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Knights of Steel dessert concert, Dec. 13

Mary Stites
December 19, 2013
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MAKING THE ROLE HIS OWN: With senior Sydney Safarik (The Cat in the Hat), sophomore Milo Slimi (JoJo) performs It’s Possible (In McElligot’s Pool), a musical number where the Cat in the Hat encourages JoJo’s powerful imagination after his parents shut down his wild “Thinks.”
'Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.'
EXCLAIMING FOR THE ECLIPSE: Freshmen Jack Wood, Arwen Pelletier and Cole Truong watch the eclipse from the softball field with their digital media class. Pelletier said she was glad she chose to experience the eclipse with friends at school. “So many kids were exclaiming whenever the clouds broke and you could actually see it,” Pelletier said. “I live really close, and my mom was at home and she was outside. She said that she could hear everyone yelling.” For Pelletier, the highlight of the eclipse was the few seconds when the clouds parted and the eclipse was visible in totality. “Ill always be able to remember what it looks like in my mind,” Pelletier said. “Some things I think about, but I cant remember what they looked like. But this was memorable enough and incredible enough that Ill be able to picture it forever.” Caption by Ingrid Smith.
At MAC, the eclipse really was Knight Time
The varsity team after their 1-0 win against Magnolia High School, which made them area champions.
Girls soccer makes historic 5A playoff run
A PRIDE-FUL WEEK OF CELEBRATION: As part of AISDs week-long celebration of PRIDE, students of the McCallum Spectrum Club worked to create a week full of activities, prizes and helping hands to support the schools LGBTQ+ community. The club is widely available for anyone to join, and specializes in creating a safe space for students to share and give advice. While Pride month itself isn’t until June, AISD designates one week in March to celebrate and commemorate the importance of this part of the student body. As part of the week of festivities, the club held a booth in the front hall handing out pride stickers, pins and merch to passers by. For junior Zane Joly, the booth idea was brought up as a way for students to engage with one another, and connect with the community. “I call out to people in the halls, ‘hey, do you want stickers?’” Joly said. “We just give out free pride stickers and sometimes other free pride merch to the students of Macallum because everybody likes pride stickers.” While the week itself is packed with a variety of different activities, the overall goal is to bring students closer together and create a safer environment for self expression at McCallum. “The idea for the student panel largely came from the black [history] student panel that is done during Black History Month,” Joly said. “And the idea for giving out free stuff was developed at Spectrum last year.” Joly is not only a member of the Spectrum club, but also holds a leadership position giving them a more hands-on role with the projects and Pride Week activities. “McCallum has a very high queer population,” Joly said. “I think Its nice that we get a chance to celebrate Pride because Pride Month is during the summer, and I think its just a nice thing for the community and getting to just celebrate it.” While the merch table at lunch was only a small part of the numerous parts of McCallum’s Pride week, for Joly this small impact made all the difference. “The purpose of Pride is to make people not feel alone and to make them feel safe,” Joly said. “The goal is [to make people] happy about a part of themselves that theyre often conditioned to not feel good about.” Caption by Chloe Lewcock. Photo by Shila Gill.
McCallum takes 'PRIDE' in LGBTQ community
WILLING WILL: Tegan Hahn and Will Bowman perform in the one act play, She Stoops To Conquer during the third of three community performances on Sunday March 3 in the MAC Theater. The plays offered a story filled with laughs and love onstage. Offstage, however, there was a little bit of nerves from an understudy, Will Bowman. About a week before opening night, Bowman had to quickly learn the role of Tony Lumpkin. “For the first couple of days it was horribly nerve-racking,” he said. Caption and photo by Katie Hyzak.
MacTheatre is all over the place these days
KNIGHTS 3, HIGHLANDERS 0: The varsity volleyball team beat the St. Andrews Highlanders 3-0 on Tuesday Aug. 22 in its last preseason tuneup match before district play started this Tuesday.The Knights won the first set, 25-18. The Highlanders edged closer in the second set but the Knights prevailed in overtime, 26-24. The third set played out similarly as the teams battled evenly until the Knights made the key plays to win the set, 26-24, and the match in straight sets.The Knights performed well by finding open spots, getting extra points and finding a balance as a team.“I was happy with our performance because there was a big crowd for St. Andrews, and we didn’t let them get to us,” sophomore E’Mirrah Harris said. “We kept pushing points and we stayed together as a team.”As the season continues the Knights are looking forward to developing as a team and hopefully winning district. The Knights got off to a good start toward that goal with a district-opening win at Northeast on Tuesday. Our coverage of that match is coming to this feed soon.“I’m looking forward to winning district and hopefully going to bi-disrict,” Harris said. “I’m also looking forward to growing as a team.”
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