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By Kevin Khoury With the increasing popularity of video games among teenagers, the Loyola News decided to go one-on-one with Mr. Greczkowski in order to gather more information on the serious topic. According to the NPD, a market research group, 63% of Americans play videogames. It has come to the point where some teens and adults are being controlled by video games. So this begs the question: are you controlling the video game, or is the video game controlling you?

How would you say video game

addiction affects relationships?

Let me begin by asserting that the word "addiction" is a loaded one, and is used pervasively and at times carelessly to characterize

many of the behaviours we feel are being performed excessively. As humans, we tend to look for-ward to and repeat activities that give us pleasure, and avoid those which cause us displeasure. I know many students for whom certain activities take up a lot or too much time, but cannot be called addictions, at least not by a counsellor or psychologist. In fact, we speak of internet and gaming "addicts", yet our health system has yet to officially name this as a disorder (though there is talk of it).

Such an addiction, as might be defined by health and mental health professionals, would mean the person plays the game compulsively, despite harmful effect towards his or her relationships, academics (or job), health, happiness, or social life.

In short, the person's life would revolve around gaming, like the life of a gambling or substance abuse addict. So, definitely, rela-tionships would be affected, and would probably become less of a

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By Alex Banks

Editor, The Loyola News

This summer, I travelled through-out Europe with my family. I was able to explore a more rural yet absolutely stunning province of France near its Southern border. Having already experienced the bustling lifestyle of the French metropolis, Paris, I was almost surprised to see that such an idyl-lic and tranquil place could exist in the same country. Later on, we crossed into the Northern area of Spain known as the Basque re-gion. Celebrated for its impecca-ble seafood and gastronomical excellence, my parents and I stayed in the city of San Sebas-tian where we most certainly enjoyed many evenings sampling the local delicacies. Overall, the

trip itself was simply stupendous and a true way to experience classic European culture.

While on vacation, I visited several famous sites; some of which were popular due to their religious significance. Two locations immediately come to mind. The first would be the Grotto in Lourdes, France where a young girl was said to have been witness to an apparition of the Virgin Mary in a local cave. The second would be the birth-place of Saint-Ignatius of Loyola in Azpeitia, Spain. In both cases, I envi-sioned a peaceful locale complete with a solemn atmosphere and an


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Volume VIII, Issue II

Current News 1-3

New Teacher Feature

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Arts and Culture 4

Fun Pages 6-7

On the Road 8

The Tech Pages 10-11

Groovy Movie Reviews

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Library News 13

Comic 17

State of the Nation 4

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with the heart pump to pump fake blood through the mask. Good times…

Anyways, to the essence of the article. Halloween actually originated from the Celtic feast, Samhein. This feast celebrates the end of the lighter half of the year and the beginning

of the darker half. Celts believed that between those two halves, the barrier between the human and the Otherworld was extremely weak, allowing spirits (good and bad to pass through). Kind of creepy…

The ances-tors of families were

welcomed. Bonfires were made

By Alex Venditti

Where could Halloween possibly have originated from?! It isn’t anything like St. Nick breaking into houses and leaving presents in shoes at the front of your bed. It sounds rather weird, having a holiday about monsters and grim reapers.I remember back in ele-mentary school where everybody used to dress up as either a witch or as the Grim Reaper. There would always be the one guy

Celebrations of the dead? The origins of Halloween

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selves to Illinois. They hatch a plan to kidnap a child for ran-som. Unfortunately, they kidnap young Johnny Dorset (aka. Red Chief), a boy no one can tame.

The Darlin’ Hero fea-tures two friends have promised to stay with their dead friend until his burial the following day. When they run out of whis-key, they decided to keep their promise to their friend and take him with them to Clancy's bar.

Not one but two dramatic pro-ductions are being offered by the Loyola Drama Department dur-ing the fall season.

The Ransom of Red

Chief and The Darlin’ Hero will both be performed on consecu-tive nights November 18-19.

In The Ransom of Red

Chief , two shifty con artists ar-rive in Summit, Alabama with a plan to make $2000 to get them-

get very intense even though most arguments will be irrele-vant. Take for ex-ample the fact that the US will have to cut down more ICBMs (Inter Con-tinental Ballistic Missiles) than the Russians will. But on the same note the Russians will have to cut back on warheads (in other words, they can keep the missiles operational but they need to cut back their nuclear firepower).

However, the Russian

government has threatened to pull out of the treaty if the

Americans decide to expand their missile defence program, but article 14 of the treaty states that both sides are permitted to pull out of the treaty for any rea-son they wish.

If these nations go through with the treaty they

will be limited to 1550 long range ICBMs each. But president Obama has proposed cutting down arsenals to even zero

By Watio Martinez

Montour

In the middle of September, US president Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev had signed the second START treaty (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty). Later this fall both the US senate and the Russian Polit-buro will vote on this and in US politics it takes two-thirds of the senate to ratify a treaty. Passage of this treaty is no sure thing despite support from many US Generals and national-security officials.

The debates on the American side are most likely to

START II: Does the world still need nukes?

and bones of livestock were dropped into the flames. Many people dressed up in costumes to look like evil spirits so that the real evil spirits wouldn’t harm them.

Then where did the name come from? All-Hallows-Even, meaning the evening before All-Hallows-Day, was used for quite some time, until it became Hallowe’en or what we commonly use today, Halloween.

nukes. Could START II be the first step to getting there and is this even a goal worth pursuing?

But even more than 20 years after the Cold War do we still need nuclear weapons? The answer is most likely yes, the main reason nations (especially the US) have them in the first place is to deter enemies from attacking them. Their mentality: “You attack us, we obliterate you” therefore the enemy is deterred. And most likely, the US and its allies will need to keep that mentality if Iran develops its own nuclear weapons.

Loyola Drama preparing a double bill for November 18-19

Mark the dates in your agenda now and tell all friends and strangers, it promises to be a great night of live theatre in the

Eric Maclean performing Arts Cen-ter! Please turn to Page 9 for the cast lists.

Birthplace: Peterborough,

Ontario

High School: Thomas A. Stewart

Secondary School

University: McGill University

Schools taught at: John Paul I

Junior High School (2005-2009)

and Laurier Macdonald H.S.

(2009-20110)

Favorite movie: The Usual

Suspects

Favorite book: Anything John

Grisham

Favorite music: Rock/

Alternative/Rap

Hobbies: Rugby, squash, snow-

boarding and camping

You have only been at Loyola a

short time but what is your

impression of the school so far?

Are you enjoying your work?

I am very pleased to be a part of

the Loyola community. The staff

and students have been great and

very welcoming. Everyone seems

to always be on the go and very

engaged in school life. It has

been a great experience so far.

What subjects and grade levels

do you teach? Secondary 4 and 5 Technical Science Math

Are you involved in any extra-

curricular activities? I am currently coaching Cadet Football and will be part of the rugby coaching staff in the spring.

What have you learned from

your other teaching jobs that

you can apply to your work at

Loyola? Having worked in the east end I

was introduced to a new way of living. It gave me a chance to ex-perience a different culture and meet a lot of new people. Also, I was asked to teach different sub-jects throughout my time there, which allowed me to try different things and adopt different teaching methods.

Can you describe your personal

approach to the teaching/

learning experience in the class-

room? Students should have ownership over their learning. I hope that I give them the opportunity to relate the subject matter to something that is meaningful to them. They could be relating the material to a real life situation or something that they have personally experienced. This will hopefully help them find value in what they are learning and make it easier to retain.

You are involved in coaching

New Teacher Feature: Mr. Craig Beemer


Either way, they are a group of students that can be described three-fold; part dedication, part creative genius, and part insanity (yes, some of us are insane). They partake in the FRC, the FIRST (For the Inspiration and

bender, wood working saws, a hi-speed belt sander, a disk sander, and a whole slew of power tools like the jigsaws, drills, welders, sanders, and tonnes of manual tools, mainly hammers, saws, files, shears, pliers, and screw-drivers. We also have much elec-tronic equipment (several moni-tors, several computers including the alienware, several laptops, and a bunch of electrical board parts). Mixed in with all of this is Lego bricks, gears, chains, sprockets, sheet metal, tubes of metal, scrap aluminum, scrap steel, plywood, and extrusion. Don’t worry if you didn’t under-stand any of that. Few people do.

What do we use this large resource of tools for? Yes, the robotics class partially, but it is mainly used by the robotics team. More specifically, team 296, the Northern Knights!

You may have heard about them before, maybe not.

By Eric Huang

Photo by Thomas Galle Have you ever wondered what lurks at the bottom of the north-west staircase? Ever wondered what creates the foul fumes and the shrieking of drills and saws in the late hours after school?

It is the Lab! The ro-botics lab, that is. This is where the robotics team disappears to after school, and where they dwell until the late hours of the night (especially during game season). Completely fit with state-of-the-art tools, you’d think the lab was an arena for torture. In fact, it usually is (especially for clumsy people).

Our workshop includes (get ready for it): a big green lathe, a small black lathe, a big chop saw, a mill, another mill, another smaller mill, a sheet metal cutter, a big sheet metal bender, a small sheet metal

Loyola Robotics: Team 296

rugby outside the school. What

team do you work with? I am currently the head coach of the men’s rugby team at McGill University. I have been coaching there for six years with the last three as head coach.

How helpful is participation in


Recognition of Science and Tech-nology) Robotics Competition which is an international US-based tournament where high schools from around the world have 6 weeks to design and build a robot


By Chris Scarvelis

Writer's block. The writer's bane, insidiously creeping into his mind and shattering his every thought into millions of incoher-ent pieces at the most inoppor-tune moments. Like now. I can-not fathom the possibility of being incapable of putting [virtual] ink to paper with the smorgasbord of topics that our Scandinavian-inspired friends at the UN have given us. Our expul-

sion from Ban Ki-moon's Norwe-gian Round Table - quite the expression of Multikulti in itself – and our replacement with the horribly indebted nation of Portu-gal is telling of our lack of popu-larity among the EU member states. Not that we've recently held a seat on the UN Security Council, but we might as well settle into our eco-friendly seats when our main competitor is the poor brother of Iberia. Among other semi-criminal activities, the

UN also chose to support extor-tion as a prime option for wealth formation in Ecuador. Apart from making me wonder why Sicily's economists haven't yet suggested this option, I began to experience a slight lack of faith in the rea-soning of an organization that deems such a proposal “wonderful.”

Apart from represent-ing 190 times the OQLF's annual budget (why limit francization to Quebec?) $3.6 billion happens to

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activities. An addict may find academics even more challeng-ing, and may not have the time for academics due to energy and sleep deprivation caused by the excessive amounts of time spent gaming.

How would you say video

games can affect the health of

an individual?

I think the time one spends on personal wellness is very impor-tant. Wellness encompasses the health of one's mind, body and soul. To me a healthy person is a balanced person: time for play, rest, work/school, nutrition, exer-cise, spirituality, and relation-ships, including family. If one activity takes up too much time, the balance is thrown off, and so we cut corners on priorities like health. A videogame problem will keep a person alone with his or her screen, and away form the many other aspects of the life he used to value. An example of this is the energy drink: here we are, drinking a product that has a negative nutritional value, so that we can play video games better and for longer periods of time, away from real friends, family meals, normal routines, and per-

haps other healthy activities, like church and sports. That makes as much sense to me as a teenager (or a fit middle-aged man, such as myself) coming inside, from the great outdoors, to play a fit-ness game on my Wii station! It's sad, really.

Do you think video games can

influence a teenager’s morals?

Yes - we sometimes compromise or change our morals when it is convenient for us, to get what we want. It's like taking someone's money from the kitchen table to buy something, and telling your-self it's OK, since what you bought was good for you! So, if we lie to ourselves, or rationalize the exorbitant time gaming, we are compromising our moral and values. The problem with addic-tions is we tend to keep them alive, while we are addicted, at all costs. This would include the costs to our morals, and the other areas of our lives as mentioned earlier.

How do you think students can

moderate their time spent play-

ing video games?

An objective person (not a gam-ing friend) should give us straight

priority, unless the relationship was useful to continue gaming.

Can video games present a

threat to a student’s academ-

ics?

Distractions, such as gaming, aren't by themselves a threat. The danger comes when the student chooses "instant gratification", and enjoys himself playing rather than tending to his responsibili-ties first! We are all guilty of staying online (gaming, face-book, msn, texting) for longer than we had originally planned, delaying the start of homework or studying.

Our intentions are good, but the time seems to dis-appear when we engage in these

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be the amount of money demanded by the Ecuadorian government in exchange for not extracting oil from Yasuni National Park, a pro-tected section of the Amazon Rain-forest. Of course, Ecuador's contri-bution to this fund shall be its ab-stention from the destruction of this ostensibly valuable section of rainforest. Cue Speak Softly Love. Environmentalists have flown into a frenzy at mere suggestion of the anti-Avatar being played out, while


facts on how they perceive our gaming problem. Really, it can be difficult to moderate the time spent gaming if you are a problem gamer, or an addict. If it gets to this point, you will need the help of someone objective, like a parent or counsellor. Otherwise it may be easier simply to enjoy the game in pre-arranged time periods. For example, if you can play for, say not more than 45 minutes a day, and you can afford this time, and can stick to it (set an alarm for 45 minutes, and stop when it rings), then you are in good shape! Enjoy the games - they are fun!

Any additional information on

the effects of video games (if

any).

Sure - you are young, and there is a lot of world out there. Moderation is the key to enjoying life and, I believe, getting the most out of life. Pray for balance, and be open for signs that you may need to change your behaviour one way or another, and you will do fine. Your friends, parents, and teachers love you, and generally have your best interests at heart. Why wouldn't you listen to them?


For many people, especially young adults, traditional festivi-ties during the Halloween season include scary movie watching. Looking for something to send shivers up your spine while you get comfortable on the couch with a bowl of popcorn? Prepar-ing to get the daylights scared out and rent one of the following favorites of horror movie fans.

1. 'The Thing' (1982) "Scariest movie . . . ever!" We mean it. The film follows a crew stationed at an Antarctic base stalked by a shape-shifting alien.

Which member of the crew is the alien? The crew doesn't know, and neither does the audience until the creature begins one of its stomach churning transforma-tions. 2. 'Ju-on' (2000) Jealous of his wife's love for another man, a man brutally kills his wife and young son. Better than the Sarah Michelle Gellar slog-fest ("The Grudge") that followed this flick, "Ju-on" is edgy — it even allows you some time to get comfortable before the heavy breathing, black blood, and phantasmagoric preschoolers start popping out of the wood-work like drunk termites. Put on a helmet, and dive in.

3. 'Rec' (2007)

Spanish reporter Angela Vidal is looking for a good story. And,

when she follows a group of firefighters on an emergency call to a creepy apartment building she gets more than she bargained for. A little girl locked in a pent-house, a zombie dog, dimly lit rooms, a screaming old lady, the list of scary stuff in this flick is a mile long. Knowing a good thing when they see it, Hollywood produced its own version called "Quarantine." Stick with the original.

4. 'The Ring' (2002) Naomi Watts. Very talented, yes. Sassy? Yep. Try squaring her off against a weird women who really wants to climb out of a well and kill people and eat their guts. OK, well maybe she doesn't want to eat their guts. But she does a good job of killing a lot of people in this cinematically beau-tiful horror romp -- and she scares the heck out of Naomi Watts in the process.

5. 'Alien' (1979) Sigourney Weaver and alien monster. Throw them together in a futuristic, highly stylized space battleground: beautiful. And terrifying. "Alien" was important not least because it showed that the science-fiction horror genre was one of possibility — this movie was also intelligently ren-dered, psychologically powerful, and, well, gross. Where else can find a bloody creature being birthed from a human surrogate?

6. 'Invasion of the Body

Snatchers' (1978) Why is my family acting so strangely? Why do they keep insisting that I go to sleep? What are these strange plants I see suddenly sprouting up? These are the important questions dealt with in this classic sci-fi thriller.

7. 'Dawn of the Dead' (1978) Director George Romero single handedly created the zombie genre with "Night of the Living Dead." But it was the sequel, "Dawn of the Dead" that he really cranked the scares up ex-ponentially by featuring some of the goriest scenes ever committed to film. It's no wonder the film was banned in 17 countries.

8. 'Evil Dead II' (1987) Sam Raimi is now a famous Hol-lywood director, but long before he directed "Spiderman" he all but invented the horror/comedy genre with this 1987 classic. The film features cult-movie icon Bruce Campbell as a hapless hero defending himself from hordes of demons. Ever been on a roller coaster? That's what watching "Evil Dead II" is like — lots of screams.

9. 'Halloween' (1978) It was all downhill from here on out for Jamie Lee Curtis. And we mean that. Would she ever scream like this again? Hide in a closet while a very persistent

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Michael Myers spent about, oh, say, 78 minutes trying to hack through the door? Did we mention she's related to the killer?

10. 'Audition' (1999) Hold an audition to meet women? Check. Meet the girl of your dreams? Check. All your friends say they have a bad feeling about her? Check. And so begins this

horror classic featuring a lonely widower making some very bad choices when it comes to affairs of the heart. How bad? Her idea of a friendly date involves a rubber apron and medical bag full of pins.

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4. Myth named after histori-cal figure known as Vlad the Impaler, who murdered over 40,000 enemies by impaling them on metal spikes during his reign.

6. A scientist who constructs a human-like creature out of "spare body parts" and brings it to life. Appears in the early 19th century novel by Mary Shelley.

9. Appearing as the antagonist in Washington Ir-ving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".

10. Reanimated corpse, originating from West Afri-can voodoo where one controls the body of someone else by magic.

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1. First published as a story in the mid 19th century, about a barber who murders his customers and makes various meat pies from their flesh.

2. A secondary character in Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel, The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland. The phrase that undoubtedly inspired this name relates to the early French settlers in Canada, who fabricated hats out of beaver pelts treated with mercury, thus exposing them to a toxin that caused extensive neu-rological damage and distorted speech.

3. A serial killer in late 19th century England, who's identity is still unknown. Left most of his victim's bodies severely mutilated after cutting their throats.

5. Legend originating from the 15th to 17th centu-ries in Europe, about creatures who dwelled within dark forests and ate humans from the surrounding villages.

7. The ghost of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner, in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

8. The modern usage of Charon/Kharon, the ferry-man who carries the souls of the deceased across rivers that divide the worlds of the living and the dead. Originating from ancient Greek mythology.

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By Matei

Cotoros

you’re doing, and you don’t want to come up empty-handed. The first week will be a breeze; the second, you’ll want a noose, the third you’ll be banging your head against a desk, and the last week, you’ll feel so good.

Not ready for the in-tense writing of 2000 words a night? Take up the 10k challenge then; all you have to do is write 10 000 words instead of 50 000. You may not win the competi-tion, but you’ll still have reached a goal you never have. Then, next year, participate in NaNoWriMo again. And again. And again. Eventually, writing 50k in 30 days will be easy, and will actu-ally make your life much easier. Imagine that you’re a slow reader. You decide to push your-self and read 10 pages a night. By the end of the month, guaranteed you’ll be reading faster and more

interested; this applies to English assignments as well!): Don’t edit as you go along. This will cause you massive amounts of time wasted, and is the least efficient way to write; no author ever fin-ishes his or her book by the first draft. In fact, most first drafts are so terrible, it takes as many as 6 rough copies to get a refined story. In the words of NaNoW-riMo-ists (the proper term is NaNers), your inner-editor is a jerk. He will find problems with every paragraph you write, and tempt you to fix them immedi-ately; kick him out of your head and just keep getting words on paper.

Another great tip is to tell those around you if you’re writing any story. This motivates you to keep writing through the toughest of times; you won’t stop because others know about what

By Eric Huang National Novel Writing Month! NaNoWriMo challenges you to write 50 000 words in the span of 30 days (the entirety November)! Forget about editing; it’s time to kick out your inner-editor and count quantity over quality. The best part is that the competition is open to any genre; horror, mys-tery, love, action and even fan fiction.

The point of NaNoW-riMo is to challenge oneself to meet a deadline you never would have before; to cram in more words in the least amount of time you ever thought you could do. If you want to achieve that goal, that means an average of 2000 words a day.

This goal is tough. So here are a few tips to keep on top (don’t stop reading if you aren’t

Na-no what?

efficiently than you were 30 days ago. That is the ultimate goal of NaNoWriMo.

So, are you up to it? If so, sign up at nanowrimo.org, and consider yourself a NaNer.

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have a hard time coping with this harsh weather, so can you imag-ine a vehicle that is known to have mechanical failures, early rust, and a low depreciation value that is outshined by the competi-tion? Well, Fiat made the smart decision to pick up and leave the world’s most important car mar-ket. But that is where the money is, and when you have a company like Fiat which is huge and now more than ever, extremely stable financially, wouldn’t you want a piece of that pie? I know I would. Its like a professional power player knowing about a poker game where there are millions of dollars to be made and being invited to go. Any person with a brain would say yes. So, now, thankfully, the cheerful and pas-sionate Italian car maker is back with a bang.

Back in 1957, Fiat put Italy on wheels, almost quite literally, when they came out with the cute and tiny Fiat 500

Fiat and Alfa Romeo both pulled out of the North American car market leaving only major play-ers such as Maserati, Ferrari, and Lamborghini to represent Italian car makers. There were many reasons for them leaving such as early rust, which is never a good thing, especially when you live in Montreal where the weather can creep up and bite you. All cars

By Michael Morena

“Fix it again Tony !” This is the saying that usually represented Fiat automobiles here in Canada and the United States for quite some time now. They have not been known by many people, especially the youth of today who have never witnessed Fiats being sold here. About 25 years ago,

On the Road with Michael Morena: the Fiat 500

(or Cinquecento as they call it in the homeland). Over 4 million were built and sold during its pro-duction run which ran between 1957 and 1972. That is a really long time for a car, and to sell that many is a huge accomplishment. It put Fiat on the map and is today one of the most recognized car around the world. It is arguably their most important car.

I am very pleased to announce, that the Fiat 500 is now back and is making its entrance appearance in the North American market as Fiat’s debut car. It is back and with a lot of Italian pride oozing out of it. It looks almost exactly like the original version and has an extremely happy ap-pearance to it. It’s one of those “come here and drive me, you know you want to!” type of car. The North American version will be seeing a 1.4 liter, 94 horsepower 4 cylinder engine with it. However,


CAST LISTS

The Ransom of Red Chief

Red Chief – Cole Brillinger Bill Driscoll – Alex MacKenzie Sam – Michele Burchiani Constable Baker – Tim Mancini Mr. Tatum – Steven Fragostefanakis Ebenezer Dorset – Corrado DeMarco Ed Walker – Nick Karatzas Amos Murray – Steven Fragostefanakis Mrs. Dorset – Helena Tsistouras Miss Milstead – Taylor Pogue Mrs. Tatum – Grace Fulford Rose – Krista Williams Nan – Vanessa Peronace Mary – EmilyJohnston Jennifer – Jennifer Meikle Extra School Girl – Brooke Kelly The Darlin’ Hero Patrick – Alex Venditti Mulligan – Sergio DeCubellis Clancy – Patrick Ryan Batman – Thomas Galli Mr. Wishing – Justin Argentino Officer – Alex Kozina Jake Kilrain – Anton Motivans Crony 1 – Phil April Crony 2 – Sam MacAuliffe Mrs. Wishing – Roberto Casoli

may be more convenient to adopt an older dog.

Be prepared to take care of it.

Train it as quickly as possible (especially getting it housebro-ken).

Be prepared for accidents. The dog will pee in your house and will be the architect of much mischief. Even you must be prepared to learn new things from your furry companion.

like the average toy. A dog is a 10 to 18 year commitment.

Do your research: learn about the temperament, physical traits, and needs of each breed and then select the one that is right for you.

Taking care of a dog is expen-sive. The prices of food, toys, vet bills and the replacement of objects destroyed by your pooch add up.

Puppies are a lot of work. It

Now if you think you’re going to get a dog or want to get one, there are many things you must first consider.

The Golden Rule: If someone near you, whether it be your family or anyone that visits often, has dog allergies or if one of your direct family mem-ber’s is uncomfortable around dogs then don’t get one. Expectations: A dog is a living creature and cannot be treated

Thinking about getting a dog?


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A dog is nevertheless very fun and if well trained it can prove to be a loyal friend and an amusing companion.

Clockwise from upper left: Cole Brillinger, Alex MacKenzie and Michele Burchiani

Clockwise from upper left: Alex Venditti, Sergio DeCubellis, and Patrick Ryan

By: Michael Bilinsky

Everyday something extraordi-nary develops in the tech world, yet these advances do not always rattle our lives. The following events do not raise major phi-losophical questions, but as a whole show us where technology in today’s world is heading.

September 27th: RIM PlayBook

At Research In Motion's annual BlackBerry Developer Confer-ence, the company announced its new tablet, the PlayBook. It has a 7-inch touch screen with two

cameras and is only 9.7 mm thick. It runs the new BlackBerry Tablet OS and will sup-port various stan-dards such as HTML-5, Adobe Flash and AIR.

September 28th: Developments

in Wave Power Off the coast of Hawaii, Ocean Power Technologies hooked up its PB40 PowerBuoy to the power grid, making it the first time that the U.S. has been pow-ered by waves. Contrasting with tidal energy, wave energy makes electricity with the rise and fall of waves, and not the ebb and flow of tides.

October 1st: New Solar Plant

Opens The world’s largest photovoltaic facility opened in Ontario. The 80-megawatt project is able to

power 12,800 house-holds by using 1.3 million solar panels on 950 acres of land. Environmental and economic concerns were taken into con-sideration during building. The con-

struction produced no waste and created 800 jobs.

October 11th: Windows Phone

7 Launch Microsoft held a Windows Phone 7 launch event. The star of the show was the latest version of Microsoft’s phone operating system which was a major trans-formation. The completely re-newed uniform graphic user in-terface has received praise for its simplicity and power. Various apps were presented along with a line up of ten phones that Win-dows Phone 7 will be running on from HTC, Dell, LG, and Sam-

Tech Sprites


sung.

October 19th: Palm Pre 2 HP officially announced the Palm Pre 2 smartphone: the first Palm device to have HP webOS 2.0. New features included Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta, Skype Mobile, a redesigned application launcher, a 1GHz processor and a 5-megapixel camera. The phone will be released in Canada in the coming months.

October 20th: Back to the Mac

event Apple pre-sented its new MacBook Air at the Back to the Mac event. The new laptop is 0.68 inches


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include in this new edition. From Call of Duty 4, to Call of Duty 6, you’ve always been given that same online feel. The developers really went all out on the online features in the newest coming

Call of Duty, and you can tell that this was their main focus.

Let’s start off with the biggest online change from previ-ous online versions of COD: the currency system. In Black Ops, you can earn in-game COD Points that work like currency to purchase equipment, attachments, perks, and new customization options. This gives you the free-dom to purchase what you want, when you want it. Instead of being specifically told at a spe-cific level what you’re going to get, you’re unlocking features by level. Once the feature is unlocked, you can purchase any component of that feature with the currency directly. You can purchase customization features for your character for example,

By Kevin Khoury

Activision is back with yet an-other COD: Call of Duty Black

Ops, and you will be surprised with what they have decided to

Call of Duty (like you’ve never seen it before)

which we’ll discuss later on.

Well how do you earn cash? Through things like the new wager match feature. Wager matches are all free-for-all modes and they exist separately from the standard playlist. They include game modes like “Gun Game,” where you’re attempting to score kills as quickly as possible with twenty different weapons: begin-ning with pistols and advancing through the weaponry on the list that becomes increasingly power-ful. The first to have a kill with each weapon wins. With every kill with one weapon, you automati-cally switch to the next weapon. But you have to be careful! If you get knifed, you get set back to the


million U-S homes will be “connected.” Unfortu-nately for us, we will have to wait until after Christ-mas for these TV’s to reach Canada.

Sony Connected TV’s will include a novel hybrid remote control, a two-hand de-vice that features an optical mouse and a “QWERTY” key-board. A search box will also be featured to allow Google searches. If two people want to use the TV for different things at the same time, no problem. The TV feed will remain in a corner of the screen while the rest will

this statement, I would have to agree. Not necessarily because of the reason given above, but be-cause it seems as though people will buy anything shiny these days. Usually, I am not one to promote every single gadget that is released but I must say the Connected TV’s don’t sound all that bad. Sony has come up with an idea that is not over the top, convenient, useful and not to mention reasonably priced. The smallest Connected TV will cost $600 and the largest will be $1,400.

It is predicted that by 2015, somewhere around 43

By: Anthony Pavoni

Sony has recently unveiled their newest gadget: the Connected TV’s. For this project, they will be partnering up with Google. These enhanced televisions allow you to surf the web, have access to apps and to stream online con-tent on an HD TV. Though, will the new Sony Connect TV’s be a success, or a total failure?

"There are a lot of folks out there who want to see some-thing more out of their TV," said Jeff Goldstein, vice-president of connected home products and services for Sony Electronics. On

Connected 24/7 with Connected TV’s

By Anthony Pavoni

On October 3, 2010, twenty years after Germany reunified, a com-puter game called “1,378 (km)” was released. This shoot ‘em up game takes place during the Cold War along the Berlin wall. Even though it contains educational value, it causes much controversy. “1,387 (km),” if you haven’t figured out already happens to be the length of the Berlin wall. It was created by Jens Stober, a twenty-three year old.

To play “1,378 (km),” you must pick to play as a German soldier or the refu-gee trying to escape. If you pick the German soldier/guard you must gun down refugees attempt-ing to escape the East German Communist regime. If you play as the refugee, you must obvi-ously avoid the gunfire and make it past the border successfully. The game will eventually switch to the year 2000 where the border guards must go on trial for their Cold-War era shootings.

As fun as this may sound, Germans are outraged

over what seems to be a slap in the face to all those who lost their family members due to the very era that the game re-tells. One can’t help but think that despite

all the worthless garbage Stober is spewing as excuses, he actually meant to cause negative reactions with this game. Why on earth would someone expect to release a game where you savagely exe-cute people and not get any criti-cism?

It’s this kind of think-ing that makes me sick. “It's a novel way of encouraging young people to take an interest in com-ing to terms with recent German history,” said Stober in defense of his masterpiece. Nonesense. One-hundred percent absolute

nonsense. With all due respect Mr. Stober, a complete moron could see that you expected all of this. For all we know, you enjoy it. For all we know, you’re sitting

at home soaking up all your attention and saying to your-self: “That’s all it took. All I needed to do to get noticed in our society was to create a low-budget, crudely designed video game.” That’s that the reality of it. That is all it takes and it is a prime example of where our world is headed. Now, don’t get me wrong, the game itself is the epitome of fail-ure and I would rather play

“Five minutes to kill yourself” than this waste of time. Should we really be spending so much attention on a computer game? Aren’t there so many more im-portant issues to address in our world? We are giving people like Stober exactly what they want with all this negative attention. It seems to me like this is the main goal of people nowadays: Getting noticed.

Why did Mark David Chapman kill John Lennon (other than being a deranged psycho)? Not because Lennon did anything

1378 Kilometres...of controversy


be able to be used for apps, the web, and much more.

With a wide range of uses, conven-ience, an affordable price and an overall great idea, the Sony Con-nected TV’s will be a great suc-cess, that is, until something new comes out.

against Chapman. He killed him to become known. To be part of his-tory. What’s a better way of doing so than by killing one of the most politically active rock stars in the world?

On the other side of the story, the German population is taking this way out of hand. I can understand why people may be offended, but taking it to the point where it has to be mentioned in the news is just way too much. If you were to spend half as much time as you do complaining about this game taking care of your own life, your kids and your family, you’d come to realize how little this sub-ject matters. This is yet another thing I find sickening. The media is stockpiled with stories about controversial this, and controver-sial that, while stories of devasta-tion in third-world countries are taken with a grain of salt.

If we cannot manage to get our minds off useless video games and other absurdity so that we may start fixing what matters, I’m not looking forward to the world my children will be living in.

By Alex Kozina

Cloverfield

With the buzz of Halloween in the air, no image comes to mind more than monsters. Yet, as modern cinematography matures, interests in such films have dried up in re-cent years – save Clover-

field.

Released not long ago in 2008, producer J.J. Abrams (2009's Star

Trek, Lost) had a vision in mind when creating Clo-

verfield. “...I thought, we need our own American monster, and not like King Kong. I love King Kong. King Kong is ador-able. And Godzilla is a charming monster. We love Godzilla. But I wanted something that was just insane, and intense.” The result is a crazy monster known as...well, it's actually never given a name, but most people just call him “The Cloverfield Monster”.

Everything is going smoothly for Rob, a cool guy in New York celebrating his going away party. Hud, a friend of his, is even taking testimonials at the party of how people feel about Rob. Unfortunately, a rather bland party turns into a crazy life-or-death struggle (as it often does) when an unseen force reck-lessly destroys a chunk of Man-hattan. Although Rob and co. are dead set on leaving the Big Ap-ple, he can't – his girlfriend Beth is trapped (in an apartment that has collapsed onto another build-

ing no less), and he must go save her. However, he, Hud, and a few others have everything against them – including the military, giant parasitic spiders, and, in-

deed, “The Cloverfield Monster”!

The most unique thing about Cloverfield (but also one of its negative points, as I'll explain later) is the perspective it takes. Whereas disaster films such as Godzilla take a 3rd person view of the mayhem, Cloverfield only displays everything recorded on Hud's video camera to show what's going on. This way, the audience experiences the film in a very unusual fashion, giving it a distinct “home-video” feeling, and a sense of terror and partici-pation you'd expect only a 3-D film could accomplish.

Unfortunately, Clover-

field's only downside is present throughout the whole film. Be-cause of the “1st person view-point” used, there are many se-quences involving shaky camera work, which can result in nausea, dizziness, and overall discomfort. But if you can outlast these po-

tential setbacks, you've got a real gem of a movie in your hands. Cloverfield is an intelligent and excellent horror movie, brimming with suspense and, yes, lots of explosions. Who doesn't love explosions?

Retro Rerun

If you like Cloverfield...check out Godzilla, Mothra, and King

Ghidorah: Giant Monsters all-

out Attack

The name just rolls right of your tongue, doesn't it? One of many sequels to the origi-nal Godzilla movie, GMaKGGMaaA is a less-intelligent monster movie than Clover-

field, but still fun.

Released in 2001 by Toho, a Japa-nese film company famous for their God-zilla films (as well as their Pokemon movies, and a short movie in Halo Legends), this Godzilla movie brings the monster itself into a mind-numbing, special-effects heavy adven-ture. Nearly 50 years after God-zilla (an atomic sea dinosaur) reigned terror in Tokyo, people's fears are still distilled by the incident – and even more so once Godzilla emerges from his wa-tery grave to bring about chaos. Luckily, a mysterious, insane old man grasps the danger of the situation before it's too late, and

Groovy Movie Reviews


unleashes King Ghidorah (A three-headed dragon), Mothra (a giant moth), and Baragon (a subterra-nean dinosaur who's name isn't even included in the title!) to stop Godzilla's rampage before it's too late.

From there, the film escalates into an action-packed blast-fest of over-the-top explo-sions, fighting, and laser beams in a struggle for monstrous suprem-acy. Godzilla is outnumbered, but high in power, proving an equal match for the other three monsters. Ultimately, this Godzilla movie is at its best when it's dishing out punches, and less when it's giving morals. It's certainly a departure

from the original 1954 Godzilla film, which was serious in tone and warned of the effects of nuclear power. However, Godzilla films (there are 29 in total) have had plots similar to GMaKGGMaaA’s for a while anyways. In the mood for something Godzillarific? Then check this one out.

If you don’t want to be a member of the Warrior’s Read Committee but you do you have a suggestion for next year's Warriors Read novel, submit your idea to one of the librarians. The deadline for all suggestions is December 10th, 2010. Make sure your book rec-ommendation meets the follow-ing criteria:

1. Appeals to and is appropriate for readers from Sec. 2 to adult 2. Is under 250 pages and has NOT been made into a movie. 3. Is available in paperback. If you only read one book this year then make it a series and make that series Chaos Walking

by Patrick Ness. Best SiFi Trilogy of 2010-2011: "The Noise is a man unfiltered,

and without a filter, a man is

just chaos walking."

Are you tired of war novels? Did you think the last warriors Read novel was a dud? Do you want to have a say in what the next War-riors Read novel is going to be? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, then join the Warriors Read committee so you can have a vote on what the Loyola Community reads next summer.

You have to be willing to commit to reading the 4 - 5 shortlisted books between January and the beginning of April and, you must attend 2-3 meetings (including a pizza lunch meeting) that happen after Christmas. Have your say! Sign up at the library.

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support, courtesy of Harper; and a rather simple hypothesis that David Frum advanced in the Canadian conservative's harbin-ger of Messianic prophecy, namely, the National Post. Put rather simply, Canada is part of the voting bloc termed Western Europe and Others. This bloc is dominated by EU members (Western Europe) but also con-tains Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Each bloc acts as an independent body in determining its nominees for the UN Security Council, meaning that hypotheses of excessive support for Israel are largely invalid due to the fact that Western Europe collectively

resources are being funnelled into sustainable development should suffice as a salve for our guilt-ridden souls.

Amid much specula-tion, Canada recently lost a seat on the UN Security Council to Portugal. Our obsession with cajoling our way to the Security Council is much like the need of every man and woman to be widely accepted among a large group of people whom one does-n't particularly care for. (Thanks, Seinfeld.) Speculations as to the causes of our pathetic loss abound, ranging from an overly-conservative government, cour-tesy of Iggy; lack of internal

Rebeca Grynspan of the UN Development Program set a new record for redundancy while stating that “There is nothing around this wonderful decision taken by the people of Ecuador and the government that is not wonderful.” Oh, the predictabil-ity of it all. Never mind that Ec-uadorian bonds, rated as “speculative-grade” (read: junk) by Moody's and S&P, constitute the only reassurance that pro-spective “investor” nations would have regarding the maintenance of Ecuador's environmental com-mitments. No, the mere fact that


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wields the greatest influence in determining the nominees for our bloc. As one might expect, the EU votes for its own members, leading to the unfortunate nomination of Portugal as a prime competitor to Canada, with Germany's ascen-dance to the Security Council be-ing beyond question well before voting took place. Nevertheless, we can console ourselves with the knowledge that our loss was merely the result of the relative disfavour of other nations and a grossly skewed bloc system. Per-haps next year...

Salt Pepper Pasta Oil Begin to prepare pasta. Stir fry the onion and then add the zucchini and mushrooms. Then add the cooked ham. Add the cream and milk to the stir fry and add a pinch

Delicious Cream Sauce Sauce 1 Red Onion 600 ml of Cream Cheese 200 ml of Milk Ham (cut into small pieces) 1 Zucchini Mushrooms

of salt and pepper. Keep a little bit of water from the pasta and mix it with the sauce Make a Gratin Place the sauce and pasta in a dish and grate your preferred cheese over the top. Bake until slightly browned (20 to 40 minutes).


Ms. Dianne E. Landry Head Librarian

Robert Richardson’s Kitchen: Cream Sauce

Jean Eudes had fourth down and needed 20 yards to score. On what can only be described as a scramble play off a flee-flicker that went wrong, Jean Eudes scored the game win-ning touchdown ending the Cinderella season for the Braves. Final score 9-6. The coaches would like to thank the entire team for their effort and dedication.

CADET WARRIORS

The Cadet Warriors will face College Bourget today in what promises to be an exciting semi-final match. In the regu-lar season, the Warriors lost once to Bourget in the last five seconds of one contest and tied in their second meeting.

BANTAM BRAVES

The Braves played their semi-final game October 26 against College Jean Eudes. Having learned from the outcome of their previous game, the team empha-sized the defense first motto. It paid off big as they were able to shutdown the powerful Jean Eu-des' offence. An interception by Christian DiCotis was returned for a touchdown and Loyola was leading 6-0 at half time. The second half was no different, as the defense reeked havoc and caused numerous turnovers. After conceding a two point safety the defense was put to the test once again. They did not disappoint and came up with the big stops. With less than two minutes left

Football news: Juvenile Warriors fail to make playoffs, Bantam Braves lose in epic semi-final, Cadet Warriors in semi-final

SPORTS & CLUBS


Coach Marc de Verteuil commented after the match that “It was a hard way to lose. The team played hard all year and I want to congratulate them on a very successful season.”

JUVENILE WARRIORS

Congratulations to the Juvenile Soc-cer team, who took care of business on October 26 and beat Macdonald H.S. by a score of 2-0. The Warriors remained disciplined and controlled the play throughout the game. The Warriors next travelled to the West Island on Thursday, October 28 to take on the only undefeated team in the league - Pierrefonds Comprehen-sive High School. Unfortunately, the Warriors came out on the losing end of a 5-2 score. Nevertheless, the

MIDGET WARRIORS

Congratulations to our Midget Warriors for a wonderful season! We fought hard on October 26 in the semifinal against VMC, but were defeated in shootouts after our 1-1 tie game went into double overtime.

BANTAM BRAVES

Despite finishing first in their division with an undefeated 7-0-1 record, the Braves lost a heart-breaker on October 28 to another undefeated team, Pierrefonds Comprehensive High School. In similar fashion to the Midget Warriors, the Braves lost in shoot-outs after two overtime periods.

BANTAM SCOUTS

Ms. Polverari, Ms. Iacovozvi and Mr. Cloetta would like to thank and congratulate the Bantam Soccer Scouts on a well played and very suc-cessful season, which sadly came to an end yesterday with a close 3-2 loss to Westmount High School. After dominating the game which was backed by solid goalkeeping, it came down to a lucky goal. The team supported each other and played extremely well. Con-gratulations, Scouts!

Soccer dream of quadruple championships is over; Juvenile and Bantam teams lose their semi-final matches

Tribe had a season that they can be proud of.

Above: Loyola Warrior Adamo Donovan in action

TEAM GP W T L PTS

Dalbé-Viau 8 6 0 2 12

Collège Bourget 8 5 1 2 11

Loyola 8 5 1 2 11

Collège Sainte-Anne 8 4 0 4 8

Regina-Assumpta 8 3 0 5 6

Édouard-Montpetit 8 0 0 8 0

CADET FOOTBALL

TEAM G W L T PTS

College Jean Eudes 5 5 0 0 10

College de Montreal 5 3 2 0 6

Lower Canada College 5 3 2 0 6

Loyola High School 5 2 3 0 4

Selwyn House School 5 1 4 0 2

Kuper Academy 5 1 4 0 2

BANTAM FOOTBALL

League Standings: check up on your favorite team


Above: The Juvenile Warriors football team captains. Back row, left to right: Michael Maggio, Matt Bytalan, Nick Impellizzeri, Malcolm Baird. Front row: Andrew Santalucia and Erik Samuel.

TEAM GP W T L PTS

St-Jean-Vianney 8 8 0 0 16

Dalbé-Viau 8 7 0 1 14

Cité-des-Jeunes 8 6 0 2 12

Selwyn House 8 5 0 3 10

Collège Bourget 8 4 0 4 8

Collège Sainte-Anne 8 3 0 5 6

Loyola 8 2 0 6 4

Lower Canada College 8 1 0 7 2

Édouard-Montpetit 8 0 0 8 0

JUVENILE FOOTBALL

JUVENILE VOLLEYBALL

TEAM


West Island College 12 6 3 3 15

Macdonald High School 12 4 5 3 11

John Rennie High School 12 2 6 4 8

Riverdale High School 12 0 9 3 3

MIDGET VOLLEYBALL


Laurier MacDonald 14 7 3 4 18

Lindsay Place 14 1 12 1 3

BANTAM VOLLEYBALL

West Island College 12 6 2 4 16

LaurenHill Academy 12 6 3 3 15


Beaconsfield High School 12 5 3 4 14

Westmount High School 12 0 11 1 1

TEAM

TEAM

Letter Tile Puzzle

“Men and women for others”

Math Puzzle

Puzzle Solutions


just as adorable and cute. With 120 horsepower, bucket seats, a racier set up and suspension, it’s fun for you and 3 other people (however tight it might be in the back seats). But wait, there’s more! If you still believe 120 horsepower isn’t enough to float your boat, there’s the Abarth SS (EsseEsse as they call it in Europe). This is a turbocharged version of the 500 Abarth, boost-ing it to 160 horsepower! The results are 0-100 Km/h in about 7

seconds! Truly amazing numbers for a car of this size and price range. If you ever heard it, you would believe that a Lamborghini has just blasted by you rather than a Fiat.

With these cars, Fiat is trying to come back to the market with a bang and is hoping to appeal to all different types of motorists. For the middle aged man or woman, or even a young woman who likes style and wants

for the real petrol head, 94 horse-power sounds like nothing, even in a car that weighs as much as my toaster and is smaller than a shoe. Nope, for the real enthusi-ast, they have something called the Abarth 500. It is a lowered, sportier and more thrilling ver-sion of the normal car. It gives off an appearance of what a baby who decided to start bodybuild-ing would look like. And it’s still


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to look stylish while driving a fun and passionate car, there’s the 500. For the young man, possibly in his 20’s or early 30’s, there’s the Abarth 500. And for the truly af-flicted and passionate drivers, no matter what gender or age, there’s the Abarth SS. The fuel economy on all models isn’t bad either. Ru-mours are that prices will start at around $20,000 to $25,000. Wouldn’t you want one? I defi-nitely would.

team sports to the mental and

social growth of a young adult? Sports are a great way for young adults to meet new people and challenge themselves in ways it would not otherwise be possible. Working with teammates,

(Continued from page 3) coaches and referees allows them to learn important social skills. As an individual, athletes learn discipline, how to work hard and many organizational skills that will help them in everyday life.

What types of things do you

like to do in your spare time?

I spend a lot of time playing sports. I still enjoy squash and rugby and often sit down to watch football or hockey. The summer time is spent playing/coaching rugby and any other free time is spent travelling or enjoying cottage life.

New Teacher Feature, continued form Page 3

Historical

Halloween

Words used to complete puzzle

Zombie

Frankenstein

Jack the Ripper

Werewolf

Marley

Headless Horseman

Grim Reaper

Sweeney Todd

Dracula

Mad Hatter


By Alex Venditti

healing or enlightenment. In fact, if I was so unfortunate to be as ill as many of the tourists at Lourdes, I would also go to the grotto in search of treatment and a cure for my ailments.

However, it is the com-mercialization of Lourdes, as a result of mass religious visitation, which disgusted me. A cathedral being built next to the site of Mary’s apparition is acceptable. Nearly one hundred shops selling religious paraphernalia (such as the proverbial plastic Jesus statue), is abominable and sick-ening.

A site with the goal of religious teaching should be de-void of parasitical business that seeks to make profit from the misfortune and misery of other human beings who are obviously in dire straits. This was not the case in Lourdes, as the streets converging to the cathedral and grotto were lined with stores and vendors aggressively hawking their rosaries, pictures, candles and statues.

It honestly felt like the Las Vegas of the religious world. I would even go as far in propos-ing the oxymoron the “Sin City of Piety”. The only thing missing was a strip-bar or even a brothel. It was depleting and saddening as it was obnoxious and offensive. The visitation made my entire family cringe and even question how such utilitarian bloodthirsty commercialization could work itself into such a peaceful desti-nation of pilgrimage. As a perpet-ual parade of the ill was funneled

offered some books concerning Jesuit history, refreshments and some memorabilia. In accordance with our family tradition and after much searching, a quaint fridge magnet was purchased to adorn our culturally diverse re-frigerator. All things considered, I was extremely pleased with the visit and not only because I am a Loyola student. The visit encour-aged our personal exploration of Jesuit history in a manner that was deeply reflective and very enjoyable.

In France, my family and I visited the cave, where, in 1858, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have witnessed an apparition of the Virgin Mary who spoke to her from a ledge of the nearby grotto named “La Grotte de Massabielle.” Before this encounter, Lourdes was a small market town near the foot-hills of the Pyrenees Mountains. Ever since then, the site has at-tracted millions of pilgrims who have come in search of divine assistance. The spring water from the grotto is said to have healing properties and the Church has recognized 67 events of miracu-lous healing as a result of expo-sure to this water. Therefore, most who visit this site are seri-ously ill and have most likely come to the cave as a last resort.

Up to this point, I have no problem with what Lourdes has to offer. Should those believe the water to have healing proper-ties, then, I would not dare dis-courage their personal pilgrimage to Lourdes and their search for

opportunity to learn and meditate without distraction. Quite simply, in one circumstance my expecta-tions were met and exceeded, while in the other, I was sorely disappointed, disheartened and disturbed.

I was overall quite impressed with Saint-Ignatius’ birth place. There were surpris-ingly not too many visitors. How-ever, all sightseers and the recep-tion staff were warm and friendly. We were able to roam freely around the oak paneled early renaissance house where the Spanish saint himself was born. Artifacts from the Jesuit’s early life were displayed through-out the building with some writ-ten interpretation explaining the significance of the objects. After walking the four floors of the home, we were able to easily learn about Ignatius’ childhood, family, friends and faith.

Beyond the building, we were invited to learn about the Society of Jesus and their missions and we were even of-fered entry into the cathedral where guest could quietly reflect, pray or bask in its architectural splendour. At the time, a mass was being given in the Basque language, though, we were still allowed to quietly explore the hallowed halls.

Outside, a very small and almost unnoticeable gift-shop was nestled among some vegetation near the steps of the cathedral. The shop modestly


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into a dense mass of people in front of the grotto, no space was free of advertisement (including the entrance to the cathedral).

It made me question as to which religion this monstrosity actually belonged. It could not be Catholicism, which teaches against materialism and denounces the practice of benefitting from an-other’s hardship. I am glad to say we left as soon as possible and we were not tempted to buy one of the thousands of fridge magnets of-fered for purchase.

When comparing the two sites I had visited, the difference is obvious. Where one offers one’s personal development of faith through the process of education and learning in a solemn setting, the other encourages consumerism so that we may, in a sense, “showoff” our piety.

The Lourdes experience is fodder for atheists who wish to wage war on organized religion. The great distinction between the two destinations can be easily ex-plained. In layman’s terms, the birthplace of Saint-Ignatius is still alive with the spirit of Loyola, as we were capable of reflection and learning in a solemn and serene atmosphere. At Lourdes, where shops deceived the weak and ill into believing that the purchase of material objects would aid them in gaining the favor of the Lord, it was evident that if Mary had ever visited the young girl at the grotto, the Virgin was long gone by now.


lunch, where everyone can watch.

You may currently be wondering why the robotics team was described as insane; this is because, during the sea-son, team members are required to devote approximately twelve hours of work every week. That’s two weekdays from 3 PM to 6 PM, and Saturdays from 10 AM to 5 PM. Espe-cially during the week right before regionals, they stay af-terschool for more than just two days. However, whether it is

against other player! What you’re gambling on is that you’re going to come in the top three on the final scoreboard. So if you’re in the top three, you get paid, while the rest go broke. There’s always going to be some losers and some winners. So if you do lose, you can jump right back in and try to reclaim the currency that you just lost!

With the cash you earn through these wager matches, you can purchase new things, such as contracts. Contracts? What’s that? Contracts can pay you more XP, more currency, or even both, depending on which contract you sign. So basically

you buy a contract, and from the second you purchase it, there’s a count down for when that con-tract will end. You must go to work quickly in order to accom-plish the contract that you signed in order to get paid. Say you like to use SMG’s in Call of Duty. You want SMG based contracts, right? So you go to the contract menu, you sign an SMG contract, you fulfill what you signed and then you get paid what was on the contract.

Another neat feature is the player customization option that includes things like face paint, unique perk-specific char-acter models, and a whole lot of

(1.73 cm) at its thickest point and comes in two screen sizes. Apple also showed iLife ’11, FaceTime for OS X, the Mac App Store for OS X, and a pre-view for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.

October 21th: Robotic

Surgery and HP Slate

(Continued from page 10) The first all-robot surgery was performed at McGill Univer-sity. Robots including the Da Vinci robotic-surgeon and the McSleepy robot anaesthesiolo-gist were controlled by sur-geons to remove a patient’s prostate. HP made its tablet computer the HP slate official.

members. If you ever want to learn about Loyola’s history in robotics, go down to the lab sometime after school and have a chat with the lab technician, Mr. Charlton.

Robotics season offi-cially starts in January, but the team also ventures into the world of mechanics before the games begin, in what they call the off-season. During this time, they set a simple game to play, and they build robots to play it. Often times, the games are played in the atrium during

to participate in a game created by the game developers of the FIRST organization. Each year, a new game is created, and in an historic moment in 2006, the team won the whole champion-ship. Not only that, they were the very first Canadian team to do it.

Part of their winning the championship was due to the invaluable help of our men-tors; alumni who have returned to help out, as well as staff


pistol!

Wager matches also include game modes like “One in the Chamber,” where you spawn in with a pistol, and only a pistol, one bullet and three lives. If you kill somebody, you get to take their bullet. But if you miss, all you have for a weapon is melee. It probably has the highest level of tension. This game mode ca-ters more to hardcore kind of players. These are but two of the many wager game modes

In a wager match, you can actually take the currency you’ve earned and gamble it


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weapon customization that you can unlock with your currency! Call of

Duty Black Ops allows you to make a weapon and a character your own through customization.

Call of Duty Black Ops will not disappoint. This game is even entering the 3rd dimension for all those with a 3D TV! For all those who enjoyed killing zombies from the previous Call of Duty 5

World at War game, well, let’s just say they’re back and hungry! COD

7 is the only Call of Duty you’ll need for the next while. I don’t know how they’ll follow up on this one!

learning new things, building something, things malfunction-ing when you least expect, or going on trips to other cities, every minute is pure excitement. Yes, you heard right, the most hard-working students are cho-sen to go on the trip to the re-gional (this year they’re going to Toronto), and, if that is won, then on to St. Louis, Missouri!

The device running Windows 7 has an 8.9-inch touch screen display, 64GB solid state drive, and a 1.86 GHz Atom Processor. It is currently up for sale for $799 USD.

broadcasts and much more!

If you are interested, please see Mr. Ketterling or our edi-tor Alex Banks. As well, all

The Loyola News is always looking for new additions to its staff to write articles, take pictures, work on our web site, produce audio and video

students are invited to any of our after school staff meet-ings.

Please listen to the bulletin

The Loyola News is hiring

Current staff

Above, left to right: Alex Banks (Editor); Michael Bilinsky (Technology and Video), Chris Scarvelis (Current Events), Anthony Pavoni (Current Events and Book Reviews), Michael Morena (auto vehicles), Kevin Khoury (Current Events).

Above, left to right: Robert Richardson (Loyola Birders, Book Reviews, Food); Watio Martinez Montour (Current Events); Alex Kozina (Movie Reviews); Alex Spatolisano (Photography), Giancarlo Szymborski (Photography); Eric Huang (Loyola Robotics, Literature)

Horrifying Halloween

Cupcakes Naturally, during the Halloween season, many people seem to crave more sugar. I have recipe for those who have a serious sweet tooth. The cupcakes: 15 1/2 ounces all-purpose flour 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda

1 1/4 teaspoons salt 1 1/4 teaspoons cocoa powder 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil 13 ounces granulated sugar 1 1/4 cups buttermilk

3 eggs 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons

red food coloring

1 1/4 teaspoons vinegar 1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/8 cup water

The cream cheese frosting: ¾ of a pound of cream cheese,

room temperature.

Half a pound butter, room tem-perature

1 pounds powdered sugar, sifted

Half tablespoon vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Sift (making it so that there are no clumps) together flour, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder in a bowl and then set aside.

In a mixer, mix oil, sugar, and buttermilk until combined. Add eggs, food coloring, vinegar, vanilla and water and mix well. Add the dry ingredients a little bit at a time and mix on low speeds. Scrape down the sides occasion-ally, and mix until just combined. Be sure not to over mix, or the batter will come out tough. Line a cupcake pan with paper cupcake holder, scoop the batter into the liners and bake at 350 degrees F for 30 to 40. Then let cool. Whip the butter and cream cheese together in a mixer until creamy. Gradually add powdered sugar to the mixture and scrape down the bowl as needed. Add

Robert Richardson’s Kitchen: Scary Cupcakes

the vanilla and mix until com-bined. The frosting can be used right away or stored in the refrigerator for up to a week. Frost cooled cupcakes with the cream cheese frosting.

for the date and time of staff meetings. Our next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, No-vember 3, at 3:05 in room 211.

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