Sentinel october 2008

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The Sentinel

St. Luke’s School New Canaan, CT

Inside This Issue... Getting Back to Nature (3) Presidential Face Off! (4-5) They’re Back: Heavy Metal Heavy Weights Return (6) This Week in History (6) Pendulum Wins a Prize (7) Billy Prince Goes to the Movies (7) Lonely Sports Article (8) Meet Ms. Bell: A New Face in College Counseling (8)

October 2008

Obama Wins SLS Election Poll

Another Year, Another Schedule

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Sentinel Staff Writer

In a survey of a select number of upper school students and faculty, Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama came out a big winner over Republican Presidential candidate John McCain. The survey was administered to two sections of each upper school grade, along with 30 members of the faculty selected at random. Overall, Obama came out ahead of McCain with a 2:1 margin. In reality, however, the race was tighter than the final statistics make it appear. If it weren’t for the liberal nature of the junior class, which voted 88% Obama and 12% McCain, with a little help from the freshman class, 60% Obama, 40% McCain, the results of the poll would have been much closer.The fact is that the senior class, as well as the sophomore class, was evenly divided between the two candidates, and the faculty was only slightly pro-Obama (55% Obama, 45% McCain).“I find it totally inconceivable that teachers who are historically liberal would vote for McCain,” said one faculty member when informed of

As everybody now knows, there have been some major changes in the schedule this year. This happened when the administrators here at Saint Luke’s felt that with forty minute periods, teachers did not have enough time to get through all the necessary material. The upper school also has ‘double periods’ which, according to Mr. Bailey, were created for AP Science classes. With double periods, AP Science classes can complete experiments. Last year, one period a day dropped and AP Science classes all occurred during D period, which doubled every other day. To explore other options, a scheduling consultant came to school April last year to make suggestions about how to

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Jon Salamon

Kelly Wendt

make our schedule better. One of her suggestions was to drop two classes a day (as opposed to one drop period


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