The Shadow

Truly, this will be a night to remember.

The cafeteria is - for this single, suspended moment in time - no longer a place where students congregate to eat and study at scheduled times.

Fast music with a bass rhythm sets every heart in the room beating as one. In contrast with the pitch-blackness, colored lights twist and turn, spin and shake. Captivated by it all, and forgetting that there is anything else but this, people dance.

And then!

You’ve probably seen the D9 championship plaques outside the cafeteria that wrap around the wall and start down the hallway by the CDMG. Soon, we’ll be adding a new one, with the boys golf team bringing home their sixth title since 2004.

Sixty-six minutes.

Every full school day, we are allowed on our phones for sixty-six minutes.

Last school year, Student Government students came to Principal Jeff Long with the idea of allowing cell phones during designated times. Long had high hopes for reduced infractions because it will promote legal use opposed to the illegal usage of phones. One month into the school year, and students are now using phones when they should be instead of going to the bathroom to be on their phone.

According to Long, there have been minimal issues with phones in classrooms to the administration’s knowledge.

The black plastic plaque affixed to the doorframe is inscribed with two words in white block letters: “Assistant Principal.” Inside the room sits the assistant principal himself: Manuel Barbazzeni.