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VOLUME 76 • EDITION 1 | Wednesday, August 31, 2011

TATLERLakeside School’s 100% student written, edited, and reviewed newspaper | Seattle, WA

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MAX CHENIt’s rather safe to say that there are a number of

things different about this summer. Most notice-able is the dramatic increase in overcast, dreary days. Then there’s the fact that school starts on Au-gust 31st, before Labor Day. One thing that hasn’t changed, though, is Seattle’s music and arts festi-val, Bumbershoot, a staple in the vibrant Pacific Northwest cultural scene. This year, Bumbershoot takes place from September 3rd to the 5th. Visitors to Bumbershoot this fall can experience the usual myriad of events characteristic of the festival, a testament to the Pacific Northwest’s rich artistic culture.

Bumbershoot is a festival that celebrates North-west arts of all sorts, but the heart of the festival lies in its music. Bumbershoot 2011’s musical lineup is every bit as diverse as last year’s, which featured acts from Bob Dylan to The Bouncing Souls to The Decemberists. There’s something at Bumbershoot for fans of any genre.

The festival kicks off on Saturday, September 3rd with Bumbershoot’s usual mix of up-and-coming local

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m o r e w e l l - k n o w n performers. The most notable is R&B/Gospel leg-end Mavis Sta-ples, who begins her set at 9:30 PM. My personal rec-ommendation for the day is Campfire OK, a fantastic folk-rock band whom I had the pleasure to meet and see play at Western Washington University in August. Other highlights of day one include The Presidents of The United States of America and Astronautalis, a Seattle rapper who has been de-scribed as “if Beck were a

decade or so younger and grew up heavily immersed in hip-hop” and one of the most prolific live freesty-lers in music. Local rap group Shabazz Palaces and ex-Botch experimental rock band, Minus the Bear, will also make an appearance.

Sunday, the 4th, is chock full of big names: indie collective Broken Social Scene, The Kills—whose frontwoman Allison Mosshart you may recognize as Jack White’s The Dead Weather band mate—Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Wiz Khalifa, Sol, Das Racist, and political punk-rockers Anti-Flag. For those looking for a smaller, less cluttered set from some up-and-coming acts on Sunday, I recommend The Lonely Forest, a relatively new indie-rock band from Anacortes, and Toro Y Moi, the pseudonym of bedroom producer Chazwick Bundick. Toro Y Moi is one of the most exciting figures in the electronic movement colloquially known as “chillwave”, and his live show is anything but lackluster.

Labor Day, or Monday the 5th, closes out Bum-bershoot with perhaps the most anticipated per-formers of the festival, Hall & Oates. Of course, the

performers preceding the big Hall & Oates set

are respected

and ac-claimed in their own

right. Among them: Out-kast MC Big Boi, up-and-coming rapper Kendrick La-mar (a member of XXL Maga-zine’s Freshmen Class of 2011), and the Black Keys-like indie/blues group Fitz and the Tantrums.

Bumbershoot ’11 is a fantastic way to inaugurate the school year. These are three days you won’t want to miss!

End of Senior Buddies

Fall SportsPreview

New teacherson campus!

Your Voice on

Summer Flings

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YOURVOICEWhat do you

love most about Bumbershoot?

“Moshing!”

“Friends and food and weird people.”

“The music. LOL yeah right, I wish I cared about music that much. I just go to hang out with my friends.. And their friends. And their friends’ friends. It’s just a great way to kick off the school year, you know?”

“Sleeping in, spending time with friends, partying, push-ing towards the front of every concert, screaming along to the words of every song, stay-ing up all night, and doing it all over again.”

“When TI took his shirt off. Hands down.”

“The time I didn’t know that Paramore was playing and didn’t go, thus ending my chance to meet Hayley Wil-liams, who I love.”

12:00-1:15House Open (107.7

presents)1:15-2:00

Brite Futures2:45 - 4:00

The Presidents of the United States of

America6:00-7:15

House Open (103.7 presents)

7:15-7:45Vusi Mahlasela

8:00-8:45Special Guest

9:15-10:45Ray LaMontagne &

the Pariah Dogs

12:00-1:30House Open (90.3

presents)1:30-2:30

The Lonely Forest3:00-4:15Broken Social Scene6:15-8:00

House Open8:00-9:00

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

9:30-10:45Wiz Khalifa

12:00-1:45House Open

1:45-2:30Kendrick Lamar

3:00-4:15Big Boi

6:15-7:45House Open

7:45-8:45Fitz and the Tan-

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Daryl Hall & John Oates

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Tatler Staff2011–2012

Tatler is a student-run publication and therefore is not reviewed by the school administration prior to distribution. As student journalists, we recognize and hope to fulfill our responsibility to follow journalistic standards. The opinions in Tatler do not necessarily reflect those of all students and faculty of Lakeside Upper School. We encourage readers to submit their opinions by means of a letter to the editors. We will not print any anonymous letters, and we will withhold names only upon request. Submit or letters to the boxes of the editors or email us: jay.bensal@lakesideschool.org

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Summer 2011 in ReviewMAX CHEN & JANI ADCOCK

Letter from the

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July 8: The Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off for the final mission of the US Space Shuttle program.

July 9: South Sudan becomes a sovereign state.

July 10: Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World publishes its final issue after 168 years of print.

July 17: Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak suffers a stroke, and falls into a coma.

June 17: The UN Human Rights Council condemns discrimination against the global LBGT community.

June 18: Saxophonist Clarence Clem-ons dies from complications of a stroke.

June 24: The New York Senate votes to legalize same-sex marriage.

June 12: The Dallas Maver-icks defeat the Miami Heat to win their first NBA Finals.

June 20: Jackass star Ryan Dunn dies in a high-speed car crash in Pennsylvania.

June 27: The U.S. Supreme Court denies a 2005 California law pro-hibiting minors’ access to violent video games.

MAX CHENWith every new school year comes a fresh batch of additions to Lakeside School’s

faculty. For your convenience, Tatler has compiled a brief profile for two of the seven new faces you’ll be seeing around during the 2011-2012 school year.

Welcome New

Faculty and Staff!

Photo Courtesty of: Lakeside School

Hello Lakeside! Let me be one of the first (along with the seniors throwing candy this morning) to welcome you to a new school year! As always, the start of the school year is filled with change, and this year is no different. There are plenty of new faces on campus between the unassuming Class of ‘15, as well as the new faculty.

Continuing the construction tradition, Allen-Gates is being renovated, just as new Bliss starts its first full school year. Speak-ing of things under construction, yes, all the hype is true; the Tatler website will be up and running (for the second time) this fall.

Anyways, on behalf of the en-tire staff, I hope you enjoy the back-to-school issue, there’s a lot going on, between the Fall Sports Previews, the Ethicist, Summer Movie Reviews and even the sea-son preview of Pacific Northwest Ballet.

I’ll end with a little generic ad-vice, to ‘15: don’t worry; the up-perclassmen are nicer than they look! Also teachers generally only accept “I got lost” as an ex-cuse for a week, so learn the way to your classes quickly. To ’14; be nice, you too were once wide-eyed freshmen. To ’13; congrats on being upperclassmen, people look up to you guys now, remem-ber that. And finally to ’12: don’t stress about college, the world’s going to end anyway!

Cheers,Jay BensalEditor-in-Chief

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Summer 2011 in ReviewMAX CHEN & JANI ADCOCK

Chris HeinAssistant Athletic Director

Jacob ForanUS Arts

Heather HerseyUS Library

Danielle TilleyUS Science Teacher

Margaret HardyAdmissions Associate

Alita GuzmanUS Languages

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July 22: A car bomb explosion in Oslo kills 8, and a shooting at a Norwegian Labor Party youth camp kills 69.

July 23: Singer Amy Winehouse is found dead at the age of 27.

July 30: NATO bombs Libyan state television to end “terror broadcasts”, violating the U.N. Security Council Resolution.

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August 5: Standard & Poor’s downgrades US credit rating from AAA to AA+.

August 6: Riots erupt in England fol-lowing a peaceful protest against the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan.

August 13: Republican Michelle Bachmann victorious in the Ames

Straw Poll in Iowa.

August 2: Barack Obama and Congressional leaders strike a deal for extending the nation’s debt ceiling.

August 31: First day of school on

Lakeside US Campus!

Margaret Hardy is this year’s new Ad-missions Associate. Her primary roles at Lakeside next year will include arranging campus visits for families interested in Lakeside and acting as 9th grade advisor. For the past three years, Margaret man-aged the K-5th grade admissions program at The Bush School. Prior to her tenure with the Bush School, she worked in ad-missions at The Webb Schools, a boarding/day high school in California. Margaret is a graduate of Lakeside, class of ’02, and at-tended Pomona College. She’s excited to be back at Lakeside, aspires to be the next Martha Stewart (sans jail time) and enjoys walking her dog, salsa dancing, and sup-porting the Sounders FC.

Alita Guzman will be teaching Spanish 2 and 3 next year. She taught at Bellevue Col-lege the previous school year, and at East-side Catholic the year before. Alita looks forward to getting to know her students—her favorite aspect of teaching in general. She loves to bake—students in her classes can expect to be met with occasional good-ies. Another favored pastime of hers is gardening, which she finds both enjoyable and therapeutic. Her love of the outdoors is by no means limited to gardening, though. “I try to spend as much time outside as I can—I’m from Eastern Washington, so any time the sun comes out, I try to capitalize on it!”

Casey SelfridgeHead Football Coach

James AllardHead Girls Soccer Coach

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JANI ADCOCKIn the aftermath of the March earth-

quake and tsunami that devastated Japan, the official death toll is 15,000, according to the Washington Times. Yet even as the survivors rebuild, echoes of the disaster spread farther than any wave could have. With nuclear fears rising, na-tions around the world scram-ble to replace nuclear power—be it with renewable energy or coal. Yet will this really protect their people?

Japan was the first to start closing plants when Prime Min-ister Naoto Kan requested Chu-bu Electric shut down its nucle-ar plant in Hamaoka because it was constructed similarly to the Fukushima Daiichi plant. 10 more plants were soon closed.

Other nations quickly fol-lowed suit. German Chancellor Angela Merkel took the stron-gest stance, proposing laws end-ing nuclear power by 2022. The decision comes as a striking re-versal—just last year she over-rode a similar plan put forth by the German Green Party. Likewise, Swit-zerland plans to quit nuclear power over the next 30 years and Britain and China have halted new development. Chile, de-spite having recently signed a nuclear

power accord with Obama, is backpedal-ing. At the last minute, Chile stipulated that it was only agreeing to train nuclear engineers, not construct power plants.

As the public continues to protest nucle-ar power, leaders are left with a burning question: what to replace it with. Chile’s

Energy and Mining Minister, Laurence Golborne, has come to the conclusion that, “[Chile] needs energy, and to say no to something means saying yes to other things,” namely fossil fuels. Mrs. Merkel

elaborates that even if we were to ulti-mately switch to renewable energy sourc-es, “for the transition time, we need fossil power stations.” Replacing all of Germa-ny’s nuclear power with fossil fuel would increase carbon emissions by 435 million metric tons by 2020, or 2.5 million blue

whales’ worth of pollution. However scientific studies are raising a

new question: is this a wise trade-off? Coal plants are annually attributed with 20,000 heart attacks, 13,200 deaths, and 9,700

hospitalizations, costing $100 billion ac-cording to the Clean Air Task Force 2004. Add to that deaths from higher frequen-cies of more extreme natural disasters due to climate change and the annual death toll nears triple digits. Europe’s 2003 heat wave alone killed 35,000. In contrast, the

conservative death estimate for Chernobyl, the last ma-jor nuclear catastrophe, was 4,000 accordin to the Interna-tional Atomic Energy Agency. This striking image by scien-tist Seth Godin tells the story. Current estimates find that per watt of energy produced, there is one nuclear death per 900 oil deaths and per 4000 coal deaths.

With 20% of the United States’ energy being gener-ated by its 104 nuclear reac-tors, a switch to coal would be tremendously expensive, and would increase the US’s carbon footprint by 14% according to Time Magazine. French and Russian politicians have cut their losses by choosing nu-

clear power over coal, annually avoiding 4000 coal deaths in favor of one nuclear death—now it’s America’s turn to ask it-self whether this is a trade-off it is willing to make.

Trading Nuclear Disaster for Heart Attacks&Heat Waves

MARY KUPERAnyone who traveled abroad by plane

this summer probably came into contact

with American airport security and the new safety measures they have recently begun to implement, courtesy of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). TSA security employees could be considered superheroes—they wear uni-forms, protect the public, and have even brought a new meaning to the term “x-ray vision” by implementing a way to detect bombs and other risk items using their Advanced Imaging Technology body scan-ners – but usually they aren’t seen in a fa-vorable light.

The aforementioned scanners, manned by airport personnel, can project images of passengers (sans clothing) in order to find concealed weapons or other contraband. Authorities are quick to remind the less-than-enthused public that the photos are deleted immediately after each screening and that they can be blurred—or not—depending on TSA regulations. According to The Wall Street Journal, there are 373 body scanners in 68 airports across the United States, and over 488 such scanners worldwide. That’s a lot of scanners, and a lot of places for travelers to feel exposed.

If people are uncomfortable with the screening process, they have the option of refusing to go through the scanners alto-gether—but then they must compensate with a full-body pat-down and metal-de-

tector screening.The horror stories involving the TSA’s

airport security checkpoints frequently include said pat-downs, to which chil-dren and adults alike are subjected. Outraged passengers have called the pat-downs invasive and comparable to sexual assault, especially when they involve children. The TSA’s re-sponse to this is simple: every passen-ger must be treated with an equal degree of scrutiny, lest terrorists slip a bomb into a child’s pocket or beneath a senior citi-zen’s walker.

In addition to the lack of privacy, the radiation the new body scanners produce also sets the public on edge. The Health Physics Society has researched the effects of this type of radiation, however, and has concluded that one normal chest x-ray produces nearly 1000 times more radia-tion than one airport body scan. The TSA also points out that each scanner is tested periodically to make sure that the amount of radiation is acceptable and safe for the general public.

The TSA certainly appears to be uphold-ing its slogan, “Your safety is our priority.” But in the eyes of the American public, that very dedication to safety seems to violate the privacy, civil rights and emo-tional comfort of travelers today.

Airport Security: How Much Is Too Much?

Coal plants are annually at-tributed with 20,000 heart attacks, 13,200 deaths, and

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MADDIE WEINSTEINSeniors are about to take on a whole new level

of mystique for freshmen. While the gap between the youngest members of our student communi-ty and the wisest ones was once bridged by the senior-freshman buddy program, the Lakeside administration, in response to phone calls from parents and disappointment from freshmen, has ended this program. The main reason for this change is to eliminate the disparity among se-nior participation that led to some freshmen be-ing taken to Chipotle by their buddies while oth-ers found their buddies avoiding eye contact on the dreaded Refectory to Red Square walkway, leaving the latter feeling left out.

But before yet another cherished student tra-dition is banished into antiquity in an attempt to avoid the risk of exclusion, hovering parents and administrators should land their helicopters and consider how the buddy program could be revamped in the following years. The problems faced in previous years could be solved if a com-mittee of seniors created specific instructions as to what senior buddies were supposed to do and when they were supposed to do it, and the program was limited to a level of commitment that those seniors who chose to be buddies could sustain.

Giving people the vague goal of “making your freshman buddy feel welcome” is sure to create disparity among the actions of over a hundred seniors. But if seniors were told specifically to email their buddy before school starts and leave a treat in their buddy’s mailbox on the first day of school, the clearer instructions would result in more equality.

An additional reason cited for the program’s discontinuation is that seniors’ energy and ex-citement peaked at the start of school and then quickly wore off. The solution to this is simply to limit the commitment to the first month of school, the time when the freshmen can most benefit and seniors are most eager to welcome them.

While we seniors wait and hope that the pro-gram is reinstated, I urge the esteemed Class of 2012 to welcome the Class of 2015 with such compassion and friendliness that we convince the administration the connections between se-niors and freshmen are too great of an opportu-nity to lose. Seniors, try to remember the days when you too had a locker in a building other than the gym and thought attending assembly and advisory was required, and treat freshmen in a way that expresses your school pride. Like ducks and ducklings, seniors and freshmen be-long with each other, and as a school we should do everything we can to celebrate these friend-ships.

Bring Back

Senior Buddies!

FRANCIS WILSONFrom a very young age we are told

how lucky we are to be Americans. To be born an American is to have won some global lottery. Media and the spread of US popular culture on a glob-al scale further perpetuate the notion that all things American are superior. However, my GSL trip to Morocco gave me new perspective on daily life out-side the urbanized West and made me think that perhaps our glorification of the American dream is ethnocentric and nearsighted. In a day and age when the finan-cial prosper-ity of the US is far from guaranteed, it may be all too true that the Ameri-can dream isn’t the only one out there.

In the tiny village of Tou fe s t a lt , w h i c h doesn’t even exist on a map, people don’t have Ipads or run-ning water and keep d o n k e y s rather than cars. How-ever, just because their lifestyle lacks the technological amenities that we are so used to, their lives are full of things that cannot be bought in any mall. Not once in my time in Morocco did I reach for my cell phone instinctively, nor did I wish I had my laptop. Why? Because those gadgets are part of a lifestyle which doesn’t apply in a village, a place where water flows from a spring, not a tap, and food is bought from a souk, not a supermarket. People are goat herders and dairy farmers instead of investment bankers or lawyers.

Everyone in the v i l - l a g e knew one another, a n d f a m -ily celebrations were rau- cous events that lasted from night until morning. Poor as they may be, people there are happy, and have no need of many of the gadgets we depend on. Even members of the village who traveled to France to find work came back to build houses for their parents and grandparents, while many in the US consign their elders to nursing homes. Watching dramatic lightning storms while sitting next to a natural

spring or wading through tall grass while beekeeping at midnight were common experiences, yet we describe all countries that don’t enjoy the West-ern style of living as bereft third world nations. Sometimes, there is arrogance amongst Americans in dismissing oth-ers’ lifestyles as inferior. Such an at-titude is shortsighted and in these uncertain economic times, perhaps il-lusory.

In a recent article in TIME magazine, Fareed Zakaria describes the “Decline of America.” According to this article,

w e ’ v e

d r o p p e d from the

most prosper-ous country in

t h e world to the tenth. We’re 28th in terms

o f how satisfied we are with our standard of life. And the growing force of globalization means that more and more necessities of our lifestyle, such as crude oil and electronic compo-nents, come from somewhere else. The

A merican dream is g e t t i n g even hard-er to at-tain for us s t u d e n t s who will apply for c o l l e g e , a longside u n p r e c -e d e n t e d m i l l i o n s of oth-ers, and who may r e m a i n j o b l e s s for years after we g raduate. Just be-cause we are drilled into be-

lieving that the only destinies worth pursuing are those of doctors, lawyers, or engineers doesn’t mean that other careers merit disdain.

We need to realize that there are more ways to live happily than the ones we have been raised to pursue. If America should collapse, and the American dream becomes nothing but a half forgotten idea, I know that there will still be goat herders roaming in the Atlas mountains hundreds of years from now living out their own Moroc-can dream.

Time to Wake Up from the American Dream

...we describe all countries that don’t enjoy the Western style of living as bereft third

world nations.

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Post-GSL Reflections

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SHELLY BENSALWatching a 3D movie is like putting

ten sugars in your coffee–in theory it’s a good idea, but it soon becomes exces-sive. Or at least that’s what I discov-ered this summer, during my frequent trips to movie theaters full of posters trumpeting new 3D releases. Past 3D movies like Up and Avatar are rare ex-ceptions—in general, 3D makes movies uninventive, costly, and unrealistic.

Though movies like Tron: Legacy (2011) are often quoted as examples of 3D genius, these movies were filmed in 3D us-ing spe-cial lenses and lots of thought. H o w e v e r , most 3D movies this summer were filmed in 2D and then converted to 3D last minute, resulting in special effects that are barely noticeable—or annoy-ingly noticeable. A horror movie can be just as scary without a monster seem-

ingly leaping out of the screen. In fact, 3D distorts your view and often looks fake in the process.

Even worse—though the 3D ef-fects in some movies look cheap, 3D showings cer-tainly aren’t easy on the wallet. At Lin-

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S q u a r e Cinemas in Bellevue, tickets to a 2D showing are $8.75, while 3D show-ings cost $11.75. At Northgate, the price jump is almost 150%, from $9 for a 2D

adult ticket to $13 for a 3D one. These prices probably wouldn’t

be much lower even if theaters switched

to a Bring-Your-O w n - G l a s s e s system. When the difference be-

tween 2D and 3D matches the

p r i c e o f

a t h e -a t e r hot dog, I draw the line.

And 3D glasses are part of the prob-

lem. Though it’s only happened a couple times to me, 3D glasses are, for some viewers, synonymous with migraines. Walter Murch, sound editor of Apoca-lypse Now, denounces 3D technology as going against 600 million years of evolution. In a nutshell, 3D movies de-mand that your eyes converge and focus at different points, something our eyes aren’t used to doing. The result: mas-sive headaches for viewers and an un-solvable problem for filmmakers, short of supplying Tylenol along with RealD

glasses. Christopher Nolan, direc-tor and writer of the The Dark

Knight and Inception as well as others,

sums it up per-fectly: “On a technical level, [3D is] fasci-nating, but on an experien-tial level, I find [it] extremely alienating.”

3D Movies... One imension Too Many

Young People:Catalysts for Change

GAUTAM HATHIEngland is beginning to calm down after a week of the worst rioting and unrest

seen in decades. What be-gan as a peaceful protest in response to the shoot-ing of a man in a taxicab by the police resulted in violent mobs of thousands of people roaming the streets of London and

other English cities loot ing

shops, setting homes on fire, and even killing. Obviously, these ac-

tions are inexcusable acts of criminality and the perpetrators deserve to be punished severely, but what exactly hap-pened?

Politicians in the UK have blamed groups of “young people” let loose on the streets without proper supervision, along with a culture that glorifies violence. However, it is hardly normal for thousands of people, young or old, to suddenly go out and start wreaking violent havoc in their commu-nities. Violence on this scale does not occur in a vacuum, but instead has a context that must be understood in order to prevent it from hap-

pening again. Before rushing to portray (either directly or through implication) teenagers as intrinsi-cally bad people who are just wait-ing to start looting, rioting, and pillaging, this context must be un-derstood.

Not just in Britain, but all over the world people are finding them-selves in economically dire straits with little to no support from their governments, and a very gloomy outlook for the future. From Cairo to Athens to Tel Aviv and now Lon-don, people are growing increas-ingly frustrated with the lack of security, support, and opportunity in their lives. No one, however, is more frustrated than these “young people”.

Whereas others have built up a safety net to fall back on or are more secure in their jobs, young people are seeing the world fall down and opportunities close off because of decisions made long ago without their consent. Fur-

thermore, they are finding out that there are no resources to help them. While no one has the right to break store windows or burn down apartment buildings, young people have good reason to be angry.

If spectacles like the one in Lon-don are to be prevented, govern-ments across the world need to re-alize that giving hope to the young is more important than heaping benefits on the old. Although times are tough and budgets need to be cut, those who have a rela-tively secure life need to be will-ing to stop demanding that society lavish benefits on them so that investments can be made in areas such as education, job creation, and research in new technologies. With these things provided for, those people out in the streets of London and elsewhere will be given a rea-son to be constructive rather than destructive.

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8 life & cultureHarry Potter:A Childhood Conclusion

ALEC GLASSFORDThis July marked a very important end for our gen-

eration: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the eighth and final installment of the popular film series based on J. K. Rowling’s books was finally re-leased. For some, this was the last of a string of enter-taining books and movies. For others, it signaled the end of a significant part of their youths, even the end of childhood itself. Whether one has read each book ten times or seen just one of the movies, nearly every teenager has experienced Harry Potter in some way.

Reaction to Deathly Hallows: Part 2, though al-most uniformly positive from critics, has been less than fantastic from Harry Potter fans in the Lake-side community. Though the film has been generally lauded for its technical aspects, many found it emo-tionally unsatisfying.

Mehak Anwar ’12, who has read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows over 10 times and claims to read at least one chapter of Harry Potter every night be-fore bed, remarked, “I wanted to cry, I wanted to feel like it was the end, I wanted it to be painful—and un-fortunately I didn’t feel any of that.”

On the other hand, Chinmay Nirkhe ’13, who en-joyed the Harry Potter books much more than the films, felt that director David Yates tried to hammer the emotion too hard. He was even brought to laugh-ter by some scenes that he found “cheesy”—for ex-ample, when Neville kills Voldemort’s snake—even though he enjoyed the equivalent sections in the

novel. So was this an utterly un-satisfying conclusion to the Harry Potter era? A better question may be whether it was even a conclu-sion at all.

How much one enjoyed this last Harry Potter film will not mark anyone’s memory of the series, be-cause to those to whom it mattered most, Harry Potter has always been an emotional bastion more than anything

else, a comfort food of books, if you will. Mehak described the feeling of read-

i ng Harry Potter as one of “comfort and warmth” and noted that she has

“yet to experience that passion [toward the series] from any other aspect of the world.” Midnight pre- mieres and 20 hour reading marathons aside, when all the awesome and crazy culture is stripped away, Harry Potter is the inspiring adventure of some kids not so different from us muggles. It’s a story one can revisit again and again without ever getting bored.

Harry Potter isn’t really over. Much like Albus Dumbledore, the Harry Pot-ter phenomenon will only truly be gone when there are none left loyal to it.

Photo Courtesy of: Screenrant

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Your Voice:Summer Flings

Yes 

41% 

No 

59% 

Have you ever had a 

summer fling? 

“Some Taylor Swift-type love.”

“Someone EUROPEAN.”

“Channing Tatum would rescue me from a thunder-storm and we would paddle to a deserted island together where there would be tons of delicious food and air con-

ditioning.”

“Jake Gyllenhaal and I. On a beach in Hawaii. Nuff said.”

What would be your perfect summer fling?

“I think high school flings are bad. This is a very awk-ward survey for incoming freshmen.”

“Summer flings are awesome, unless you get so at-tached to your beloved that you won’t be able to let go

by the end of the summer.”

“EEEEEVVVVVVVVVVIIIIIIIILLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

“Good, it is a way to keep a teenagers sex drive low so they can function better at school during the year.”

In your mind, are summer flings good or bad?

“They are definitely easier at summer programs because then the deadline is automatically installed.”

“‘Camp goggles’ make it so much easier for the hot girl at camp to think you’re not too shabby either”

“Summer camp = no parents, is there any competition?”

“I’d say it’s probably much easier at home. It was difficult to find time to spend together [at camp].”

Do you think summer flings are better at home or away at summer programs?

“He tried to lean over and kiss me but we were both in kayaks so he kind of just tipped onto me.”

“Creepers peeking.”

“I thought we were exclusive... oops.”

What is the most embarassing thing that has occurred during

your summer fling?“I’m not gonna lie, my summer fling was kinda lame.

The most romantic thing he ever did was write me a hand written letter that started off REALLY nicely but ended

with a rant on Muammar Guddafi.”

What’s the most romantic thing your summer fling has

ever done?

Facebook message...!?

Say ‘now that summer is over, so is this’

Tell her you have to go save the world as you drop her off on your motorcycle.

Stay friends!

What is the best way to end a summer fling?

Well a fling is a fling.... end it.

If it’s actually a summer fling, then end it after the summer, but if it’s more of a we-met-over-the-summer-

and-are-dating-now type of thing, then keep it going!

If you really like the person make it work.

Do you think you should end a summer fling or try to make it

work throughout the school year?

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Summer photo essay!

Salmon River Rafting Outdoor TripPhoto Submitted by: Sophia Vokos

My friend was joking around and told me her email password before she left for a semester program on the East Coast. After she left, she couldn’t change her password because she wasn’t on campus. I proceeded to read all of her emails for three and a half months without telling her. Was this morally permissible?

Although your friend probably should have avoided giving you her email password in the first place, that doesn’t make her responsible for your actions. Reading her emails without her knowledge was a blatant invasion of her privacy. Just like it’s not OK to steal something just be-cause it isn’t locked up, it’s not OK to read private communications just because you know the password. The ethical thing to do in this situation would have been to leave the email alone and then make sure your friend knew to change her password when she got back.

Is it plagiarism to copy content from your own essays, written for a differ-ent assignment or a different class? Is this ethical?

Re-using your own writing does not qualify as “plagiarism”, since techni-cally, plagiarism is when you take some-one else’s work and present it as your own. However, turning in the same essay twice for different assignments seems dubious at best. As a general guideline, it’s fine to look back at your old work and even copy por-tions of the content, as long as you make significant effort to re-think and revise it in a way that speaks directly to the new as-signment. For example, let’s say your Eng-lish teacher tells you to write a personal es-say about family after reading a novel, and you just happen to have a personal essay about your family from last year on your computer. It’s ok to go back and look at the essay for reference, as long as in the end you write a new paper which focuses on the connections between that content and the novel.

Is it wrong to be “friends” with someone just to avoid conflict or be-cause your other friends are friends with that person? Even if the person is just an outright jerk and a creep?

It’s not a good idea to build “friendships” based entirely on lies. If you really hate someone, don’t pretend you two are really close friends just for the sake of convenience. Usually it will create more conflict than it avoids. On the other hand, you probably shouldn’t tell this person in detail all the reasons why you hate them. If this is someone you have to hang out with a lot because you share a group of friends or have a lot of classes together, you can make an effort to be civil and polite to them, even if they don’t return the favor. Just don’t tell them how much fun it would be if you two hung out and then spend the next period complaining about them to your “real” friends.

TheETHICIST

GSL IndiaPhoto Submittd by: Adrienne Beattie

GSL Senegal hard at workPhoto Submitted by: Djenanway Se-Gahon

Lakesiders teaching the Middle School camps this summer.Photo Submitted by: Mehak Anwar

Athens, GreecePhoto Submitted by: Isabel Nair

GSL Morocco bonding timePhoto Submitted by: Sylvia Xu

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Football:It’s about time that we put Lakeside football on the map. We have a

lot of talent this year and I have a good feeling that we are going to sur-prise a lot of people around the school. Show up to all of our three home

games and you will be impressed! –Patrick Corry

Girls Soccer:This year, our team has hired a new coach, James Allard, and we’re

excited to work with him. Last season came up short compared to our expectations so we’re hoping to fight back and win some games to show

what Lakeside girls’ soccer is all about! –Emily Kim & Natalie Spach

Boy’s Golf:I’m really excited about this year, we competed in Metro play-

offs last year, and although we lost three seniors, I think we can still compete for a Metro Championship. We have some talented freshmen

coming in and I’m eager to see what Jack Makin (class ’14) does this year after a solid freshman season at the JV level.

–Clayton Brock

Girls Golf:This year’s team is probably the most solid squad we’ve had in the

past four years or so. Therefore, I am very excited to show Holy Names and Bainbridge how it’s really done! And as always, we’re thrilled to claim

our title for the second straight year as the most athletic team on campus.

–Mary Zamojski

Cross-Country:This season we have the biggest turnout of all time. There are 119

runners which is about 30 more than last year. Our girl’s team is going to be very talented this season with at least 12 extremely good runners

competing for the top seven spots. –Lauren Clemett

Volleyball:This year we will have a very experienced team with seven return-

ing juniors and one returning senior. We’ll have a lot of talent, but our success will depend on how we play together and our consistency throughout the season. We lost some valuable players and it will be a

challenge to reform, but with work I think we can definitely get in sync and win some games! This should be a fun and

competitive season! –Kaylee Best

FallSports

Preview

HENRY CLEWORTHIt’s that time of year when the leaves

are falling, there’s pigskin tossing, and students are hitting the books. Howev-er, to ease us back into this school year, we have the help of our fall sports pro-grams. There have been plenty of changes over the summer with the athletics cur-riculum and coach staffs. I among many others am very excited to see what this sports season will consist of. Fortunate-ly, some of the captains and leaders of our fall sports teams were able to share their thoughts and predictions on their up-coming seasons. Here is your official fall sports preview!

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ISHANI UMMAT

Ishani Ummat: How’s the team looking this year?

Lawrence Wilmore: The team is looking very solid so far. We definitely have a ton of room for improve-ment, but I believe that our new coach, Coach Selfridge, is and will continue do-ing an excellent job at getting everyone up to date and prepared by September 2nd. I feel we are in a great position to be in at the beginning of the season.

IU: So what are some realistic expectations for the 2011-2012 Football Team??

LW: Going through our schedule, I honestly believe that if we can stay healthy we have a chance at being very competitive and ultimately winning every game. Injuries in the past years have really affected our team because of our smaller size. If we are able to limit that, this could be a year of redemption for Lake-side Football.

IU: What’s been the most fun so far?LW: Just being able to suit up in pads and practice in June

was very fun because that is something that we have never done before. Also playing 7 on 7 against Seattle Prep was fun because we got the opportunity to go out there and compete against an-other solid team.

IU: What position(s) do you play?LW: I currently play fullback and inside linebacker. Both of

which I think are great positions for me and hopefully positions where I can excel.

IU: Do you have any pre-game rituals to get pumped up?LW: I, being a huge Eminem fan, love to listen to “Lose Your-

self” repeatedly at pretty much any time, so listening to it be-

Lawrence Wilmore

(‘13)

fore a game makes it even better.

IU: Can you give us some players to watch out for this season?LW: One player I would definitely watch out for is Kyle “Untackleable” Lee. His cat-like awareness, understanding of

the game of football, and unmatched intensity make him a threat to opposing teams whenever he is on the field. Also Kody Burleson is returning from a season-ending knee injury, so you can expect him to come back with a vengeance

IU: Do you think you’ll take your game to the next level and play in college?LW: To be honest, I have no clue. Just having the opportunity to play football in college would be a great opportunity

and privilege alone. Right now I am just trying to focus on being as prepared as I can for this upcoming season and hope-fully everything will fall into place later on.

IU: Do you have a favorite pre-game meal?LW: Not really, but one thing that I’ve always done is eat a chocolate bar of some sort. I’m not sure if this is more mental

or if it actually does have some effect, but either way the chocolate bar is a must have before a game for me.

ISABEL SKILTONHeartbreaking. That’s the word used over and

over again to describe the 2011 Women’s World Cup, that is if you were rooting for the United States. The left footed curling shot from Abby Wambach that rebounded off the cross bar, the shot that narrowly missed entering the Japanese goal but slammed instead into the post, and the missed penalty kicks all contributed to the loss was so close to being a win.

Emerging as giants from the victory against B r a z i l , the USA W o m e n ’ s N a t i o n a l team ap-peared to be clear fa-vorites in the match a g a i n s t J a p a n . With the s u p p o r t of their c o u n t r y s t r o n g e r than ever, and a 22-0 record against Japan, the American women went into the game confidently. But the unity, team eth-ic, and determination of the Japanese made the game an intense battle. Though Abby Wambach scored late in the 104th minute of overtime to give the US a 2-1 lead, Japan quickly countered it with Homare Sawa’s goal off a corner kick thirteen min-utes later. “Japan just kept coming and they nev-er gave up. In the end they’re the world champs” (ESPN), said Wambach forward and captain of the

USA Women’s National team. In an ESPN inter-view after the Japanese win in penalty kicks.

The disappointment of the loss to Japan was en-hanced by the expectation that the USA had been destined to win. Regardless, the team fell graceful-ly and with class. USA goalkeeper Hope Solo com-mented after the game, “We lost to a great team. I really believed that something bigger was going for [our] team and as much as I’ve always wanted this, if there’s any team I would give it to, it would be Ja-pan. So I’m really happy for them, they do deserve it”

(ESPN). A l -

t h o u g h the USA did lose, the team g a i n e d m a n y t h i n g s f r o m t h i s t o u r n a -m e n t . For one t h e r e was a large in-c r e a s e

of support for the National Team and was this tournament allowed for the emergence of many young stars, such as Alex Morgan. And though the USA hadn’t won a World Cup in twelve years, this was the perfect timing for a Japanese win. “It just seemed like all of Japan suffered so much, Wam-bach said. “It seemed like their country needed them to win more than ours” (ESPN).

FallenGiants

Heartbreaking.“”

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FIELDHOUSE FRENZYTEDROS ALEMAYEHU

Gus Kitchell • Luke Bench • Patrick Corry • Carl YedorPhoto Courtesy of: Ishani Ummat

Hello, and welcome to the 3rd year of Fieldhouse Frenzy! This column is your chance to hear what Lakeside’s finest from the Class of ’12 has to say about anything and ev-erything related to ath-letics, Lakeside, and any combination of those two words. Read on as Patrick Corry, Carl Yedor, Luke Bench and Gus Kitchell discuss Seattle sports, big summer moves, and give us athletes to look out for this fall season.

Carl Yedor: Yeah. Anyone who expected the Mariners to serious-ly contend this year was fooling themselves. They had about one good month when the starting pitching was out-of-this-world, but otherwise, the offense has been holding the team back all year. One good thing is that we are finally seeing the prospects that we have heard so much about. Dustin Ackley is the real deal, and I like Mike Carp. But we’re still about four or five hit-ters away from really contending.

Patrick Corry: Sure, everyone can finally realize Ichiro is the most overrated player in baseball. Al-though he hits for a great average, he gets so few extra base hits and so few walks (because he swings at everything) that his overall im-pact is much worse than it looks on the surface. Remember his legend-ary 2004 season? Although set the single-season record for hits, his low walk total (49) led to him being on base a total of 315 times.. Not so legendary after all. And that’s his best season by far.

Luke Bench: This was obviously a pretty weak season, so the only positive thing is that we’ve got a solid pitching core to build on. If Ackley stays good and we get some players who can actually sometimes hit the baseball we could be a great team a little ways down the road, but I’m not too op-timistic about the rest of the year or even next season.

Gus Kitchell: It’s good to see some young talent picking up the slack for the veterans. Michael Pineda has been great all year, and Dustin Ackley has put to-gether an impressive half season. Combine that with new prospects Casper Wells and Trayvon “Most Athletic Mariner Ever” Robinson and the future isn’t as bleak as it might seem.

CY: Yeah. They’re on the right track, but I think the 2012 sea-son is the one to look out for. I think Pete Carroll is looking at potentially drafting Matt Bark-ley in the next draft (they won’t be bad enough to get Andrew Luck) and then the team will look less like the transitioning squad we have today.

PC: I love what they did at quarterback. You’ve got to start looking to the future sooner rather than later. Obviously Ta-varis Jackson isn’t the long term answer, but we’ve set up our ros-ter nicely to win without a great QB this year and draft a legend next year. Show me Andrew Luck.

LB: In general I’m a fan of the Seahawks’ moves. Sidney Rice and Zach Miller were nice pickups, but I’m not sold on Tar-varis Jackson. I appreciate his athleticism, but I can’t see him being all that effective or con-sistent this year. The Seahawks will probably be a solid but not great team.

GK: Yes and no. I think picking up Sidney Rice and Zach Miller gives us the strongest receiving corps we’ve had in quite some time, but I’m not sold on Tarvaris Jack-son. While it will be nice to have a quarterback who’s a bit more mo-bile than Matt Hasselbeck (and who doesn’t injure his back on every single play), his passing is a little suspect. But then, Pete Car-roll has a way of squeezing every ounce of talent out of his players, so we’ll have to wait and see.

CY: I would say Zach Miller, simply because it was a move that came basically out of no-where and landed the Seahawks one of the top receiving tight ends in the NFL. Sidney Rice was a good pickup too, but Mill-er was by far the boldest.

PC: Definitely Lewis Cramer deciding to come out for foot-ball after missing the preseason camp. At 6’5”, over 200 pounds with blazing speed, the kid is a potential college athlete on the football field. He can’t be blocked on defense and he is an unstop-pable touchdown machine at re-ceiver. His decision to leave his fall AAU team and play the Game of Men may revolutionize Lake-side Football.

LB: I’ve got to go with the con-struction of the Eagles dream team. Rodgers-Cromartie and Asomugha will shut down re-ceivers all day, while Michael Vick and DeSean Jackson will continue to make plays, so they’re going to be the team to beat this year in the NFL.

GK: As far as I can tell, every remotely good player is now on the Eagles. Philadelphia’s offense has more weapons than any de-fense could possibly cover, and Michael Vick is about to embark on the best statistical season in the history of the NFL (my fanta-sy season rides on his shoulders). Now add two pro-bowl corner-backs in Nnamdi Asomugha and Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and you have the biggest lock for a championship since the Miami Heat…

CY: Look out for Chris “This is my Normal Voice” Luche (’14) to make an impact this year for foot-ball (JV or Varsity remains to be seen).

PC: Most football spectators tend to ignore what goes on be-tween the trenches and watch the skill players. Fans, I urge you to give the lineman some love this season, because Kody Burleson is a one man wrecking crew. Once you look for it, it’s actually not hard to spot; just look for an un-fortunate opponent lying on his back and nearby you’ll see Kody standing over him in his trade-mark power stance. It’s a special thing to watch; the kid is a beast out there.

LB: There are a lot of them, but I’d especially watch out for number 10 on the football team, Theo “Toddness” Todd (’12). He’s coming off a big season and our dynamic offense gives him an excellent opportunity to do even more this year.

GK: If you have a second, take a glance at Patrick Corry: quarter-back, captain, and a first-team-all-universe selection at the position of all-around great guy. Opposing coaches have referred to him as “a twelve-tool player” and “scary good”, while an NFL scout said the following: “He’s a physical specimen. A statistical anomaly. Any defensive coordinator’s worst nightmare. Corry shreds second-aries with ease and poise, a cool smile on his face all the while. He’s a cold-blooded killer. This kid plays with no regard for human life.” And as if that isn’t enough, he makes plays on the other side of the ball, too, snagging inter-ceptions at an alarming rate. If Ed Reed and a large octopus had a child, it would be Patrick Corry.

An-other year

and another losing season for the Mari-ners. As M’s fans can you even possibly pull

out one good thing from the year?

The Seahawks im-

mediately sprang into action this sum-mer in free agency as soon as the NFL an-nounced the end of the lockout. Are you

happy with they did?

What was the big-

gest move made in the sports

world this sum-mer?

Can you give us a fall

athlete to be on the lookout for?

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Oh Jesse Eisenberg, you could have done anything you wanted after The Social Network, and yet you chose this…thing. With the cast as genuinely funny as it is, I was perplexed as to how this movie could go so disastrously astray. One would think that Jesse Eisenberg had all the support he needed to make the movie funny, with comedians Aziz Ansari and Nick Swardson holding down the fort along with Danny McBride. But it’s like someone sat them in a room, squeezed all the comedy out of their skulls, set fire to it, then punched them into a con-cussed stupor and ordered them to write a script. This movie is what Michael Bay watches just so he can tell himself “at least I have CGI and explosions, these guys don’t have much of anything at all.” If you want an idea of how to make a generic, raunchy “comedy” in which everyone tries too hard to deliver contrived, stupid lines, 30 Minutes or Less is your movie.

30 Minutes or Less

Summer BlockbustersKODY BURLESON

ISABEL SKILTONEach year 72 Lakeside Upper School students travel across the globe to either Senegal, India, the Dominican

Republic, Peru, China, or Morocco for a month through the GSL program. During this month students are com-pletely immersed into the culture of the country they are visiting. Without any connection and distraction from life back home, each student is able to absorb every aspect of the new culture. They are surrounded by the tastes, sights, smells, and sounds of the new country. In an attempt to bring the GSL experience of each of those 72 stu-dents back to Lakeside a playlist has been created to give you a brief snapshot of each country. So sit back, relax, and listen to the world around you.

GSLSOUNDTRACK

1. Burr – Raam Daan 2. I Will Follow You – Baaba Maal3. Miyaabele – Baaba Maal 4. Sama doomji – Viviane n’dour

Senegal India

1. Tee Marr Khan – Shelia Ki Jawani 2. Akhiri Manzel – Bohemia 3. Mahiya – Raageshwari 4. Ari Ari (Part 2) – Bombay Rockers

Dominican Rep.

1. Corazon Sin Cara – Prince Royce 2. Es Un Secreto – Plan B3. Dile Al Amor – Aventura4. El Triste – Zacarías Ferreíra

Peru

1. Una Negra Y Un Negro – Peru Negro 2. Rio De Paria – Jilguero Del Huascarán 3. Hay Un Modo – Pedro Suárez Vértiz4. No Me Cumben – Nicómedes Santa Cruz

China

1. Feng Ji Xu Chui- Leslie Cheung 2. Muleteer- Lei Qiang3. Deng- Jacky Cheung

Morocco

1. Houde Ennaana – Nass el Ghiwane2. Dib el Ghaba – Jil Jilala3. Habibi dyali – Emil Zrihan

Photos Courtesy of: Flickr

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NISHKAMITTALBallet isn’t just

about pink tu-tus and tiaras. Okay, some of it is, but you don’t necessarily have to be a four year old girl with pig-tails to enjoy it. You don’t have to

know anything about d a n c i n g either.

P a c i f i c N o r t h -west Bal-let is one of the best bal-let com-panies in the na-tion, and

it performs right in Seattle Cen-ter at McCaw Hall. The oppor-tunity to see world-class danc-ers perform so close to us is a privilege that not everyone has. With that in mind, here is a pre-view of a few works that PNB is offering this season:

PNB opens with “All Wheel-don” from September 23rd to

October 2nd, a series of four works all choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon. “All Wheeldon” consists of the piec-es: Carousel, After the Rain, Polyphonia, andVariations Sérieuse. I am particularly ex-cited to see the last one, which is designed to give the audience a “behind the scenes” view. It is also apparently really funny. Little known fact – ballet can be hilarious.

Next, from November 4th to the 13th, we have “Love Sto-ries.” This show features ro-mantic snippets from different ballets, including the classics Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, and The Sleeping Beauty. It’s bound to be great for dates, if you want to tell her something but can’t seem to put it into

words…“Don Quixote,” based on the

novel by Cervantes, will be per-formed from February 3rd to the 12th. Not too many tutus or tiaras in this one. Watching this theatrical interpretation may make the book a whole lot more interesting, for those of you that have read it.

Of course, if you want to see a few of your friends at Lakeside perform, you can always come to the student productions, Nutcracker (November 25th to December 27th) and Snow White (March 17th to 25th).

I know this is a horrifying proposition for Lakeside stu-dents, but put off your home-work for just one night and come see the ballet. Who knows, you just might like it!

Every time a franchise gets rebooted, I have my reservations about going to see it. Where reboots often fail is in their reliance on updated technology to dazzle without adding any new or interesting elements to the original film. Rise of the Planet of the Apes surprised me, however, with superb acting from the leading roles – 127 Hours’ James Franco and Slumdog Millionaire’s Freida Pinto – that didn’t slip up when faced with their computer-generated chimp counterparts. Much like Gollum in the Lord of the Rings film series and the aliens in Avatar, the CGI was helped along with the use of talented actors behind the animation (see Andy Serkis’ turn as Gollum). The story itself is unexpectedly compelling, and although the oft-examined theme of humans acting selfishly and un-ethically towards an oppressed group may seem exhausted, even I was hoping the apes would rise and take the planet by about half an hour in. It’s a great summer movie; it has both the ability to make one think and to just lie back and watch the action.

I’ve always thought that superhero movies are the ideal summer films: when done right, they can combine huge explosions and violence with some smart scenes and perhaps even tug on a few heartstrings. Captain America certainly delivered. I was relieved to see that the brains behind the movie didn’t just turn it into some Nazi beat ‘em up for a brain-dead theater audience shouting “’murrica!” No, Captain America is an effective and exciting introduction to a new Avengers franchise. The cast is strong, the action is satisfying, and the all-important nemesis is suitably evil and sinister. Chris Evans caught me off guard as well, establishing himself as a charismatic and charming leading man, rather than just a chiseled specimen for the audience to ogle throughout the whole movie. To be certain, it’s a fine introduction to what is promising to be an interesting series of movies.

Captain America: The First Avenger

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Photos Courtesy of: Blogspot, Beyond Hollywood, & Screen Rant

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Most surprised to be an upperclassman

Most likely to have his name butchered on the

first day

Most likely to be asked, “Do you know Sylvia and Serena?”

Most likely to be asked if he’s related to Jace

Lieberman

Most likely to steal the JB spotlight from Blake

Most likely to fall in love with Edward Cullen

Most likely to change her name to Alice

Most likely to bemistaken for Shaun

White

Freshmen! Here’s some Tatler love (: Match each freshman to his or her award!

Braeden Anderson

Dawit Wondimagegn

Serena Xu

Trey von Gortler

Bella Carriker

Avnish Bablani

Anna Cullen

Wyatt Paul