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  • Math teacher's 'running team' completes half marathon

    Wednesday, April 25, 2012 By: Emma Williams

    Inspired by teacher Patricia Dias, who started running in 2008, five freshmen completed the 13.1 miles of the Shamrock'n Half Marathon on March 11. (Finishing times at end of story)

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  • SCDS straddles political stereotypes (Poll results at end of story)

    Monday, April 23, 2012 By: Madeleine Wright and Zach Lemos

    Country Day high-school students come off as neither wholeheartedly conservative nor entirely liberal. Rather they fall somewhere in the middle.

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  • No stats mean no story

    Monday, April 23, 2012 By: Editorial Board

    Meet the Smiths. They're not just a family but a symbol.

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  • Food in the Fast Lane: Trucks offer creative cuisine on the go

    Monday, April 23, 2012 By: Connor Martin, Skovran Cunningham and Emma Williams

    Before I ate at a food truck, I thought they were “roach coaches.” But as soon as I sampled the Mustang sandwich from Drewski’s Hot Rod Kitchen, I realized how completely wrong I was.

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  • Way more than ‘27 Dresses’

    Monday, April 23, 2012 By: Patrick Talamantes

    Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to enter Nordstrom with nothing but your wallet and a watch, find an outfit for $50 and be out in under 20 minutes. Impossible? Not for Shara Reeves!

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  • New elective has no problem pulling its weight

    Monday, April 23, 2012 By: Darby Bosco

    The new Cross-Fit course was inspired by students’ aspirations to do weight training beyond what is offered in the P.E. curriculum, according to P.E. department chair Michelle Myers.

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  • Lacrosse team learns from quirky Quaker

    Monday, April 23, 2012 By: Mary-Clare Bosco

    The physical, sometimes dangerous, sport of lacrosse may not seem like the most logical fit for this English teacher Brooke Wells, who is better known for his love of poetry and the acoustic guitar.

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  • So you think you know where you're going? College visits alter perceptions, change minds

    Monday, April 23, 2012 By: Madeleine Wright and Yanni Dahmani

    Many seniors making college decisions between now and May 1 have found it’s that final visit that makes all the difference.

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  • This we remember, but want to forget; classes lament their bouts of bad luck

    Monday, April 23, 2012 By: Christina Petlowany

    The lives of the characters in "The Hunger Games" can be summed up in a sentence repeated in the book: “May the odds be ever in your favor.” Some classes say that the odds are never in their favor.

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The Octagon Sacramento Country Day School Sacramento, CA
Issue Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Issue: Vol. XXXV, No. 7 Last Update: Tuesday, May 08, 2012
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At-a-glance

Varsity golf placed sixth of 12 teams at sectionals on May 7 in Lockeford Springs in their last match of the season.
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Math teacher's 'running team' completes half marathon
Inspired by teacher Patricia Dias, who started running in 2008, five freshmen completed the 13.1 miles of the Shamrock'n Half Marathon on March 11. (Finishing times at end of story)
full story 
Students' enthusiasm for Kony 2012 campaign dies down after first week
No one at SCDS attended the April 20 event to protest Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony because, they say, they're no longer enthusiastic about the movement.
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Part-time jobs provide money, independence
Juniors Anthony Valdez and Gerardo Vergara and sophomore Sabrina Edelen love the extra cash they make from part-time jobs.
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Freshman raises $26,000 to send students to musicals
Since September, freshman Lara Kong has raised over $26,000 to send low-income students to see musicals put on by the California Musical Theater.
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The best and the worst of the past month...
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Have no fear, freshmen
Sophomore Darby Bosco found that the dreaded sophomore project wasn't nearly as bad as she feared.
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No stats mean no story No stats mean no story
Meet the Smiths. They're not just a family but a symbol.
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SCDS straddles political stereotypes (Poll results at end of story)
Country Day high-school students come off as neither wholeheartedly conservative nor entirely liberal. Rather they fall somewhere in the middle.
full story 
Stew through a straw:  what to eat when you can’t
What do you do when food is a major part of your life and a surgeon takes a rather large and unfriendly-looking metal wire and laces your jaws together?
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