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Cheers and Jeers What is making Luke Slabaugh cheer and jeer this week? Luke Slabaugh, ’12 Opinions Writer 1. Kyle Collins initiated an impromptu fire drill a couple Mondays back, postponing class a full sixteen minutes and costing the school an indefinite sum of money from the fire department. However, most people did not take notice that his mother, Mrs. Elaine Collins, was just arriving for bookstore duty. Mrs. Collins, a freelance photographer and an unofficial team photographer for cross country and soccer, was quick to pull out the camera on this occasion when she heard the news. I give a huge cheer to Mrs. Collins from the bottom of my heart. Nobody else would have thought to document this moment in Priory history--if you remember correctly, no one was posing on the slightly less sunny day two years ago, when Brendan Thomas set it off. While Kyle accidentally has given us a break we undoubtedly needed--from tests, from stress, from the overall burden of school--Mrs. Collins has given us the gift of Facebook tags. For that you should be eternally grateful. 2. Four weeks of school have elapsed, and only once has the student body had a dress down day. While students can submit potential charities to host dress down days to Mr. Killcullen, spaces are running out, due in part to a request by Father Michael that the school only host a dress down day every other week. To those of the student body that were new last year, this may seem like an extraordinary demand. Beginning in early October last year, a string of consecutive free dress Thursdays started, temporarily halted at spring break, and then continued for the rest of the year. This chain began simply by coincidence. From service trips to local charities to the Haiti crisis, we had lined together many
dress down days for very noble, charitable causes. Eventually, though the concept of dressing down became a habit more than a charitable day. Signs were hard to come by advertising those days; inevitably, though, people still collected money. It’s safe to say that for the most part, we had no idea where our money was going (we didn‘t ask)--hopefully to a good cause. If people take charge of these days more carefully, there should be no problem in consecutive weeks of dress down days. The rationale behind spacing dress down days seems too far-fetched, when really these ordeals ought to be simple and organized. Jeers. 3. This third one goes without saying, but a huge cheer is in order to the cafeteria workers. All through the month of September, lunch has been an easy, enjoyable experience. The arrival of the larger (by Priory standards) freshman class, we knew that the cafeteria would be even more crunched for space than it used to be. The lunch staff has been there every step of the way, from initiating the quicker self-serve policy to preparing an exceptional lineup of lunches. Nothing has disappointed us this year. Compliments to the chef.
Friday, October 1, 2010 Volume 41, Issue 4
Music Update Lil Wayne vs Sam Adams Niall Caparon, ’11 Opinions Writer In the past week, two artists released their newest material. Lil Wayne released his I Am Not a Human Being and Sam Adams Party Record Mixtape. Alright if you want to save twelve bucks, don’t buy I Am Not a Human Being, get Party Records Mixtape. It’s free and a billion times better than Not a Human Being. Lil Wayne's newest album, which he released for his birthday on September 27, is mediocre at best. Yes, it is better than Rebirth but far below the quality of his No Ceiling mixtape, which he released for free. No songs on this new album, besides “Right Above It”, which was leaked two months before the album came out, stand out, and while a few are okay, they just don’t have that energy that previous Wayne songs have. The rest of the songs just sound messy and jumbled. Rating: 2/5- Save you money for the new Kid Cudi album.
4. Cheers to internationally renowned vocal artist Terry Barber for singing two songs during the all school mass two Fridays ago. Barber boasts a strong, melodic voice as well as a register high enough to put Justin Bieber to shame. Who could not cheer to that?
Music Update cont’d Now, the new release you should pay attention to: Sam Adams' Party Records Mixtape, released on September 23. The rapper who came to the forefront of the music scene for his “I Hate College,” which is a remix of Asher Roth's “I Love College”. This is Sam's second mixtape, and, on it, he moves away from
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his more traditional clean sound to a more electronic-dance rap sound. The result is simply fantastic, there is not a dull song on the mixtape, but some are far better than others. He does a remix of Gucci Mane's “Lemonade” and on another song he samples The Beatle's “Eleanor Rigby”. Rating: 5/5- Its a free download and far better than other recently released albums that cost money.