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Page 5 Back Page Mr. Santiago’s Northside’s October 2005 Big Celebration Big Victory eat Starting Off With The Wrong Schedule What Happened to Our Schedules by Zenobia Gonsalves As class orientations this a scheduling tool called MSB. B summer brought Northsid- This program has the ability ers back to the reality of to create classes automatically returning to school, students upon requests, determine and looked forward to receiv- modify teacher loads, and sched- ing and checking their ule classes with teacher, room, class schedules in hopes of and meeting times. finding enjoyable classes “The counseling office was with good friends and teach- like a mob scene when students ers. These anticipations wanted to change their sched- were soon crushed when ules,” said Ms. Erin Kato. “I many students realized the was sympathetic to students, but Northside College Preparatory High School mistakes on their schedules. I wasn’t mad because it did not The Errors were mainly due to affect my schedule.” oof technical difficulties caused By the second week of by a change in the schedul- July, it became apparent that ing program. IMPACT would not live up to “The blame cannot be its expectations. The program put solely on the program would not save the modifica- or on the creator of the pro- tions that programmers made gram, but on a combination to schedules, and CPS had to of both,” said Mr. Lim. switch back to the SI program. Prior to November 2004, Mr. Lim had to start the sched- H Vol. 7 No. 2 Vol. Mr. Leon Lim, Programmer, ules over from scratch with only used the SI program to com- a little over a month left until plete students’ schedules. orientation and eight months This program is about 30 of work to complete. This years old and Unix system delay was the major cause of based. It is not Windows Adiba Khan, Adv. 701, and Erin McMurtry, Adv. 704, discuss their schedule the mistakes in many students’ friendly and therefore does changes with Ms. Erin Kato. schedules. Photo by Zenobia Gonsalves not allow programmers to The most common mistake easily copy and paste the class into the sched- provide teachers with more instructional time with was that students were put in the wrong class. ule. students. Some freshmen were put into a class they had “The schedules were really messed up,” Teachers would be able to maintain daily at- already earned credit for in elementary or middle said Riaz Shaik, Adv. 908. “There were too tendance, record grades, create instructional lesson school. Other students were put into their second many problems with it, which made it confus- plans, and communicate directly to the main office choice classes when they were told at the end of ing to follow. This is my third week at North- and to parents. last school year that they were accepted into their side and I’m finally getting it. They should “It was difficult for me because I have four first choice. Some faced the opposite problem and have better means of presenting the schedules freshman classes, so freshmen kept switching their were put into their first choice class when they to freshmen.” schedules,” said Ms. Veronica Leljedal Hetler, Social were told that they hadn’t gotten into it. Still oth- Northside switched to another program Science teacher. “Due to all the schedule mistakes, ers found that they did not have a lunch period. called IMPACT (Instructional Management all the freshmen were confused and stressed. This “I was disappointed when I was not put into Program and Academic Tool) because of a shouldn’t have happened because it was their first my first or second choice class,” said Patrick new CPS policy that claimed SI was outdated week in high school. Many of them asked me when O’Connor, Adv. 708. and unable to perform certain functions. their lunch was, but I couldn’t tell them because I’m CPS is currently trying to fix the errors in IM- IMPACT was perceived as an advanced new.” PACT and plans to deploy it again soon. North- solution that would reduce paperwork, make To use this new program, Mr. Lim was required siders can only hope that the scheduling procedure student information more manageable, and to go through a training process to learn how to use will go more smoothly next year. News pages 1-4 Academic Decathlon Team Embarks In • Wedding Bells Ring • The Best Hamburgers in Chicago Youth Movement • Launch Principal Lifts Off by Idrees Mohiuddin The Academic Decath- Features pages 6-7 where it competed against 49 lon Team at Northside, also other high schools nation- • Amigos de Las Americas known as ACADEC, has wide. Volunteers a solid reputation as being Recruitment began at • New Northside Teachers one of the most devoted aca- the end of last year’s season, demic teams in the school. Centerfold pages 8-9 and, according to Mr. Tabo- This school year presents ra, many freshmen showed • Halloween: What’s Going many new challenges to interest during orientation at on in Chicago? the team, as many of their the beginning of the school veteran members have Editorial pages 10-11 year. graduated. • Too Old for Halloween? “We like having fresh- Every year, the expecta- men show interest in the • Markowski: Northside’s tions for the team are high, team,” said Rebekah Kim. Big Cover-up and this year is no different. “If they join then, they can Arts & Entertainment pages 12-13 The formula for success learn to compete and be suc- has always been to develop • Switchfoot’s CD Reviewed cessful. Then next year they talent while competing at • U2 Comes to Chicago can help the team out when a high level. But this year, • Nipples, anyone? the seniors are gone.” the team is going through a At this point, students Sports pages 14-16 change. With rookie Coach of all grades are welcome to Mr. Johan Tabora on board, • Get Your Dose of Calcium join the team, and there are the team is looking forward w/ the Lacrosse Team no requirements to do so. • Kasten Breaks All Records to continued success and • Northside Eats Lane high-level competition. Along with gaining an in- “We have a good chance valuable experience through to do well this year,” said competition with other high Mr. Tabora. “The team schools and through bonding is pretty young, and we’re Jonathan Wang, Adv. 901, studies for the next Academic Decathlon meeting. with teammates, ACADEC mostly focused on learning Photo by Shoaib Khan team members also benefit together and getting along themselves by participating well. And at the same time, we want 807, and Jason Lee, Adv. 709. the team get along well,” said Re- in an extracurricular activity to compete to win.” Co-captains Rebekah Kim and bekah Kim. “We have a lot of new that is very presentable to colleges The team consists of eleven Cassie Boykin are the most experi- members, but at the same time we and universities come senior year. students, many of whom are first enced members on the team. Every want to be able to be competitive The ACADEC Team meets every year team members. The team’s year, the team’s coach appoints and win state and possibly repeat Wednesday after Colloquium in current members include: Rebekah two captains, usually seniors who 2003.” room 305 and on Saturdays be- Kim, Adv. 600, Cassie Boykin, have been a part of ACADEC long In the past, the ACADEC tween two o’clock and four o’clock. Adv. 603, Minhal Baig, Adv. 807, enough to help run the team. Kim is Team has been very successful un- ACADEC will begin competing Jessica Galang, Adv. 708, Monica entering her third year as a member der the guidance of English teacher in January and the season will con- Wojcik, Adv. 604, Puja Gopal, Adv. of the ACADEC Team and Boykin John Hahm. The team made it to tinue on into either March or April, 809, Evan Burrows, Adv. 605, Tom is entering her second year. the State Championships in 2003 depending on whether the team Skawski, Adv. 805, Sarah Hanif, “As co-captain of the team I and won, qualifying the team for makes it to the State and National Adv. 809, Alexandra Kriston, Adv. want our main goal to be to have the National Championships, Championships. Page 2 News The Hoof Beat Reactions to Hurricane Katrina Northside College Northside Responds to Relief Efforts by Micah Tepora It has been a few weeks since Prep High School Hurricane Katrina left a devastat- ing imprint on New Orleans and 5501 N. Kedzie other areas of the southeast. For days many people in New Orleans Chicago, IL 60625 had to endure harsh winds, intense rain, and flooding; some of them Tel: (773) 534-3954 had to sit upon rooftops, awaiting rescue. Although some were evacu- Fax: (773) 534-3964 ated before the hurricane hit, there were still those who stayed behind awaiting rescue and action by the Principal: Dr. James Lalley federal government “I don’t think they [the govern- Assistant Principal: Ms. Lisa Moreno ment] were well-prepared for it,” Advisor: Mr. Chester Tylinski said Clare Donnelly, Adv. 900. It was days until the govern- ment was finally able to send help Editors-In-Chief: Ilya Chalik, Asrar Khan, over to New Orleans. Although Anisa Isap, Monica Wojcik some argue that the necessary supplies to rescue the citizens in a completely flooded New Orleans, Elisabeth Graham, Adv. 704, reads up on the latest hurricane relief efforts.