True Life: I am the principal of Coral Gables Senior High

by Odette Ochoa, highlights, Features, February 2010

The flyers have settled at their’ rightful place on the bottom of floors, staircases, and garbage cans. Student Council elections are over and much to many students’ relief. Though this year elections were a bit different, instead of using Elect-Elite, and online computerized voting system that simplifies the voting system dramatically. Due to budget cuts, the school was unable to purchase the program this year so it was back to ballots.

                “The ballot counting and setting up process went smoothly, though it was very tedious. Student activities spent 2 and a half hours just counting and sorting ballots,” Alyssa Exposito, student activities member, said.

In Tune: Kat Picks the best books of the decade

by Katerina Resek, highlights, Features, February 2010

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (2002) is a novel narrated through unique perspectives. One is a broken-English speaking Eastern European translator’s tale that intertwines with a story told by a Jewish man who is searching for the woman who saved his grandfather’s life. Because the story is confusing, it is suggested that one sees the movie based on the book after reading. The intricacies of this investigative, historical fiction novel are beautiful and innovative which makes for a fast yet enlightening read. Foer succeeds in meshing the perspectives in the story into one and it ends unforgettably.