Computer Crash Erases Students’ MarksComputer Crash Erases Students’ MarksComputer Crash Erases Students’ MarksComputer Crash Erases Students’ MarksComputer Crash Erases Students’ Marks

By Echo ReporterKelsey Davis

Student Meeting TStudent Meeting TStudent Meeting TStudent Meeting TStudent Meeting TimesimesimesimesimesWednesday, April 2nd Grade 12’s 8:30-12:30 Last Names A-M 1:00-3:05 Last Names N-Z

Dr. Charles Bestadministration returned toschool following SpringBreak to a very seriousschool problem.

On Friday, March28th, the pro-intergradeddatabase virus, “Java-bug” was discovered intwelve school serversprovince-wide, infectingthe Inter-marks Program torecord grades; Best wasone of these schools. Asa result, the schoolcomputers suffered amassive crash tha thaserased all student historyrecords, includingsemester one final marksand all marks entered intothe computer in semestertwo up to March 23rd.marks. For students, thismeans any and all marksupdated into computersthis school year have beenlost.

All data loaded intoInter-grade was wipedclean, including markssent to the Ministry ofEducation prior toprovincial exams inJanuary. Inter-marks,updated into Best’scomputers six years ago, isalso used by two otherDistrict 43 schools:Heritage Woods andCentennial.

“We areabsolutely shocked thishappened, “said WilliamFence, School District 43computer specialist. “ Weupload the best anti-virussystems into all districtcomputers, so forsomething to get throughand destroy records; wellthat is quite unexpected.”

After a weekend ofconsultations with District43 Superintendent, TomGrant and EducationMinister, Shirley Bond,Charles Best Principal,Mrs. O’Neil, has decided torely on students to replacethe lost grades. CharlesBest will be asking forstudents help and sincerityto restore misplaced markslater this week.

“Students will beasked to come and meetwith office staff and givetheir final semester onegrades to the secretaries.We trust our students andknow they will use the“honesty policy” whilegoing through thisprocess. In this case, wereally have no otheralternative.”

Charles Bestteachers are being asked togive over any and allgrades they have recordedin their own record books,but since almost allteachers rely on

computers or havediscarded semester onemark books, a student’sword will be heavily relied

on. If possible, oldreport cards are to bereturned to the school toget an accurate idea ofwhere students’ gradeswere following the crash.If reports cards are notavailable or have been“destroyed,” the “honestypolicy” will be the nextaccurate option.

Students are alsobeing asked to return hardcopies of Januaryprovincial exam marks theyreceived in the mail to theschool, as ministrycomputers have now lostall record of student’s finalgrades recorded, includingprovincial exams, fromgrades ten to grade twelve.Minister of Education,Shirley Bond, is asking allaffected students to mailback their recently releasedprovincial exam marks asquickly as possible.

Office staff willwork overtime over the nextweek to input marks back

into the computer asquickly as possible.

Though thehonesty of Charles Bestmembers doesn’t seem tobe an issue with admin,students arefar moreconcerned.

“ T h i sis pretty mucha dream cometrue for everys t u d e n t ,except thosewho alreadyhave 100%,”said grade 11s t u d e n t ,Alyssa Scott.“The smartkids get higherup in the 90’sand the dumbo n e smiraculously

Thursday, April 3rd Grade 11’s 8:30-12:30 Last Names A-M

1:00- 3:05 Last Names N-Z

Friday, April 4th Grade 10’s 8:30-12:00 Last Names A-N 12:30- 3:00 Last Names O-Z

Monday, April 7th Grade 9’s 9:00- 12:00 Last Names A-M 12:30-3:00 Last Names N-Z

surpass their 49.8% GPA.”“I think this is their

best option and I for one,plan to use the honestypolicy. Anyone who doesn’t

is clearly isn’t working hardenough in school,” saidGrade 9, Collin Campbell.

All studentsshould be prepared to beginmarks update tomorrow,

starting with grade 12’s, asuniversities are looking forsecond semester mid-termmarks. Meeting will begin at8:30am and continuethrough till 12:30 for lastnames A-M. 1:00-3:05 will belast names N-ZGrade 11students will follow the 12’sWednesday morning at 8:30-12 for last names A-M and12:30-3 for N-Z. Grade 10’swill begin Thursday morningat the same times, followedby nine’s on Fridaymorning, beginning at 9am.

Students are askedto be prepared with semesterone report cards, provincialexam grades, as well as theinterim report cardsdistributed on March 1st.

“W“W“W“W“We will be asking students to self report theire will be asking students to self report theire will be asking students to self report theire will be asking students to self report theire will be asking students to self report theirlost grades to the office staff all this week. Wlost grades to the office staff all this week. Wlost grades to the office staff all this week. Wlost grades to the office staff all this week. Wlost grades to the office staff all this week. Weeeeetrust our students and know they will use thetrust our students and know they will use thetrust our students and know they will use thetrust our students and know they will use thetrust our students and know they will use the‘honesty policy’ while going through this‘honesty policy’ while going through this‘honesty policy’ while going through this‘honesty policy’ while going through this‘honesty policy’ while going through thisprocess.”process.”process.”process.”process.”Charles Best Principal, Mrs. O’NeilCharles Best Principal, Mrs. O’NeilCharles Best Principal, Mrs. O’NeilCharles Best Principal, Mrs. O’NeilCharles Best Principal, Mrs. O’Neil

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In an effort to dissuade our youth from picking on their peers, theprovince of British Columbia has proclaimed February 27th “Anti-BullyingDay.” It seems that even crooked politicians are warm to the idea of beingnice to one another—at least in school. Premier Campbell himself, a formervictim of bullying due to a slightly scandalous mug shot, hails: “Nobodylikes a bully! We all have to stop bullies in our schools and around theprovince.” But is the Liberal policy really a step forward?

Not everyone is impressed with the idea of an “Anti-Bullying Day.”“They’re tampering with evolution!” said Professor Kwaka of the Univer-sity of Phoenix at a protest rally at the Las Vegas campus. Kwaka, whomajored in taxonomy, protests that bullies are a part of the modern day“survival of the fittest,” and that kids who get picked on should eitherlearn to adapt or not reproduce. “If the kids are getting bullied, that’s theirown fault. The world doesn’t need them anyway.” Kwaka stressed thatcontrary to popular belief, it isn’t the nice empathetic computer geek thatadvances the world, but the burlyi n s e n s i t i v e bullies. “We needbullies. With- out them, all we’vegot are weak little nice guy char-acters. What we truly need aremen of action that are prepared tosquash any feeble liabilities toevolution.”

Profes- sor Kwaka gavehis hypothesis claiming that if Brit-ish Columbia accepted bullyingrather than shunning it, thepercentage of mentally andp h y s i c a l l y tough studentswould increase by 88%. “I’ve con-ducted count- less studies andthey all tell me one thing, bullyingis the way of life. Just imagine ajungle with no predators. Thinkabout it—just because one spe-cies preys on another, doesn’tmean the jun- gle animals legis-late predators into extinction.”

As the crowd of a hundred people cheered and whistled, Kwakawent on to explain that leaders are all bullies, and followers are the indi-viduals that were unable to cope with torment. “We need more leadershipin our day and age. No more shall we embrace the weak and ostracizeantagonization. Premier Campbell should realize that bullies are the future.Let evolution take its natural course.” Professor Kwaka left the stage to aroar of applause leading the rowdy crowd to the Golden Gate Hotel andCasino for biscuits and tea. Sadly, only 22 members of the rally made itthrough the 2.6 kilometer march.

In response to the protest, Premier Campbell called Professor Kwakaa “bully”.

Kwaka Protest AgainstBullying Causes aFracas in Sin City

Valentines Day is notori-ous for PDA’s, also known as“Public Display of Affection Cou-ples.” Unfortunately for somePDA’s, Valentines Day is everyday. Anyone can spot a PDA cou-ple when they see one. They’realways touchy feely, making outin public, sometimes even fondlingeach other. Walking through thehalls of Best, you can see thePDA’s everywhere. Even if you tryto walk faster, you just can’t es-cape them. Up against lockers, indoorways, under stairs, in bath-room stalls. Soon they’ll be foundlurking in our classrooms or hang-ing from our ceilings.

WWWWWarning: Drarning: Drarning: Drarning: Drarning: Dr. Charles Best Infested with PDA. Charles Best Infested with PDA. Charles Best Infested with PDA. Charles Best Infested with PDA. Charles Best Infested with PDA’’’’’sssss

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The Minister of Education, Shirley Bond, excit-edly introduced the latest set of graduation Requirements,last week. While there were several minor changes in-cluding upping the hours of vigorous activity to 120hours and the work experience to sixty hours, the majorshock was the new obligatory weight standards. As ofSeptember 2008, male students must weigh between 72and 82 kilograms (approx. 160-180 pounds) while femalesmust stay between 63 and 72 kilos (approx. 140-160 lbs)to graduate. “With the world coming to B.C. in 2010, wewant our citizens to look their very best,” Bond told themedia. “I am positive that this program will bring ourdesired results.” Students will be weighed publicly sev-

If you want to have anintimate make out session with yourlover, think about going somewherea little more private. Seriously, whycan’t some couples wait until after

school when they can go home anddo whatever they please when noone is watching? The nastiest arethe young ones that look like dog’slicking each others faces in front ofthe whole student body. You won-der what’s going through their heads

if they think “It’s ok” to push eachother up against the vending ma-chines and share an intimate kiss.Or to suck each others’ faces off infront of all the grade 12’s. Every-one in the school wonders whatcompels PDA’s to be PDA’s. Isthere some sort of pheromone inour school’s air that makes all cou-ples want to jump each other? Itmust really be love if you have yourpartner pinned to a classroom dooras you suck their neck like a vam-pire. If you’re really in love and needto hold and touch each other all daylong, could you at least keep it PGand leave the tongue for afterschool. Sadly our school is infestedwith PDA couples, and there’s noth-ing you can do about it.

eral times a year in their homeroom class to help tracktheir progress. For those currently over the standard,the government will supply information on eating welland leading healthy lifestyles. For those beneath thestandard, the government will issue chocolate pud-ding. There is, however, an exception to the rule. “Weunderstand that if athletes want to be in peak condi-tion for their competitions they may need to weighoutside these new guidelines.” Therefore, athletes thatare in National sports programs or are on at least fourschool athletics programs will be excused from his regu-lation. Otherwise, students are going to have to slimdown or forget their gown.

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The repercussions of lastyear’s grad prank may result in aschool closure. Last June, a hand-ful of grade 12 students releaseddozens of mice all around theschool. Since then, the mice havereproduced like wildfire andhave been discovered inseveral walls and crawlspaces on the first and sec-ond floors, including the caf-eteria. Earlier thismonth, hundreds of micewere found in the school cel-lar and the cafeteria storageroom. Mark Hayes, the headcustodian said, “As far aswe can tell, the rodentshaven’t infected any of thecafeteria food, but this wholemess is still under investiga-tion.” The Ministry of Healthhave conducted thoroughexaminations over springbreak so far have found nosigns of contamination.

“The mice have created nu-merous tunnels throughout theschool walls; it’s like one big maze!The only way we’re going to getrid of these mice is to get rid ofthese walls and poison the suck-

ers,” said Jay Lincoln, maintenancemanager of District 43. To fumigateand exterminate the mice, theschool will be shut down from April12-19th while the exterminators anda demolition team disinfect the

school. Chemicals such as Tetrazideand Necroxide will be sprayed intothe walls and a massive tent is tobe draped around the exterior ofthe building to confine the toxicfumes.

Later this week, administra-

tion will issue vaccination shots toall students. “It is our number onepriority to make sure the studentsreceive these vaccination shots asthey will prevent any illness that

may occur. Althoughinfections are ex-tremely unlikely, thesafety of the studentsis our number one con-cern.” Ms. Front, medi-cal officer of Children’sSafety Board also said“this is a necessaryprecaution…all stu-dents are expected tobe inoculated.” Re-turning students willnot only have to dealwith toxins, they willalso have their schoolyear running into thefirst two weeks of sum-mer due to lengthy dis-infection process.

When asked exactly how longthis would take, exterminator EricWarn said: “How long the demoli-tion will take is anyone’s guess, itall depends on the actual amount ofmice we’re dealing with.”

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The Tealess Tea—what adelightful irony. Normally just an-other fluorescently lit classroom,room 105 was dimmed down to can-dle light giving off a ubiquitoussense of tranquility. This casualevent saw a wide range of guests,from Mr. Stuart to Mr. Jiwa, show-ing their acknowledgment to theskill development department bysocializing while enjoying a cup-

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How do you plan on having fun in the sun?How do you plan on having fun in the sun?How do you plan on having fun in the sun?How do you plan on having fun in the sun?How do you plan on having fun in the sun?

Tyler and MalcolmI put a fart machine in myteacher’s desk.

CallumI put A5-35 in a toothpastetube.

GavinPulled a fire alarm.

JoeyI fed my dad laxativecookies then put saran wrapon the toilet seat.

SarahSpend a lot of time at thebeach.

JordanTan naked on my roof.

Andrea and Stephanie Hang out with friends.

Lorena and AlissaMexico!!!!

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By Echo ReportersLorena Russo and Ted Carr

cake and fruit punch. It was with-out question an afternoon of splen-did joy as everyone who enteredthe room felt welcome to be a partof a day meant for Best students.These Best students took the timeand effort to set the room up tospend the day in different scen-ery—one of care free rejoice. Hatsoff to another great Tealess Tea.

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by Echo columnist Matt Newton

Last September, I went to a meetingover coffee with a few good friendswho were talking about an idea thatcould mean huge change forVancouver. All six of us were eagerto do something to provide relief tothe urban poverty crisis, and the“Dollar a Day Campaign” was bornout of that desire. The concept issound, and the mission is bold:“Empowering people to eliminatepoverty.” We began with a core teamof six: Coquitlam Alliance youthpastors Jon Morrison and DaveSmith, Port Moody Secondarystudents Cameron Dailly and JessicaWiebe, UVic student Kristie Burkett,and myself. We set out on a youth-run initiative like none before, to makepermanent changes in MetroVancouver.There is a dire need in thelower mainland for outreach; thehomeless population of thedowntown eastside has reached over2000, is expected to triple from whatits size was in 2006 by the time theOlympics roll around, and the UnitedNations recently declared ourhomeless epidemic a Canadian crisis

that demands the attention of ournation. Furthermore, low-incomehousing residents are being illegally

evicted with 24-hours notice in thetri-cities as well as Vancouver,which is causing a dramaticincrease in the amount of displacedpeople.What makes this campaign uniqueis that it aims to raise capital forestablished ministries who are

already doing amazing things tohelp those less fortunate with us,rather than attempt to establish

our own. The organizationsbenefiting from the campaign areUnion Gospel Mission, Hope forFreedom Society, Potter’s Place,Covenant House, and NightshiftStreet Ministry, all of which haveremarkable stories on how theypersevere through diversity in the

pursuit of helping the poor. For justone month, November 2008, peopleare encouraged to donate a dollarfor each day for a total of $30. 100%of this money will then bedistributed to these ministries. Webelieve that everyone wants tohelp the homeless, but don’t havean effective way to do so; thiscampaign enables people to makea manageable contribution that,accumulatively, will make a hugeimpact.Thus far, the campaign has beenvery fortunate in its reception. Ourlaunch event, Some StringsAttached, raised over $2000 infreewill offering, which CP Rail thengenerously matched. We were thengiven a $2000 donation in order tomake a website(www.dollaradaycampaign.com).Most recently, Cameron, Dave and

myself travelled to the cold, hardtundra of Caronport, Saskatchewanfor YouthQuake, a youthconference that holds an annualcompetition to donate money toyouth-run initiatives. Cameron andI spoke in front of over 1300 people,who then voted on which of the

initiatives would win the top prize.The next day, the results wereannounced, and we went home withthe maximum grant of $8000, all ofwhich will go to the campaign.Our most recent event was focusedon developing the Dollar a Day team,rather than raising funds. The Dollara Day training day was held in earlyMarch, and involved all members ofour team speaking, as well aspresentations from representativesfrom four of the five involvedministries. Positions within thecampaign were explained andexplored, and all in attendance wereworked with to brainstorm uniqueways they can be involved. Wewalked away from that day with amuch larger Coquitlam team as wellas quite a few municipal delegateswho will build Dollar a Day teams intheir respective cities.As for thefuture, we are currently planning tospeak and hold training days in othercities as well, and promoting Dollar aDay through a variety of interesting,effective ways. From now untilNovember 2008, we have a lot of workahead of us but we are optimistic andenthused for what’s yet to come.

It was a record turnout for Dr. Charles Best Annual Fine & Performing Arts Night whichtook place on Thursday, February 28th; a large number of students and their families joinedtogether in the small gym to admire the artistic and creative accomplishments of theirpeers. A number of outstanding pieces were displayed that included a variety of mediasand styles from drawing and painting, photography and graphic arts, to dramatic scenesand musical performances by students from the drama and music departments. The eventbegan at seven, with an opening performance by the junior and senior jazz bands, welcomingthe audience. The performance was both ambitious and impressive. Following up, thechoir belted out a number of songs, leaving attendants in awe with their medley of tenaciousand harmonious compilations. After the choir’s performance, cast members from ‘You’re aGood Man Charlie Brown’ took the stage, presenting the musical’s hit self-titled song,giving the audience a taste of the drama department’s upcoming spring play. After a halfhour intermission to view the colourful artwork, and tasty treats, the audience returned totheir seats (or standing positions) to enjoy scenes performed by Drama 9 students and aparticular memorable scene from ‘School Daze’. Overall, the event was needless to say,successful and extremely enjoyable for the whole family.

by Echo reporter Tara Staples

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Much to my dismay, I wasscheduled to work the night of thisyear’s Academy Awards. Luckily,the television at the bar of the res-taurant by which I am employed hadthe awards on. This meant that as Iwas shucking copious amounts ofoysters (oh the joy), Icould hopefully catchsome moments of theOscars. Unfortunately, Ionly had the opportunityto look up twice duringmy shift. Let me tell youwhat I saw.

The first time Isnuck a peek at thescreen, I thought theyhad put it on the wrongchannel. After all, whywould Miley Cyrus be atthe Oscars? Oh right,because she’s a super-awesome triple threatwho is just oozing with talent. It’snot like she’s just another gadgetin the Disney machine that wasgiven a TV show because Daddyis a washed up country singer andshe has a voice that can be strate-gically manipulated by a computerto sound almost good. Honestly,there should be snipers positionedalong the red carpet to monitor trav-esties such as this. If no one’s upfor the job, I’m not busy, I’ll volun-teer. Once I had fully taken in whatI was seeing on the TV, I returnedto my oysters. However, given mystate of rage, I successfully shat-tered about ten perfectly goodEffingham oysters. Tragic.

About an hour and a halflater, once I had recovered from the

Miley Cyrus incident by convinc-ing myself that I was hallucinating,I looked up again. Overall, this wasnot a wise decision. The word“Norbit” was dominating thescreen. Of course, I thought thiswas a commercial, especially con-

sidering that“Norbit” is a film inwhich EddieMurphy demon-strates his actingprowess by dress-ing up as a woman.Now there’s a con-cept that’s neverbeen done before.Naturally, I wasdisappointed onceagain. “Norbit”was nominated foran AcademyAward. I supposethat, given the

nomination was for achievement inmake-up, it really could have beenworse. But then again, when”Norbit” is released on DVD, it cannow have the caption “Oscar Nomi-nated” placed on the cover. Whenthat happens, and happen it will, Iwill personally commit crimes of thearsenic nature on every movierental store in the lower mainland.Could the Academy come up withno other nomination for make-up?They had to resort to “Norbit?”Cheers for that one Oscar.

Needless to say, I will notbe watching the Oscars next year.At least not until they name me theOfficial Sniper of the 2009 AcademyAwards.

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A strange thing happened to meas I listened to Backwoods Barbie…I developed a crush for an olderwoman named Dolly Parton.

The funny thing is, before I heardthis album, I thought Dolly was dead.Now, I’m no fan of country music,but I know good music when I hearit, and this album is full of it!

Dolly opens the album up with thesong “Better Get to Livin’,” whichinstantly engages the listener withher cute voice offering advice onliving a better life. Line after line, thisupbeat song is full of guidance:“Don’t sweat the small stuff, keepyour chin up, just hang tough, andif it gets to rough fall on your kneesand pray…”

“She Drives me Crazy,” a FineYoung Cannibals cover song ap-pears on the album and is one of myfavorites. It’s hard to believe howold Dolly Parton really is when youhear just how beautiful she singsthese pop country songs.

The title track Backwoods Barbieis undeniably catchy and I found it

By Echo ColumnistTed Carr

Ouch, definitely not one ofJack Black’s finest. The previewsmade this movie look like it wouldbecome incredibly popular, butthe movie itself was a dud andentirely different than thepreviews made it out. “Be KindRewind” is about a cheap videostore about to be shut down. Thecity wants to improve theneighbourhood and make it asbeautiful as the rest of the city;unfortunately, this means thevideo store is to be closed. The

By Echo ColumnistLorena Russo

hard to get the chorus out of mydead: “I’m just a backwoods Barbie,too much makeup too much hair,don’t be fooled by thinking that thegoods are not all bad.” The songbegins with the telling of her youth-ful aspiration to be pretty like themodels and her Barbie dolls. It’s safeto say that her dreams have cometrue, because, at age 62, Dolly’s asbeautiful as ever.

“You ask me not to wear cologne,shell know you’ve been with mealone, and you can’t take our secrethome…” Dolly’s boy troubles arerevealed in the song “Cologne,”when she confesses her love for amarried man who leaves her hurtevery time he leaves her bed to headback to his wife’s.

Before the albums curtains close,Dolly sings about her search forlove in the song “Somebodys Eve-rything.”

Refusing to settle for anythingless than great, Dolly declares thatshe would even wait a lifetime to findtrue love: “I want someone to comealive when they lay eyes on me, havea lust within there touch, a passionfar beyond belief.”

Backwoods Barbie is an album foranyone who can appreciate goodmusic when they hear it. Not only isit a great album, it’s a mood-enhanc-ing supplement! With just 1 listen, Ican guarantee you’re mood will liftdramatically. So give it a go, havesome fun and crank these tunes.

(April fools!)

man who owns the store has beenliving above it for years, and hisfriends who work at the store willdo anything they can to keep it inbusiness. When the owner leavestown, he depends on hisemployees to run the store untilhis return. Jack Black, one of theemployees, is suddenly struck bylightening, and soon discoversevery video in the store hetouches, erases. Panicking andscared, they come up with a plan:to film their own version of everyvideo in the store.

“Be Kind Rewind” wasn’t aterrible movie, but I would expectmore humour especially seeing asJack Black stars in it. The theatreas a whole laughed three times - Icounted. Not only was this movienot that funny, but the storylinewas ridiculous. The movie hadmore to do with the store havingto close down than it did makingthe funny videos. It was almost abad drama film rather than acomedy. I would give this film 2stars. I’ve seen worse movies, butI’ve also had twice as manylaughs in other Jack Black movies.

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No longer simply a man and hisguitar, City and Colour’s Bring MeYour Love proves just how muchDallas Green has evolved as a musi-cian.

From the drum kit to the harmonica,City and Colour use a variety ofinstruments and have broadenedtheir horizons to create an albumwith entrancing instrumentalswrapped around flawless vocalizingand inspirational lyrics.

Every song has it’s own story andeach creates a different mood. “TheDeath of Me” reveals Dallas’ lovefor whisky, and the depressivebinges that come with it.

While the songs lyrics are adowner, the guitar work and vocalsare upbeat and cheery. “Body in aBox,” (from what I got out it) is aboutthe day you die turning out to be thebest day of your life: “We celebratethe lives of the dead like the man’sbest party only happens when hedies.” The song contains a veryshort harmonica melody which addsto the song’s polish.As if Dallas’voice alone is not enough, GordonDownie from the Tragically Hip isfeatured in the song “Sleeping Sick-

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ness,” and every word he sings islike magic; his voice flows so wellwith the tone of the song.

More than ever before, Dallas’personal life is incorporated into thesongs, and “The Girl” is a perfectexample. It’s a love song inspired byhis own appreciation for his girl-friend’s patience as he follows hisdreams as a musician. Consideringthe majority of the songs on thealbum are of a sad and miserablenature, it comes with no surprisethat album ends with their most sen-timental song yet.

“As Much as I Ever Could” topsoff the album with passionate lyricsemanating from deep in this man’ssoul: “As the storm grew fierce, anddanger was certainly near, I knewthere was nothing to fear…”

A year or two ago, Much Musicsaid that Dallas Green would be:“The Next Bob Dylan,” and afterhearing this album, I completelyagree.

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The Meanest of Times isDKM’s first CD on their very ownlabel, Born and Bred Records. TheDropkick Murphys, who hail fromBoston, are one of the only bandsout today that truly have a uniquesound. Mixing hard rock, Scottishand Irish instruments and a tad offolk, they achieve an interestingblend of styles, and amazingly, theyhave been able to retain this sound,

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instead of falling into the pit of com-mercialism that many other alterna-tive bands fall into by letting theirown musical style bleed into medi-ocrity. The music produced by thiscombination is an amazing brand ofCeltic punk much harder than anyother bands, including FloggingMolly.

One of the most remarkable songson the CD, “Flannigan’s Ball,” basedon an old Irish pub tune, is in myopinion, the best song on the CD. Itretains everything great from theircurrent and past music, from thebagpipes to fascinating lyrics to fast,memorable guitar. The quality is alsofound on the rest of the album, as it’sdefinitely the best they’ve madesince “Blackout,” and possibly theirbest yet.

Many of the songs are based onsome of the band’s members’ child-hood experiences growing. From“The State of Massachusetts,“about an unfit drug-addicted parentlosing her children to the govern-ment while “Loyal to No One“ exam-ines a narcissistic man who cares forno one but himself. With such seri-ous subject matter, it’s odd howDropkick Murphys retain their partyatmosphere. The light music andserious tone of the lyrics form anodd but compelling juxtaposition.

One thing I still miss, however, isa song like “Skinhead on the Mtba”or “The Spicy McHaggis jig,” songsthat transform a CD, by involvingother styles of music like ska into themix, always with incredible results.Sowhether you like hard rock or folk,you can find something you like inthe Dropkick Murphys.

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bonafide NHL’ers in the process.However, it is a general consensusthat these three players have beenamong Vancouver’s top perform-ers this season, so how does thatmake them unsung? Perhaps, itmight be helpful to take anotherlook at the definition of “unsunghero” before you are dumbfoundedby my nominee.

Unsung hero: Not honored orpraised; uncelebrated. Don’t tellme that Kesler, Edler, and Burrowshave been uncelebrated this sea-son. Forget Obama and Clintonbecause Kesler, Edler and Burrowshave been all deemed next Presi-dent of the United States at onepoint or another this season by theCanucks faithful (despite the factthat only Kesler hails from belowthe 49th parallel). A more suitablecandidate for unsung hero mightbe Aaron Miller, possibly ByronRitchie or Mike Weaver, playersthat do not receive adequate rec-ognition. Get the point? The un-sung hero should be a player thatis actually unsung, so that raisesthe question, who is the Canucks’unsung hero? (Drum roll please).

How about Markus Naslund?Yes, that one. The same overpaid,over aged, underachieving, clichéspewing Markus Naslund. No, thisisn’t my attempt at a dismal Aprilfools joke and no I am not consum-ing any illegal substances as I writethis brilliant piece (may AldousHuxley rest in peace). Naslund hasbeen ripped apart for not provid-ing enough offense, yet he hassurpassed the 20 goal-mark for aninth consecutive season and is

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Vancouver is a city inhabitedby an abundance of bandwagonjumping, swaggering, knee-jerk-ing human beings, otherwiseknown as Canucks fans. Beforegoing on any further, I’ll acknowl-edge that by writing this article Imay very well fall directly into thiscategory. As a regular Team 1040listener and frequent reader of theinfamous Canucks.com forums, itis made painfully obvious day af-ter day that these “fans,” whichthey like to call themselves, loseevery grasp of reality when itcomes to their adored team.

Take this for example. Over thepast weeks, the subject of the Van-couver Canucks 07/08 unsunghero has taken full force throughthe media airways. Ryan Kesler(the next Mike Modano), Alexan-der Edler (the next NicklasLidstrom) and Alexandre Burrows(the next Vincent Lecavalier) haverepeatedly appeared as top candi-dates for the award. You need notlook further to find the leadingsupporter of the three playerslisted above. Kesler (who many“fans” thought should have beensent packing to Philly two sum-mers ago after signing an offersheet worth 1.7 million), Burrows(who many “fans” thought wasthe second coming of JarkkoRuutu) and Alexander Edler (whomany “fans” thought should havebeen traded for a rental player atlast season’s trade deadline) areall having career seasons and haveestablished themselves as

second to only Daniel Sedin forthe team lead in goals. The nativeof Örnsköldsvik, Sweden hasbeen continuously criticized fornot putting the puck on netenough, yet oddly enough, hefinds himself second to only Dan-iel Sedin for the team lead in shots.Above all, the captain has drasti-cally adapted his game to that itfits into Coach Alain Vigneault’sdefensive oriented system, a featthat is easier said than done.

Even I’m not enough of a band-wagon jumping, swaggering,knee-jerking human being to saythat Markus Naslund has earnedhis hefty 6 million dollar pay checkthis season; because he hasn’t.However, he certainly shouldn’tbe considered the scapegoat thathe has been made out to be either.Markus Naslund is Vancouver’s07/08 unsung hero, because de-spite what the so-called expertsmight say, he has been just that.

A common theme with the sen-ior athletics teams at Charles Bestthis year has been disappointment,but not failure. The Senior GirlsVolleyball squad came within onegame of extending their four-yearProvincial streak; the Senior Boysbasketball team failed to qualify tothe Fraser Valley’s despite beingranked 12th in the province in theweek leading up to their demiseand now, thanks to their 14-13 de-feat at the hands of rival NewWestminster, the swaggering Sen-ior Boys Lacrosse team can beadded to that list. The loss marksthe second year in a row that Bestcame up short to New West in thesemi-finals.

Going into the fourth quarterwith a comfortable 11-6 lead, itappeared as though the boys weredestined for an appearance in theDistrict Finals; however, within afive minute stretch, New West won7 consecutive face-offs, and pro-ceeded to score on each posses-sion. In large part due to the playof Tor Reinholdt, who recorded 3goals and 3 assists in the game andaccording to Coach Fridge,“played the game of his season,”Best made a last ditch comebackattempt but “the turnovers andpressure to score was too difficultto overcome.”

“We have always known itwould come down to this as the #3

seed in the tour-nament. This onewill stick with mefor awhile,” saidCoach Fridge.

Despite comingshort of their heftygoal to be the bestin the province,the team certainlyshouldn’t behanging theirheads. TaylorMorrison- who iscoming off ACLsurgery- RhysParsons, andBrad Haddon –among others,battled throughinjuries all seasonalong and accord-ing to TravisCornwall, theboys have noth-ing to be ashamedof.

“Our biggestproblem all seasonwas that weweren’t playing as a team, but inthe New West game, we put all thepieces together in the first 3 quar-ters, proving that we were better asa team than New West,” he said.

This was in large part due to theyoung guys stepping up and find-ing a common ground with thegrade 12’s. The grade 11’s playedmore of a run and gun style while

the grade 12’s were the essentiallythe foundation of the arsenal. Theexperience that the young gunsreceived this year will prove to beinvaluable as they will undoubt-edly contend for the number oneseed next season. It is expectedthat Dinsdale and Church, whoalready have college scholarshipoffers, along with Steele andSimons will lead the offense with

Scharnberg, Dennison andNeufeld holding the fort on theback end.

“The biggest thing that needsto happen for these guys is theirwork ethic needs to be consistentgame in and game out,” said CoachFridge. “They have a lot of swag-ger and that is fine but each teamwill be gunning for these guys nextseason. The importance of coming

The Charles Best JuniorBoys enjoyed home field advan-tage throughout the B.C. HighSchool Field Lacrosse Champion-ships, but unfortunately theycouldn’t make it past the semis.

The team opened the tourna-ment March 5th with an impressive11-1 win against Centennial, butover the next two days they strug-gled to match that opening state-ment, finishing the round robinwith a 2-1-1record. March 6th, they

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to compete each game and practiceis going to be important.”

As for Cornwall, Morrison,Reinholdt, Parsons, Haddon – whodespite never getting much recog-nition, was an incredible defenderand a consummate leader – alongwith the rest of the seniors, theycan take solace in the fact that theyhelped field one of the best la-crosse teams in school history.

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This last month has been amonth to remember for the CharlesBest grade nine girls. Entering thisseason with scattered expecta-tions, this underrated team tooktheir game to a new level, andended the campaign on a highnote. “We made Charles Best his-tory!” an enthused Coach Edgellstated when asked about theteam’s play in provincials, whichsaw our girls string together a veryrespectable 2-2 record. “The

whole team played so well. I’mproud of everyone. We all workedso hard throughout the year, andwhat a great ending,” the coachadded. For those who are oblivi-ous to what has taken place overthe month, the Dr. Charles Best bas-ketball program is starting to shine,unlike the gloomy spring weather.With this year’s Senior Boys team’searly playoff exit and the SeniorGirls’ dissapointing season, the onebright spot this year has been thespectacular play and miraculousfinish of the grade nine girls. Thisgirl’s team was the first grade nine

team in Best history to advancefrom the Fraser Valleys toProvincials; even better was theresult at the Provincials. Hostedby Gleneagle, this Provincial tour-nament consisted of four games,and saw our school finish in tenthplace. “I think that even thoughpeople might not think that 10th

place is such a great accomplish-ment, our team goal at the begin-ning of the season was to just makeprovincials. We ended up finish-ing a lot better than this,” forwardCassie Sparvier stated. This tenthplace finish does not only mean that

the grade nine girls were rankedtenth in the province, it also markedthe first time a Charles Best basket-ball team has ever finished the sea-son with a ranking of this stature.While the whole team played ex-tremely well, a few players werechosen for individual awards.Cassie Sparvier, ChristineJenkins, Kelsey McManus,Michelle Choi and VictoriaMahaffey picked up “Player of theGame” awards, while Shaila Gunnand Victoria Mahaffey were recog-nized as Most Valuable Teammates.While these awards distinguished

some great individual play, CoachEdgell made it clear that “theawarded players couldn’t havedone it without the play of theirteam-mates. It was a team effort.”Sparvier echoed the coaches com-ments, saying “We all wanted tostand out, individually and as ateam, and although I was namedPlayer of the Game, I think ourwhole team should have been rec-ognized for it’s outstanding playthis whole weekend. We will neverforget this weekend, because we’vemade grade nine girls history atCharles Best,” Sparvier finished.

The Grade 9 Boys Basket-ball team had a historic season.It’s too bad that it came to an anti-climactic end. The first CharlesBest Grade 9 team to ever make itinto the Fraser Valleys the boystook 3rd Place, insuring themselvesa place in the Provincial Champi-onships, held at the MennoniteEducational Institute inAbbotsford. While the host teamstarted provincials by playing infront of hundreds of cheering fanswith a band, cheerleaders and acommentator, the Blue Devilsopened the game in a dark, aban-doned elementary school gymagainst ninth seeded Handsworth.Best started out slow, and wasnever able to catch up, losing 50-41 and relegating themselves to

the consolation round. Therethey beat 16 seeded Welling-ton 49-41 before losing byidentical 45-42 scores to Dr.Knox and Magee, the topteams in the Okanagan andVancouver respectively.

The final two gameswere even more painful, con-sidering the fact that thegames were decided onmissed buzzer beaters. Sixfoot guard Matthew Gibsonstruggled with describing thesuccess of the season. “Well,it was our goal to makeProvincials, but when wemade it, we didn’t do too well.Then again, there were also alot of good teams like RCPalmer, who beat us by 30 inthe regular season.”

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