Week in Summary: Feb. 23-29

Work on our first print version paused this week to let staffers concentrate on exams. But we're back to work and optimistic about our future.

Maddy kicked off the week with a look at the mysterious book elevator in the library. Next up was Jeff's college essay, which begins: "As the crisp harvest air brings an end to the sweltering heat of summer, my yard is bombarded by leaves." OK, so maybe we should have posted it before the winter, but we barely even existed back then! On Wednesday we were mostly busy just studying, but we found time to post "Aunt Jemima's ABCs" in the Fun section. Thursday saw the posting of our 10th college essay, wherein Jessica describes how she applies the premise of Tetris to her intellectual pursuits. And just today, Toph shared his thoughts on "The Constant" in the latest installment of our LOST discussion column.

Happy Leap Day!
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Week in Summary: Feb. 15-22

This was a relatively quiet week for the newspaper. But it was only a 2-day week, and behind the scenes we've been hard at work bringing you a print version of the newspaper.

There's still some good new stuff, though. In Sports, Margaret looked back at the volleyball season. (The team made it to the EILs, by the way; go support them at 10:00 at Bancroft on Saturday!) Marco continued his shoe review series with a look at the Puma Clyde Poison Dart Frog Pack. Toph talked about his love/hate relationship with FirstClass and reeled off 9 tips & tricks to help you make the most of school email. An anonymous writer wrote about why they are now fearless in the latest college essay to be posted. And members of the Beaver community (Maddy, Toph, Mr. Camp and assorted commenters) are talking about last night's episode of Lost in the first of a new column, Found in Lost: Thoughts on "Eggtown".

Enjoy your snow day!

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Week in Summary: Feb. 1-14

On the home page we're featuring a new video player. In Arts & Living: Toph writes about the new Star Wars film, TV show, and videogame; Marco reviews the Nike Air Structure Triax 91 and the Puma Sky II Low Thai sneakers; Adina and Becca chronicle Jamie Lynn Spears' escapades; Margaret reviews Gossip Girl; Taylor reviews Juno.

In Current Events: Taylor continues to review the presidential hopefuls, most recently Obama. In Editorials: Jared takes on the election, Higgins takes on fundraising, Erik takes on homework, and Chris discusses existence.

In School Life: Maddy investigates the senior lounge and the evolution of our building; Gabby covers Social Action Day; Liz gives a Student Council update.

In Sports: Dana explores BC basketball; Laura explores Girls' Varsity Basketball.

In Fun: Nick tells the tale of Dan's life and of the Ebola virus (don't ask); Haley and Riki share Mr. McKinney's brownie recipe.

In the Literary Corner, we continue to update with college essays every Tuesday and Thursday, plus Heliconian staff share their favorite Valentine's Day poems. Meanwhile, work continues on the print version; get excited!
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