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The Loyola News Loyola High School’s Official Student Newspaper Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Volume V, Issue III December 13, 2007 The staff at The Loyola News would like to wish everyone in the Loyola community a very merry Special points of interest: Christmas and joyful • ESP workshop at Loyola, p. 2 holiday season. The current issue is • A Call to Action—climate change our third of the first term presentation, p. 2 and we plan on at least another three for the • Nangili Net Project, p.3 second term. As well, improvements are being • Hair length an issue again, p.4 made to our web site and the staff is currently • CEGEP on mind of sec. 5’s, p.5 designing different ap- • The pitfalls of modern music, p. 6 plications so that we can also offer digital alterna- • Guitar Hero III, p. 8 tives in reporting all the news you need to know! • Juvenile hockey is undefeated, p. 12 Sincerely, Michael Azakie Editor-in-Chief Inside this issue: Christmas Card Contest Winner Michael Wheatley Current News 1-5 Secondary 5 student Michael Wheatley is the winner of Loyola’s annual Christmas New Teacher Feature 3 card contest. The contest was developed by Loyola art teacher Tony De Melo and Loyola President Rob Brennan, SJ. All students are 6-9 invited to participate and submit one secu- Arts & Entertainment lar card and one pertaining to the religious meaning of the holiday season. A Games Pages 10-11 panel of judges then decide on ten finalists. The final- 12-16 ists are judged by Sports and Clubs members of the administration and a winner is chosen. The Loyola News 20 At left you can see Editorial Staff the winning sub- mission. Congratu- lations Michael. Page 2 The Loyola News Earth Service Program (ESP) Workshop: ways to make Loyola green A green Loyola is what every- tons of garbage annually of which 67.2% The solution to this seemingly irre- one imagines. Unfortunately, it cannot of it will be placed in landfills to eventually versible problem? “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” be achieved alone. With the help of decompose. is what Isabelle Julian concluded. “There is Eco-Quartier, an introduc- Landfills may seem enough plastic “waste” generated to cover tory workshop was held on like the solution to garbage all of Texas and if we take all the aluminum November 13th to help the disposal, however they cre- thrown out in Canada over a period of 3 ESP club get off on the ates many problems, months, we can rebuild all of the Canadian right foot and provide an leachates being a major one. planes! Reusing creates 1000 direct jobs in idea on the gravity of hu- When a landfill is made, a Montreal.” As mentioned in the presentation, man consumption. Organ- huge hole is dug and cov- Quebec generates 2 million of the 500 million ized by Mr. Elie, the goal ered with a plastic sheet plastic bags thrown out each year. Not only is was to educate the stu- which is made to “protect” this harming ourselves in the long run, count- dents on how to make the earth from any harm. less animals choke and die when consuming Loyola a greener place. When garbage decomposes, these bags which infest their habitat. Representing Eco- Quartier a liquid substance called Recycling is probably the most cli- at the presentation was leachates seep through the ché example of how to reverse the situation, Isabelle Julian, a zoologist plastic and into the earth but it works! When asked what they could do by trade who works with infiltrating it with a myriad of to help the cause, most or all will say schools in the Montreal contaminants that harm “Recycle, of course.” Although 2/3 of the area to reduce their consumption. nearby waters. Greenhouse gases such as Canadian population has access to recycling Her presentation revolved methane and carbon dioxide top the list facilities, only 1/3 takes advantage of the around garbage production and dis- with acid gases not far behind. Quebec, in service. Probably the most recycled man- posal. One of the main points she got itself, is the 2nd largest producer of harm- made product on the earth is a car. Over 80% across was that North Americans are a ful gases in Canada. of automobiles are reused in other cars or big source of the problem. Statistically, These problems seem to be over- products. Instead of extracting more alumi- a newborn by the age of 6 months has looked by the students. It is too “large” of num from the ground, 670 aluminum cans can produced more waste than a man in an ordeal to cope with. But, as much as we be recycled and made into a bike. developing countries. The average would like to deny it, high school students Recycling saves energy. How so? person in North America produces in Canada collectively generate 80 000 Well for starters, one ton of recycled paper waste about 600 times his/her weight tons of waste a week! That’s approximately saves 10 trees from meeting a grim fate with in a year. Canada alone produces 31 35.2 pounds per student! (Continued on page 18) A Call to Action Environmental activist Ms. Désirée McGraw spoke to Loyola students last Thursday, November 29th, about the grow- ing threat of Climate Change and Global Warming. Ms. McGraw became conscious of global issues when she was as young as vate course with 180 other environmental be felt 50 years from now. We are cur- 15 and she continues to express her inter- activists. The former vice-president com- rently experiencing the effects from the est in the international community as we missioned the activists to spread the word mid 50’s. If we do not help developing face maybe one of the toughest problems about Global Warming and make sure that countries like China and India have a mankind has ever faced, Global Warming. everyone is conscious of the damage that green industrial revolution, than we may As Ms. McGraw told her Loyola audience, we have already done and will continue to find ourselves with an irreversible crisis. while some people want to deny it, Global do. For more information on Ms. Warming is present and there are many In a nutshell, the presentation Désirée McGraw’s presentations and her signs to prove its existence that we seem to showed the impact the human race has on fight against Global Warming, please visit have overlooked until now. the environment. From the North Pole to her web site at www.desireemcgraw.com/ Ms. McGraw’s presentation con- the South Pole, from the continents of North m_50.asp . sisted of a simplified version of Al Gore’s America to Africa, there are signs of man’s slideshow as seen in the film “An Incon- over consumption and inefficient energy By Ben La Schiazza venient Truth”. She was lucky enough to production. We need to act today because, be able to hear Al Gore himself explain the as Ms. McGraw stated, the effects of green- gravity of the situation during a 3 day pri- house gases released at this time will only Volume V, Issue III Page 3 New Teacher Feature: Mr. Bryan Traynor Name: Mr. Brian Traynor perience at St. Thomas in Pointe Birthplace: Claire? Pierrefonds, Quebec I had some ups and downs. I was High School: St. Thomas High School the class clown. My last year was University and degree: McGill Uni- great, I played rugby and won the versity – Bachelors of Education city championship with the Juvenile Classes you teach: All Secondary hockey team. Two Religion and 1C Social Studies How are you finding life at Loyola? Extracurricular school activities: I`m enjoying life at Loyola a lot, eve- Head Coach Bantam Volleyball, ryone has made my first year very Assistant Coach Peewee Hockey comfortable. Hobbies: Hockey, Music Manage- ment What is your impression of the school Former jobs: Educator at Centre for and the students? disabled adults (CARE Centre), The school does an amazing job at daycare teacher, head of infrastruc- meeting the needs of the students. ture Dominus Vobiscum Family Re- The students have access to phe- treat Centre nomenal resources and a passionate Favorite book: changes every day; staff. The students are great, they right now, the Bible step up to the challenges put before Favorite movie: “Schindler`s List” them and seem to take initiative Favorite types of music: changes more than most kids their age. It`s every day; right now, Christmas great to see that kind of maturity music and independence. How was your own high school ex- (Continued on page 18) Nangili Net Project Secondary three student, Andrew Dixon, took the initiative in contacting Fa- ther Brennan, SJ, in order to support the Nangili Net project which is concerned with distributing mosquito nets to help in the prevention of malaria which kills thou- sands of people every year in Africa, may of them young children. Local Scout groups in conjunction with Loyola and other groups were instrumental in raising funds to purchase the nets. Here is a copy of Andrew’s letter to Father Brennan, including feedback on the project. aunt) who seemed to enjoy doing it. I re- The Following was also included member hundreds of nets (almost 800) for by my Aunt in the e-mail I received, Dear Father Brennan, the entire school in Nangili piled up in Side “Many, many thanks for your One of the house, and a half-ton truck hired wonderful act of kindness.