The Patriot - October 2011, Issue 1, Vol 47

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Helping Haiti

Alumnus tears up the field

Senior ventures to Haiti to help those in need.

Drew Westervelt, class of ‘03, scores for the Denver Outlaws Sports 15

Lifestyles 5

The John Carroll School 703 E Churchville Rd Bel Air, MD 21014 Volume 47, Issue 1 October 2011

Class color day returns

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Photo by Kristin Marzullo

Senior Sara Turks helps one of the prospective students from the STEM Open House package an egg to be dropped from a ladder. The Oct. 8 event publicized the addition of the STEM curriculum to the 2012-13 school year.

STEM school to start in 2012 Maggie Cassidy

Print Chief The 2011-2012 school-year will mark the beginning of the new STEM Academy within JC. The STEM Academy will be a program that focuses on the four parts of STEM, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Students will take classes that are geared towards these subjects and receive an education that is based on the four pillars of STEM.

Due to the presence of other STEMbased schools in the Harford County area, such as the Math and Science Academy at Aberdeen High School and the Magnet Program at Edgewood High School, Principal Madelyn Ball believes that this will make JC more competitive and alluring to prospective students. “I think a lot of kids will come here because of the STEM Academy. Their parents are so thrilled that this school will have a STEM academy,” Ball said. “Because people in this area are choosing be-

tween us and Edgewood and Aberdeen, I wouldn’t want somebody to be choosing public education over us because of a program. We have what we need here.” Senior Sara Turks agrees with Ball that the STEM Academy will be a success. “I think the STEM program that will be put into place next year seems awesome. It will give students so many opportunities to explore the different fields of math, science, and engineering,” Turks said. Students from the freshman class of See NEWS 3

First alumni weekend achieves success Brianna Glase Managing Editor Director of Annual Giving and Constituent Relations Laura Lang, after a year of planning, emailing, promoting, and advertising, finally got to have her cake and eat it too at the first annual Alumni Weekend, which kicked off Friday, Sept. 30. “An all-alumni weekend was something we had been thinking about for a long time, most colleges do all-alumni weekends, and we started talking about it last fall. We talked with Beth Siemek, the chair of the alumni committee and class of ‘78, put separate committees together, and started formally meeting last February,” Lang said. The event started with a President’s luncheon on Friday at noon, held by President

Richard O’Hara and Principal Madelyn Ball. The intention was to let the alumni get a chance to meet with these two newer additions to JC. “We had hoped to have more participants, there were maybe 20, but it’s difficult on a Friday afternoon,” O’Hara said. The all-alumni reception later that night was attended by over 200 alumni, according to Lang. This event cost $30, which covered food, beer, wine, desserts, and entrance into the football game against St. Paul’s on Friday, Sept. 30. Even though they did charge for this event, “it was never intended to be a fundraiser, more of a friend-raiser, to bring alumni back to campus,” Lang said. On Saturday, the graduating classes with years ending in a one or a six had their individual

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The class of ‘96 celebrated their fifteen year reunion with cake and a screening of their Variety Show. The class of ‘96 was one of three classes that met at JC during the Alumni Weekend. reunions. Three of them were at JC and the three others were at other venues, which Lang, O’Hara, Ball, and Vice-President for Institutional Advancement Kurt Sudbrink visited throughout

the day. “We just drove from event to event all day,” Ball said.

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The class of ‘10 dressed head to toe in blue, gathers to watch the 2009 Powderpuff game. Class color day will return for Spirit Week 2011.

Emily Clarke Managing Editor Get out your face paint and your duct tape, class color day is officially brought back for Spirit Week 2011. Class color day will be held Thursday, Oct. 27, the day of the Powderpuff game. “Being a junior makes you more involved in class color day because of the Powderpuff game. It gives me the opportunity to cheer for the girls in my class,” junior Trey Ford said. Class color day was not included in Spirit Week festivities last year due to problems caused in the past, such as people painting cars green or blue, a brick by the senior bench being painted green, hair color in sinks, painting on the windows, and student’s throwing punches. “Class color day had degenerated into a free-for-all, and anything that divides us as a community should be eliminated,” SAC Moderator Rodney Johnson said. The senior members of the SAC proposed the idea of reinstating class color day to Principal Madelyn Ball during a meeting discussing Spirit Week. “I think it is important to have class color day because it gives the classes a chance to bond together as a class and be unified for a day. It will also help with getting more spirit at John Carroll,” senior and SAC President Callie Hentz said. “As a senior, it means a lot to have class color day because I have been waiting for Spirit Week [as a senior] since I was a freshman,” Hentz said. “As president of the SAC, it will help me get a better understanding of how well the classes will obey the rules to see what kinds of things we would be able to do in the future.” See NEWS 3

INDEX NEWS..........2 LIFESTYLE.....4 A&E............7

IN-DEPTH...... 8 OPINION.......11 SPORTS........14


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