THE LOYOLA NEWS Loyola High School’s Official Student Newspaper November 20, 2006 ANY INTELLIGENT FOOL CAN MAKE THINGS BIGGER, MORE COMPLEX, AND MORE VIOLENT. IT TAKES A TOUCH OF GENIUS - Volume IV Issue I AND A LOT OF COURAGE - TO MOVE IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. E. F. SCHUMACHER. AUTUMN MEDAL HAUL FOR LOYOLA! LOYOLA ATHLETICS TAKE FIVE GOLD IN FALL SEASON Right: Warrior Julian Sayegh in action Juvenile Warriors Violence in soccer wins it all our schools Second-straight Fr. Brennan triple crown for returns to Loyola volleyball Loyola Cadet football is ...AND MUCH just perfect during MORE of the inaugural season news you need to know! Page 2 The Loyola News October 13,Volume 2006 IV, Issue I Inside this issue: Current News 2-11 The Loyola News Talking to Mr. G. 5 Loyola High School’s official student newspaper New Teacher 9 Yo! The 2006-2007 school year begins! Feature Arts & 12-15 And the 2006-2007 (but will do our best to get a good Most likely you’re going to get school year begins! On August mark on the retest), we will not screwed. Entertainment 29th, the 180 school-day mara- do homework occasionally be- 6. Have fun, but in a non-violent thon began, starting up 9 months cause we have a project due the way. (I.E Screaming ‘Go Habs The Sports & Clubs 16-25 of fun filled days with home- very next day, we will not forget Go!!!’ and banging on the lock- Pages work, tests, quizzes, exams and to bring in an essay for ers drives teachers to throwing Meet the Clock’s. Oh how I can’t _________ (Insert project name Jug Slips at us). wait! here). On the other hand, teachers 7. If you’re allowed to sit near need to be mindful that the stu- your friends, make sure you pick The first full day of News of Interest dents, for the most part, are not a time that is convenient for you school took place on August 30th. demons and actually try their guys to be quiet (Preferably be- Students all rushed in to talk with best. fore the bell rings). their friends about the summer. 8. Take the bite, and do your The school welcomed in 150 new In conclusion, here are homework on Friday’s. SO much secondary 1 students and the a few tips that I have gathered better then doing it on Saturday school year kicked into full over the long 4 years of being a and Sunday night. swing. Students settled into their Loyola Student. 10. Make sure you call homeroom classes, received their 1. Do your homework whenever ‘DOORKNOB’ when you smell books, locker numbers and you get a chance, so you don’t something. It will make you schedules, and met their new have to do it at home. happy when you can dish out teachers. 2. Horsing around should be done some punches. only when teachers are not near As we near the end of you. the 2nd month of school, we as a Matthew Mercuri 3. Actually go to Interclass. student body, have to remind 4. Avoid throwing stuff in class, ourselves of the long and strenu- especially at the teacher. ous road ahead. We must ac- 5. Avoid doing term projects on knowledge that we will fail tests the weekend before it’s due. Loyola remembers those who have served our country and The Loyola News thanks Ms Magalie Lafreniere paid the ultimate sacrifice (page 11). The Loyola News would like to thank Ms Magalie Lafreniere (pictured at right) for her generosity in capturing many Loyola sporting events on film. She has been a supporter of the athletic program for many years and is best known for her rugby coaching stint and her work on the awards ban- ON THE COVER quet films in 2004 Julian Sayrgh of the Juvenile (which received a stand- Warriors championship soccer First ever Habs fan club now ing ovation) and 2006. at Loyola (page 21). team. Photo: Magalie Lafreniere The Loyola News Volume IV, Issue I Page 3 Dawson shooting shocks city and school system Jesus on non- violence On September 13, experience he said “When the entrances and all the floors 2006, Montreal’s Dawson Col- shooting first started, I hadn’t really fast.” If you refuse lege faced its worst event in its realised what was going on. I to love, you After taking one life, must remain history. At approximately 12:45 looked around me and saw that a and injuring a large number of dead; to hate in the afternoon. police officer was people, Kimmveer Gill was shot your brother is a young man, already there. “You could see bullets and killed by a Montreal police to be a murderer, and murderers, as named Kimveer There was a small you know, do not have eternal life in flying into walls.” officer. Many students said that Gill, armed with gunfight but after a them. —1 John 3.15 -Connor McLeod the police did and incredible job a semi – auto- few minutes the (Class of ‘05) at arriving at the scene, but un- matic fire arm police left and fortunately, they were just too Jesus said, "You have heard that it walked into the waited for back-up was said, 'You shall love your late. school’s open doors and stepped because they had no shot. At this neighbor and hate your enemy; But I in the Dawson Atrium. He time, the suspect started shoot- say to you, Love your enemies and By Filippo LaVerghetta pray for those whose persecute you, so unloaded his magazines on any- ing at anything that moved…. that you may be children of your one he could see, spraying the You could see bullets flying into Father in heaven; for he makes his sun hallways at random, with no walls.” When asked by Mr. Ket- rise on the evil and on the good, and preset target. He injured twenty terling, how much time elapsed sends rain on the righteous and on the students, and took the life of 1st from the time the suspect en- unrighteous. For if you love those who year student, Anastasia De tered the atrium and the time the love you, what reward do you have? Sousa. Many Loyola students shooting stopped, Connor said Mt. 5.43-46 had met and knew Anastasia and “About 15 minutes but it felt her sister, who now attends Villa like a lot longer because it was Jesus said, "You will be hated by all Maria. surreal. I have never felt any- men on account of my name; but the thing like it” When asked how man who stands firm to the end will Loyola graduate Con- be saved. If they persecute you in one he thought the police officers nor McLeod (2005) was at Daw- town, take refuge in the next; and if handled the situation, he said “I son the day of the shooting and they persecute you in that, take refuge think it was pretty good, they was an eye witness to the shoot- in another." Mt. 10.22-23 were there fast… they were well ing itself. When asked about his coordinated, they got to all the Gandhi, The Dalai Lama and Buddha on non-violence “If you do not see god in the next Loyola security: our safety person you see, you need look no further.” -Mahatma Gandhi In wakes of the trag- When asked if he don’t want to have to run Loyola edy, we went to ask our discipli- thought that security should be as a prison, and the students Nonviolence does not mean that we narian, Mr. Lafave, a few ques- increased here at Loyola, Mr. don’t want to see it as a prison, remain indifferent to a problem. On tions on our school’s security Lafave had this to say, “Well, but the students, parents, and the contrary, it is important to be fully and his thoughts on the matter. like I said at opening day, there teachers want to have a safe en- engaged. However, we must behave in When asked whether he thought are new security cameras here, vironment and our main focus is a way that does not benefit us alone. that there should which were placed making sure that you the students We must not harm the interests of be a lockdown or “In most cases, some- to increase security are safe.” In case of emergency, others. Nonviolence therefore is not shooting drill in thing has to happen be- and we also started like what has happened at Daw- merely the absence of violence. It the school he fore measures are taken to lock all the son, is there anything that the involves a sense of compassion and caring. It is almost a manifestation of said, “Well, there and we want to prevent doors. The only students can do to help? “I think compassion. is a crisis man- that from happening.” place that someone that the biggest thing, even agement team… - Mr. Lafave can get into the though it’s really hard to do, you -The Dalai Lama we meet to make school during the have to stay calm, because cooler plans for threats day is the front heads prevail. I think it all comes such as bomb scares, incidents doors, and of course, the front down to the situation your in, Conquer the angry man by love. like Dawson and fires, which is doors are always watched. Rea- like the split second decisions.