The Sentinel
Saint Luke’s School New Canaan, CT
Inside This Issue... Patriot Act Comes to SLS (3) Holiday Mailbox Massacre (3) Back in Black (5) Flachs Finds Poetry in Biking (5) Conforti Confounds the Crowd (6) Sports n’ Stuff (7-8) Why We Miss Sarah Palin (9)
November 2008
Obama:
A Clean Sweep Alexandra Jaffe Sentinel Staff Writer By 2:30 P.M. on November 4, 2008, Barack Obama had already won an election. Polls opened at St. Luke’s school at 7:30 A.M. in the middle school gym, available to any SLS student or faculty member who had registered in the preceding week. Before the polls closed at 1:00 P.M., 544 students and faculty had cast a mock vote for a 2009 presidential candidate, an impressive 94% of registered voter turnout. This was an opportunity for many SLS students who could not vote in the actual election because of their age to express their presidential preferences. In anticipation of this mock election, SLS middle school students plastered the walls of the school with posters promoting each of the candidates. About a week before the election, Mr. Haynes’s A.P. Government class presented the SLS community with a mock debate between students representing Obama and McCain. SLS students were involved, interested, and educated about this election, culminating with casting votes in the mock election. Obama won the St. Luke’s election by a margin of 24% and received 439 electoral votes compared to John McCain’s 80. Electoral votes were determined by groupings of different advisories. This early win foreshadowed a monumental victory that was reiterated over 8 hours later. At 11:00 P.M. it was projected that Obama had
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La Crème de la Crème
SLS Stages The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Alexandra Jaffe Sentinel Staff Writer
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a complicated and captivating play, recently directed at SLS by Mr. Griffa and Mrs. Doran. It’s about a dynamic teacher who takes four young girls under her wing. These girls are forever changed by the influential Miss Brodie, who tries to shape the girls in her own image, finding their potential and damaging them in the process. The girls live vicariously through Miss Brodie’s exhilarating romantic affairs and escapades. The play is based on the novel set in Edinburgh, Scotland and written by Muriel Spark. From the moment the curtain opens, the audience is hooked by the intrigue, whimsy, and, most of all, the Scottish accents. The cast of fourteen mastered this tricky accent with aplomb, proving their acting chops as they quickly adapted to a more difficult intonation for the better of the play. Miss Brodie is artfully portrayed by Mary Kelly, who is filling the big shoes of Maggie Smith and Cynthia Nixon, who have both been cast as Miss Brodie in previous productions. The four Brodie girls, the crème de la crème, are Sandy, Jenny, Monica and Mary MacGregor, portrayed by Inna Fetissova,
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