25. Albany delegates head to Stanford
Brazil motions to open the agenda with the SMUNC 2006.
On Friday, November 10, I, along with nine other members from the Albany Model United Nations Club and our coach Mr. James, traveled to Stanford University to participate in this year's Stanford Model United Nation ...
26. Saving the World, Summer Camp Style
Tackling world peace could easily appear to be such an overwhelming undertaking that finding a place to start may seem impossible. However, the MOSAIC Project is betting they have found the key to a more peaceful future: elementary school students.
The tactic of the MOSAIC Project, a nine-year-old ...
27. An Italian Week
One month and 24 days, it sounds like nothing, but it seems like forever. My life here has begun to have a routine, and when I think of home and school and family and friends back in Albany it seems like everything should be on hold, paused until I get back ...
28. Cougar Basketball Season Preview
Basketball season is right around the corner, and this season looks to be promising. The team will have all last year’s starters returning and a bench with a ton of depth. One of the starters, senior Kevin Karera, has a good chance to make first team all league.
Another reason ...
29. Election Playground
Looking at Albany you would think that this one-square-mile town would host municipal elections with intelligent, well-thought out campaigns. You would be wrong.
Albanians can no longer pretend that they live in a city exempt from scandal and bad behavior as the recent election for the two city council seats between partners ...
30. OSM: More like Awesome
“One Square Mile” is Albany High’s visual media lifeline. Students capture news relevant to kids here at Albany. Students view “OSM” during one advisory each month, although rumor has it that some teachers don’t even bother to let their kids watch the show. To convince these rogue attendance takers to ...
31. Albany ties St. Joe’s 0-0
On Friday December 1, at 3:30 p.m. the Lady Cougars varsity soccer team was at Cougar Field ready to fight and win. Sophomore Kylie Fisher-DeHart (right defense) was back after being out due to a broken nose, and team Captain, Senior Megan Moss (forward), had the team ...
32. Ashkenaz
If you missed it, you missed out. Rhythm Bound and Jazz Band rocked Ashkenaz last Friday and have already been asked to do it again. It was Jazz Band’s first performance of the year, and they came out strong in their big debut.
But Rhythm Bound just blew the minds of everyone ...
33. Meet Your Recently Elected School Board Members!
Congratulations to Jamie Calloway, David Glasser and incumbent Miriam Walden, who were elected to the Albany School Board on November 7. They shared their goals as members of the School Board with The Cougar. Their answers are published verbatim below.
1. What will your first step as ...
34. Career Day: A glimpse at the future
As always, this year’s Career Day provided students with valuable information about various career paths. Often times, the quality of the presentation directly correlates with how much the presenter likes their work. The approval rating of the speakers usually fluctuates, depending on what individual students expect from the ...
35. Fantasy Football: More than just a game
Fantasy football. Thousands of people play it each year, but what exactly is it?
A few weeks before the start of the NFL season people create individual leagues with about twelve of their closest friends and draft separate teams consisting of the best possible players from each posistion. ...
36. Hecka Happy Feet
Happy Feet premiered Novemburrr 17th and got great reviews. So why weren’t many high school students inclined to see it? Great, another movie about penguins, those adorable but boring creatures of the cold. Morgan Freeman brought attention to them in the 2005 release March of the Penguins when he narrated their lives as skillfully as ...