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Wednesday, March 15 , 2017

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Issue 19

Grosse Pointe South 11 GP Blvd. Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236

College Night to take place later this month

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CHASE CLARK ’18 | Page Editor ver 115 different colleges and universities will be represented in the main gym at South on March 27 from 6 to 8 p.m. for college night. According to South counselor Eric Burson, college night is an opportunity for parents and students to visit different colleges’ informational booths and speak with a representative about any questions they may have. “As of now, we’re going to get more and more (colleges) as the date gets closer, but there’s about 115 right now,” college resource center coordinator Elizabeth Naporano said. Although college night will be held at South, the event is open to everyone in the district, including North, Liggett and students from Saint Clair Shores as well, according to Naporano. College night is at South this year, but it alternates with North every year. According to Burson, around the same amount of colleges and universi-

ties come every year, including the four branches of the Armed Forces and the Coast Guard. The representatives’ presentations will be open to all kinds of questions and concerns, whether they’re about admissions, or simply what college life is like, Burson said. “They (students) can ask questions of the representatives, you know, ‘I’m interested in Pre-Med, what percentage of your Pre-Med students make it into Med school?’, that kind of a thing. Anything that interests you-- if you want to have a car on campus as a freshman-- those kind of questions,” Burson said. Most colleges and universities will be confined to and displayed in the main gym, but a few universities will be having “breakout sessions,” where students can go to a classroom and listen to a presentation, Burson said. “We’ll have a representative that will speak for about 45 minutes, so that’s a different venue,” Burson said. “They’ll tell you what it’s like to be a college

student there, what the benefits to attending their university would be, the type of student that they’re looking for.” South student Kal Nardone ’18 said college night will be an opportunity to get some information on different colleges and start to think about where he would like to attend. “I’m a Junior in high school, and in the next two years, I have to go to college and I need to start getting ready to apply to these schools, so I need to figure out where I might want to go and get some information,” Nardone said. College night is a way for all students from every grade to get a feel for a variety of different colleges, and start to narrow down their lists of possible colleges to apply to, Burson said. “Really, I look at it as a way for students and parents to gather information on colleges to find out, ‘Is this a possible fit for me?’ It’s a great way to start,” Burson said. “Ninth, 10th and 11th graders, it would be really good for them to attend.”

NEW COLLEGES ATTENDING • Columbus College of Art & Design • Indiana University • Lafayette College • Northwood University • United States Air Force (ROTC) • United States Marines • United States Navy • University of Findlay • University of Michigan (ROTC) INFO COURTESY OF GROSSE POINTE SOUTH

Role reversal: Girls ask the guys to the Sadie Hawkins Dance this Saturday

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ARIANA CHENGGES ’17 | Pulse Editor in Chief he Sadie Hawkins Dance this year will take place on Saturday, March 18, junior class president Harry Susalla ’18 said. The money raised from ticket sales supports each class, Susalla said. The more money each class has, the more they can donate to other organizations or contribute it to their prom. According to Susalla, with only 300 people attending the dance, each class made close to 800 dollars. “This year, we are aiming for about 500 to 600 students to attend,” Susalla said. “We are expecting more people than last year, considering this will be the second year in a row it will be happening. Hopefully it will be something occurring every year from now on, so eventually it will be the normal thing.” Susalla said advertising for the dance this year seems to be going smoothly. “We made locker signs on all the lockers, posted on our classes’ Twitter and Instagram accounts and made a video for the

GRAPHIC BY GRIFFIN JONES ’18

New frozen yogurt store to open across from South KATHLEEN CARROLL ’19 | Web Editor Later this spring, a Menchie’s self-serve frozen yogurt will open in the new building on Fisher Road across from South. Niko Ahee, the store’s owner, said that the opening is anticipated to be late March or early April. Ahee said that design-wise, the store is almost finished. The last part of preparation is hiring and training employees, according to Menchie’s corporate standards. Once the store is finished, there will be a grand opening event. “Either (an) early Saturday in April or the last Saturday of March, we’re actually going to put up a tent out in the parking lot and have a face painter, a balloon artist... giveaways, giveaway free yogurt for a couple of hours,” Ahee said. Menchie’s is the country’s largest self-serve ice cream chain; this location will be the newest of 540 around the nation. “I’m really excited, because who doesn’t want ice cream across from your school?” Lenise Freeman ’19 said. Ahee said that at any given time, Menchie’s will have 10 individual flavors. Every week or so, one flavor will be replaced with a different flavor, and they’ll be on a rotation, so that customers have the option of 20 to 30 different flavors every month, with a featured flavor for every month. “There is a different variety of stuff that we’ll do,” Ahee said. “We usually do a featured flavor every month or two, like we’ve done it with real cookies. I think that comes up in June-- they will do two flavors just the cookie and just the cream. And then you swirl them together to make the Oreo cookie, just kind of fun stuff like that.” The yogurt will cost 53 cents per ounce, which Ahee said is a competitive price for the

area. “I think that’s a pretty fair price,” Kristina Rogers ’19 said. “I’m pretty sure that’s cheaper than TCBY and it’s closer, so I would do that before driving all the way to the Village.” Combined with the Subway opening in the same building this week, Ahee anticipates that business will be good. Michigan is a great market, especially in the frozen dessert category.

SWEET SPOT | New frozen yogurt store to open on Fisher. It is set to open late March or early April. PHOTO BY CHASE CLARK ’18

Rogers said that having the location across from South will help Menchie’s because it’s a unique business, and provides a product that none of the other Fisher Road shops can offer. “They’re going to do really well with their business because it’s ice cream, and a lot of kids are going to want to go get some ice cream and walk home with it after school,” Freeman said.

Choir to take trip to Spain and French Riviera in 2018 HARPER McCLELLAN ’18 | Staff Writer The Board of Education recently approved the Grosse Pointe South Choir’s mid-winter break trip to Barcelona and the French Riviera. The bi-annual trip was approved with a unanimous 7 to 0 vote on Feb. 13 at the Board of Education meeting at Brownell Middle School. “In the 2014 trip, we had 65 (students) and in the 2016 trip, we had 55 (students). We anticipate somewhere around that same participation again,” choir teacher Christopher Pratt said at the Board of Education meeting. At the meeting, the dates when the group will be traveling were decided on. “We go the full week of mid-winter break of next year, 2018,” Poli Dulworth ’19 said. According to Pratt, at the board meeting, the choir will start in Spain and travel to the French Riviera. “We are definitely going to do the classic tourist things and are going to try to squeeze in all we can into that one week. We will see the main part of Barcelona,” Hailey In the 2014 trip, we had 65 Martin ’18 (students) and in the 2016 said. Accord- trip, we had 55 (students). ing to Mar- CHRISTOPHER PRATT tin, along Choir Teacher with seeing the European sights, the students will also perform. “Students will do multiple performances, both chamber and concert oriented, as well as show choir oriented with local groups and schools doing exchange concerts,” Pratt said. “Our students will see their performance and what they are doing at their school, and then

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The Coffee House will take place this Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. in the second floor Cafeteria.

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announcements,” junior class treasurer Dani Dulworth ’18 said. This week, there will be a geofilter up on Snapchat advertising for the dance, Susalla said. “We also made a showcase and made big posters that have different Sadie’s proposals on them that we have hung up around the school,” Susalla said. Word of mouth seems to also be causing more students to attend, Dulworth said. Susalla and Dulworth both said that they believe the Sadies dance will have more attendees this year than in previous years. “Everyone should come to Sadies because the money supports your class,” Susalla said. “We make a lot of money from this event.” Tickets go on sale this week starting Monday through Wednesday during lunch for 10 dollars, Sophomore class president Amy Ellis ’19 said. Tickets will be 15 dollars on Thursday and Friday during both lunches and tickets will not be sold at the door.

they will see what we do as well.” According to Dulworth, the choir’s last overseas trip was to Ireland in the spring of 2016. “We always go to Europe, so that was on our top priority,” Martin said. “We circled through a few of the trips, and we haven’t gone to Spain in a long time.” According to Pratt, this is a long tradition of international travel that began after 2000 with the past four trips. “It’s gone over extremely well with our students and many of our students have friends they keep in touch with,” Pratt said. Many students have expressed their excitement towards the upcoming trip. “I am most looking forward to experiencing that culture,” Martin said. “I have always been really intrigued by it and international trips are just always a fun time because all the choir people go and we are all best friends, so it’s just really fun.”

GRAPHIC BY CHASE CLARK ’18

The Sadie Hawkins Dance will occur Saturday from 7 to 10 p.m.

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The Flint Water Drive begins Monday. Donations will be accepted in the main hall at lunch.


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