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Violence in our schools Fr. Brennan returns to Loyola ...AND MUCH MORE of the news you need to know!

November 20, 2006

Volume IV Issue I

A N Y I N T E L L I G E N T F O O L C A N M A K E T H I N G S B I G G E R , M O R E C O M P L E X , A N D M O R E V I O L E N T . I T T A K E S A T O U C H O F G E N I U S - A N D A L O T O F C O U R A G E - T O M O V E I N T H E O P P O S I T E D I R E C T I O N . E . F . S C H U M A C H E R .

Juvenile Warriors soccer wins it all Second-straight triple crown for Loyola volleyball Cadet football is just perfect during inaugural season

AUTUMN MEDAL HAUL FOR LOYOLA! LOYOLA ATHLETICS TAKE FIVE GOLD IN FALL SEASON

Right: Warrior Julian Sayegh in action

Loyola High School’s official student newspaper

The Loyola News thanks Ms Magalie Lafreniere

The Loyola News

Yo! The 2006-2007 school year begins!

And the 2006-2007 school year begins! On August 29th, the 180 school-day mara-thon began, starting up 9 months of fun filled days with home-work, tests, quizzes, exams and Meet the Clock’s. Oh how I can’t wait!

The first full day of school took place on August 30th. Students all rushed in to talk with their friends about the summer. The school welcomed in 150 new secondary 1 students and the school year kicked into full swing. Students settled into their homeroom classes, received their books, locker numbers and schedules, and met their new teachers.

As we near the end of the 2nd month of school, we as a student body, have to remind ourselves of the long and strenu-ous road ahead. We must ac-knowledge that we will fail tests

(but will do our best to get a good mark on the retest), we will not do homework occasionally be-cause we have a project due the very next day, we will not forget to bring in an essay for _________ (Insert project name here). On the other hand, teachers need to be mindful that the stu-dents, for the most part, are not demons and actually try their best.

In conclusion, here are a few tips that I have gathered over the long 4 years of being a Loyola Student. 1. Do your homework whenever you get a chance, so you don’t have to do it at home. 2. Horsing around should be done only when teachers are not near you. 3. Actually go to Interclass. 4. Avoid throwing stuff in class, especially at the teacher. 5. Avoid doing term projects on the weekend before it’s due.

Most likely you’re going to get screwed. 6. Have fun, but in a non-violent way. (I.E Screaming ‘Go Habs Go!!!’ and banging on the lock-ers drives teachers to throwing Jug Slips at us). 7. If you’re allowed to sit near your friends, make sure you pick a time that is convenient for you guys to be quiet (Preferably be-fore the bell rings). 8. Take the bite, and do your homework on Friday’s. SO much better then doing it on Saturday and Sunday night. 10. Make sure you call ‘DOORKNOB’ when you smell something. It will make you happy when you can dish out some punches. Matthew Mercuri

October 13, 2006

Current News 2-11

Talking to Mr. G. 5

New Teacher Feature

9

Arts & Entertainment

12-15

The Sports & Clubs Pages

16-25

Inside this issue:

The Loyola News Volume IV, Issue I

ON THE COVER Julian Sayrgh of the Juvenile

Warriors championship soccer team. Photo: Magalie Lafreniere

The Loyola News would like to thank Ms Magalie Lafreniere (pictured at right) for her generosity in capturing many Loyola sporting events on film. She has been a supporter of the athletic program for many years and is best known for her rugby coaching stint and her work on the awards ban-quet films in 2004 (which received a stand-ing ovation) and 2006.

News of Interest

First ever Habs fan club now at Loyola (page 21).

Loyola remembers those who have served our country and paid the ultimate sacrifice (page 11).

On September 13,

2006, Montreal’s Dawson Col-lege faced its worst event in its history. At approximately 12:45 in the afternoon. a young man, named Kimveer Gill, armed with a semi – auto-matic fire arm walked into the school’s open doors and stepped in the Dawson Atrium. He unloaded his magazines on any-one he could see, spraying the hallways at random, with no preset target. He injured twenty students, and took the life of 1st year student, Anastasia De Sousa. Many Loyola students had met and knew Anastasia and her sister, who now attends Villa Maria.

Loyola graduate Con-nor McLeod (2005) was at Daw-son the day of the shooting and was an eye witness to the shoot-ing itself. When asked about his

experience he said “When the shooting first started, I hadn’t realised what was going on. I looked around me and saw that a

police officer was already there. There was a small gunfight but after a few minutes the police left and waited for back-up

because they had no shot. At this time, the suspect started shoot-ing at anything that moved…. You could see bullets flying into walls.” When asked by Mr. Ket-terling, how much time elapsed from the time the suspect en-tered the atrium and the time the shooting stopped, Connor said “About 15 minutes but it felt like a lot longer because it was surreal. I have never felt any-thing like it” When asked how he thought the police officers handled the situation, he said “I think it was pretty good, they were there fast… they were well coordinated, they got to all the

Jesus on non-violence

If you refuse to love, you must remain dead; to hate your brother is to be a murderer, and murderers, as you know, do not have eternal life in them. —1 John 3.15

Jesus said, "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy; But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those whose persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Mt. 5.43-46

Jesus said, "You will be hated by all men on account of my name; but the man who stands firm to the end will be saved. If they persecute you in one town, take refuge in the next; and if they persecute you in that, take refuge in another." Mt. 10.22-23

Gandhi, The Dalai Lama and Buddha on non-violence “If you do not see god in the next person you see, you need look no further.”

-Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence does not mean that we remain indifferent to a problem. On the contrary, it is important to be fully engaged. However, we must behave in a way that does not benefit us alone. We must not harm the interests of others. Nonviolence therefore is not merely the absence of violence. It involves a sense of compassion and caring. It is almost a manifestation of compassion.

-The Dalai Lama

Conquer the angry man by love. Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness. Conquer the miser with generosity. Conquer the liar with truth. -The Buddha

When asked if he thought that security should be increased here at Loyola, Mr. Lafave had this to say, “Well, like I said at opening day, there are new security cameras here,

which were placed to increase security and we also started to lock all the doors. The only place that someone can get into the school during the day is the front

doors, and of course, the front doors are always watched. Rea-son being is for the student’s security. All of the school’s en-trances are supervised by cam-eras. In most cases, something has to happen before measures are taken and we want to prevent that from happening. Also, you

don’t want to have to run Loyola as a prison, and the students don’t want to see it as a prison, but the students, parents, and teachers want to have a safe en-vironment and our main focus is making sure that you the students are safe.” In case of emergency, like what has happened at Daw-son, is there anything that the students can do to help? “I think that the biggest thing, even though it’s really hard to do, you have to stay calm, because cooler heads prevail. I think it all comes down to the situation your in, like the split second decisions. For example, if someone comes in the front door, I’m trying to get everyone out of the school towards the back.” By Filippo LaVerghetta

In wakes of the trag-edy, we went to ask our discipli-narian, Mr. Lafave, a few ques-tions on our school’s security and his thoughts on the matter. When asked whether he thought that there should be a lockdown or shooting drill in the school he said, “Well, there is a crisis man-agement team… we meet to make plans for threats such as bomb scares, incidents like Dawson and fires, which is why we have fire drills… The committee then passes all the information to the other teachers, so everyone knows what they have to do in case of an emer-gency.”

Loyola security: our safety

“In most cases, some-thing has to happen be-fore measures are taken and we want to prevent that from happening.”

- Mr. Lafave

“You could see bullets flying into walls.” -Connor McLeod

(Class of ‘05)


entrances and all the floors really fast.”

After taking one life, and injuring a large number of people, Kimmveer Gill was shot and killed by a Montreal police officer. Many students said that the police did and incredible job at arriving at the scene, but un-fortunately, they were just too late. By Filippo LaVerghetta

Dawson shooting shocks city and school system

dents at point-blank, one nursing student and one faculty member. He later injured thirteen others, including four men.

On August 24, 1992, Concordia University, which is less than 500 meters from our school also experienced a shoot-ing. Dr.Valery Fabrikant, a for-mer professor of mechanical engineering murdered four of his colleagues at the university.

It seems as though Montreal is due for other school shootings, but the most important questions still remain…who? when? where? By Filippo LaVerghetta

ated with the Université de Mont-real. Marc Lépine had applied for this school’s program, but he had

been rejected. He blamed it on af-firmative action, a program which ensures a certain number of each sexes in, even though the large majority of the program’s faculty and staff was male. So, in other words, he blamed his lack of ability

on the women who were ac-cepted to the program he wasn’t able to get in. He murdered twelve engineering female stu-

Many people were surprised by the Dawson shoot-ings, and rightfully so. These kind of things shouldn’t happen and don’t happen that often. How-ever, Montreal is no stranger to school shooting.

On De-cember 6, 1989, Marc Lépine, en-tered the Ecole Polytechnique campus and carried out a shooting with death tools far worse the one of Dawson. The Ecole Polytechnique is an engineering school closely affili-

Montreal: School shootings history

expectations we would share the future.” When interviewed, De Sousa family friend, Alyssa Archer-Cooper said to the CTV cameras; “She was such a bright person ... every time she looked at you, she'd have a warm smile on her face, and she was just beautiful, I hate that it had to end this way. I really do." The De Sousa family must know that the Loyola, Montreal, and Canadian communities are mourning with them, and we all hope the family will manage to overcome the death of a very special person. Requiescat In Pace

By Filippo LaVerghetta

disrupting the holiness and seri-ousness of the ceremony. Unfor-tunately only people who had

been given tickets were aloud. I found this was somewhat unfair seeing as very Dawson student had one while some people who knew her didn’t receive it.” When asked how he thought the fu-

neral went, he said: “It went as well as a funeral could have gone. It’s a very sad thing when a loved one dies. I did appreciate the fact that Anastasia’s mother asked for the people attending the funeral to wear pink clothing, which was Anastasia’s favourite color. All I can say is that I hope that the De Sousa family is able to move on, and I wish them all the best.” It was an emotional day for all of Montreal, especially Anastasia’s family. “I never thought this day would be so soon” said Sarah De Sousa, An-astasia’ sister at a eulogy, “I had

Anastasia De Sousa, the only victim of the Dawson College shooting was no stranger to our school. Many Loyola students at-tended her fu-neral, a majority of which were in secondary five. The funeral took place on Sep-tember 19th, 2006, as hun-dreds of mourn-ers, including Quebec Premier Jean Charest and Montreal Mayor Gerald Tremblay, lined up at Our Lady of Czestochowa Church to pay their respects. We interviewed one of the attendants, secondary five student Othniel Saint-Jean and asked if he could tell us about the funeral. He first met Anastasia at her sister’s sweet sixteen, Sarah De Sousa. “I was very surprised to see so much security there. I didn’t like all the media. Even though the cameramen and journalists were separated from the actual cere-mony, I found the media very uncalled for. I felt like they were

Remembering Anastasia Cry God

Sun setting

Moving away

Then beyond

Tears fall

Cry God

To understand

The horizon

Hands holding hands

Quiet rain

Filling water

Believing life

Knowing love

Kissing soil Dedicated to the sacred heart of Anastasia De Sousa

By Peter Racine

Children and Gun Violence In a single year, 3,012 children and teens were killed by gunfire in the United States, according to the latest national data released in 2002. That is one child every three hours; eight children every day; and more than 50 children every week. And every year, at least 4 to 5 times as many kids and teens suffer from non-fatal firearm injuries. (Children's Defense Fund and National Center for Health Statis-tics)


All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

-Martin Luther

Degeneracy follows every auto-cratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

-Albert Einstein

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

-Salvor Hardin

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Loyola student counselor Mr. Michael Greczkowski has agreed to write a new regular column for the Loyola News. Students who wish to remain anonymous may pose questions to the counselor that deal with issues of the ado-lescent world. If you have a question that you would Mr. G. to address, please feel to e-mail him at [email protected].

This edition’s ques-tions deal with the theme of violence and aggression among the youth of today.

Do you have a rational explana-tion for the recent increase in adolescent violence and aggres-sion in North American schools?

We cannot underesti-mate the power and speed of the mass media in delivering us this news. In other words, while vio-lent crimes may have decreased over the years, our ability to cap-ture their aftermath through com-munication technologies has increased exponentially. This being said, there really is no ra-tional explanation for senseless violence except to say that some people who are in a lot of emo-tional pain choose horrific ways of ending their lives. Thankfully these acts of violence are ex-tremely rare.

What reasons are there, do you think, for the con-siderably positive environment at Loyola, wherein most students find it a very safe place to be?

Most students feel safe at Loyola, and thrive within our positive environment. While I am sure we’d all change a few things if we were in charge, an over-whelming majority of students (and staff) feel a connection and sense of belongingness to our

school. I would have to say the reasons for feeling safe and con-nected have to do with the people here, and our relationships to these people. I have yet to meet a

student – any student – who is unable to choose at least five teachers as potential advisors. Another reason may be our “student centered” philosophy and open door policies. In other words, the staff live and work by the credo that our main objec-tive is to meet our

students’ needs in the school. I believe the spirituality and religi-osity of Loyola are binding agents for our students as well. We are so lucky to be in a Jesuit school, with the coolest priests and lay people, celebrating and living the values and traditions which help us to be the best peo-ple we can be.

The shooting at Dawson was a terrible tragedy in our city’s history. What drives a young person to ever conceive of going through with such a crime?

As mentioned this young man was suffering a men-tal illness. In some cases a severe form of illness can cause a person to lose touch with reality and confuse fantasy worlds (like vio-lent video games or movies) with what is real. In this person’s case his world was made worse by the fact that he felt like he did not fit in, and experienced an enormous amount of rage and exclusion toward the society he was push-ing away; at the same time this sick individual developed an unnatural affiliation and close-ness to all things related to vio-lence. People cared about him but, because of his illness, he could not feel it, or he pushed them away.

What signs should teachers and students be aware of that might indicate that someone is trou-bled, depressed and perhaps?

Teachers, but espe-cially friends, peers, and family members, can and do spot trouble all the time. Most of the time a person says he is sad or down, and people generally want to help and do so by talking and support-ing the person using kindness and common sense (which is my secret weapon!). If a person is reluctant to ask for help, certain signs can act as “red flags” to people who know him or her. For example a person may seem le-thargic (no energy), sad, really worried, fed-up, apathetic (“I don’t care anymore”), or any other extreme emotion which is lasting longer than usual. Or, he might start behaving a way that’s new or out of character, such as changing friends all of a sudden, using drugs, or engaging in high-risk behaviour.

The best thing to do is ask if things are OK, and when in doubt (which is a state I often find myself in!), ASK SOME-ONE!! This is totally one of the cases where it does not hurt to ask, and plenty of people do.

Counselor Column: Talking to Mr. G New regular feature gives students a chance to send questions to Loyola’s counselor


“Most students

feel safe at

Loyola, and

thrive within

our positive

environment.”

Mr. Michael Greczkowski

Your parents just finished grocery shopping and they’ve asked you to help them unpack the groceries. After a little bit of convincing, you agreed to help. While you’re putting the grocer-ies away, you glance at the back of the coffee bag. There is now a good chance that the coffee is being identified as “fair trade” coffee. To some, this may be a new term. Others may have already heard the term, but do you know what it really means? According to Britannica World Language Dictionary fair trade means “To set a price no less than the manufacturer’s mini-mum cost on a branded or trade-mark product”. That sounds nice, but that’s a dictionary defi-nition. In our world, right now “fair trade” is an organization set out to help people in devel-oping countries who have been unjustly treated or poorly paid for their labor. Now I bet you’re wondering, “How does fair trade affect us”?

Before I can answer that question, you have to un-derstand a little bit about what “fair trade” is. You need to un-derstand how products like cof-fee and cocoa get from the farm in a developing country, all the way to the finished products we see in our stores. First, the pro-ducers have to collect all of the beans. Once that is done, they need to find someone to sell the beans to. The beans will be then sold to importers, who will then import the beans to processors’ plants. There, the processors will prepare and transform the beans and then distribute them to retailers. From that point on, all that’s left is for a customer to buy the finished produce. Throughout all of these steps, there is work that is done and money that is made. Now that you understand the process of trade, do you think it’s right for the producers, who collected the beans, to a get only a small frac-tion of what the processors or

any one else earns? Without those beans, there would be no product at all!

Truthfully “fair trade” seems to affect very few people in North America. However, in Africa, South and Central America, Asia and other parts of the developing third world, it is helping many poor people. I’ll give you an example that was given to me when I interviewed Ms. Smiley of Dix Milles Vil-lage (a completely “fair trade” store). Imagine that you earn a living by making baskets. So one day, a representative of a company asks you to make 200 baskets, which they will later buy from you. The first thing you do is go and get a loan from the bank in order to buy some raw materials. You spend about month working on the order, only to find out that the com-pany will only buy 100 baskets. Now you’re stuck with 100 ex-tra baskets, and you still have to re-pay the loan for the raw ma-terials. This is where “fair trade” organizations come in. “Fair trade” does it’s best to make sure that the producer isn’t be-ing cheated and that the pro-ducer is happy with the trade. “Fair trade” does this because it deals with the producer, so he can receive a fair price. “Fair trade” also ensures that the worker is paid 50% in advance, and once they receive the order, they pay the other 50%. As you can see, there is a huge differ-ence between “fair trade” and normal trade.

Yet some people still think that “fair trade” is a char-ity, but “fair trade” is not a char-ity, at all, it’s only justice! “Fair trade” does not accept all prod-ucts and people, there are a few principles to fair trade. There must be no child labor. There must be decent working condi-tions. The product must be envi-ronmentally sustainable. There must be social premiums to

improve conditions, and there must be a price to cover produc-tion. Finally, there must be a long term relationship between the producer and the “fair trade” purchasers.

This whole mission started about 60 years ago when development agencies recog-nized the important role that consumers could play to im-prove the situation for produc-ers. By buying direct from farm-ers at better prices (for the pro-ducers), they strengthened their organizations. They also began marketing their produce directly through their own “one world” shops and through catalogues. The organization offered con-sumers the opportunity to buy products which were bought on the basis of a “fair trade”. Now there are a number products that are fair trade, including: fresh fruit, coffee and cocoa beans, cotton products, sugar, fruit juice, herbs and spices, honey nuts and many more organic goods. Thanks to many of these products, hundreds of small, poor farmers are able to get back on their feet and trade their way out of poverty with a re-newed sense of pride. But there is a limit to how many produc-ers can benefit with fair trade sales, because of such a small number of niche outlets, not normally associated with food goods.

Today, there are many “fair trade” stores and products and all of them are governed by IFAT (International Federation for Alternative Trade). IFAT determines whether or not prod-ucts are “fair trade” or if you can open a “fair trade” store. IFAT has approved many super-markets for selling “fair trade” products. A perfect example would be Metro. A lot of super-markets are trying to catch up with “fair trade” and within this next decade, IFAT expects a boom in the selling of “fair

What is “Fair Trade” and why should I care?

trade” goods. But one of IFAT’s major goals is to spread the word of “fair trade” to the younger gen-eration, because in about 10 or so years, they hope that we have enough knowledge about “fair trade” that we push for change in the way things are currently run. Nothing is going to happen or change if we just sit around and accept the injustices that are hap-pening everyday. It’s up to us to change them.

If you are interested in learning more about fair trade I suggest you check these sites out:

www.fairtrade.org.uk/www.transfair.ca/

www.ifat.org/

Dix Milles Village, of-fers a wide assortment of fair trade products and information on fair trade.

Special thanks to Aileen Smiley for the interview, IFAT for the information, and finally the NO-NONSENSE Guide to Fair Trade written by David Ransom.

*If you are interested in buying fair trade goods, always look for the Fair Trade picture (see above) on the product.* By Tomas Zylak


sec 2-5 students are very; polite, nice, friendly, kind, and helpful. These were all common adjectives used to describe how “we” are. A few responses, however, did men-tion one thing that made you al-most hang your head down in shame. These comments included students mentioning how often they would get their rolly bags kicked very day. This doesn’t go for just sec 1 students, but now we know that it truly bothers people. So students from sec 1-5, please do not kick rolly bags or be unkind to students in any way. So a mes-sage to all secondary 1 students, and I think I speak on behalf of the entire student body and faculty here, welcome to Loyola, we wish for all your years here to be happy and memorable, always work to your greatest potential, do your best and never give up. Persevere and live life to its fullest. As Robin Williams would say in “A Dead Poet Society”, Carpe Diem boys, Carpe Diem.

By Dylan McCarty

Jesuit schools in Canada and our school is based on religion. And who is our Religion based on? Jesus! Our own Jesus had a beard! The Man we pray to every day had a beard! And yet we can’t have a bit of facial hair to honor him. And here’s another thing, our school’s name: Loyola. It comes from the great Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Just look around our school and I guar-anty you that he will have facial hair in every single picture.

I personally don’t under-stand is what they are trying to get to with this rule. As soon as we leave, we’ll grow facial hair any-ways, so why are they holding us back now? I will not say any names, but look at some of the administration…do you see every single one of them without one single hair on their face? I don’t

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all over your face when you get out. This is due to the “great” shaving materials they provide us with. This top-of-the-line shaving kit includes: a rusty, one blade woman’s leg shaver, and if you get lucky, some shaving cream. If any of you reading this article are unlucky enough to go through this traumatizing experience, I salute you. I salute you because when you put that blade to your face you can sense all the other Loyolians who had to endure that pain. By the time you get out, you pretty much have used the entire roll of toilet paper to cover the scabs on your face. And then you have to walk back into class and everyone laughs at you…it’s not fun.

Here’s the thing that blows my mind about this rule. Our school is one of the three

Have you ever wondered how this year’s sec 1 students are feeling? Have you ever won-dered if they are feeling com-fortable in this new environ-ment? Have you ever wondered if we, the older students are a. helping or b. just making it worse? I decided to answer these questions in this article. I took a poll of 30 secondary 1 students to see how they like Loyola so far. Questions varied, along with “What do you think of Loyola being an all boy school?” and “Are the older students friendly with you?” etcetera, etcetera.

Two multiple choice questions have been interpreted into percentages, they are as follows:

1: Are you happy with your choice of school?

a) Happy b) satisfied c) not happy

72% of Students chose Happy, 28% of students chose satisfied and 0% chose not happy.

2: How much homework you get?

a) Too much b) A lot but I manage c) reasonable d) Hardly any.

13% of students chose too much, 63% chose a lot but I manage, 24% chose reasonable, and 0% chose hardly any.

From the looks of these results, it seems as though the school, faculty, and student body is doing a good job on making the average sec 1 student feel welcome in their new home, Loyola. I find that the fact that no one circled unhappy as a choice really shows what a great unit the Loyola family is.

I also asked the stu-dents what they thought of Loyola being an all boy school. I got a wide array of answers for this particular question; these boys really have different opin-ions!

Kyle Martis in 1-B says, ``It shows discipline. ``

Massimo Di Iorio in 1-B says, `` An all boys school is an all boys school. If there were girls, it just wouldn’t be Loyola

anymore. ``

Colin Bell in 1-A says `` I don’t mind too much, but I would like it better if there were girls. ``

Michael Zenobi in 1-C says “I don’t like it! Who does?

Charles Radack in 1-F says “It’s OK.”

Alex Katsanis in 1-F says “I think it is OK because you can say stupid things and no one cares.”

As usual, we will always have mixed opinions about issues, such as the “boys only” policy. Some students are highly unsat-isfied, as you can probably tell. Moreover, others are indifferent, or even against the idea of girls attending Loyola. Clearly, noth-ing will change, as it is not an issue of any noticeable level of importance. However, it is al-ways good to know the students opinions on these matters.

The final question I included in this article is how the secondary 1 students find that they are being treated by the older students. I will not include any direct quotes as they are focusing on one main point. The

“not” nice and big so that everyone knows that if Mr. Lafave sees that little stub-ble…you will go to what I like to call the “Room of Death”. It’s the little bath-room right next to Mrs. Supino’s desk. If you get caught with that little stubble Monday morning, because you had an

insane weekend and were too tired to shave, that’s where you’ll end up.

When you go into that bathroom you know its over. You’ll know that you’ll have cuts

Facial hair. Why not? That has been my question ever since secondary 1, when all I had was a little peach fuzz. In the student handbook that the administra-tion gives out every year, you know the one that nobody ever really reads but we still have to sign that sheet and hand it in, it states that “Loyola is described as a university-preparatory school”. Since when have they not permitted facial hair in uni-versity? The wonderful student handbook also states “Facial hair is NOT permitted”. They put the

Facial hair? Why not?

Loyola: friend or foe?


but that leaves not much time for other things. We are in school from September to July, 180 days of the year. Why would we need to take work home with us to spend even MORE time doing work? As much as I enjoy Loyola and completely agree that it is a second home, I per-sonally believe that spending an additional 2-3 hours after spend-ing 7 hours in school is a prob-lem. After calculating, we spend approximately 1800 hours think-ing about work for school. This number does not include any extra-curricular activities.

This article was not meant to tell teachers to stop giving us homework. It is merely a reminder at how much we work during the year. Next time a teacher calls you lazy, tell them you spend 1800 hours thinking about school.

By Matthew Mercuri

dary 2 a couple of years ago, we then felt that maybe this was the time to extend it to the Secondary one.”

I later took a few mo-ments to speak with Loyola’s Secondary One’s population and it turned out that 38% don’t like the idea and 33% approve of it. The rest thought that it really didn’t affect them either way.

I personally have al-ready experienced my first CSP activity and thought that it was quite invigorating to go out into the community and experience the ability to help others and to help make this world that much better, simply by being a man for others. Joseph Szymborski

activities. Father Boutilier said smartly that “it’s to give people the sense of being men for oth-ers and to realize that above all we are called to use our talents and abilities to serve the com-munity… part of the rational thought was to get the students aware and get them comfortable with the fact that service was part of what it means to be a Christian and especially a stu-dent in a Jesuit school.”

Some Secondary One and Secondary Three students I happened to speak with wanted to know when exactly the idea of Secondary One CSP was being contemplated. Father Boutilier answered saying “I think ultimately a number of years ago, I think we wanted to do things progressively and when we extended it to Secon-

What is homework? If you were to ask a student, the typical response would be that “homework is the way teachers take revenge upon the students. It is a complete waste of time when I could be doing some-thing productive, such as beating Halo 2 on Legendary Mode.”

If you were to ask a teacher they would most likely say, “homework is a mean to test our students and to refresh their memo-ries without having to be teaching them. It gives us a scale to judge whether the students actually un-derstand the material we are teach-

ing them.”

Regardless at which point of view you take, home-work requires time, concentra-tion, and above all, patience. Yes, homework is frustrating. Yes, we don’t want to do it. Yes, it IS beneficial for us in the long run. Many teachers take the same problems from homework and put them on the test. You have a huge advantage if you’ve done the problem before.

My concern is that Loyola Students have too much homework. The handbook clearly states, and I quote:

“The following is a suggested guideline for homework:

Secondary One 1-1½ hours

Secondary Two 1½- 2 hours

Secondary Three 2-2½ hours

Secondary Four 2-3 hours

Secondary Five 2½-3½ hours”

Loyola takes pride in having a strong academic school. Students spend countless hours doing homework after a long and stressful day at school. Could it be possible that we are pushing our students too hard? Here is an average weekday schedule for many secondary 5 students:

7:00AM-Wakeup

8:20AM-3:00PM-School

3:00PM-5:00PM-Sports practice or game

6:30PM-Dinner

7:00PM-10:30PM-Homework

10:00-10:30-Shower and ready for bed

Time for relax time-None

Time for other non-related Loyola activities-None

Many students are finding it extremely difficult to keep up with Loyola schedules. The school expects you to par-take in extra-curricular activities

pose students to this at all grade levels”. Now, the action wasn’t immediate. The staff had “pondered that for a while”. First it came down to the Secon-dary 4 students and finally to the Secondary 1 students, this year.

During the mid-periods of this process, they “were looking at the time the student would do given their age and given the availability of placements, because placements are difficult to find … So to minimize all the wear and tear on the students we figured that the allotment of hours: 2, 4, 6, 8 from 24 was a just solution to the question;”.

But, like Father had often emphasized, the meaning of the CSP should always be in the mind of newcomers and all those who participate in CSP

This year, Loyola students will experience the Christian Service Program (CSP) in their secondary one life. The secondary one students who are aware of the change have varying opinions.

Many secondary one students are asking the same question: “Why us and Why now?”. I sat down with Fr. Boutilier S.J to answer this question and some other ques-tion relating to the matter. Fa-ther mentioned how “[it] all started with the Secondary 5’s CSP … and it had to be 24 hours of CSP” and that “I was participating in that as a teacher … and many of the teachers involved ... Believed that to fulfill the five require-ments of the Jesuit Education … it would be worth while to ex-

Secondary 1 CSP: 38% don’t like it and 33% do

All you need to know about...homework!


Father Brennan’s Fact File

Place of birth: Simcoe, Ontario High School: Upper Canada College, Toronto, Ontario

University: Wilfred Laurier Uni-versity, University of Guelph, University of Toronto

Degrees: Hons. B A. History, BA Philosophy, Baccalaureate Theology, Master of Divinity

Siblings: one sister, one brother

Hobbies: fishing

Interests: writing a theological glossary, study of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.

Favorite book: Lord of the Rings

Music you like to listen to: mostly no music-just silence, if I do play music I prefer opera.

and eventually collapse.

“There is always room for more when it comes to religion class,” said Fr. Brennan. But he feels that what we learn in religion is essential, and that Loyola offers a good solid religious curriculum.

“My door is always open, feel free to stop by!” By Lucas Lawton; coaching photo by Magalie Lafreniere

Welcome Home Father Brennan

“It’s good to be back,” says Father Brennan, s.j., after returning from four years as chaplain at Saint Paul’s High School in Winnipeg. “It’s like coming home.” Brennan admits that he will miss many aspects of Saint Paul’s, especially teaching the grade 12 students. “Teaching the grade 12 students was rather different because that is a grade that doesn’t exist in Quebec,” states our new chaplain, “and I enjoy teaching the older students, they are very mature.”

Fr. Brennan is im-mensely pleased to see the changes that the school has made, such as the atrium, the audito-rium, and the new wing classes. “This is a huge advancement for the school, it’s simply amazing.” He was also delighted to see two curriculum courses that were not at Loyola four years ago. The social justice class for secon-dary five, and church history for secondary four have been good changes. Fr. Brennan feels the school has done a tremendous job in helping the students to learn to the best of their abilities. “If a student at Loyola wants to do something, they pretty well can.”

Fr. Brennan is looking forward to participating in the retreats, including Kairos. “Kairos is a great idea, it creates an enthusiasm for the spiritual life. I feel it is important for these students to follow this lead and continue in the spiritual life.” Fr. Brennan feels a responsibility to participate in these events and will enjoy contributing to the spiritual life at Loyola as our chaplain.

“My favorite part about

Loyola would have to be its openness to religious life,” said Fr. Brennan in response to a dif-ficult question.

Father Brennan has traveled extensively doing God’s work. I spoke to him about his work with Mother Teresa’s Sis-ters. He’s worked with the less fortunate in India, China, Indone-sia, Rome, Palestine, and South Africa and helped people suffer-

ing from malnu-trition, tuberculo-sis, and cases of leprosy. Reflec-tion was an im-portant part of his work. At the end of the day he

and the Sisters would reflect on the day’s work. Fr. Brennan also said the daily mass for the Sis-ters. During Fr. Brennan’s work with the less fortunate, he has seen and experienced many dif-ferent emotions. “Things change through the power of generosity, charity, and love.”

“Generosity, charity, and love are lacking in certain people and places in the world, such as at one time in the Philip-pines. The militant areas and people that ran the country were lacking generosity and compas-sion.” Fr. Brennan came to real-ize how generous the people that have very little can be. Such as a family who would invite another family over to share a bowl of rice, even though this possibly could be their last bowl of rice.

Fr. Brennan has witnessed many different things in these coun-tries that are unthinkable to us.

Fr. Brennan’s favorite loca-tion that he has worked in is the Philippines. “I like Philippines the most be-cause I was

there the longest, and you get attached to the people there and it truly is an amazing place. In the Philippines and all the other countries I’ve worked in, you can’t help but feel sad for these people, but you also learn to appreciate how fortunate we are in North America with all the comforts that we take for granted. We have so many amazing things here in Canada and in North America that are un-heard of in these coun-tries.”

I spoke to Father Brennan about what he expressed at his Opening Mass at Loyola. What he articu-lated involves the tripod of life. He explained that the first leg of the tripod is education which is a very important thing in life. The second leg of the tripod is putting what you study into action in your daily life and putting what you learn towards choosing an occupation. The third leg, which makes it rock solid, is developing a relationship with God. Faith is a very important dimension in life. This makes the tripod of life. Without one of these commit-ments, you could possibly fail

New Teacher Feature: Father Rob Brennan, s.j.

“Things change through the

power of generosity,

charity, and love.”


Above: Father Brennan giving pointers to a referee

during a Peewee Scouts football match


ALL HALLOW’S EVE AT LOYOLA!

Ultimately the key to our questions and to our struggles is found in the person of Jesus Christ, “the Man for Others and with Others”. He took up our human nature, lived our human life, suffered and died and then rose again to new life. Indeed, the Crucified yet Risen Lord Jesus stands at the core of our Christian faith, and is proclaimed as the fundamental message of the Gos-pels. Even in our worship we proclaim: “Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again”.

But, we ask how or through what power was Jesus raised. St. John tells us that: “We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. Whoever does not love remains in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer…The way we came to know love was that he laid down his life for

Every year on Novem-ber 11, Canadi-ans across the country pause in a silent moment of remembrance

for the men and women who have served, and continue to serve our country during times of war, conflict and peace. Through their courage and sacrifice, these men and women have helped to ensure that we live in freedom, while also fostering freedom around the world. More than 1,500,000 Canadians have served our country, and more than 100,000 have died. They gave their lives and their futures so that we may live in peace.

On November 10, Loyola held their Remembrance Day ceremony to remember the brave and courageous Loyola Boys who volunteered for the cause of freedom and justice. Thirty-seven candles were lit on the stage of the audi-torium to commemorate the

thirty-seven men, Loyola stu-dents, who served and lost their lives during the “The Great War”, World War I between 1914 and 1918. One of which was Léo LeBoutillier who was born on October 20, 1893 and graduated from Loyola in 1911. Léo LeBoutillier enlisted in Montreal on November 3, 1914 to fight in World War One. His unit was the 24th Battalion of the Canadian infantry - The Victoria Rifles, also called the “Vics”. Private LeBoutillier, as a sig-naler, was twice mentioned for his outstanding service. He was also awarded a Good Conduct Badge on February 2, 1917 for carrying out reconnaissance un-der heavy fire, rescuing a wounded man and carrying bombs and ammunition to the front line. He was a solider that displayed great courage and de-termination.

In April 1917, Private LeBoutillier and his unit fought gallantly in the battle of Vimy Ridge. Canadian soldiers were

given the job of driving the Ger-mans from Vimy Ridge. On Easter Sunday, the Canadians began their assault up the long slope in the face of enemy fire. Not long after the attack began, Private LeBoutillier was badly hit by a gunshot in the abdomen and brought to a nearby field hospital.

A major victory was achieved after five days of heavy fighting by Canadian soldiers. Capturing the ridge cost over 10, 000 lives, including the life of Léo LeBoutillier who died of his gunshot wound on April 18th, 1917 at the age of 23.

Thanks to brave men like Private Léo LeBoutillier, the Battle of Vimy Ridge was the first significant allied advance on the Western Front during World War One. A monument to Cana-dian soldiers who died at Vimy and World War One now stands atop the ridge. The success of the Canadian soldiers at Vimy Ridge has been considered a milestone in Canadian history.

death at any age”.

How do you and I react to what often seems so unex-plainable or so illogical. What do we do with these basic issues of life and death. First, we do what Judas the ruler of Israel did in the Book of Maccabees. He took up a collection in remembrance of his fallen comrades. The Book of Maccabees says: “….he acted in a very excellent and noble way, inasmuch as he had the resurrec-tion of the dead in view; for if he were not expecting the fallen to rise again, it would have been useless and foolish to pray for them in death. But if he did this with a view to the splendid re-ward that awaits those who had gone to rest in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought…..” For as the psalmist says: “Precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his faithful ones”.

What follows here is a shortened version of Father Boutilier’s homily given at the Loyola Re-membrance Day ceremony on November 10

November can make us stop and ask some very basic questions: “What is life all about”, “What is really important”, “Why death”, “What happens after death”, “Is there life after death”.

These are indeed “heavy” ques-tions, but all of us ask them at some time or other. More often than not, concrete circumstances trigger these questions, like the sudden and random death of a young woman on a CEGEP cam-pus, the horrific tragedy of those who perished when an overpass crushed them to death, the termi-nal illness of a young father, or the basic question: “Why is there

Fr. Boutilier, s.j. on Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day at Loyola: Lest we forget


Loyola’s Re-membrance Day ceremony was dedicated to Private Léo Le-Boutillier and the brave men that fought at Vimy Ridge and for the Canadian Troops that continue to fight today for peace and freedom. We encourage all Canadians to learn about the sacrifices and achievements of Canada's Veter-ans. There are only three veterans of the First World War who re-main. They are Lloyd Clemett, John Babcock, and Percy Wilson who are all over 100 years of age. The proud history they embody is fast fading from Canadians' shared memory. It is our duty as Canadi-ans to share their story and remem-ber their sacrifice.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers”.

Jesus tasted life’s experi-ences and faced life’s questions and puzzles. He came to put an end to death and reveal the resurrection. He confirms the deepest cravings of the human heart by winning the victory of life over sin and eternal death. How does he do this? By reminding us that we have a re-sponsibility towards our brothers and sisters”

So the victory of life over death, the triumph of good over evil, and our struggle to establish a Kingdom of Justice, Peace, Har-mony, rests with us. In order to make this a reality we must wage a Holy War, and the battle is to be fought on the battlefield of the human heart, for this is truly the last and final frontier. It is, as St. Francis of Assisi reminds us, we are to be instruments and channels of His peace and love bringing harmony where discord prevails,



People have become too accustomed to the music industry being around at all times, ready to release the newest popular fad for all of society to model itself after. Remember Kanye West and his polo’s? Well back two years ago we all had polo’s (speaking of which GO HOME). We forget that music shouldn’t be a tool for consumer-ism and advertisement. It should convey an emotion, or have a meaning, basically to have a purpose. I won’t generalise and say that “Today’s music is ruckus, and the devil’s music, what is this Boyz II Men, some kind of warped delivery service?” But when Christina Aguilera releases a song which has her surrounded by black women singing how they are being held down and oppressed, the state-ment that just begs to be screamed is, “You are not black, Christina, you are a rich white American.” Though the song was not very recent, it still was the

categorize, and alphabetise, in the end it’s still music. Music moves you, influences how you dress, the people you see and become friends with. It is music that peo-ple initiate conversations with, music that makes people laugh and have fun, or wallow in a pool of self-pity. Music has a range of emotions wider than Rosie O’Donnell, yes that was my poor attempt at a joke. If you feel mellow, pop in some songs from the soundtrack to Dazed and Confused (read my review!) and just enjoy. Do you feel joy-ous, happy, excited or a hyped-up combination of all three? Play some rave, trance, house or basi-cally any song that has that en-ergy. Why do football teams play some select songs before and during games? Other than filling the cliché, they do it because it just matches the mood. Thunder-struck (AC/DC) is pretty awe-some before a game, Fix You (Coldplay) isn’t so much so.

Over the summer I lis-tened to lots of music, new and old, weird and mainstream but in the end the conclusion was the same: no matter how much you arrange,

Modern rock ‘n’ Roll

allowed to try on some of the costumes.

We then went to see Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare. This was the worst of all the plays and several stu-dents were struggling to stay awake. With an increasingly bad performance by the King, and a questionable Bollywood ending, even one of the teachers (who will remain unnamed) had a bit of the heave eye lid.

Finally, Thursday night we went to see Oliver, a musical based on Charles Dickens’ novel, Oliver Twist. For those of you who are not familiar with this story, the famous line of “Please sir, I want some more” comes

from this extraordinary novel. The lead role was played by 10 year old Tyler Pearse, and amaz-ing actor and singer. He played his role to absolute perfection. Between the three plays, this was the best performance. On Friday, we packed up nice and early and left for home. The TV’s were fixed so we were able to watch some movie’s on the way home. After a stop in Kingston, we were back in our very own Montreal. Overall, this trip was a great success and was an experience that won’t be soon forgotten. Hayden Thomassin

This years Stratford trip was a huge success. The trip started off rather slow. Wednes-day morning, an 8 hour bus ride with none of the TV’s working would bore all of the participants.

When we first arrived in Stratford, we went to see South Pacific, a musical that took place during the Second World War, in the South Pacific (Who could have guessed that?). This was a good musical that kept most the students entertained. The next day, we were taken to a tour of the Wardrobe Warehouse. There are only three warehouses like it in the world. After taking a quick tour we got to the “entertaining” part and were

Stratford 2006


exact example that I was going for, a song that should’ve been aborted.

You should listen to music that has a purpose, try to steer away from manufactured pop and support other music.

Arman Lari


stung my nostrils and I knew I would reek of it for days. I closed my eyes in anticipation. My tongue was sandpaper against my lips as I decided to remember

this moment forever. “Welcome to the soldier side, where there’s no one here but me”, rang out an all too familiar voice. I slowly opened my eyes as the music on stage erupted.

If I had to think of three words to adequately describe “System of a

Down’s” outdoor summer con-cert at Parc Jean-Drapeau, it would be rain, mud, and awsom-ness! Ok, ok, awsomness isn’t a real word, but you get where I’m

going with this. In case you’ve never been to a concert at Parc Jean-Drapeau, let me give you a little description. The stage is set up in the middle of the park, directly across from a giant hill (for those who would rather sit on a blanket than be in the mosh pit). At the bass of the hill, all the way to the stage, dirt and sand are poured by the ton to please those who came purely for the mosh-ing.

For those readers who aren’t familiar with the term “mosh pit”, here’s a quick in-sight. Wikipedia describes it: “[Moshing] is a type of dance characterized by jumping around and/or pushing others to loud punk, hardcore, and heavy metal music. Moshing is popular with

Red Hot Chili Peppers On September 28th 2006, The Red Hot Chili Peppers came to town with their opening band; Mars Volta. The concert took place at the Bell Center. After a painful performance by the Mars Volta, the relieving, soothing sound of intermission filled the stands. Suddenly, just minutes before the Red Hot Chili Peppers came out, a huge wave started throughout the crowd. A concert that would not soon be forgotten by anyone in the audience was about to begin. The anticipation was almost painful. Then the lights went out, the crowd erupted in an almost frightening roar and finally, Anthony, John, Flea and Chad (the four members of the RHCP) made their way to their respective instruments or

microphones.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers lured you into their in-credible performance with their opening song, one of their great-est singles “Can’t Stop” which set the mood for the rest of the concert. With amazing solos by John Frusciante on guitar and Flea (Michael Balzary) on bass, this concert really got your adrenaline pumping. Everything went smooth except for Flea making the mistake of saying “Congratulations on your 16 Stanley Cups” which the Canadi-ans fans in the Bell Centre did not take very well(Seeing as the Habs lead the NHL record with 24 Stanley Cups). The highlight of the concert would have to be their first song after coming back out for their encore, a flawless

and perfect performance of “Under the Bridge” another one of their most popular songs. They finished their concert with an amazing performance of “Give It Away”. With a combination of old classics and new hits, this concert was easily one of the best live performances I have ever seen. The Red Hot Chili Peppers played for almost two hours straight, delivering one heart pumping song after another.

For those of you who like the Red Hot Chili Peppers I would recommend going out and buying their newest album “Stadium Arcadium”, if you don’t already own it. This concert was honestly worth every penny I paid for it, something that isn’t very easy to accomplish with the price of concert tickets today. I

The air was bone chill-ing as the night sky lit up with a million camera flashes. As if on cue, icy rain began to flood the outdoor stadium like a hurricane, illuminating the faces of thousands of fans. The flashes collided with the rain, momentarily freez-ing them in time, sus-pending them in mid-air like thousands of stars in some faraway galaxy. A shiver momentarily crept across my spine, then up my back like an insect furiously burrowing un-der my skin. The screams and laughter that had almost become constant background noise began to get louder. Like a thunderbolt sweeping across the crowd, people erupted in cheer-ing as motion began to take place on stage. The pace of the flashes quickened, and the pitch black sky almost became day as the rain hung endlessly in the air. The smell of mud and marijuana

Concert Review: Red Hot Chili Peppers don’t know if the Red Hot Chili Peppers will return, but if they do, don’t miss them. Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante and Chad Smith sure know how to put on a show. Stephen Galletti

Concert Review: System of a Down many, especially young, fans. Moshing is typically done in a mosh pit or circle pit. Originally, this was just a group of people typically in front of the stage who would engage in this form of danc-ing. It is now more frequent that there are mosh or circle pits throughout the entire audience.”

I arrived four hours be-fore the concert was set to begin. No assigned seats meant first come first serve. If I wanted to be any-where close to the band I would have to wait in line for most of the day. Upon arrival, however, I real-ized, much to my discontent, that I was not the only one with that in-genius idea. Nonetheless, I battled the elements for four grueling hours with two good friends of mine and managed to get right in the thick of the crowd. Not as close as I would have wanted, but it was good enough. I stood in a crowd with 17, 000 other fans and waited.

The concert kicked off with the first of six oppening bands, “Bad Acid Trip”, who’se heavy metal funk stylings got the crowd shaking. Next came “Unearthed”, then “Norma


Over the summer I watched lots and lots of movies, some of them were really good and instantly took a place in my top 5 all time movies list, while there were three that totally ruined my night, and the subse-quent week for me. A short and incomplete list:: The Big Le-bowski, Fargo, Pirates of the Caribbean II, Snakes on a Plane, Clerks II, The Warriors, Dazed and Confused, Waiting…, and Bowfinger.

The Big Lebowski is by far one of the greatest movies ever made. I couldn’t stop quot-ing it all summer and it even got better during further viewing (6 times since June). This gets an A+.

Fargo was so boring, everyone claims that the movie is pure and glittering genius. It is not. The most boring movie I have ever seen. In the eternal words of J.K. -1

Pirates wasn’t so bad, but if it’s supposed to be a chil-dren’s film why were there SO

MANY PLOT LINES?! Who was that random voodoo lady? Why was the monkey the only actor that I felt I shared a con-nection with? Too many ques-tions, too much confusion.

Snakes on a Plane has a simple plot, there are snakes and they are on a plane. What more could you ask for? Endless violence, random shots of snakes bighting mammary glands and Samuel Jackson shooting at an airplane window flying at 16,000 feet? Yup.

Clerks II, was another movie that was so funny that it hurt. Frankly I can’t mention any scenes from the movie as I would at least get a very stern call to my parents from some teachers. This is also another

The Warriors. Warri-ors come out and play-ay-ay. This movie sucked, it was so confusing and disjointed, espe-cially the ending “Why did you do all these horrible actions today?” “Well because I’m crazy, and I do crazy things”

What kind of reply was that?! The poor Warriors had to spend the entire night running away from a bunch of freaks and why? Because some little shrimp of a man likes to do crazy things.

What is there to say about Dazed and Confused that hasn’t already been said? The movie is magnificent, a perfect soundtrack and characters that are timeless (Wooderson!) There isn’t much more to say, next time you have the chance to witness greatness, choose to do so.

Waiting… It was a good movie, it was likable, not hilarious or very smart or any-thing similar. It was very aver-age. +

Bowfinger, I can’t believe how funny this movie was! The last time I saw it was nine years ago when it came out; it is so much funnier now. Go see it! Arman Lari

Movies I watched over the summer


better. If you are someone who goes to see a movie for the in-tense action, then this is a movie that you will certainly enjoy. If you are someone who did not enjoy Ong Bak because of the uninteresting plot, this is a plot that is far superior. However, this is still not a movie that you should go to see solely for the story line. Overall, it is an enter-taining movie that I would rec-ommend going to see if you are an action fan. I would give this movie 9.5 out of 10 for action and 8 out of 10 for its story line.

Stephen Galletti

elephants. Madame Rose shoots Kham’s father, who was at-tempting to save those ele-phants. Kham takes it upon him-self to retrieve these elephants and flies to Sydney where they were taken. During his quest to recover these elephants he un-covers a dangerous world of underground Sydney crime. On his journey, he encounters sev-eral chances to flash off his expertise in Muay Tai, leading to some extensive fight scenes.

If you have seen Ong Bak, the action in “The Protec-tor” is not as exiting nor is there as much. However, the plot (if you were not one who enjoyed the plot of Ong Bak) is much

The new Tony Jaa movie “The Protector” hit movie theatres on September 8th, 2006. The interesting plot of this film is similar to that of “Ong Bak – The Thai Warrior” (one of Jaa’s earlier films). Jaa’s character, Kham, and his father raise elephants fit for the royal kings. In ancient times, it was believed that a king got his pow-ers for the beast he rode, most often an elephant. The elephants were protected by warriors trained in Muay Tai, a deadly form of martial arts. Kham is one of these protectors. To ob-tain these legendary powers, a Sydney kingpin “Madame Rose” steals two of Kham’s

Movie Review: The Protector

Panom Yeerum, better known in the West as Tony Jaa and in Thai-land as Jaa Panom, is a Thai mar-tial arts expert.

during the later parts of the game and more than once will you find your-self using your sniper rifle for close-range combat, due to the fact that you have out of other ammo. In terms of story, Dirge provides an interesting look into the mystic story of Vincent that Final Fan-tasy VII fans and newcomers alike will find interesting. Ulti-mately, if you want a typical shooter game, you should proba-

On August 22nd 2006, Alexisonfire released their new-est album entitled “Crisis”. This album combines Alexisonfire’s old sound of a hardcore metal band with a newer, softer sound. With George Pettit and Dallas Green alternating on vocals, this new album is sure to please any Alexisonfire fans or fans of the album’s genre.

On the album Crisis, most of the songs alternate be-tween a harder sound with George’s “singing” (if you want

to call it that, it’s more like yell-ing on beat) and a soft sound of Dallas’ soft, gentle singing, all the while holding the same heavy music. Wade MacNeil’s lead guitar and Dallas’ rhythm guitar seem to be the perfect fit, leading the way for an innovative sound with Chris Steele on bass and Jordan Hastings’ creative drum beats. This new album really gets your adrenaline pumping from the start and keeps it going the whole way through. With a new driving sound, Alexisonfire’s new album is definitely a very

good album. With George’s yell-ing and the heavy music, this album is sure to get you listening to much more hardcore metal time and time again. And at least you’ll know it will surely annoy your parents.

If you do not like loud music or are just in the mood for a softer sound, you may want to check out Alexisonfire member, Dallas Green. He came out with a solo project entitled “City and Colour”. However, if you like loud music or any of the previous

(Role Playing Game) elements present. You can unleash power-ful spells, customize your equip-ment, and when your health points get low, you can use a traditional Final Fantasy Potion to heal yourself. The battle sys-tem itself works quite smoothly (albeit a little slow), but be pre-pared to get frustrated more than once. Expect to be relying a lot on items; it’s almost impossible to complete to game without using items after almost every fight. Also, ammo becomes in-creasingly difficult to come by

Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII strays from the turn-based norm of past Final Fantasy games in exchange for something new; the shooter genre. The game stars Final Fan-tasy VII’s moody, vampire gun-slinger Vincent Valentine and takes place three years after the events of the original game. It plays from an over-the-shoulder perspective where you move Vincent with the left analog stick and aim with the right. Turn-based fans shouldn’t fear though; there are still some classic RPG

Video Game Review: Dirge of Cerberus Final Fantasy VII (PS2)

Album Review: Crisis by Alexisonfire


band (The Comatose Bubble), there were six main clubs where bands under the age of 18 could perform: La Shope, Café L’inconditionnelle, Le National, Club Lambi, El Salon & Sala Rosa. All other minor stages in Montreal required the entire band to be over the age of 18. Not bad, you might say, six clubs is a variety. Well, that’s if you consider La Shope a club at all. It is in fact an old car garage “transformed” into an “underage” club. The reality is, the place doesn’t even have a front door, only a side entrance emerged some-


If you examine any music scene, you’ll immediately realize that it is young artists that keep it running smoothly. Once older artists have reached their peak and either burnt out or faded away (which ever you think is better), new younger artists take their place and assume the role until the cycle is repeated again. Now that we’ve established that young artists keep this cycle alive, tell me why the city of Montreal keeps closing the few clubs where beginner bands and artists can perform?

When I first began playing the Montreal music scene with my

The Indie Rock Report: Where do we go now?

Alexisonfire albums, be sure to check out their latest album “Crisis”. You won’t be disap-pointed. Stephen Galletti

bly look elsewhere, but if you want something new and innovative with a great story, Dirge definitely delivers. My final rating would be 8/10

Alex Callard

The Sports & Clubs Pages


SEASON REPORT The Juvenile soccer team started their season off with a bang when they played against Riverside High School in their home opener. With an extremely short bench, they managed to com-pletely overpower their oppo-nents, especially in the last twenty minutes of the game, on their way to an amazing 8-0 win with help from a hat-trick by Jean-Marc Vlasseros. The team was very optimistic after this game as all the things the coaches continually stressed were exe-cuted very well. In their second game, the Warriors faced Pierre-fonds Comprehensive High School. Coming out too over-confident, Loyola was dominated by their opponents in the first half of play. At halftime, the team managed to regroup and turn the game completely around by absolutely dominating Pierre-fonds throughout the second half. About twenty minutes into the second half, Julian Lefebvre scored on a penalty shot, break-ing the 0-0 deadlock. With a surge of energy, the Warriors added another great goal shortly

after. The rest of the game was rather quiet as Loyola walked away with a shaky 2-0 victory.

After the win against Pierrefonds, the Warriors set out to play against Macdonald High School. The game was fairly easy for them, and thanks to 2 goals by both Julian Sayegh and Anthony Gattuso, the Warriors won 5-1. Without three of the defensive starters and having the youngest goalie in the history of

Juvenile Warriors Soccer end city championship slump; last G.M.A.A. title was way back in 19??

juvenile soccer at Loyola in net, the team considered this a solid victory. Next up was Lindsay Place High School. The Warri-ors had a very slow start and a lack of scoring capability in the game, but still managed to domi-nate it through and through. Tied at zero at halftime, the Warriors got a scare when Lind-say Place struck first on their only shot up to that point. Rather than getting down on each other, the Warriors rallied and scored four unanswered goals on their way to yet another impressive victory.

Full of confidence, the Warriors now faced the beast known as the James McGrath sports tournament. The first two games were nail-biters, but the Warriors managed back to back 1-0 wins. This landed them in

the finals against Lester B. Pearson High School. The game was very close from beginning to end, until late when Justinian La Rosa scored a goal off of a beauti-ful corner kick by Alexander Fusarini. Their opponents equalized 2 minutes later, also off a corner, and the game was sent to overtime. With four minutes left, on a VERY controversial and unsportsmanlike play, the Pearson team did not give the ball back to Loyola after a fair play ball by a defender as a Pearson player lay down injured while Loyola was in possession of the ball. In-

stead of giving the ball back to the Warriors, Pearson went and scored the game-winning goal. This move may have won them the tourna-ment, but this school has lost much of their class and reputation. This will not be forgotten anytime soon by the Loyola community.

The Warriors collec-tively believed that they missed their coach and captain of the ship, Mr. Cilani, and needed his moral boost for those finals. Still, they are very optimistic about the rest of the season.

The next task for the Juvenile warri-ors was St. Thomas High School. The game was evenly played until St. Thomas scored two goals thirty seconds apart. Instead of getting

down on each other, the Warriors rallied amongst each other and dominated the play throughout the rest of the game. Unfortunately, they only managed one goal in this barrage of attacks, and Loyola


our head coach, Mr. John Ger-aghty, our defensive coach Mr. Donovan, and our special teams instructor, Coach Seb, were all

confident that we’d be ready for our first season game versus Collège Montréal. This was supposedly another of the top teams in the league. We had a great game from our offense and defense as we took this game 22-6. Then we were faced with a few weaker teams, we played Collège Ste-Anne, the score was

42-2, then we beat Régina-Assumpta 69-0, following this game up with another shut-out 56-0 against Jean-Eudes, we then beat MGR Richard by a score of 67-6. After this long winning streak, we were once again faced with another weaker challenge in Cité des Jeunes, they gave us a run for our money after taking an early lead. But we battled back and won the game 55-13. Then, our final season game ap-proached and we had to be on-top when the final whistle blew to secure first place. We faced our pre-season rivals Dalbé Viau. This was another tight game but we brought our best and came out with a 29-6 victory.

Heading the first week of the playoffs, we had a well earned by into the second round, and a good week of rest. We moved straight to the semi-finals where we were faced with Collège Ste-Anne. We rose to the occasion, playing one of our best games of the season, and left with a convincing 63-0 victory. Bring on the finals!

We were all ready for the big game, we were up against #2 Collège Montréal, and after tweaking or game plans to neu-tralize their offense and bust-

through their defense, we were confident that we could come out on top. We were lucky enough to have the help of the two Juvenile coaches - Mr. Cloutier on offense and Mr Cyr on defense.

Championship Game Day: dismissed at 2:00, get dressed, warm-up, prayer, na-tional anthem, and then, what we’d been preparing for since the end of last year; the kick-off of the city cham-pionship game. We had to grind, focus, run, pull, dig, block, hit, take a hit, hunt-down, tackle, catch and be-lieve. We had to believe that we could do it. And boy did we show the strength of our beliefs on the field. It was by far the most entertaining and closest game all year. We started off slowly and watched as the Lions gained an early lead. But we were able to fight back like true Warriors and take the game by a score of 35-21. What a game it was. The highlight was surely Casey Cook’s jump pass to Nicholas Mackenzie for a touchdown. What a play. Congratulations to all Loyola Warriors! City champs, undefeated. What a sea-son, Thanks to all our coaches, managers and supporters that came out to the games. Whose house is this? Our house. Warri-ors 4 life.

By Anthony Snell Photos by Magalie Lafreniere

This is the first year Loyola has entered a Cadet level football team in the G.M.A.A. It is composed of secondary threes with the exception of three sec 4s and one sec 2. Since it’s our first year in the Cadet league, we start in the “A” league. It was an ex-tremely fun season. After our three-day preparatory camp in Saint-Jean, we were faced with one of the best teams in our league, Dalbé Viau, in an exhibition match. It was a grueling game but we came out on top, with a score of 36-12. Then, after what was for some of us our first football game experi-ence, we found our weaknesses and fine-tuned our offensive and defensive plays.

At this point in time,

Loyola adds a fourth football team - the Cadet Warriors - and they complete a perfect season!


Defending city champion Midget Warriors salvage season after poor start but lose controversial contest in the semi-finals

referee a good friend of the opposite coach but as the War-riors found out later, he was the city coach for the majority of the Pearson players. But the Warriors knew that being a Warrior means facing any chal-lenge no matter the circumstances and they were prepared to do so. The only problem was that when-ever the Warriors accidentally nudged a Pearson player, it would be called against them. And when-ever we had a clear chance to score, it would be called offside even though the linesman did not raise his flag. Loyola fought bravely while receiving four yel-lows cards and one red. Congratu-lations, nonetheless, Warriors, on a fine season. Written by Thomas Ricci Pictures by Ms Giselle Ricci

second half to put Loyola up 1-0. St Thomas, now desperate, tried to come back but Mike Peronace put the game away when he scored his first goal of the year off a perfect pass from Michetti. Semi-finals October 26, 2006 Loyola 0 Person 2

The Midget Warriors’ streak has ended. The semi-final game was stolen from the Warriors. Over-all, the soccer team played a good game and their opponent, Lester B. Pearson, scored two goals that Loyola would like to have back. The only problem the Warriors had playing this team was the refereeing. Out of all the games the Loyola played this season, they never encountered such a biased referee. Before the game began, the referee directly walked to Pearson's bench and talked to them. Not only was the

their next three games! But they will need to work hard and come together as a real team if they want any chance at repeating as city champions.

In the next match, Loyola was missing Joshua Whyne due to a red card from the previous game. It was the Warri-ors second match versus John Rennie and

Loyola was down 1-0 in the first five minutes. But Loyola wasn't ready to give up and fought their way back. The offence woke up, played as a unit and caused much chaos in the John Rennie backfield. The Loyola defense played wonder-fully, especially when Joey Picci-relli and Marco Tiberio stopped two open nets. By the end of it all, Loyola won 4-1 and kept their playoff hopes alive.

Quarter-finals October 24, 2006 Loyola Warriors 2 St. Thomas 0

The Warriors seem unstoppable at the moment and their defense cannot be breached. Loyola be-gan their quarter-final match with a lot of intensity and had over-whelming possession of the ball during the fist half but was inca-pable of finishing. Eventually, Domenico Michetti scored in the

The Midget Soccer team had a terrible beginning to the season. During their first game, the un-prepared Warriors lost 4-2. The team went back to the drawing board and re-established some strategy.

Their next game against John-Rennie was much better and after missing several open nets the game was tied 0-0 at the half. In the second half, Fabio Macera finally scored. John-Rennie kept coming back and tied the match. The game was saved by Stefano Egiziano who stopped a penalty shot but the Warriors couldn't come away with the win.

At the annual tourna-ment in Lennoxville, at Bishops College, Loyola wanted to use this opportunity to bring the team together and improve their lack-luster play. And they did! The Warriors won both their prelimi-nary games by a score of 6-0. In the finals, the Warriors were victorious 2-1. Marco Santos was named MVP of the tournament and scored both Loyola goals in the final match.

The Warriors next played at home against the un-tested Royal West team. The Warriors seemed to have lost all energy and sadly lost 4-2.

The season did not look good for the Midget Warriors but they still had a shot at the play-offs if they can manage to win


Bishops tournament MVP Marco Santos

The Bantam Braves soccer team completed an amazing regular season this year. Under the great leadership of coaches Mr. DeVerteuil, Ms. Marshall, and Coach Christian, the Braves claimed a record of 8 wins and 0 losses during the regular season.

The season started off with a tremendous 10-0 victory against Riverdale Academy and concluded with a thrilling 3-0 victory over John Rennie. Their only loss during this season was at the annual James McGrath Fall

Sports Tournament when the Braves lost a heartbreaker by the score of 2 to 1.

The team’s goal keep-ers, Robert Trocchia and Michael Hiscock, should be commended for their outstanding performance during the season. In addition, captains and veterans John Abra-ham, Patrick Fusarini, Davidee Inukpuk, and Connor Sura led the offensive line to over 30 goals in 8 matches.

The team looked for-ward to their playoff matches

when they had to face power-houses John Paul II and Mother Teresa High School. It was with great confidence that our Loyola braves entered their knock-out stages. This confi-dence overtook the other team and caught them off guard. From the first second of play, our Braves kept on coming at Beurling High School until the end of the match. As a result of this, Loyola ended the game with a thrashing score of more than 7 goals.

They continued to the semi-finals where they would face their rivals, John Paul. For those who remember, this was the team that knocked our young warriors out of the finals last year. Entering the game with even more confidence than the quarter-final game, the Braves seemed to be a little too confi-dent. They started off slow and let an easy shot on net go by… this resulted in a goal for the opposing team. Minutes later another goal was put in for them.

With Loyola finally starting to wake up, an intense game was played, and they even managed to put 1 in. With our Braves racing to get another goal in to tie things up before the half, several extremely close chances came through. Un-fortunately, none of them resulted in a goal. The second half struck hard like a baseball bat. John Paul continued to put pressure on our team. Both teams struggled but, finally, as a result of a well placed shot the other team succeeded in putting a goal in nets. There was nothing our goal keeper , Robert Trocchia could have done. The Braves tried to recover from there bad actions. They managed to put another one in. Sadly, that was not enough.

By the end of the match, the final score was 4-2 for John Paul. All of the players of the Ban-tam team will look forward to next year for another challenge against John Paul and hopefully that will be a winning year for the Loyola Bantams. Patrick Fusarini

Bantam Braves record an undefeated regular season but fall to in the city championship semi-finals


Over 60 secondary 3, 4, & 5 students participated in Senior House League Soccer (SHLS) this year. The chase for the “Golden Foot” cup was eventually won by the Gooey Gugliemis, led by Joseph Gug-liemi. The Gooey’s defeated the LaSalle Tigers in a thrilling final, 5-4.

The weather was good for most of the season as we played over 50 games. For the most part Hingston field was our home, although a couple of times the phrase “Lake Hing-ston” was used when the weather did not cooperate. As is tradition at Loyola there was a

student vs. teacher challenge on the Concordia practice field. Led by Fillippo “Bring on the Mud” LaVerghetta, the SHLS All-Stars took on the teachers and tied 1-1.

Special thanks to Mr. DeMelo for making the “Golden Foot” trophy, and let’s hope we have as much fun and a greater turn out next year. Maybe the SHLS All-Stars might even beat the teachers!

By Mr. Paul Campanelli

Pictured at right: the Gooey Gugliemis.

Gooey Gugliemis win house league soccer crown

winning their final game and giving them-selves something to build on for the next jambo-ree.

The team prac-ticed hard for two weeks. Individ-ual players be-came more com-fortable with their assignments and were execut-ing well. They

got their chance to put themselves to the test in the next jamboree hosted by Selwyn House. It was a wonderfully warm and sunny day. The team rose to each chal-lenge presented to them by their opponents winning two games. The defence stood out by scoring the first defensive points of the season in one game and in the other two games that both ended a 0 – 0 tie. The team had found itself and a group of individuals truly became a team – having fun and trusting each other on the field.

The next opportunity to show the growth the team had made through dedicated practice

came just a week later at the jamboree hosted by L.C.C. On a day that only football play-ers can truly appreciate the team showed its grit once again. Though Jean-Eudes, proba-bly the best coached

team, was not able to attend the Scouts set their sights on defeat-ing a new found rival: Kuper Academy. Kuper had routed the Scouts at home and they were hungry for payback. After a near flawless game against Galt in which the offence scored almost at will, the defence was equal to the task not allowing a single


The Loyola Scouts PeeWee Foot-ball season began back in mid-September with open tryouts. Over a two week period close to 50 secondary one students came out to attempt to fill one of the 20 to 25 spots available. After much deliberation the coaches, Fr. Brennan, S.J. and Mr. Schnitzer made their final cuts and due to the extraordinary amount of talent to choose from settled on a roster of 27 players.

Once the roster had been finalized, equipment was distributed and the focus was put on the team’s first jamboree of the year. The coaches had barely a week to slot players into either an offensive or defensive posi-tions and teach them the various schemes, sets and proper position-ing. The team responded well and gelled quite quickly. The day of the first jambo-ree, part of the James McGrath Sports Tourna-ment, the coaches had other duties to fulfill and thus were generously replaced by coaches Scanlan and Santillo. The outcome was a 1 and 3 re-cord; though the level of play was not well reflect in the final re-sults. The team played well to-gether and got progressively bet-ter throughout the day. They established themselves as a team,

point in the first game. Next was Kuper. It was cold, rainy, and damp. And the Scouts rev-elled in the weather, using their ground speed and a bread-and-butter play – the reverse – to score not one but two touchdowns on a stingy defence. The Scout defence was equally stingy, hold-ing a much larger Kuper offence to a single touchdown. The icing on the cake was another great game against Selwyn. The team record had improved to 6 – 3 – 2. Though victory was not without its price; Jason Rouillier suffered a cut lip and Liam Donovan was concussed ending his season pre-maturely.

A week later and an-other off field injury left the Scouts with only 1 quarterback and two running backs. The team was determined not to let down their injured team mates. This was the attitude they brought to the final jamboree of the year on a frigid day at Jean-Eudes. Today the competition would be fierce but a team that was determined would not be denied. The first game against Jean-Eudes 2 was a good warm up. A well coached team that executes perfectly was unable to stop the Scouts. The team carried this momentum in to their next game against Selwyn where once again the defence shined, intercepting every at-tempted pass made and not giving up a single point. Next was Jean-Eude 1, and even better team who were a challenge but in the end fell before a team that was on a roll. The final game of the day and the season fittingly was a rivalry that harkened back to the days of old: L.C.C. versus Loyola. A strong competitor not used to adversity ran into a brick wall defence that, though smaller, played as big a life. The frustra-tion was clear as L.C.C. had great difficulty moving the ball. Not to be outdone the offence build on the strong play of the defence, even being so confident and bold as to insert unpractised plays called by the players! Usually a recipe for disaster the plays stunned the opposition and re-

Peewee Scouts football enjoys a memorable season

flected just how much the team truly trusted one another. The vic-tory over L.C.C. caped a winning day and a great season, but more importantly the players had fun.

The coaches would like to thank the players for their hard work and trust in them. It was an honour to coach such a wonderful bunch of athletes who rose to the occasion time and again and clearly demonstrated that they knew what is truly important: playing the best you can and encouraging those around you to do the same. The coaches would also like to thank all the parents who were so supportive coming out some of the worst weather and always appreciative of the coaching efforts, it made the experience all the more rewarding. And finally thank you to all the supporters from the Loyola commu-nity, the boys were told they were representing more than just them-selves and did so admirably. GO SCOUTS! Mr. Rob (coach) Schnitzer Photos by Magalie Lafreniere

most of them. With the Cadet A team, these students get to play and gain valuable experience. This makes it an easier transition to the Juvenile level.

Now that we have four teams, it is obvious that we may have a talent drain at the lower Bantam level. Do you see that as a problem or just a means of advancing and learning as a player so you can succeed at a higher level?

Well, at the end of the next cou-ple of years we will have to evaluate the strengths and weak-nesses of the program and we’ll have to make adjustments based on what we find but so far, so good.

You must be very happy with the current cadet season, the new squad is undefeated and doing quite well versus their opponents.

Yes, I am actually quite sur-prised, pleasantly surprised that they are doing so well, consider-ing that it is a very small roster – they only have 30-35 players. But John Geraghty and Sean Dono-van, with the help of the Juvenile

coaches, have done a great job.

If you continue with the Cadet team, and it seems like you might, what do you see as the future for the Bantam team? Or will it be status quo?

Like I said, we are going to have to evaluate things after this sea-son. Honestly, I don’t know if there will even be a league to play in for the Bantams in the next couple of years because there might not be enough teams in the Bantam league. We’ll have to wait and see.

If that happens, do you foresee having two cadet teams at Loyola – one in the AA level and one in the A level where the current team is now?

I can see that happening but we’ll have to talk about it and see what’s right for the program and the school.

Approximately how many kids do you have involved in Loyola football this fall.

I would say about 130 to 140 kids are involved in football right now.

Loyola has added a fourth team to their football program this year. The new squad - a cadet division team - is primarily a secondary three team. The Loyola News interviewed Ath-letic Department Head Mr. San-tillo regarding the reasons behind establishing another football team to the high school’s football family.

What is the cadet league? How is it different from the Bantam program?

The most significant difference between the two leagues is that in the Cadet A league, there is no weight limit for the offensive and defensive linemen. In the Bantam league, there is w eight limit of 160 pounds.

Why was it decided to bring a new football team to Loyola?

We noticed that some of our bigger secondary two and three kids that wanted to play football couldn’t because of the G.M.A.A. Bantam weight limit. A few of them would decide to go up to Juvenile but the jump to the higher level was too much for

What is “Cadet” football? Athletic Director Marco Santillo responds

Where is all the new equipment coming from?

We were actually quite fortunate to be able to buy about 15 sets of new equipment in the last year so we were able to suit up this many kids.

The new and returning chaplain to Loyola, Father Rob Brennan, s.j., is helping out with the Peewee team. How is that go-ing?

Father has done a great job. He loves it and the kids love him so I think it’s going great.

Photo by Magalie Lafreniere

Mr. Santillo in action as coach of Bantam football


Montreal Canadiens’ season. The club is off to a good start. During the first week of sign up, the organization received over 150 members. The club is being run by Mr. Racine, Mr. James, and Mr. Mirarchi. Other people involved in running the club are, Mathew Michetti, Javier Gonzalez,Mark Yeramian, and the two co-presidents of the student council, Roberto Mormina, and Angelo Esposito.

During the first meet-ing of the Habs Club, when asked by Mr. Racine for ideas regarding what activities the club should

A new club has been created this year. For the first time in Loyola history, a Habs club has been formed at Loyola High School for the 2006-2007

participate in, sugges-tions such as staying after school to watch a game, have Habs club shirts for all the mem-bers, trying to attend one of the Canadiens’ practices, have a ball hockey game with the club, and many other

great ideas where mentioned.

The club is always open for new members to join at any time during the year. The only thing that is necessary to join the club is that you must love the Montreal Canadiens. When students signed up for the club, they were asked to write down their all-time favorite

The Loyola Habs Club

player. The winner was Alex Kovalev (AK-27) with 47 votes. The Montreal Canadiens are off to a good start to the season, and hopefully they will make it to the playoffs and win the Stanley Cup. One thing is for sure, the members of the Habs Club will be cheering for them all the way.

Mark Yeramian

inspirational defensive perform-ance throughout the game kept the Warriors in this one. But it was not to be, Loyola failed to put up any points in the second half as well and fell to undefeated Mont St Anne.

The Loyola Warriors final game of the year took place in Lachine against Dalbe Viau High School. The Warriors got off to yet another slow start in this one fal-ling behind two touchdowns early. However they were able to claw there way back into the game and make it close at the half. The War-riors defense forced some crucial turnovers and gave the team a chance to win the game. However, the warriors were not able to capi-talize and they lost there final game of the year.

The players would like to thank all the fans who came out to support the team throughout the season. They would also like to extend thanks to the entire coach-ing staff that put countless hours of hard work into the team this sea-son. A special thanks needs to go out to Coach Cyr whose time at Loyola will finish at the end of this year. Coach Cyr has been a dedi-cated coach throughout the years and his hard work and determina-tion will never be forgotten. Thanks, Coach for all the great memories.

Matthew Lawton and Kevin Stern

Curé-Mercure on September 29. Although the Warriors came prepared, this game would be all Curé-Mercure. Loyola’s offence struggled to get going in this one, failing to score a single point in the first half, despite the defense battling hard to keep the game close. Curé-Mercure blew it open in the third quarter and handed Loyola another loss, 30-6, to push their record to 0-4.

The Loyola Warriors next took to the field against their league rivals Selwyn House High School. The team was forced to try to play through some very harsh conditions. With rain and eventually snow coming down the team was forced to turn to its running game to bring home the win. A sixty-five yard touchdown run by Jarred Humphries in the second quarter gave the Warriors some life heading into the half. However, the weather got the better of the Warriors on this day as the of-fence failed to put up any more points and Selwyn scored a cou-ple more times in the second half.

The Loyola Warriors final home game took place against Mont St-Anne. Unde-feated coming into the game Mont St Anne fielded one of the best defenses in the league and it showed. The Warriors offence was hardly able to move and was not able to put up a single point in the first half. However, an

yards for a touchdown and Loyola was able to get within three points of the lead. How-ever, time ran out on Loyola and College Laval took the win 28-25.

It didn’t get any easier for the Warriors as they then had to go on the road to take on Deux-Montagnes, the defending champions, on September 21. Loyola came out of the gate strong, scoring on a Mark Berno-tas TD run on their opening drive to jump out to an early lead. The defense did their part in this one, forcing turnover after turnover, and giving the offence the ball in scoring range many times in the first half. Loyola, unfortunately, could not capitalize and trailed 19-12 at halftime. Deux-Montagnes’ offence came to life in the second half, how-ever, and ran away with it, and Loyola dropped their third straight game, 40-18. The War-riors lost more than the game in this one, though, as quarterback Spencer Brennan went down early in the first quarter and will be side-lined for the team’s next few games.

Desperate for a win, the Warriors traveled to Mt. Tremblant to take on

The Loyola Warriors football season got off to a shaky start on September 7. Two early turnovers inside their 30-yard line cost Loyola fourteen points within the first ten minutes. Bourget added another touch-down at the end of the first quar-ter and Loyola found themselves down 21-0 at the end of fifteen minutes. It took an Oliver Radack interception return for a touch-down to give the Warriors some life. Kevin Stern set up the War-riors for their second touchdown with a forty-yard reception, which was capped of by a Mark Bernotas nine-yard touchdown run. Loyola continued to battle hard throughout the entire second half and was able to get within five points of the lead. However, a late Bourget touchdown put Loyola in a deep hole that they were not able to get out of. Final score was 35-10 in favor of Bour-get.

College Laval spoiled the Warriors home opener on September 15. Laval jumped out to an early lead and Loyola was forced to play catch up for the rest of the game. The defense played a solid game forcing five Laval turnovers and Loyola’s running back Mark Bernotas contributed with two rushing touchdowns. The play of the game came in the fourth quarter. Loyola slotback Richard Humes returned a kickoff eighty-five

Juvenile Football Warriors endure frustrating and winless season



The Loyola Wilderness Club recently returned from their first adventure of the new 2006 - 2007 season. From September 29 to October 1, the LWC explored Parc national des Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie. The park is one of Québec's most beautiful as well as one of the largest. Con-gratulations to members; Mackenzie Carroll, Michael Yaremko, Andrew Wilson, Alex Zamozdra, Sean Messenger, Darren Usher, Jesse Crete-Saravo, Michael McDonell along with teachers Mr. Crazy Horse Ketterling & Mr.HawkEye Elie, who climbed the nine kilometer trail up l'Acropolis des Draveurs, summiting three consecutive peaks at 890 meters high, then canoeing a total of sixteen kilo-meters on this trip.

L' Acropolis des

Draveurs is part of a series of cliffs that comprise the biggest and tallest cliffs east of the Rock-ies. The view was incredible from up on top of the cliffs, a 360˚ view of mountains, cliffs, gorges, lakes and the River de la Malbaie were spectacular and breathtaking.

On Friday night, the LWC arrived in the beautiful park setting up camp, eating then sleeping under the cliffs of Mal-baie. Saturday morning after eating, the crew broke camp, packed up the tents and prepared for a tough but exciting day of mountaineering and canoeing. They climbed to the three sum-mits, ate lunch on top of the world and climbed down in a total of four hours. Although tired from the steep steps of the mountain, they were all looking forward to their eight kilometer canoe ride to the next camp.

The rivière de-la-Malbaie is one of the most beau-tiful and undisturbed rivers in Québec. It curved through the glacier carved gorge with a na-ture reserve on the left and beau-tiful climbing mountains on the right. This was the perfect river to canoe down and up again.

The crew arrived at their second camp as the sun was

Loyola Wilderness Club hikes and canoes in parc national des Hautes Gorges de la Riviere Malbaie

Above: back row, left to right - Mackenzie Carroll, Mike Yaremko, Mike McDonell, Alex Zamozdra and Sean Messenger.

Front row: Darren Usher, Jesse Crete-Saravo and Andrew Wilson (left to right).

setting, set up their tents, ate, bear proofed their equipment and hit the hay. The next morning, camp was taken down and the crew prepared for their canoe ride back to the bus. Eight kilometers and 2.5kilometers later, the crew ar-

rived back at the bus, packed up and drove home. What a wonder-ful trip!

Michael McDonell

another game for the Juvenile Warriors after the finals. They were matched up against an Alumni team. No Warriors vol-leyball team has ever beaten the Alumni team. It was close this year, going into a 3rd set. In the end the Warriors were defeated in this nail-biter. Congratulations Warriors on a well played tourna-ment.

The Juvenile volleyball team played three more game on Oct. 10th. After several days of Kairos and half team practices, the team came out to a slow start. Even though they beat Lauren Hill, it was clear that the warriors were having trouble concentrat-ing. Their second match was against VMC, and the team’s concentration had not improved much. Only at the end of the match did Loyola pick up their game for a come from behind win. The second match did not go so well, and Loyola lost their first game of the season. Loyola would be playing Westmount in the final match of the game. Loyola, even though they played their worst game this season, came out with the victory.

The Ed Meagher Sports Tournament weekend was jammed packed with volleyball. After winning their 5 round robin games, and semi-final match-up, the Juvenile Warriors found themselves in the finals against the Midget Warriors. It would be a Loyola-Loyola final. The game was very exciting, but the Juve-nile team came out on top, win-ning both the sets. Their was

Juvenile Volleyball report

Loyola volleyball repeats city championship triple crown! All three varsity teams win second-straight gold


The Juvenile volleyball regular season matches finished earlier this week. The Warriors played well, and beat the 2nd placed team in the division quite handily. The games were a good preparation for the Sherbrooke trip happening on the 4th of November.

The Warriors played in the G.M.A.A. semi-finals on Thursday, November 9, to earn their right to go to the champion-ship game. After their strongest set of the year the Warriors were able to beat Lindsay Place and go up one game after the first set. The second place was very close, but the Warriors played their game, and stayed calm to win 26-24, and advance to the finals.

On Saturday, November 11, The Juvenile Warriors played against Vincent Massey Collegiate. After a long morning of volleyball finals, and de-lays, the Warriors were ready to take the court. The players were very excited and anxious for this game to start against their arch-

rivals of this year, VMC. After the first set of the match, the Warriors were ahead. They dominated the first set, thanks to the hitting by Chris Fleming and Othniel Saint-Jean, as well as the picture perfect setting by Gabe Petrella. The second set was a nail-biter, but the Loyola Warri-ors pull through with a win, cap-turing the third leg of the Triple Crown for Loyola volleyball for the second-straight year. The MVP award for the match went to Othniel Saint-Jean.

This was the fifth-straight volleyball championship for Chris Fleming, Bryan LeBlanc, and Andrew Broulotte. The Warriors would like to thank Mr. Burke for all the time and dedication he put into this year’s team. Congratulations Warriors!

By Hayden Thomassin Team photo by Mr. Jim Newman Action photos by Magalie Lafreniere

Stephen O’Neal and Matthew Quadrini for rescuing the team from a 20 to 12 loss against Royal West. Loyola is now 5-0-2 and still in first place.

On October 26 2006, Loyola traveled out to Pierre-fonds Comprehensive High School for their fourth tourna-ment of the year. Loyola played three matches versus West Island

College, Pierrefonds Comprehen-sive High School and John Ren-nie. During the team’s first set versus WIC, Loyola was without coaches and without one of its setters due to heavy traffic. But the fraction of the team that was present rallied together to win the set 25 to 1 the second set was also won by Loyola who won the set 25 to 18. The second game was against Pierrefonds Compre-hensive High School which Loyola won by a score of 25 to 14 and 25 to 8. Loyola’s final game was versus John Rennie and once again Loyola tied. Loyola won the first set by a score of 25 to 14 but lost the second set by a score of 25 to 12. The team put together a great effort but no one could compare to the player of the game Tristan Mackenzie (the tallest member of the team) who blocked and spiked everything that came at him. Loyola is 5-0-3 and still in first place and will be playing its final home tournament on Octo-ber 30.

was almost put into jeopardy by a bad bump which hit the net but Michael Dionisi’s rose to the challenge and saved the ball off the net and sent it over the net. But Loyola lost the second set by incredible score of 29 to 27. The

second match was played versus WIC. Loyola took both sets by a score of 25 to 12 and 25 to 20. Once again Michael Dionisi is the player of the game due to his tremendous serving and spiking. The team is now 3-0-2 and is in first place.

On October 17 2006 the Loyola Bantam Volleyball team played its first home tourna-ment. The team played two games the first versus Royal West and Pierrefonds Compre-hensive High School. Suring the first match against Royal West Loyola played an excellent first set winning by a score of 25 to 18 but in the second set Loyola was trailing by a score of 20 to 12. Matthew Quadrini and Steven O’Neal put a combined total of 11 strait serves over to bring the score to 22 to 21. Loyola won the set by a score of 25 to 22. The second game was versus Pierre-fonds Comprehensive High School; Loyola won both sets by a score of 25 to 12 and 25 to 15. The Players of the game were

On September 28, Loyola’s Bantam Volley ball team played its first games at John Rennie High School. The team’s first match of the day was against the highly skilled host. Nerves affected the team during the first set which they lost 25 to 16. In the second set they rallied, and with a heart stopping back bump by Cor-rado de Marco which sailed over a basketball net and through the rafters, Loyola was ensured a victory by a score of 25 to 23. Loyola, with a win in the second set, was able to come away with a tie.

The second game was against Pierrefonds Comprehensive High School. This time, Loyola won both sets. The first set by a score of 25 to 14 and the second by a score of 25 to 8. The third and final game was against Royal West Academy where Loyola once again won both sets. The first set by a score of 25 to 21 and the second by a score of 25 to 18. The player of the game goes to Michael Dionisi for his excellent displays of serving and spiking ability. Meanwhile, the Rookie of the game goes to Corrado de Marco for his amaz-ing back bump which helped to ensure a tie for Loyola during our first game.

The Bantam volleyball team goes into its next games on October 11th at West Island Col-lage with a record of 2-0-1, which puts them in 1st place with a total of 5 points. Following Loyola are John Rennie and Royal West who are tied for sec-ond with 3 points each.

On October 11 2006 the bantam volleyball team jour-neyed out to West Island Collage to play games with West Island Collage and John Rennie, The first match was played versus John Rennie. Once again Loyola was only able to win one set by a score of 25 to 23.The victory

Bantam volleyball report


On October 30 2006, Loyola played its final tournament of the regular season at Loyola. Loyola played two games the first against Royal West and the second against West Island College. Loyola won both games against Royal West by a score of 25 to 12 and 25 to 15. The matches against West Island College were also won by Loyola by a score of 25 to 19

and 25 to 23. The entire team was able to play at least ten minutes during four sets giving game experience to some of the first year rookies who gave an outstanding effort and greatly contributed to the wins. The team finished the season with a 7-0-3 record and remained in first place.

The Bantam Braves went on to face John Rennie in the city championship final at Loyola on Saturday, November 11, 2006. During the regular sea-son, Loyola always ended up tied with John Rennie. As usual, the games were back and forth. In the first set Loyola was leading 21 to 18 but lost focus were defeated by a score of 22 to 25. But in during the second set the team rallied together and

ended the set with a tremendous serve which allowed the team to win by a score of 25 to 23. The victory forced, for the second year in a row, a third set which went up to 15. Loyola was leading by a score of 12-9 and was caught off guard by a John Rennie server who brought the score from 12-9 to 13-12 in favor of Loyola. Loyola scored two more points before giving the serve back John Rennie. At this point the score was 14-13 for Loyola. John Rennie served the ball over the net and it was quickly sent back over. John Rennie’s at-tempted return was blocked by Marco Modaferi, who sent the ball just behind John Rennie’s setter to lead Loyola to a 15-13 victory. The Loyola Bantam volleyball team is the 2006 GMAA city champions!

By Matthew Quadrini Photo by Mr. Jim Newman


one another, beginning with those relationships existing within the family circle, the Loyola School Community. Our Country, our world.

The only way to pre-serve domestic tranquility and global peace and harmony and avoid planetary extinction is to:

pardon where there is injury.

So, let us return to our basic questions. Life is about living in union with Christ Jesus and deepening that union, which will burst forth into the fullness of life. What really matters in life is our relationship with Jesus and

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in the words of Bono of U2: we must learn to: “to carry each other”. We can, if we so choose, put an end to hunger, illiteracy, violence, political or otherwise. We can bring life and not death, we can raise each other up, we can choose to be life givers rather than life takers.

Let us pray for the thousands of brave men and women of the Armed Forces who daily place themselves in harms

Father Boutilier, continued way in order to bring about lasting peace. Let us pray that we may recognize how vital our role is and that we will take to heart Jesus’ call to love one another. THAT IS HOW WE ACHIEVE PEACE.

Please e-mail the Editor at [email protected] if you would like a copy of the complete version of Father Boutilier’s Remembrance Day homily.

was completely muddy. There was a lack of grass, lines, and netting, but the game was still very intense. Neither team could breach their opponent’s defenses, and thanks to stellar defending and goaltending, the game stayed

tied 0-0. The overtime was relatively unevent-ful until the last minute when Pear-son had an empty net shot blocked by Loyola de-fender Benny Habib. After this play, the overtime was ended, and it was off to shoot-out.

Yet again, the Warriors relied on stellar goaltending by Eric Cordon. He managed to stop the first shot

by Pearson, and the three shoot-ers Julian Sayegh, Jonathan Di Betta and Alexander Fusarini were perfect scoring all three shots. After a nail-biting quarter final, the Warriors had won and were off to the semis.

Coming off a big win against Pearson, the Loyola Warriors were playing their semi-final game against Vincent Massey Collegiate High School. The Warriors looked ready from the start, dominating the game throughout its entirety, and easily disposing of their opponents 3-0. There were only two scares in the

game. One came from a near goal late in the game that would have put VMC behind 2-1, but thanks to a goal line save by sweeper Julian Lefebvre, that danger was averted. The next scare came with only one minute left to play in the game. Defender John Ruscito was given a red card after a fight that ensued a very unsports-manlike action by the captain of the Vincent Massey squad. Luckily for the Warriors, the coach of VMC went to talk to the referee after the game and told him not to mark down John’s red card, since the incident was really his captain’s fault. After all this, the Warriors now had to prepare for their final game against the undefeated Laurier Macdonald team.

The time had come. Saturday, October 28, 2006.. It was windy, cold, and raining, so you could tell it was true Warrior weather. It was a long, hard battle for the Warriors, who fought hard to keep the score tied at 0-0. The game was evenly played until early in the second half, when a bad foul led to a free kick 25 yards away from the net. Player-of-the-game Alexander Fusarini stepped up, and thanks to a bit of help from the side wind curved the ball past the Laurier keeper. It was now 1-0. The last twenty

suffered its first regular season defeat of the season, 2-1.

Two short days later, the Warriors faced Westwood High School in a fight for first place. Again, the Warriors allowed two goals in quick succession early on in the game, and had to play catch up soccer. They dominated the game throughout its entirety yet again, and this time managed two goals in their long and fierce attacks. That would be the end of the scoring, and the game ended in a 2-2 tie.

With this tie, Loyola was forced into third place in their division, and played the quarter finals in a crossover match up with the second place team from the other division. This was an away game at Lester B. Pearson High School. This game was a chance for the Warri-ors to avenge the tough and un-just loss they faced last time these two teams met. The game was played on Marie-Victorin field in Riviere Des Prairies. Due to massive rainfall, the field


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minutes of the game were grueling, as the wind and rain both picked up. Loyola went into a defensive mode, playing an extremely tight defensive game through and through. From the strikers to the goalie, everyone chipped in to get back and help out. The Warriors limited the high powered Laurier attack to only one or two weak powered shots from bad angles. Suddenly, the referee blew the final whistle, and the celebrations began, the Juvenile Warriors had won the city championship!!

The team would like to thank coaches Faddoul and Fulvio for the great season, and of course, Mr. Cilani “The captain of the Ship.” Also, we would like to thank all the people who came out and sup-ported us in the terrible weather on that Saturday, and last but not least, team mascot Martin James for all the good times.

Benny Habib Photos by Magalie Lafreniere and Jarrett Ketterling

Now all that remains is Café L’inconditionelle, Le Na-tional & Sala Rosa. However, of course there’s another catch. Le National is a gorgeous venue and has showcased the performances of many up-and-coming bands such as “30 Seconds to Mars” & “Regina Spektor”. They still consider themselves “All Ages”, but the cost of renting the club is over 1200$ for one night. Just to break even, a band booking the venue would have to sell over 150 tickets at 8$ each (a quite reasonable ticket price), and most young bands just don’t have that kind of fan base. So cross yet another off the list. Thus we’re left with the last resorts, Sala Rosa and Café L’inconditionelle,

was forced to close its doors for good. Cross another club off the list, that leaves us with 4 (in case you weren’t counting). To top things off, last week another of Montreal’s best underage rock clubs was forced to remove it’s famous “All Ages” sign and re-place it with a new “18+” sign. The city found several intoxi-cated minors around the club and gave the owners an ultimatum: become an adults only club, or board up your doors. The club seceded and young artists like myself lost another haven for indie rock music. Cross another off the list.

where in the adjacent dark alley, and most of the “underage” peo-ple there are 50 year old men looking for young girls to harass. This “club” is so bad, my parents wouldn’t even let me set foot in there, let alone perform, and most other young bands I know feel the same way. So cross La Shope off the list, right off the bat.

Last March, after a marijuana and cocaine bust at a Palestinian poetry reading (go figure), the popular (and clean might I add) rock club El Salon


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think so!

What I also don’t un-derstand is; do they think because we don’t have facial hair, that we will become better men or be wealthier in the long run? Well look, one of the richest men in the world, the ruler of Dubai (Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid

(Continued from page 7) al-Maktoum…what a name!), sprouts a full beard. Even Loyola’s own Sam Roberts who many people love and listen to, supports a nice beard. But on the flip side, there’s President Bush who does not have any facial hair what-so-ever, and what are peo-ple’s thoughts on him? Not too many good ones.

But since we are still attending Loyola and we can’t do anything about it for now, we have to live with the rules. I mean, this summer, I had a boda-cious beard but when school came around, the razor had to come out as well and I just had to shave it off. But once again, I will quote our favorite handbook, it states in dress code: Spirit “…neatness, cleanliness, and the avoidance of extremes and fads in clothes and grooming.” This is

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System of a Down songs are usualy characterized by speradic tempo changes and Zappa-esque punk-jazz freak-outs. They also use their music to spread their anti-war and anti-governent message. Their last 2 disc record “Mezmorize/Hypnotize”, sold several million copies, with hits such as “B.Y.O.B”, “Lonely Day” and many others. Many fans, how-ever, were concerned that the band would play more songs off their new album, disregarding their old hits. The Armenian-American rock band delivered an equal proporation of classic hits and new tunes which was exactly what was needed. They played such past hits as “Chop Suey”, “Psycho”, “Aerials” and many, many more.

They played non-stop

Forgive the cliché, but you could cut the tension with a knife. During the oppening bands I had skillfully moshed my way directly to front of the mosh pit, I was less than ten feet from the stage. Then suddenly, movement, thousands of flashes of light erupted. Lead guitarist and songwriter Daron Malakian stepped on stage alone and be-gan the melancholy chanting of “Soldier Side”. As he did so, Serj Tankian (Lead Vocals), John Dolmayan (Drums) and Shavo Odajian (Bass) all stepped on stage and settled on their respective instruments. The song finished its relatively slow intro and took off with a thun-dering blast of heavy metal.

Jean” (who decided to match the crowd by coming on stage cov-ered head to toe in mud). The rain had let up slightly, but you can imagine that all the dirt and sand poured into the park prior to the event, combined with the rain, had turned the parc into a mud bowl. People were throw-ing each other in the mud, moshing in the mud, and ulti-mately throwing mud every-where. Next came “Hatebreed” a screamer band from Chicago, and to finish off the oppening “Avenged Sevenfold” rocked the stage and got everybody pumped and ready for the head-liners.


System of a Down, continued for 2 hours, but did not return for an encore. The show was easily the best concert I have ever at-tended; it combined an adre-analine rush, with a surge of non stop heavy metal music. What more could you ask from a con-cert? The band only directly adressed the crowd once, and I will leave you with these words spoken by lead guitarist Daron Malakian. “Where we come from, we live in a civilization that is not civilized. It feels more like we live in an organization – that sells you war, that sells you religion, McDonalds, mur-der… the organi-zation is not on your side.” David Meffe

just my opinion but, by supporting a chinstrap (jaw line beard), a go-t or a Jack Sparrow stash is not an extreme. We still look neat but no one can do anything about it so, I shall leave it at that.

By Anthony Gattuso

but how long will they hold out? How long until they too are forced to lock up their doors, and all musi-cians under the age of 18 are kicked out onto the street (or worse, forced to play at La Shope and risk getting several STDs sim-ply by entering the “building”)?

How can the rock indus-try as a whole evolve if bands can only start playing when all its members turn 18? How could this happen, in Montreal of all places, a city renowned for its independent rock scene? Are the days of under-age indie rock numbered? To quote the Guns N’ Roses: “Where do we go now? Where do we go…?”

By David Meffe

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Juvenile football Warriors Joey Napolitano (left) and Dario Baccalaro take a break at the fall sports tournament pep rally.

Fall sports tournament volunteer soccer referees Marc Belvedere, Paulio Gaudio and Alex Arciero (left to right).

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