiber has enjoyed his two years at SAS, but is moving to Japan “for personal reasons.” He said he will miss his department colleagues and the students.

Two Mandarin teachers leave in June. After watching her kids graduate this year, Sarah Mar plans to move to China. She has been at SAS for three years, with the first year in middle school. Although SAS “provides excellent academic development for teachers,” she feels ready to move on.

Hung Hua Charbonnet is leaving for Hong Kong. “My son, Danny, is graduating. I am going to join my husband,” Charbonnet said. She is applying for a job at the Hong Kong International School.

“A professor,” Auden said, “is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.”

Few will forget a class taught by White, Hopkins, Dr. Dewan, Kuester or Stagg.

“I will always remember Chinese History with Ms. White,” senior Jun Yul Choi said.

Six of the nine departing faculty members have been at SAS for over five years; they are familiar faces in the corridors and each has become associated with certain subjects.

“They are titans of the school, it’ll be hard to replace them,” senior Jon Zaman said. Zaman was surprised that so many experienced teachers were leaving at once. “It’s a loss, but an institution like SAS will keep going,” Kuester said.

Additional reporting by staff. ravi.theeye@gmail.com

staff editorial To everything, a season IASAS, late start, Chinese New Year, Interim Semester, Cultural Convention. That is the event calendar between early February and early March, leaving many teachers with half-empty classrooms and impossible schedules.

Add in a longer Christmas break, a new fall break, spring break, and a smattering of American and Singaporean holidays, and students spend fewer days in school than out of it.

Few complain. Enjoyable as lessons on Neanderthal men and differential equations are, most students prefer catching the latest movie with a few friends, playing computer games and partying the whole night without worrying about waking up before noon the following day.

Students like holidays: the more the better. But do we have too many holidays, enough even to detract from students’ education?

Education is not merely academic. If it were, a child might as well be home-schooled by a succession of tutors.

School is about making friends, interacting, and learning which teachers are strict about handing in homework. All vital life skills. And holidays help give a student’s life balance.

If students were in school only to learn English and Maths, we might have too many holidays. But, since students need a balanced education, holidays, parties, movies, and even violent computer games are worth something too.

We live our lives for pleasure.

If life held more suffering than joy, suicide, as Schopenhauer

pointed out, would be a logical conclusion. Everything we do, whether it is attending school or playing computer games, is done for pleasure: school gives the promise of later pleasure, while computer games represent immediate gratification. We need both, and as the school term stands, we spend only slightly more days on holiday than at school. The administration has found a nice balance.

Interim Semester caters to the same principle. Whether skiing in Switzerland, walking among ruins in Jordan, or painting windows in Soweto, students take education beyond the classroom.

They return with the odd story of a curfew broken for a drinking binge, and a treasure trove of experiences that make Interim one of the premier academic experiences in the world.

When students jet off to Bangkok to play rugby, or Manila to attend forensics, they are part of a team. In a school with over 1000 students, it is important for students to have the chance to be part of smaller groups with differentiating characteristics— like a rugby team.

Such groups help create a camaraderie that might be absent when 1200 students assemble together. Also, students get a chance to win something, and winning is always a nice feeling.

For education to be a success, students must enjoy it. Holidays, late starts, Interim and IASAS events help create a convivial atmosphere.

The academic component remains of vital importance, but to underestimate the importance of the non-academic spheres of school would be to undermine the value of school itself.

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Emaciation is not gorgeous As the fashion world shifts its “Beauty is truth, and truth beauty’” catwalks from New York to Milan, Keats said. But he didn’t live in the as Hermes and Armani dress up the 21st Century. Beauty is an evolving latest gorgeous models in the latest concept. In Keats’ England, it was gorgeous gowns, and as innumerable tied to birth and accomplishment. In girls in innumerable countries 19th Century China, beauty revolved embrace the latest around bound feet diets in the hope of and petite figures. In one day wearing 20th Century India, those gowns on size was a marker of those catwalks, beauty—the bigger last year’s death the better, since of wafer-thin plumpness indicated teenager Sophie prosperity.

Mazurek must In another 100 make us, as a years, humans may society, pause. look back at the Mazurek was emaciated models no Kate Moss. we swoon at today She had neither and feel the same her own fashion revulsion Chinese label nor multi- Ravi Shanmugam history students million dollar experience when endorsement deals. Her death looking at the bloodied, crushed feet received at most an anonymous that epitomised beauty in China for paragraph in a local newspaper. over 700 years.

Mazurek, in short, was just a normal Chinese women might have person. had the better deal. They were only And like most normal people, prevented from walking. Women she had dreams. She was one of today are told they shouldn’t even those countless girls who dreamed of eat. becoming the next Gemma Ward— The question remains: why did Mazurek’s dream was beauty. As Chinese men love mutilated feet, dreams go, beauty is a particularly and why do we gaze longingly at toxic one. Mazurek ate less and less, borderline anorexia? Because beauty fell into depression, and died at the is defined by society, and the society ripe old age of 19. we live in tells us: the thinner the

better.

It has come to the point where people go not only for diets but also plastic surgery and liposuction in the hope of conforming to 21st Century society’s definition of beauty. If even Quasimodo’s hunched back could be cherished, perhaps plastic surgery is a step too far?

Apparently not. Nietzsche said: “We strive to be who we are.” He was wrong. Today, we strive to be who they are. “They” being Kate Moss and Co. We are too easily influenced by what we are told is “beautiful.” Our parents and school have failed in not teaching us nonchalance along with English and Maths. It is up to us to ensure we do not fail in learning it.

Much of the blame has been put on magazines like “Vanity Fair” and “Vogue,” which glamourise emaciation. But such magazines are merely prostitutes to the market— they sell a certain concept of beauty because that is what we buy.

As members of this society, it is a perception of beauty we can change.

As tomorrow’s leaders, it is up to us to make a difference. And as human beings, it is our duty to prevent the deaths of innocent, star struck teenagers like Mazurek. ravi.theeye@gmail.com

Dethroning mommy’s little princess “Who’s the prettiest little girl in too highly for their appearance, not the whole world?” cooed the mother because they were told they were ugly sitting beside me on the plane. The as children. A daughter will always villainous dwarf on my other side be beautiful to her parents. But telling swiveled an icing-crusted face toward her, “You’re pageant material,” for me, narrowed her beady eyes, gave twelve years and leaving out the “… a pointy-toothed grin and growled, to me” part for the last few, is just as good as lying to her. So begin the “mmmmeeeeeee!” false hopes of My first thought inheriting her was to reach for the Barbie’s waist, air-sickness bag. and not that My second thought of her portly was one of pity. This father’s. creature of the species Going back known to mankind to those trusty as “little girl” was parenting being shortchanged by books, this her own mother. For deception when this little girl applies to grows hips and acne, intellect she will realize that as well. she does not have the Amanda Tsao Repeatedly prettiest little figure, telling your or the prettiest little face, or the prettiest little anything. little boy that he’s a genius is one And when the mirror reflects more way to make him frustrated with dairy queen than beauty queen and himself when he figures out that her confidence noticeably plummets, (gasp) he isn’t.

In the Oct. 2007 issue of the dear old mum, the unknowing perpetrator all these years, will “Scholastic Instructor,” an article ultimately blame the media for her cited a study in which eighth graders parenting mistakes (after consulting in Korea and the United States were asked whether they were good at “Oprah” of course).

Contrary to what most parenting math. Among the American students, books say, many little girls are 39 percent said they were excellent doomed because they are praised at math, compared to mere 6 percent All right kids, we’ll rest here for a while. A word of caution: the plants that grow in this region are extremely poisonous.

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of the Korean eighth graders. But the reality was somewhat different. The Korean kids scored 55 points higher on average than the over-confident American students.

I’m not saying parents should hold a pick axe over a child’s head when he/she brings home a B+. It’s just that failure can be devastating to children who base their expectations on an inflated ego rather than actual results. This doesn’t mean paernts should withhold praise altogether.

But instead of general praise, (ex.

“You’re a genius.”) be specific (ex.

“Well done on your math exam.”).

Last September, the “Cognitive Daily” reported that kids who receive general praise about their abilities are more likely to exhibit “helpless” behavior when they encounter problems with learning, compared with kids who receive specific praise about their achievement on a task.

As the little girl squinted at me and snatched the garlic bread off my plate, I realized how soon she would grow into adolescence and suddenly decide, one day, to make this carb her mortal enemy. But for now, this tiny bottomless pit could shamelessly eat ice cream to oblivion, as she rightly should. For the remainder of the flight we shared a bag of Reese’s Pieces. amanda.theeye@gmail.com

“High Altitudes”

by Megan Anderson

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verything was nearly perfect: the skies were clear; the air was cool, the lighting colorful, the sound system crisp, and the bands among the best ever. But the stands were empty, the crowd never more than a hundred.

This year, the Peace Initiative worked hard to get their concert out to the SAS public.

“We have a lot more advertising this year, and we’re expecting to sell out of T-shirts,” senior Daksha Rajogopalan said. Ben & Jerry’s, California Pizza Kitchen, and Motorola were sponsors. They advertised on MTV’s Chart Attack and Facebook.

Rajogopalan, Peace Initiative President, said the goal was to make this year’s concert different.

“We have awesome MC’s this year with Josh [Smith] and Luigi [DeGuzman]. It was different than last year because Sean McCabe was more musical,” she said. The duo performed two rap pieces during the latter half of the concert.

“Screamo” wasn’t the dominant sound this year. Listeners were treated to jazz, techno, and punk-rock.

The concert started out with a band “Froot-Loops” playing jazz, with soloist Jane Hurh belting out powerhouse vocals. Performances of solo acoustic pieces by Finn Blacklaws, Charlotte Cheng followed along with and an audience-engaging song by Laura Picard.

The audience called for an encore from Picard, who sang an eccentric piece called “Robots.”

In the first half of the concert, there was a dwindling turnout of fewer than 50 people. But the crowd started to pick up during the second half, when local Malaysian bands “Vibes” and “The Becca & Ross Show” performed.

Audience reaction was strongest with the Becca & Ross show, a duet who sang popular classics such as Coldplay’s “Clocks”.

The turnout – which included a few local school secondary students – peaked at close to a hundred, but many thought the concert was a phenomenal success.

“I thought the concert was fantastic. We really enjoyed it,” sophomore Becky Tay said.

I thought the concert was fantastic.

We really enjoyed it.

Sophomore Becky Tay

Local band Becca and Ross Show inspires calls for more with tight musicianship and exciting lead vocalists. All photos by Megan Anderson.

Bookworms headed for extinction study says

by See Young Lee While the high school library boasts a collection of 38,110 books, the proportion of readers in our student population is comparatively small.

For the past 10 years the library has added an average of 2062 books a year to its collection.

As the stacks of books pile up at a high rate, reading lists for students are becoming longer and longer. But, in a world dominated by video games and music downloads, bookworms are becoming rapidly endangered.

According to the “American Time Use Survey” carried out by the U.S. Department of Labor, on average, Americans ages 15 to 24 spend almost two hours a day watching TV, and only seven minutes of their daily leisure time on reading.

“Most of my friends read next to nothing,” junior Nick Chang said.

“Guys play video games, and the girls gossip and go shopping.”

High school librarian John Johnson said that not enough high school students read books for leisure.

“Having been an elementary school librarian before, I notice that high school kids read the least,” Johnson said.

B u t Johnson was satisfied with the high checkouts for fiction, which is a popular genre among people who read for pleasure.

Junior Judy Kim said not enough students read books from the library.

“Library books are becoming mere display items,” Kim said. “It is a pity that only a minority of students read and value those books.”

Kim often reads books for pleasure.

“I read about five books every month,” Kim said. “Sometimes, if the book is really engaging, I put

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aside all my homework and just read all night.”

For most students interviewed, reading takes place only when it is assigned for homework.

Junior Josh Wolf said the last time he borrowed a book from the library was a year ago for writing an English research paper. The only book he read last summer was a book from the summer reading list assigned by Nanette Ruhter for his English 11 class.

“I read it because I heard there was going to be a huge project on it,” Wolf said.

Students who neglect their reading and are lured by video games and shopping may be disadvantaged by such an attitude.

Chang said that his English skills have declined because of his bad reading habits.

Wolf suspects his reading speed has slowed down significantly because he does not read enough.

But students do not seem to be concerned about their bad reading

Americans aged 15 to 24 spend almost two hours a day watching TV, and only seven minutes of their daily leisure time on reading.

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habits.

“I still do vocabulary [in English class], so I think my reading habits don’t affect me much at all,” Wolf said. “It is not like those who read more are academically smarter than those who don’t read.”

Kim disagrees. She said reading has its role in expanding knowledge of students.

“Academic success isn’t everything,” Kim said. “Whether it be science or social studies, you need that knowledge to not only understand the concepts, but also to apply those concepts in the real word.”

“It is essential for you to have general knowledge, and you obtain that from reading,” high school counselor Beth Kramer said. “Most students who get perfect scores on the SAT critical reading section are voracious readers.”

For some students, having a good reading habit means reading great works of literature like “Of Mice and Men” and “Hamlet.”

Johnson thought differently.

“Having a good reading habit means reading extensively of books you are not required to read.”

Johnson said. seeyoung.theeye@gmail.com

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by Dj Hartman What they lacked in experience, they made up for in enthusiasm. Freshman Robbie Williamson’s band, Carol’s Papercut, had only been playing together for six months, but they got their first real gig in auditions for Peace Concert 2008.

Sixteen bands turned up for auditions this year with eight bands making the cut, including three SAS bands, Carol’s Papercut, CNUT and Frootloops. Expectations were high for this year’s concert.

“We’re expecting this to be bigger than previous years,” Venkateswaran said.

Peace Initiative doubled sponsor advertising for the show, which raises money for charities around South East Asia and the world. This largest portion of this year’s proceeds will go to the Blue Dragon Children’s Fund and Malka Children’s Fund.

“Chart Attack” a countdown show on MTVAsia has put Peace Concert on their calendars of upcoming events in Singapore.

Organizers paid new attention to the lineup of bands this year after an underwhelming audience turnout last year.

“Last year only about thirty people were watching the last band, Say Whale, some of the best musicians,” Venkateswaran said. “So this year, we’re reconsidering the line up.”

Peace Concert was scheduled in February rather than November to avoid the rain that caused problems at last year’s concert.

The first concern of Peace Initiative in preparing for the event is money. The total cost of running the shows runs at about $14,000. As of Feb 10, Peace initiative accumulated $14,700 in sponsorship from companies including Motorola and Creative.

“Any excess money goes to the charities we support,” Peace Initiative President Daksha Rajagopalan said. “Our members were really involved this time around. We established a group of members known as ‘The Beggars to hound businesses for sponsorship.”

Peace Initiative members avlso responded enthusiastically to the club’s call for t-shirt and poster designs. Out of the 12 entries, the winning design came from vsophomore Kathryn Tinker for the t-shirt and junior Danielle Selby for the poster.

“Peace Concert is essentially a benefit concert, but we want to make it a big event on the Singapore music scene,” Rajagopalan said. dj.theeye@gmail..com

Plastic recycling on the horizon for SAVE

by Akhilesh Pant SAS is currently one of the most resource-consuming schools in Singapore, mostly due to its air-conditioning of virtually every room on the campus, according to science teacher Martha Began.

This is true despite SAVE’s continued efforts in keeping the school “green” in other ways.

Members recently discussed the implementation of a new plastic recycling program that will accompany the current aluminum can recycling program.

For years, SAS has relied upon KYS, a Singapore waste disposal company. Until now, KYS was able to provide for all SAS and SAVE Club necessities, such waste disposal and aluminum can recycling, but they lack the ability to recycle plastic. Sembawaste, another waste disposal company in Singapore has agreed to take any plastic waste from SAS, provided that the plastic is clean.

Plastic waste collection and recycling is not a common practice for most Singaporeans and there is currently no regular plastic recycling service on the island.

The main issue hindering recycling within Singapore is the fact that toxic fumes are released when the plastic is incinerated. Sembawaste

will aid SAVE in the process by shipping all plastic waste generated from the school to an Australian recycling plant.

“We have heard that many waste disposal companies like KYS just incinerate the plastic and do not really follow a recycling procedure,” said Joon Park, SAVE communications director.

“We discussed the issue with Sembwaste, and we are positive that they do send the plastic off to a more High-schoolers buy over 250 bottles of water a day from the Caf, effective plant.”

Eagle Zone, Nourishy and Subway. SAVE Club hopes to eliminate the sale of plastic bottles. Photo by Megan Anderson In addition to campaigning for a complete plastic recycling program, bottles, glasses for water, reusable SAVE recently held a series SAVE is making efforts to reduce cutlery and cornhusk plates. of meeting to discuss the the amount of plastic used in the “Mr. Ho’s chief concern is implementation of the program school. The club recently asked Mr. losing cutlery if students fail to with operative committees created.

Ho to ban the purchase of plastic return plates and glasses after In recent meetings, the club bottles and plastic food containers using them,” said James Fan, paper has discussed the placement of in favor of personal Nalgene recycling co-head. numerous plastic recycling bins

that will be placed in strategic locations around the school once ordered. The club hopes to have the plastic recycling program fully functional by mid-March. akhilesh.theeye@gmail.com

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Movie surprises despite unorthodox filming technique Cloverfield

DIRECTOR: Matt Reeves (J.J. Abrams - creator) CAST: Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, Michael-Stahl David, Mike Vogel, T.J. Miller MPAA Rating: PG-13 Singapore Rating: PG VERDICT:

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by Nicholas Lesiuk Facing certain death, would you try to escape with what little time you had left, or videotape the final hours of your life? Protagonists in ‘Cloverfield’ choose to do the latter.

Ever since its nameless trailer debuted, the only clue about the movie being its release date “18-108”, ‘Cloverfield’has been generating a storm of attention. Dubbed “Blair Witch meets Godzilla” the story is told solely from the point of view of a digital camera. That means no scene of the government scientist demystifying the beast to tears, no G.I. Joe rounding up the troops to bring down the monster, no helicopter cam from which we can see the scale of the destruction, or even where the monster is.

No, we view the entire seven hour ordeal the same way as the victims: scared and confused.

And that is the beauty of this film, we start and end the movie knowing as much as the hapless saps being taped. It’s an engrossing experience and made even more lifelike by the handheld camera point of view and shaky videotaping, which viewers either loved or hated.

The directors chose a cast of unknowns to perpetuate the “this is really happening” gimmick.

The story centers on brothers Rob (Michael Stahl-David) and Jason (Mike Vogel), Jason’s girlfriend Lily (Jessica Lucas), Rob’s girlfriend named Beth (Odette Yustman), best friend and cameraman, Hud (T.J. Miller), and a caustically cynical friend of Lily’s, Marlena (Lizzy Caplan). The anonymity of the

actors works for the film, and helps maintain the “reality” of the movie, and that makes up for the lack of any big stars. The cast of randoms helps the viewer believe that this doesn’t just have to happen to movie stars, this could happen to anyone: even

crashes into the ground in front of the group they run for the Brooklyn Bridge, a bad decision considering every movie monsters’ affection for historic infrastructure.

Against all common sense the group heads uptown, where

Michael Stahl-David and Odette Yustman, in their final plea for help

us.

The beginning of the film takes place at Rob’s going-away surprise party in his apartment. Hud’s been handed the job of videotaping the farewell testimonials. The beginning of the film doesn’t have a large impact on the plot other than revealing the romance between Rob and Beth, but don’t worry, the monster quickly makes his appearance, and destruction ensues. A large explosion shakes the building, the lights flicker. The party goes to the roof, and then to the streets for a clue to what has happened, and that’s when the heads start to roll literally. When Lady Liberty’s head

the monster resides to rescue the stranded Beth which leads to the best and most suspenseful part of the film, a long lightless trek through subway tunnels that ends when Hud turns on the camera’s night-vision after hearing something like a cross between Ju-on and a Cricket. We all know what’s coming when Hud turns on the night vision, but the suspense is beautiful.

As with any monster flick, “Cloverfield” depicts a city in chaos from which the protagonist must escape. Some of these scenes apparently strike close to a real life disaster that happened in Manhattan. “Cloverfield” has been

Original Teen indie-flick knocked up a notch

by Jon Cheng In the first moments of the film, Juno stares at a leather armchair on a lawn, silently contemplating.

After vomiting into her stepmother’s urn, experiencing dizzy spells, and bloating, she expects the worst.

To confirm her pregnancy, she takes three, or maybe four pregnancy test kits in one single afternoon (in between the tests she gulps down a gallon of orange juice to induce fluids for the test).

Without any serious consideration, Juno decides to have an abortion – at least until she visits the abortion clinic. Over there, she meets a lone pro-life, Asian protester outside the clinic who tells Juno that babies have fingernails.

So she decides to have her baby adopted by an ideal set of parents: the Lorings, a sweet, wealthy couple living high on the American Dream – at least until the baby is born.

Jennifer Garner plays Vanessa Loring, an obsessive-compulsive wife who over-cleans the bathroom sink, rearranges picture frames multiple times to ensure they are equidistant from each other, and arranges sofa cushions so that they are perfectly symmetrical. And her laid-back husband (Jason Bateman) plays it cool, as a songwriter who works from home. Garner’s role is

A very pregnant Juno (Ellen Page) with friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby).

pitch perfect; she fits in to character like a glove, while Bateman is everything Vannesa is not. Blithely ignorant, the Lorings are almost at the opposite end of the stick.

When the situation is settled, all Juno needs to do is wait. At school, students veer out of her way as she trudges and meanders through the halls with a belly the size of a bowling ball – an ingenuous motif of the heroine’s journey to adulthood.

Eventually, she becomes friends with Vanessa’s husband. Their casual relationship inadvertently turns awkward as the husband, Mark, develops a romantic affinity for her.

Eschewing common character clichés, Juno is down-to-earth charming. The 16-year old, whose name originates from the Roman name of Zeus’ wife, Hera, is brilliantly quirky. With her jittery

speech, sharp, profane tongue and an affinity for classic rock and horror flicks, Juno shines. Her wit is, at best, the only way for her to escape the ignorance of those around her.

In an interview with the prospective parents, she insists on getting this thing out of her and settling on life.

The adopting father’s (Bateman) shared love for gore is heartfelt and genuine without being overtly crass.

After the mishap, Bleeker starts to avoid Juno. But she treats him like nothing ever happened. Bleeker – a cross-country runner who boasts of his long legs – played a similar role on “Superbad (2007).” Bleeker has an addiction to orange tictacs – especially when he is under pressure.

J.K. Simmons and Allison Janey deliver terrific performances as Juno’s parents; they seemingly

criticized for distastefully throwing in iconography synonymous with 9/11 just to “bludgeon emotion out of the audience.”

Dark clouds of dust spilling down the streets and avenues, screaming terrified crowds, and Iconic buildings toppling as if in the middle of a game of dominos are all scenes that criticism is centered on.

Such images would be distasteful if the film was trying to hijack the emotions of the audience using allusions to 9/11, but its not. The movie is content to be a B-grade monster movie and isn’t trying to be anything other than it. That, and the fact that most buildings do create waves of dust when they collapse, a phenomenon not exclusive to the World Trade Center Towers, and people in the approximate vicinity will undoubtedly scream when said buildings collapse make it seem a bit ridiculous to say that “Cloverfield” was “distastefully abusing” such images.

‘Cloverfield’ isn’t groundbreaking in its camera techniques, the gimmick has been seen before most noticeably in “Blair Witch Project”, but it does manage to revamp the old monster-movie clichés and successfully combine it with our “shallow” generation’s fixation of reality TV, facebook and YouTube.

In our world where it hasn’t happened unless you’ve video taped it, “Cloverfield” manages to capture the mindless self-absorption of the Facebook generation with chilling accuracy. nicktheeye@gmail.com

JUNO

start off as hackneyed characters but become dynamic. Like Juno, Simmons’ speech is caustic, yet DIRECTOR: Jason Reitman he is warm and affectionate. Her CAST: Ellen Page, MichaelCera, stepmother (Janney) at first seems J.K. Simmons, Allison Janney, a typical stepmother, but she Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman exceeds the stereotype, showing an affectionate side. During a sonogram MPAA Rating: PG-13 session, she raucously talks back at Singapore Rating: NC-16 the medical operator for questioning Academy Award WINNER Juno’s upbringing. Classic.

Best Original Screenplay Almost like an indie-flick, Juno has an unpretentious, bittersweet edge. Director Jason Reitman and VERDICT: writer Diablo Cody give the film sort of a cutesy ambiance without corniness or cheesiness. The insertion of a few minor scenes – such as one where a few jocks have crushes on freaky girls instead of cheerleaders – are hilarious.

The weird, “nouveau” soundtrack by artists like The Moldy Peaches, Velvet Underground – mimicking children’s songs – gives the film youthful charm.

Similar to “Little Miss Sunshine (2007)”, Reitman’s film weaves in the similar kitschy style: the slightly dysfunctional family, the awkward moments, and the sweet-sour moments.

When Juno is about to give birth, you really do feel for her.

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by Alexandra Boothe Minutes before pulling out for the long six hour bus ride back to Singapore from the tennis IASAS in Kuala Lampur, the athletics director for ISKL boarded the SAS bus to give a hasty improvised version of IASAS Awards Night.

After a long day of rained out and rescheduled matches, there was no time for a proper Awards Night with early departures in the morning. The varsity boys brought home bronze, while the girls won a hard fought gold.

“We knew we had a good chance at medaling, but we never thought it would have been gold,” senior captain Rachel Liou said.

Tension mounted for sophmore Sarah Slaven as the fourth match of the girls’ tennis finals came to a close, and she came to the realization that the chance for gold was riding on her shoulders.

Slaven, the girls’ strongest player, would be going up against Jakarta International School’s top player.

It was 10 p.m. when they stepped on the substitue indoor court that was booked as a result of heavy rains. Events had been on and off all afternoon and by that evening

players from all of the teams were drained.

“Clarissa and I started crying because it was like our last chance for gold,” Liou said. “Our hearts were pounding every point.”

After a hard fought battle tears began to flow from her teammates as Slaven walked off the court a winner, qualifying SAS girls as gold medalists.

“If you really think about it it wasn’t all riding all on my shoulders because if the other girls hadn’t won their previous matches we wouldn’t have been where we were,” Slaven said. “I was so proud of us. It was like the happiest day ever!”

The boys, playing in a different location, battled just as hard but did not come out with the same result.

“With the boys every year is a suprise,” Liou said. When they came out this year I could see heart and soul out there. It just didn’t end up in their favor in the end.”

The tennis boys left Singapore with a young team, with only one senior on the roster according to junior captain Michael He. For junior newcomer Tomas Isman playing in a tournament like

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IASAS with a team was a new way of experiencing the sport. “[Tennis] is generally regarded as a solo sport so playing on this team I had more pressure,” Isman said. “But at the same time it was fun playing on a team because you still had your team no matter what.”

The boys did well in the tournament, but in the matches against the International School of Bangkok for second place they could not secure the win.

“I think we all gave it our best but it really wasn’t good enough for gold this year,” Isman said.

“And there really wasn’t anything we could do about it.”

Although the SAS athlete’s did not recieve proper recognition on the stage that night for their accomplishments they still left the parking lot medal winners.

“It was sad as a senior, especially getting our awards on a cramped bus the next morning, but that weekend was worth it,” senior captain Clarissa Vanius said.

“And I’m gonig to miss those girls so much.” bootheattheeye@gmail.com

Junior Cindy Zu serves up during in tournament play. Photo courtesy of ISKL.

Eagle boys move back into gold column; Girls take bronze in hard play

By Alex Lim receiving clearance from his doctor, the game,” Coach Norman said.

“The depth of our squad made us In the final chapter of his rejoined the team. basketball career, Eagles captain “I was not at a hundred percent,” confident.”

The Eagle’s depth was evident Chris Hussey walked away from Hussey said. “Both my ankles had in the final game, but it was the the Second Season Awards Night as to be taped so it felt even.” the Most Valuable Player of a team Eager to prove the injury performance of senior David Small that finished an impressive first in to Hussey would not have any (29 points and 13 rebounds) that the IASAS tournament in Jakarta. bearing on their performance, allowed the Eagles to cruise to a Hussey almost sat out the entire the Eagles got off to a fast start, comfortable 14-point win, 80-66.

“Best game of David’s high tournament. easily dispatching their first four The storybook ending to a roller opponents and advancing to school career,” Hussey said. “He coaster season was almost derailed the championship game before should have won all tournament.”

“A very satisfying win,” Small in the final home game of the dropping a meaningless contest to said. “We saved our regular season when, with only a the ISM Bearcats. best game for the minute and-a-half left on the clock, In the finals, SAS (4-1) faced championship.”

Hussey suffered a badly sprained a JIS team (4-1) that had dropped The first place ankle. their previous game to the Eagles finish capped off “I went up for a rebound and 63-71 earlier in the tournament. a surprising just landed on someone’s leg,” “We were positive Hussey said. “I thought I wouldn’t going into be able to play [at IASAS].”

The Eagles ultimately finished the regular season with a solid 24 – 6 record, but there still was cause for concern, given the Eagles’ poor showing at the previous basketball tournament in Hong Kong as well as the apparent loss of Hussey.

Head Coach Mike Norman acknowledged the ramifications of losing a player the caliber of Hussey.

“We expected it [the injury] to negatively affect our chances at IASAS,” Norman said. “We didn’t expect him to recover.”

Hussey was able Coaches Mike Norman and Dan Allen ponder the team’s next to regain some of his move in IASAS Jakarta play. Photos couirtesy SAS website mobility in the days that followed and, after

resurgence, considering the Eagles placed a lowly fifth in the Hong Kong tournament just over a month ago. The difference, Coach Norman said, was that different players had been stepping up on a daily basis.

“We had five different leading scorers in six games.” Norman told the attendees at the Second Season Awards Night. “That is something that was really indicative of our balance.”

Chris Hussey, Andrew Debell and Brady Baildon were named to the All - Tournament team.

Eagle girls bring home bronze; Youngsters gain experience

Despite leaving Jakarta with a bronze medal in the IASAS tournament, the future looks bright for the Girl’s Basketball team, largely due to a stockpile of young underclassmen.

For the first time in years, the Varsity featured four freshmen and two sophomores, all with valuable playing experience that should help the Eagles in future championship runs.

Youth, though, means growing pains – something that was evident as the Eagles finished the regular season with seven

losses (21-7) while placing third in the Basketball tournament in Hong Kong.

In their tournament opener, the Eagles eked out a win against the JIS Dragons by a narrow margin of 63-60 before proceeding to blow out ISKL, ISB and ISM by a combined score of 175 – 99.

But SAS would stumble against eventual champions TAS, losing 59-52, effectively ending any designs the Eagles had on the gold medal. The Eagles would win the consolation round, beating ISKL 77-39 and finished third in the overall standings (5-1).

Team Captain Barbara Lodwick and junior Elle Marsh were both named to the All Tournament team after turning in impressive performances.

Head coach Chad Brekke also credited junior Erin Morris for her hustle and tenacious defense, citing a stretch during the Hong Kong tournament when Morris posted an astonishing 18 steals in a two game period.

For Lodwick, her basketball career culminated with being named the team’s Most Valuable Player at the Second Season Awards night, for the second year in a row.

While the Eagles will be taking a significant hit following the departures of Lodwick and fellow team captain Megan Anderson, the team’s abundance of young talent infused with the valuable game experience the girls got this season should serve SAS well in the seasons to come. alex.theeye@gmail.com

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Rugby Girls clinch Bronze, Boys end up in fifth

by Amber Bang Returning with third place and fifth place, SAS rugby and touch rugby teams were less than overjoyed, but both teams agreed that team solidarity brought them back together at the end.

IASAS rugby and touch rugby tournaments were held in Bangkok at the International School of Bangkok (ISB) on the weekend of Jan. 1 to Feb. 2. Boys rugby beat both Taipei American School (TAS), 17-0, and International School of Kuala Lumpur (ISKL), 21-17 on the first day. However, the short

Seniors Cookie Ismail and Josh Smith go in for the ball during a game against ISB. Photo courtesy of ISB.

winning streak saw a dip the second day. The Eagle boys lost to Jakarta International School (JIS), 5 -15, as well as to ISB with a final score of 5-43. On the third day, SAS boys lost to ISM 5-17, but beat TAS 24 -0.

Though the tournament concluded in a three-way tie for third place, both ISKL and ISM placed above SAS due to a point differential, leaving SAS to play TAS for 5th.

Three major injuries occurred over the course of the tournament.

Senior Barron Witherspoon sprained an ankle, senior Yusuke Oimatsu sustained an injury to his lip,

requiring stitches, and junior Oliver Evans had a cleat tear his lip, leaving a large laceration that had to be stitched up. As a result, Evans was not able to play after the first day of the tournament.

“It left a hole in our backline, so we had to switch a bunch of people around, and people had to play in places they weren’t used to playing in,” senior captain Robbie Whitehead said. “We lost all our momentum.”

Though the tournament was certainly a disappointment for the boys rugby team since last year they won second place, and first place

the year before that, Whitehead said that the team was able to come back strong together for the last game after the sudden adjustment.

As for girls touch rugby, SAS lost both games on the first day of the tournament, losing to ISKL 1-2, and to ISB 1-2.

“We didn’t think we would lose the first two games,” senior captain Alex Shaulis said.

On the second day, the girls came back strong, winning both games.

The girls beat TAS 4-0, as well as ISM 2-0. Continuing on with the winning streak on the third day, SAS

Betts finishes with a splash - five double GOLDS

By Amanda Tsao At the close of this year’s IASAS competition, with gold medals around their necks, swimmers searched frantically for Coach Steve Betts. But he was nowhere in sight.

“He already knew we were going to win, so he was clinging to the pole so we couldn’t dunk him,” freshmen Tim Linsell said. But they did, after dousing him first with a huge water bucket.

The first day started on a good note, with freshman Therese Vainius coming first in the girls 200m freestyle. A series of wins followed: sophomore Alex Rossinsky won the third event with the boys 100m breaststroke and in the same event for the girls, juniors Kirstie Parkinson and Maria Lloyd finished first and second respectively.

“I was really happy with my time for the 100m, I dropped two seconds off my best time, and now I’m two seconds away from the [IASAS] record,” Parkinson said.

Other wins for SAS that day included the girls individual medley with Parkinson and senior captain Anna von Essen coming in first and second, respectively. The first day ended with the 200m short course freestyle relay. The boys placed first with swimmers Rod Hesh, Daniel Ong, Lars Crawford and Rishad Irani. The girls won the same event with swimmers Natalie Ong, Roxy Hesh, Megan Woodard and Therese Vainius. The boys won by four

seconds, and the girls by13.

“We knew we already had such a strong lead just from how we did the first day. That really brought the team together,” von Essen said.

The second day brought more wins. Von Essen won the girls individual medley relay, and right afterwards, sophomore Ted Chritton won the boys 200m freestyle. Mili Kale won the same event for the girls. Rossinsky won his second gold medal in the boys 200m breaststroke and in the same event for the girls, Parkinson, Lloyd and von Essen won gold, silver and bronze respectively.

Following that, senior captain Rod Hesh placed second in the boys 100m freestyle, and Vainius won her third gold for the girls. The last event of the day was the 4x100m relay, with SAS boys coming in second and the girls placing first.

“People were really starting to get tired on the second day, but we had to remember to match our performance on the first day,” Hesh said.

And they did. From then on there was at least one SAS swimmer placing in the top three for the rest of the day, save for one event. Chritton won his third gold medal in the boys 400m freestyle; Mili Kale won the same event for the girls. Rod Hesh won the boys 50m freestyle, matching the gold won by Vainius in the same event. A problem occurred when the last event for the boys, the 4x100m freestyle relay, came around.

“The starter was pretty uneven. I jumped in a bit too soon, so when I finished the race, he told me I was disqualified,” senior Rishad Irani said. “I thought: that’s not right because I’m supposed to get two chances.”

A coaches meeting was called, and although the whole race had been swum, all participants redid the race. Fortunately, all schools placed the same as in the disqualified round, with the SAS boys winning by seven seconds. In the girls round, SAS came fourth.

The Eagles took home their tenth consecutive gold medals leading by 539 points overall. Chritton won the most valuable player award, and von Essen won the same award for her second time. amanda.theeye@gmail.com

went on to beat JIS 2-1, and ISKL 1-2.

Ultimately, the girls ended up in a three-way tie for second place against ISM and ISKL. ISM took second place due to a point differential, so SAS was left to play ISKL for third place, beating them 3 - 0.

“I think the first day we had a lot of nerves, so we didn’t play our best,” senior Kelly Procida explained. “But from that day, we just grew.”

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IASAS STATS Basketball:

Swimming:

Boys 1. SAS 2. JIS 3. ISM 4. ISKL 5.TAS 6. ISB

Boys 1. SAS 2. ISB 3.TAS 4. JIS 5. ISKL 6. ISM

Boys 1. ISB 2. JIS 3. ISKL 4. ISM 5. SAS 6.TAS

Rugby:

Tennis: Boys 1. ISM 2. ISB 3. SAS 4.TAS 5. JIS 6. ISKL

Girls 1.TAS 2. JIS 3. SAS 4. ISB 5. ISM 6. ISKL

Girls 1. SAS 2.TAS 3. ISB 4. JIS 5. ISKL 6. ISM

Girls 1. ISB 2. ISM 3. SAS 4. ISKL 5. JIS 6.TAS

Girls 1. SAS 2. ISB 3. JIS 4.TAS 5. ISM 6. ISKL

All Tournament BASKETBALL Andrew Debell Brady Baildon Chris Hussey Barbara Lodwick Elle Marsh Sophomore Alex Rossinsky breast strokes his way to a gold medal. Photo courtsey of ISM.

SWIMMING

RUGBY/TOUCH TENNIS

Ted Chritton Robbie Whitehead Anna von Essen Josh Smith

Alex Shaulis

Nora Hanagan

Sarah Slaven Meiko Masuno