Christmas Common Basket was a success

Chloe Kennedy, Staff Writer
December 23, 2011
Filed under News

Presents and prayers have been collected, blessed, and sent to the families, but the generosity keeps coming for the Christmas Common Basket. Mary Beth Liekhus recently received a thank you card from a parent grateful that BSM helped out their friends during this hard time, ending the card with a simple,... Read more »

Boys’ basketball defeats rival

Chris Bell, Staff Writer
December 23, 2011
Filed under Sports Briefs

On December 22, in the tough battle to the end, the boys’ basketball team defeated rival Holy Angels by a score of 64-62. The Red Knights seemed as if they were going to cruise to an easy victory, finishing the first half with a 34-23 lead. Holy Angels came out firing and connected most of their shots,... Read more »

Why won’t you say hello to me?

Emily Kline, Staff Writer
December 23, 2011
Filed under Humor

Hello. That greeting right there, ladies and gentleman, contains more social interaction than I will receive on any given day in the hallways of BSM. Don’t get the wrong idea: I’m a fairly friendly person with a fairly non-offending face, but it appears that, despite my best efforts, my classmates... Read more »

Focus of school Mass lost

Anna Landis, Staff Writer
December 23, 2011
Filed under Opinions

With the entire Roman Catholic Missal being revamped, now is the time for us to give BSM’s Mass a slight face-lift. The most troubling portion of the Mass is the substantial emphasis on the Common Basket, and in turn, the upstaging of the Eucharist, which is meant to be the focal point of the Mass. Of... Read more »

Girls’ basketball skips past the Skippers

Rooscol Rozambert, Staff Writer
December 22, 2011
Filed under Sports Briefs

On Tuesday, Dec. 20, the girls’ basketball team beat the Minnetonka Skippers by a score of 55-48. In the first big game since its one point loss to Eden Prairie, the team regained its focus. The Red Knights showed their skill in front of a packed crowd in the evening’s double header. Sophomore point... Read more »

Final goal waived by ref; Red Knights take a loss to Crimson

Matt Muenzberg, Sports Editor
December 22, 2011
Filed under Sports Briefs

After going up by two goals early in the second period, the boys’ hockey team gave up three goals in 78 seconds to Maple Grove, eventually falling to the Crimson 5-4 on Tuesday, Dec. 20. Defensive lapses plagued BSM throughout the game, starting with the first goal given up, when two Red Knights bumped... Read more »

Girls’ hockey only gives Irondale one goal

Megan Meskill, Staff Writer
December 22, 2011
Filed under Sports Briefs

With a 3-1 win over Irondale on Tuesday, Dec. 20, the girls’ hockey team secured first place in the North Suburban Conference. Junior forward Anne Arnason started the game off with a goal in the first three minutes. The score remained 1-0 until the last six minutes of the game, when sophomore forward... Read more »

Boys’ basketball upsets top-ranked Royals

David Nelson, Staff Writer
December 21, 2011
Filed under Winter Sports

Only a season ago, the Benilde-St. Margaret’s boys’ basketball team was shell-shocked by the Hopkins Royals in a game that ended 99-65. With so many key players lost after last season, some students believed this game could be more of the same. They couldn’t have been more wrong. The Haben Center... Read more »

Students adapt to changes in the Mass

Liza Magill, Staff Writer
December 21, 2011
Filed under News

At the beginning of the Advent season 2011, the Catholic Church began to implement the New Roman Missal in order to reflect a more accurate and direct translation of the original Latin from past church texts. Many of the Church’s original prayers, such as the Nicene Creed, and texts of the mass... Read more »

My love life: a low note

Anna Landis, Staff Writer
December 21, 2011
Filed under Humor

We had been sitting at the dinner-table for so long that a chilled ambiance came over the room, and, trust me, it had nothing to do with my tepid chick-pea soup. My mother’s nostrils flared with a sharp inhale as she hissed at me, “Why didn’t you tell me about this before?” It’s not that... Read more »