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Northwood Blue peaked at the right time, going 3-1 in one of the most highly scouted tournaments of the year, the EG Watkins tournament at Cushing Academy.
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This weekend was jam packed with hockey for the Northwood girls’ program, with some players playing up to six games between the mixed teams, and white, and blue teams. The highlight of the weekend was certainly the White winning the CHE American Cup and going 4-0 with zero goals against.
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Northwood students dressed as Santa and reindeer and delivered presents to faculty children after the annual Holiday Formal Dinner. (Photo: Ms. Christine Ashe)
When I think of breakfast, I think of pancakes, eggs, and especially pajamas. Eating breakfast without pajamas just isn’t the same. For the first hour after we wake up we are all still very tired, and there is about a 75% chance that I would spill food on my clothes. If I were in pajamas this wouldn’t be a problem.
These random students, not affiliated with Northwood in any way, enjoy eating breakfast in their pajamas. (Photo: UNC/Instagram)
Another thing to consider is if we have first or double off and want to eat breakfast and then go back to sleep? Before this dress code rule, you could walk down in pajamas, eat, and then go back to sleep. But, you can’t do that anymore, so most people are most likely going to skip breakfast to sleep a little later. Even though breakfast is the most important meal of the day, some students are willing to risk it for sleep.
What if you want to work out in the morning to free up some more time later in your day? The good news is that the gym is open. After a hard workout you’re ready for a nice big nutritious breakfast, right? The bad news is that you can’t eat unless you shower, and there is not time for that, so I guess you’ll have to survive off of a little granola bar. My good friend Sierra once did a workout in the morning and was starving after, but the faculty wouldn’t let her eat, even though there was absolutely no time for her to walk all the way down to the girls dorm, shower, get dressed, and walk all the way back up to eat. I wasn’t going to let my friend walk back to the dorm without giving her some type of good breakfast that was available to those in dress code, so I made her a banana-chocolate milk smoothie to put in her water bottle. I am sure I was not the first to do this for one of their friends. Unfortunately, we cannot do this for our friends everyday so there should be a solution, which is being allowed to wear whatever we please to breakfast.
Girls are getting the short end of the stick when it comes to dress code for breakfast. What if I want to brush my teeth after I eat? I can’t, because it is way too far away. Unless I bring a toothbrush up to the main building and brush my teeth in the bathroom sink, but I know no girls want to do that.
The most important problem we students face in this situation is that this place is not only our school, but our home. We are supposed to feel comfortable during something as simple as breakfast.We should be allowed to wear what we want before and after school, just like how it would be at home. Northwood is supposed to have a homey feeling, and half of that feeling is taken away with dress code breakfast.
The contributor who wrote this wishes to remain anonymous because she fears people will make fun of her childish opinions. The truth is, most students know who wrote this.
The author on a fall SUP excursion with LPX. (Photo: Mr. Jim Dingle)
While the winter recreational sports program has ended and with it it’s always fun acronym “wRECk”, its successor is here in the form of year round lake placid experience. This however isn’t the first change in recent memory, just a few years, before even the current upperclassmen arrived, the entire program revolved around Whiteface and getting students who had never been skiing or snowboarding and students who had perhaps never even seen snow to get out and experience it. Everyone was required to go to the mountain at least four days a week and this continued throughout the winter season. Since then the program evolved to a mix of Whiteface, the fitness center, activities in the gym and the occasional added option. This year, however, produced the most sweeping change with the arrival of the new Headmaster. While Whiteface is still always an option (assuming you can handle the lack of snow so far), students are split into groups with each group doing a different activity each day.
Whether it’s a hike around the many trails of the campus with Dingle or floor hockey with Mr. Roy, this year it’s a different option every day. There’s been mountain biking, hot yoga, community service, bouldering. The unusually warm fall has also led to paddleboarding and kayaking on the lake. Outside of the usual, there have also been a couple new adventures like experiencing the new rail-trail where the group traveled out to Lake Clear and peddled the six miles back to Saranac Lake with small four person bikes on the recently abandoned railroad. With the possibility of the rail’s removal next year, it was a lucky break for the new program, as this might have been the rail-bikes’ first and last year.
Before the opening of Whiteface, there was also the chance to paddleboard all the way into town on the windiest and waviest week of fall and the chance to see Mr. Portal show off his bouldering skills on top of Owl’s Head. Whiteface won’t mean the end of trips. In the future, ice climbing, skating, and tubing should all be possible while still having Whiteface as an option. With suggestions from both the students and teachers, the program shouldn’t run out of ideas any time soon.
Teagan Grisi ’17
A year after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States’ entry into WWII, The Mirror staff published this editorial which cautioned against media bias and urged all Americans to “use their inherent clear-headedness and wisdom to separate the true from the false and the plausible from the implausible; to create a clear picture of world events and their future effect on this nation as well as the rest of the world. (Winter 1943 issue of The Mirror).”
Mr. Broderick recently unveiled the new conduct system, which assigns demerit-like points to students for conduct or disciplinary violations? Northwood students: What’s your opinion of the new conduct system? Take this Twitter Poll:
Northwood students: What is your opinion of the new points-based conduct system?
— The Northwood Mirror (@NorthwoodMirror) December 15, 2015
CARE has had a busy start to the school year. In September, we raised money for and helped set up parts of the Relay for Life fundraiser at the Olympic Speed Skating Oval in town.
Next in October, we participated in Lee Denim Day, a nationally recognized fundraiser. In exchange for a five dollar donation, students, faculty, and staff were allowed to wear jeans to classes. Northwood has participated in this event for overs 15 years and once again, raised over one thousand dollars to support the fight against breast cancer.
Now as it is the holiday season we focused on getting holiday gifts and clothes for area needy children. In order to buy these gifts we wanted to raise one thousand dollars. To do this we sold candy grams at halloween. This is always a popular fundraiser where kids get to send small bags of candy to their friends, teachers, and secret crushes. We raised about five-hundred dollars from this fundraiser. Our second fundraiser during the holiday season was a School Spirit Day. For Spirit Day students were allowed to wear Northwood school apparel after making a small cash donation to the North Elba Christmas Fund.
Our final fundraiser for the North Elba Christmas fund was a bake sale. The bake sale raised just over 500 dollars for CARE. Students spend a Saturday morning, standing in front of ACE Hardware and sold hot dogs and hot chocolate, provided by ACE Hardware in Saranac Lake, and also sold home-made baked goods made and donated by faculty and students. Between these three fundraisers we raised 1,566 dollars for the North Elba Christmas Fund and Families First. With this money we were able to buy stockings stuffed with gifts for 10 kids and buy clothes and gifts for 4 families. We are also running a food drive. So far we have donated eight boxes full of food to the food pantry. CARE has also started the shoebox project where all students with their advisors fill a shoebox with small gifts and stocking stuffers. CARE has had a successful start to the year and is looking forward to many more successful projects in the future.
Brendan Murphy ’16
Northwood’s freestyle crew made this video a year ago today. We will get good snow one of these days. Until then, enjoy this video. #NYSEF
