Octagon Issue 3 2015-16

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Sacramento Country Day School

www.scdsoctagon.com

VOL. XXXIX, NO. 3

November 24, 2015

New head of school considers changing high-school schedule By Marigot Fackenthal Opinion Editor

of school, is already formulating plans for the school’s

ulty,’ and what that told me was the school had a sense

Freshmen Bella Mathisen and Heidi Johnson and sophomore Evann Rudek sprint to class to avoid the pouring rain on Nov. 9. (Photo by Adam Ketchum)

Campus preps for El Niño rains

ally changed the pace of our students’ days in a positive

Meteorologists predict it to be strongest season in 18 years By Chardonnay Needler Reporter

Y

ou’ve probably heard the predictions of what some

you an inch here, an inch a few days later over a long period of

ready for the deluge? prepared? “Be wary and pay attention about what is going on from one

However, he said, because olders students have more complicated lives, an emotional counselor for those divisions should “do triage” with emotional issues and then connect students with professionals in the com

need and budget must be further assessed before he can o can but doesn’t always give us a very wet winter,”

See Thomsen, page 10

o,” Holman See Rain, page 10

Alumni, French teacher lament terrorist attacks By Manson Tung Editor-in-Chief

remember strolling down those streets, visiting cafes in the same neighborhood the same canal those restaurants are

tion ricocheted across the city from a lively soccer game in the Stade de

has put the nation under a state of emergency, closed land borders and increased security both within the city

He said the 10th and

“Mostly, it’s because parents are con tricts popular with the bobo, a shortened form of bourgeois boheme, or

and going to concerts have become a

city, and those areas are really popular See Paris, page 10

Head of school Stephen Repsher (right) briefs future head of school Lee Thomsen during Thomsen’s visit on Nov. 20. (Photo by Adam Ketchum)


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