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Vocations classes host speakers from the Archdiocese

Our Lady of Grace couple Dan and Sheryl Moran spoke to BSM seniors about marriage. (Emma Eldred)

Vocations classes host speakers from the Archdiocese

May 11, 2012

Giulia Imholte and Katie Sisk

The hype turned out to be more than the actual event. In November the Archdiocese announced plans to have speakers on marriage visit all of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Catholic Schools, and what students expected to be a controversial discussion––after reading about the heated question and answer session at DeLaSalle––ended up being an uneventful,... Continue Reading

BSM hockey players weigh options for their future in the sport

Ryan Collins is one of two sophomores that have recently made the decision to play for the U.S. NTDP next school year. (Emily Kruse)

BSM hockey players weigh options for their future in the sport

May 9, 2012

David Nelson and Peter Best, Staff Writers

Hockey is a fast-paced sport that lives off choices that need to be made in milliseconds. It’s a sport where one wrong choice can be the difference between success and failure. Sophomores Jack Glover and Ryan Collins were given the opportunity to play in the USA National Team Development Program (NTDP), based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This decision... Continue Reading

Foreign language teachers work to balance the curriculum for bilingual students

Juniors Eleanor Raether and Alex Rios are two of BSM's bilingual students who are either from one of the various language immersion schools in the area or have grown up speaking a second language at home. (Megan Beh)

Foreign language teachers work to balance the curriculum for bilingual students

May 10, 2012

Kellen Gill, Staff Writer

Within the past ten years, language immersion schools have been growing, becoming more popular, and expanding to different languages. Benilde- St. Margaret’s is home to a number of bilingual students who are either from one of the various language immersion schools in the area or have grown up speaking a second language at home. Bilingual Spanish... Continue Reading

Fun. releases ‘Some Nights’ album

The band experimented heavily with hip-hop inspired beats and auto-tune––though Ruess’s crystalline voice doesn’t need it. (Vinyl Records)

Fun. releases ‘Some Nights’ album

May 2, 2012

Lauren Effertz, Staff Writer

Three years after dropping their first album, “Aim and Ignite,” the New York-based indie pop band fun. released “Some Nights.” fun. is a supergroup of sorts; lead vocalist Nate Ruess formed the band after the break-up of The Format, guitarist Jack Antonoff also serves as the frontman for Steel Train, and keyboardist Andrew Dost is from Anathallo. Overall,... Continue Reading

Four speech members place at State tournament

Anna Landis, Juliet Beckstrand, Rachel Hogen, and Sian Last represented BSM at the State Speech tournament where they all placed in the top eight. (Maura Brew)

Four speech members place at State tournament

April 30, 2012

Shannon Galvin, Staff Writer

On Saturday, April 21, BSM speech team members headed to Chanhassen High School to participate in the Minnesota State Speech tournament. At the end of the day, four students, seniors Anna Landis, Juliet Beckstrand, Sian Last, and junior Rachel Hogen, all placed in the finals. Landis placed third in Poetry, Beckstrand placed second in Great Speeches,... Continue Reading

SportDateOpponentResultW/L
Boys LacrosseTue, May 15 Spring Lake Park21-0W
BaseballTue, May 15 Bloomington Jefferson7-5W
SoftballMon, May 14 St. Francis3-4L
BaseballMon, May 14 Fridley13-2W
Boys LacrosseSat, May 12 Minnetonka6-16L
BaseballFri, May 11 St. Louis Park7-3W
SoftballThu, May 10 Blake23-1W
SoftballWed, May 09 St. Louis Park18-6W
Boys TennisWed, May 09 Robbinsdale Armstrong1-6L
BaseballWed, May 09 Irondale10-2W
Boys LacrosseTue, May 08 Totino-Grace13-3W
Girls LacrosseTue, May 08 Spring Lake Park13-11W
Click on any sport above to see a full schedule for that sport.
SportDateTimeOpponentLocation
BaseballFri, May 18 4:15Totino-GraceTotino-Grace
Boys LacrosseSat, May 19 12:00Holy AngelsHoly Angels
Boys TrackSat, May 19 True Team OpponentsTBA
Girls TrackSat, May 19 True Team OpponentsTBA
BaseballMon, May 21 4:15Holy AngelsHome
Boys TrackTue, May 22 NSConference OpponentsTotino-Grace
Girls TrackTue, May 22 NSConference OpponentsTotino-Grace
Girls TrackTue, May 22 NSConference OpponentsTotino-Grace
Boys TrackTue, May 29 Section OpponentsTBA
Girls TrackTue, May 29 Season RecordTBA
Boys LacrosseTue, Jun 05 1:00TBAChanhassen
Girls LacrosseTue, Jun 05 1:00TBAChanhassen
Click on any sport above to see a full schedule for that sport.

Stories Written by Mickey Caulfield

Alice in Lacklusterland

Mickey Caulfield
March 22, 2010
Filed under a&e featured, Movie Reviews, Reviews

Never before has a movie been so subservient to the drug culture that popularized it and simultaneously averse to anything approaching psychonautics. Tim Burton’s 2010 adaption uses the colorful imagery that made generations of audiences love the original Lewis Carroll book and Disney... (more...)

Lil’ Wayne fails miserably with foray into rock

Mickey Caulfield
February 25, 2010
Filed under a&e featured, Music Reviews, Reviews

While ever-present auto-tune, constant female guest vocals, and overproduction has inexplicably become a trend in mainstream rap, it’s still frowned upon in rock as a hallmark of artists without credibility. Similarly, the lyrics feature none of the introspection or abstraction that sets... (more...)

Black history should be incorporated year round

Alana Profit and Mickey Caulfield
February 24, 2010
Filed under Opinions

One month for Jack-o’-Lanterns, one month for Christmas trees, and one month for black people. Although it was founded to remind Americans that black people did have history, Black History Month has now become an anachronism, one of the last bastions of the segregation it was formed in... (more...)

Wes Anderson style under the guise of children friendly “Mr. Fox”

Mickey Caulfield
December 10, 2009
Filed under Movie Reviews, Reviews

Oh, to be a child in 2009; first, “Ponyo,” then “Where the Wild Things Are,” and now Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox”––the latest in a stream of charming films supposedly aimed at children but primarily enjoyed by adults.  “Fox” delivers... (more...)

UGGs banned in BSM junior high

Mickey Caulfield
December 3, 2009
Filed under News

Relax, high school girls. The Ugg-banning boogeyman isn’t coming to get you or your footwear. Tales of a junior high ban on Uggs recently swept through the school, inducing anger and fear on the part of sheepskin-clad lasses of the high school. After all, how could the school ban a certain... (more...)

Spike Jonze’s breathtaking vision of “Where the Wild Things Are”

Mickey Caulfield
November 5, 2009
Filed under a&e featured, Movie Reviews, Reviews, Top Stories

“Where the Wild Things Are” might not be a movie for children so much as a movie about childhood. It’s not the yucks-a-plenty Disney drivel that children have come to know and love, but it is unrelentingly beautiful, well-made and well-acted (more than can be said for most... (more...)