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		<title>Obama endorses gay marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 19:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama likes to make history. As if it wasn&#8217;t enough to be the first black president, he then passed the most extensive health care reform bill in history. On his command, Navy SEALs killed Osama Bin Laden. His presidency has certainly been quite eventful, but with election day this November, he needed something to spark his somewhat waning campaign. So he endorsed gay marriage. And then stood back and watched the fireworks explode. The news emerged last Wednesday, where, as part of a larger interview, he gave the American people access to his &#8220;evolving&#8221; thought process, explaining how he first believed civil unions or domestic partnerships would suffice. He also maintained that he wished to respect the strong religious beliefs of many in this country, but he finished his monologue by stating that he thought &#8220;same-sex couples should be able to marry.&#8221; Despite his affirmation, Obama will continue to let individual states decide their own policies on this often controversial subject, since his personal opinion does not actually have any legal power. The Supreme Court will most likely have the final say, and odds are it will be a 5-4 decision with Justice Kennedy as the deciding vote. Many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CCHS Robotics at Nationals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 19:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica Chen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Concord Carlisle Robotics Team recently participated in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) National Championships at the St. Louis Rams&#8217; football stadium in St. Louis, Missouri. The competition consisted of  four divisions, each including a hundred teams from many different areas, including Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Brazil, and others. There were 400 robotics teams and over 6,000 students there. Each robot competed in teams of three. CCHS went 7-2 against their alliances. Overall, they received forty-first place and were unable to qualify for the finals. Team Captain Paul Titchener told the Carlisle Mosquito,  “It was a really great experience to compete at Worlds. Our team is still fairly new, so we haven’t seen the entire range of robots that other teams build, and it was very inspiring to see what solutions that other teams came up with for this year’s game at a world level instead of a regional one. It was also very cool to realize that our robot was able to compete with everyone there.” The students that participated are Daniel Beckwith &#8217;13, Elizabeth Chan &#8217;14, Peter Craft &#8217;12, Will Craft &#8217;14, Satchi Davis &#8217;13, Zach Kiihne &#8217;15, Robert Li &#8217;14, Tyler Libby &#8217;13, Brandon Mosca &#8217;12, Larisa Motova &#8217;14, Ben Rizkin &#8217;12, Paul Titchener &#8217;12, Changming Xu &#8217;15, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CCHS Sci-Fi club visits Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 19:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year, CCHS&#8217;s very own Sci-Fi Club traveled about as far as they could go while still remaining within Earth&#8217;s atmosphere &#8211; Japan. CCHS has a long-standing relationship with a school in Nanae, a town in Japan, and this year&#8217;s trip was not the first time CC students were a part of a cultural exchange. Two years ago, the Concert Band traveled to Japan, and the Japanese band students played in a wonderful concert earlier this year in the auditorium. The group first visited Tokyo, a city which &#8220;makes Boston seem logically laid out by comparison,&#8221; according to Dr. Nurenberg. Some of the many attractions in Tokyo are the current Imperial Palace, the Senso-Ji Temple, and many, many places to shop. CC students tried on kimonos and sampled the rather different cuisine, all while trying to convey their requests in English, or, in a few very rare cases, a little bit of Japanese. Though Tokyo was the most bustling part of the trip, most people agree that the host families and the time spent with them were the most rewarding. Nanae High School is a regional high school, similar to Concord-Carlisle, but in a more rural area. Another highlight frequently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student Feature: Young Huang immigrant from China</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 19:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Young Huang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young Huang is an immigrant from China transferring to spend the rest of the school year at CC. Hello, my name is Young. I just came to the United States recently because my whole family immigrated from China. The goal of immigration came from my uncle, who is already living in the United States. The wealth and food of the United States are different from those of China. We need time to adapt. Here, for me,  the biggest difficulty is that I can’t speak English. Now my main goal is to study English and learn to communicate with people here. Now I have my cousin here in school to help me study English; she is doing everything possible to help me. I hope I can learn English well. I now see  that the school is a very beautiful place, and the students are very kind. Here the education system is not the same as it is in China, so I hope I can learn more things here. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>CCHS Chorus dazzles at Disney</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mickey VH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most high school students can&#8217;t seem to stay awake during A-block at 7:30, but the group of sixty-seven chorus students gathered at 3:15 AM in the band room on March 18th are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.  Why?  We were going to Disney.  In an attempt to remember everything about the trip, I kept a journal as best as I could throughout the trip. The following article is adapted from a diary format. There&#8217;s something strange about being awake after midnight and before the sun rises; it always feels colder than it really is. We load up our baggage under the school buses and begin our one-hour journey north to Manchester-Boston Regional Airport.  On the ride, many students catch up on sleep, some are too excited to relax, and the boy next to me plays Pokemon. Security, breakfast in the terminal, and the flight has begun.  The students take up half of the plane.  We begin to cheer as we feel the landing gear lift off of the pavement, not to touch down again until we reach Florida. It is now that I decide to do my first interview. Evan Sibley, a prominent chorus senior, passes the time on the flight in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Open the pod bay doors, Ben” – CCHS faculty takes on technology in Attack of the New School</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 01:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chloe Lizotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Wow, tech is going great tonight!” Ben Kendall exclaims during a break in the action. Without missing a beat, he quickly adds, “Wait, I probably jinxed it.” Though unscripted, the remark eerily resonated with the satirical tone of this year’s CCHS faculty show, ominously entitled Attack of the New School: Rise of the Machines. The CCHS faculty show, otherwise known as “Faculty Follies,” takes place once every three years, and it is eagerly anticipated by students and faculty alike. This year’s show, which took place on April 28, was no exception, as torrents of spectators filled the auditorium to the brim. The night is a unique opportunity for teachers to show off their sketch comedy skills and eccentric talents, and for the students, this is well worth the price of admission. At the heart of the production was social studies teacher Kendall, who, according to the event’s program, served as the show’s “director, host, fall guy, and chief worrier.” He also wrote the show along with English teacher David Nurenberg and “veteran” Latin and English teacher Jere Mead. Writing this year’s show was no small feat &#8211; Attack of the New School was a fully plotted attempt at a CCHS-ified [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student Spotlight: Connor Fischelis Music, produced by Sophie Fisher</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 19:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Chen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an interview with Connor Fischelis, a Concord-Carlisle Alumnus who graduated in 2011, and Sophie Fisher &#8217;12. Fischelis is currently working on a music video, which is being directed by Fisher for her senior project. Also preforming in the video is CC student Celeste Balboni&#8217;14. (Visit here for the YouTube channel, here for the Facebook page, and here for the Twitter).  For a trailer of the upcoming music video click here! What exactly is your senior project? Sophie: My senior project is taking the role of head producer, director and editor of two music videos to songs done by Connor Fischelis. The first music video is to Connor’s cover of &#8220;Love the Way You Lie&#8221; by Skylar Grey and the second one is Connor’s cover of Justin Timberlake’s &#8220;LoveStoned/I Think She Knows.&#8221; The project itself is not only the final result of the two videos, but also the knowledge that I will be collecting throughout the entire process since I am extremely new to anything video-based. What exactly is the process of creating such a video? Sophie: The first step of a music video: a song. Although that seems a bit obvious, there is a surprisingly amount of thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saying goodbye and thanks to retiring teachers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 19:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda Rice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year, CCHS will have to bid farewell to a number of valued teachers and staff. Retirement calls to Ms. Goodman from the SPED Department, Mr. Leone from the Mathematics department, and Senora DesLoges from the Foreign Language Department. They have spent years dedicated to the community here at CC where their efforts will be recognized as they move on and begin a new chapter of their lives. Sra. DesLoges, a Spanish teacher, has worked at Concord Carlisle for five years, but previously taught at Lexington High School for 29 years. At CCHS, DesLoges appreciates the fact that here, there is incentive to have good teachers like herself work so the students have exposure to the highest education possible. She has also enjoyed the time during the day when she has the opportunity to to work with and help students, in addition to teaching time. Looking forward to retirement, DesLoges hopes to work with young Latina girls and to provide them with “nurturing and encouragement to graduate,” though she has not decided whether she will find an organization to volunteer for, or start her own. Determined as she is in setting this goal, she says she is “very thankful to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecuador exchange students</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 19:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stevie Yang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you happened to notice some new bright faces in the building during the past several weeks, you would soon realize that these are the Ecuadorian exchange students: a group of seventeen extremely enthusiastic, talented, and smart people. Not only do most of the students speak fluent English, but they courageously performed in front of the entire school in an assembly with their own band consisting of guitars, bass, singers, and dancers. They made presentations about their culture while wearing traditional dance costumes, brought audience members on stage to dance, and gave out tokens from their country. I was able to sneak in the near end of the assembly and hear Victor, a sixteen-year-old senior who has already written two books, sing in front of a roaring crowd. Along with shadowing their host families in class, the Ecuador students went on many outings, including to the Acton Bowladrome, around Boston and Cambridge, the Salem Witch Museum, Newbury Street, Kimball&#8217;s, and, during April vacation, Washington D.C. and Times Square. Elle McNamara ’14 comments that whenever the Ecuadorians shopped, “almost every other person on the trip bought thousands of dollars&#8217; worth of clothes and electronics.” And that is not an exaggeration. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Weinstein to retire</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 18:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Chen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although Dr. Alan Weinstein has had nine great years as part of CC&#8217;s administration, he has decided to retire at the end of this year. Dr. Weinstein remarks that during these past years he has &#8220;loved observing [the] classes, roaming the corridors, stopping by department lunches, visiting the caf regularly, and suspending those who caused pain.&#8221; Weinstein adds that &#8220;forging relationships with the students, teachers, and parents of CC has provided [him] with a tremendous amount of satisfaction.&#8221; Working for long periods of time is always stressful, and after his time at CC he says he seems to have &#8220;shrunk at least an inch in the last decade.&#8221; Luckily, Dr. Weinstein is retiring in good health. He has retired in a time when he can &#8220;still climb Everest&#8221; or &#8220;dance with the stars,&#8221; and he is proud to say that he is &#8220;well-preserved for [his] age.&#8221; Weinstein&#8217;s future plans include &#8220;stone carving, traveling, volunteering, and &#8216;adult education,&#8217;&#8221; while also hopefully keeping in touch with people at CC. Although it is time for Dr. Weinstein to leave, he will miss the Purple Crayon, and the &#8220;people and relations [he] forged.&#8221; He will &#8220;miss all the conversations about any variety of topics.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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