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Learning to wrestle across the world

By Diana Frey | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Print »

The typical wrestler with his muscles bursting out of skin-tight suits is not what one sees when looking at junior Monica Maher, Blair's single dedicated female wrestler, who weighs in at a mere 109 pounds.

ACC Tournament 2005: North Carolina

By Adith Sekaran | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Print »

Team record: 26-3, 14-2 conference Coach: Roy Williams The Tar Heels have dominated the ACC and most of the country for the entire season finishing with a record of 26-3. The team has matured in their second year under coaching great Roy Williams and is a favorite to advance far in the ACC and NCAA tournament.

First SCO Photo Contest winner

By Danny Scheer | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Print »

After weeks of discussion, the first Silver Chips Online photo contest winner has been selected. Junior Katie Frank who got the inspiration for her untitled winning photo from one of her regular photo class assignments. "Our assignment was 'spinning,'" Frank explains. "I had an idea of clothes in a dryer, but I decided, 'This is boring.' So I asked my brother to get in the dryer." The result is SCO's first official photo contest winner.

Full cast list

By | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Plays »

ACC Tournament 2005: Virginia

By Michael Bushnell | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Print »

Team record: 13-14, 4-12 conference Coach: Pete Gillen The Virginia Cavaliers enter the ACC Tournament dead last in the conference. The same team that started 6-0, including a win in November over 10th ranked Arizona bottomed out, losing their last five games of the regular season to finish with and under .500 record. Seniors Devin Smith and Elton Brown combined this year to average over points per game. But the team was plagued by poor play at the end of games, none more emblematic than their 92-89 home loss to Maryland last month, where they shot 42% from the free throw line. Head Coach Pete Gillen has not led the Cavs to the NCAA Tournament since 2001, and after yet another deeply disappointing season, his days as head coach at Virginia may be very near the end. That said, the team will return all but three players next season, including starting point guard Sean Singletary, who will be just a sophomore next year. He averaged over 10 points per game this season.

Blazers paying the price to drive

By Stephanie Nguyen | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Print »

On Saturday, April 17, senior Lisa Howe stopped her car at the end of Brunett Avenue, preparing to make a left turn onto University Boulevard. Checking both left and right, she saw no oncoming cars and inched the gray Camry onto the main road. Suddenly, a pick-up truck tore around the bend and slammed into Howe's Camry, hurling the Camry into a 360 spin and sending the mangled car over the median to its final resting place.

ACC Tournament 2005: Florida State

By Adith Sekaran | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Print »

Team record: 12-18, 4-12 conference Coach: Leonard Hamilton The Florida State Seminoles are one of the two teams that have joined the ACC this season. The Seminoles are more of a football power and basketball is not supposed to be their primary sport. They were not a pleasant surprise like Miami, Florida State finished tied with Virginia with the worst record in the ACC at 4-12.

Oprah Winfrey's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" receives mixed reviews

By Zahra Gordon, Feza Kikaya | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Print »

The highly anticipated Oprah Winfrey presentation of Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" aired on Sunday, March 6, at 9 p.m. on ABC and received mixed reviews from Blair staff and students.

Letter to the editor: MCPS responds to food editorial

By | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Op/Ed »

MCPS Food Service Supervisor Marla R. Caplon wrote this letter to the editor in response to the Silver Chips article The inside scoop on school meals.

Photo: ACC Tournament Special

By Eric Hysen | March 9, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

A moldy "Jacket"

By Grace Harter | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Print »

In "The Jacket," Adrien Brody stumbles around, confused and dazed. "I don't know why I'm here," he says pitifully. Audience members ask themselves the same question. Brody, an Academy Award winner highly praised for his work in "The Pianist" deserves better. What is such a gifted actor doing in a poorly developed piece of fluff?

Photo: "Their Eyes Were Watching God" movie pic

By | March 9, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Halle Berry and Michael Ealy during a scene in Oprah Winfrey's rendition of "Their Eyes Were Watching God."

Photo: staff picture- eic Vivek

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Photo: "Their Eyes Were Watching God" book cover

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"Their Eyes Were Watching God," by Zora Neale Hurston, published in 1937.

ACC Tournament 2005: Maryland

By Pratik Bhandari | March 9, 2005, midnight | In Print »

Team record: 16-11, 7-9 conference Coach: Gary Willaims (538-303) Maryland has had an extremely disappointing season. After winning the ACC Tournament last year and returning most of their starters, most fans thought that Maryland had a legitimate chance to go to the Sweet Sixteen and maybe even to the Elite Eight in the NCAA tournament. Now, the Terps will be lucky just to get in after being swept by Clemson and NC State, not to mention losing their final regular season game to Virginia Tech, where a win would have almost guaranteed them a spot in the big dance.

Photo: staff picture- Shannon Egan

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Photo: Security guard featured in Washington Post

By Diana Frey | March 8, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Blair security Cedric Boatman and his family were featured in the sports section of The Washinton Post on Tuesday, March 1.

Photo: Junior Olympic Fencing Championships

By | March 8, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Senior Max Czapanskiy, right, in the 128th round of the Junior Olympic Fencing Championships. Czapanskiy placed 18th overall in the national competition, which was held from Feb. 18 to 21 in Arlington, Texas.

Photo courtesy of Max Czapanskiy

Photo: w team huddle

By Diana Frey | March 8, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Maher participates in a team huddle during a practice.

Photo: Female wrestler

By Diana Frey | March 8, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Blair's female wrestler, junior Monica Maher is already pumped for next year's wrestling season.

NFTY National Convention '05: A long trip for five great days

By Alexander Gold | March 8, 2005, midnight | In Print »

Shabbat services have just ended at the national convention of the North American Federation of Temple Youth (NFTY, pronounced like nifty). Everyone is dressed in their best dress clothes to celebrate the holiday. As the last few notes of the soft, melodic Shabbat melodies die out, I grab my folding chair along with 1,300 other NFTY kids and shove it into a massive pile.

War, Peace and Fun in "The Pacifier"

By Joanna Pinto-Coelho | March 8, 2005, midnight | In Print »

In an upscale Bethesda, Maryland neighborhood, brilliant and burly Navy S.E.A.L. Lt. Shane Wolfe (Vin Diesel) is protecting a government secret. As he changes diapers, totes five children to Costco in a minivan and serves as a little girls' scout troop leader, Shane Wolfe is serving his country. Though accused of "babysitting" by the high school wrestling coach (hairy and hilarious Brad Garrett), Wolfe is on active military duty while wearing a tool belt packed with juice boxes and warm milk bottles. Wolfe is on a mission"to protect the Plummer children from deadly foreign agents trying to steal a military program that their murdered scientist father created and hid inside their home.

Photo: femalewrestler2

By Diana Frey | March 8, 2005, midnight | In ‎Latest »

Maher works hard at practice.

Spreading the music past the Boulevard

By Lucy Fromyer | March 7, 2005, midnight | In Print »

It was during a particularly long, boring history class last year when juniors Jessi Douglas and Nick Warmington decided to produce a rap album together. The hour and a new block flew by as the two wrote their lyrics, matching them to beats and rapping them aloud.

Photo: Vietnam flag

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