Breaking news hits the Caravan as Mt. Carmel president Mr. Brendan Conroy announced an addition to the main building in response to the large number of transfer students. This fourth floor will contain exclusively freshmen classrooms and lockers, and will be built to reflect the old hallwas of MC. Now almost all of the freshmen classes will be on the new fourth floor with an exception to Mr. Antonetti’s room which has stayed the same since Mr. Tabernacki was a student, and Mr. Daniel Haggerty’s classroom will move to the first floor just to get the freshmen some extra exercise.

There were mixed reactions from Mount Carmel’s student body. At first students were outraged learning that they would have to walk up another flight of stairs to get to classes, but now after hearing that mostly freshmen have to walk to the new fourth floor everyone calmed down (except for the freshmen, whose complaints were ignored). 

Not all upperclassmen are safe from the new fourth floor, though. Students in Mr. Manuel Medina's English 4 class have to trek the flights to the fourth floor, since his classroom is now up there. Mr. Jamel Willams will also move to the fourth floor to be closer to the freshmen that are in his geometry classes, and he will be close to the new helipad that is being built for the new Mt. Carmel chopper that will be used by select members of the football team.

The winter sports are deeply afraid of running stairs, an exercise that is common among winter sports. Now that they have to go up an extra flight of stairs which will add great intensity to their workout. Walter is excited to install a waterslide on the fourth floor that will lead directly into (the now working) pool.

“I am excited for the new addition to the school,” said sophomore Corey Calvillo, “but I am afraid of walking up to the new fourth floor after Caravan Tough, walking to the third floor is already difficult.”

Along with an extra floor and a helipad Mount Carmel will be getting an elevator for use by the teachers and students that get Positive Behavior Referrals or PBRs. Freshmen will have the opportunity to buy an elevator pass from seniors in the form of bidding on one pass a month. 

“I am very happy about the new addition to the school,” said Mr. Scott Tabernacki, MC principal, “but I am afraid of the chaos that the elevator will cause, I think I will remove access to the elevator from freshmen.” 

Mr. Brendan Conroy, MC president, sees new enrollment opportunities with the addition. “The new floor will allow for around one hundred extra lockers and one hundred more students to come to Mount Carmel,” he said. 

The new floor will separate the freshmen from the rest of the school, allowing for the rest of the students to walk the hallways a lot quicker now that there are fewer slowly-shuffling little kids clogging the halls. This should result in happier students in Mount Carmel. The ones that are not freshmen at least.