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Vol.22 No.9
Wednesday, February 21 2018
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Going for gold at Glynn A. Green Olympics
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Column Six Madness in the Method all too real BY COLIN BREZICKI
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Kasey Mayher speeds toward the ring—sans sweepers—in the human curling event at Glynn A. Green's Winter Olympics.
To mark the quadrennial games, Glynn A. Green Elementary School held its own Winter Olympics last Wednesday, squaring students off in five different sports in the schoolyard. "We were going to have it on Thursday, but it's going to pour rain. It's perfect out today—only a little bit windy," said the school's principal, Pam Voth. Just after lunch, Grades 5 and above assembled in 10 different groups outside on the snow-covered basketball court. Each group was assigned a nationality, and the Grade 8 team captains held homemade flags above their heads, while the rest of the team had country colours painted on their faces. "To be honest, we chose the countries that had the easiest flags to draw," said Voth, pointing to the French tri-colour in a student's hands. "Russia, Netherlands, Japan, France—all of these are very simple. Trying to paint a Canadian maple
School hosts own version of the winter event BY VOICE STAFF leaf on a face would have been so much more difficult." Each group attempted to roar louder than the last when their nation's name was called out. The students didn't seem to mind that they weren't representing their home country. (The number of mercenary athletes at the real Olympics seems to grow ever larger anyhow.) After giving competitors a rundown of the events— hockey, luge, human curling, snowball carry, and slingshot shooting—the teacher provid-
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ing instructions offered a reminder. "Remember—you get twenty minutes at each station the longer it takes for you to settle down and listen at each event, the fewer runs you get.” The kids seemed to listen, and when they were released, all ran off to their first assigned station. Voth wandered past the human curling location on her way to luge. "They pushed all the snow from the parking lot here," she said. "I thought, 'Oh great, just what we need here, a berm.' But it's worked out perfectly for the games." The Grade 8 in charge of curling demonstrated the proper technique, sitting himself in a tube sled and trundling down the slope towards a bright green hula-hoop in the snow. See OLYMPICS back page
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TAGE A ND SCREEN actors alike are known to undergo bizarre and often harrowing routines to achieve realism in their art. Leonardo DiCaprio ate wild bison liver, waded in freezing rivers, and slept inside an animal’s carcass, so he could better understand the character of Hugh Glass in The Revenant. For this, and a lot of grunting, he won his Oscar. The movie won Best Picture. I won nothing for staying to the bitter end, despite a preference for movies with dialogue. I never saw Suicide Squad, but read that Jared Leto did all kinds of weird things to get into the character of the Joker. He spent time in an asylum, gifted the cast a dead pig and Margot Robbie a live rat, sent bullets to Will Smith, slept in a prison, and totally isolated himself from the rest of the company, which likely made them happy. Anne Hathaway dropped 25 pounds so she could play Fantine in Les Miserables more convincingly. Rumours of Dustin Hoffman depriving himself of See COLUMN SIX Page 14