Over the past few months two new laws proposed by the U.S. legislature, the Stop Online Piracy Act, SOPA for short, and the Protect IP Act, have been attracting negative attention which led to todays internet blackout protests. Several sites and companies throughout the internet, such as Wikipedia, Reddit, Google, Mozilla and Flickr, have “gone dark” to symbolize their objection towards the new laws that, if passed, could lead to the abuse of endless website censorship.

It hit in a not so obvious place at such an unfortunate time.
Typhoon Washi, or Sendong, hit the Philippine Islands a week before Christmas. It struck the northern portion of the island of Mindanao, causing heavy damage, especially to the cities of Iligan and Cagayan de Oro.
However, outer rural areas of the cities received the majority of the damage, with heavy rains triggering mudslides and landslides.
Villages were either buried or even worse, swept out to sea by cascading rivers of mud and debris.
Typhoons are not common to this part of …

Boys basketball season is in full swing now and each team is hungry to win a league championship. Each team did successful during their pre-season. Before league started, the varsity team had a record of 8 wins and 7 losses, the JV team had a record of 5 wins and 5 losses, and the Frosh Soph team had a record had 1 win and 0 losses, according to maxpreps.com.

In preseason, the girls have been playing in tournaments hosted by viewpoint and another by providence and playing their preseason games. In the viewpoint tournament they beat teams such as Malibu, Faith Baptist and Providence. They were undefeated which led them to become the Champions of the Viewpoint Tournament.

On Monday January 9, 2012, The Valiant’s Boys Varsity Basketball team played against Valley Torah High School at our home gym. From the beginning, the Valiants swept the competition ending the first quarter with a score of 29-3, with St. Gens leading. In the Second quarter, Valley Torah was able to respond finishing the the quarter by scoring 24 points overall. However, the Valiants remained dominate throughout the entire battle. The Valley Torah Wolfpack came up short to the Valiants ending the game with a score of 73-49. Linwood Foy ended the game with 25 points and eleven rebounds. Mark Chin contributed with 13 points and 3 rebounds.

With the year 2012 in session, it is a perfect time to review 2011 and the many notable events that have occurred in the 365 days it held. Here is my list for the some of the most significant events, in no apparent order, that happened in the year of 2011.

Christmas tunes, funk, and the musical stylings of the Saint Genevieve bands in their Christmas concert.

The boys basketball team went into this tournament with great amounts of excitement as they kick off their season at Providence High School attending the Annual Paul Sutton Tip-Off tournament.

Senior Lorenzo Mutia is often known for being that quirky, kind and intelligent young man at school. However, there’s more behind Lorenzo that many don’t know.
Lorenzo has been playing the trombone for four years now. He’s also quite knowledgeable with information because as a child loved investigating historical information and current events. He used to frequently read encyclopedias and history books, but with the rise of the internet he turned to looking online for information on just about anything.
“I’m fond of learning, it’s one of my favorite things to do. People …

Recruitment to most people means to influence new people to join something through heavy influence and appeal to interests. In sports, most teams use this method in order to improve their chances in being successful in competition and to provide an enriched hope in taking a championship. When the idea of recruitment hits St. Genevieve High School, there are various ideas.

The Twilight Saga now puts forth their last book on film. Breaking Dawn Part 1 revolves around Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) as they put their love to the test.

As you sit in your sit for the entire film you are basically watching the love triangle with Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson). Edward and Bella deal with the overwhelming consequence brought to them by their marriage and the deadly arrival of their child.

It’s getting closer to Christmas vacation and we all want to take a rest and have fun at the same time. There are great places to visit and spend the night at winter resorts close to home. Families can go skiing, snow play, and visit Christmas light shows.

Over the last four years, the school has experienced many different food choices that were served to students during lunch and dinner.

During the 2008-2009 school year, during lunch, a food truck would always park itself outside the school gate on Community street right before the school bell rang–releasing the students to lunch. Back when lunch was around 45 minutes, the line for the “Roach Coach” would stretch across the basketball courts.

Saint Genevieve High School currently allows all of its students to partake in several, this year most notably two, foreign language trips. For the past few years, many students, have been taking trips to places such as France, China, and Barcelona.  Although each year may present a far different tour that both the students and the teachers have never been to before, each year the trips are usually led under the head trip coordinators  Mrs. Yang and Mr. Shatkin, usually leading the Chinese trip, and Mrs. Lecomte, also usually planing the Europe related …

The Muppets are back!
In this friendly comedic film, the setting takes place in Los Angeles, where the world’s greatest Muppet fan, Walter (Peter Linz) discovers that an oilman is ready to take over the Muppet Theater.
All the Muppets have separated and Walter and his two friends, Gary and Mary (Jason Segel and Amy Adams), decide to reunite the Muppets in order to rescue the Muppet Theater.
However, soon they discover that Kermit lives in Hollywood in his own mansion, Gonzo is a wealthy plumber, Piggy is a fashion editor and Fozzie …