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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Graduating seniors give advice about college

The Road to Prom

Boys’ hockey takes home the State championship

Pond Hockey tournament organized to raise money for Jablonski

Rising actors partake in Les Miserables performance

Sport	Date	Opponent	Result	W/L
Boys Lacrosse	Tue, May 15	Spring Lake Park	21-0	W
Baseball	Tue, May 15	Bloomington Jefferson	7-5	W
Softball	Mon, May 14	St. Francis	3-4	L
Baseball	Mon, May 14	Fridley	13-2	W
Boys Lacrosse	Sat, May 12	Minnetonka	6-16	L
Baseball	Fri, May 11	St. Louis Park	7-3	W
Softball	Thu, May 10	Blake	23-1	W
Softball	Wed, May 09	St. Louis Park	18-6	W
Boys Tennis	Wed, May 09	Robbinsdale Armstrong	1-6	L
Baseball	Wed, May 09	Irondale	10-2	W
Boys Lacrosse	Tue, May 08	Totino-Grace	13-3	W
Girls Lacrosse	Tue, May 08	Spring Lake Park	13-11	W

Sport	Date	Time	Opponent	Location
Baseball	Fri, May 18	4:15	Totino-Grace	Totino-Grace
Boys Lacrosse	Sat, May 19	12:00	Holy Angels	Holy Angels
Boys Track	Sat, May 19		True Team Opponents	TBA
Girls Track	Sat, May 19		True Team Opponents	TBA
Baseball	Mon, May 21	4:15	Holy Angels	Home
Boys Track	Tue, May 22		NSConference Opponents	Totino-Grace
Girls Track	Tue, May 22		NSConference Opponents	Totino-Grace
Girls Track	Tue, May 22		NSConference Opponents	Totino-Grace
Boys Track	Tue, May 29		Section Opponents	TBA
Girls Track	Tue, May 29		Season Record	TBA
Boys Lacrosse	Tue, Jun 05	1:00	TBA	Chanhassen
Girls Lacrosse	Tue, Jun 05	1:00	TBA	Chanhassen

Danielle Kincs –– Editor-in-Chief

Almost everything you need to know about Danielle can be read about in her Diversions stories. Known to hang out with old biker dudes, her go-to phrase for “something you didn’t know about me” questionnaire is: “I drove a motorcycle before I drove a car.” This is true. She suffered a severe addiction to the 2010 Winter Olympics and absolutely loves her Latin cult — I mean, class (Latin V represent!). Not yet written about is her and her friends’ life-fulfilling obsession with a certain osteo-related show, her understanding of “Americana” — trust me, this girl has seen it all, her newfound talent for making gumbo (like Tiana from “The Princess and the Frog”), and her recent trip to New Orleans where she met a woman claiming to be a forensic anthropologist. Well… she wasn’t. Instead she was an undercover tarot card reader — no joke. Could it be that she was foreseeing Danielle’s future? Tune in next time to find out.

Stories Written by Danielle Kincs

Gotta’ get down on Friday

Danielle Kincs, Editor in Chief
May 10, 2011
Filed under Humor

Friday nights: the epitome of the high school experience. A time for dates, concerts, and rages (aka parties… see I’m not new to this, I’ve got the lingo down). Despite knowing this night wouldn’t live up to any Rebecca Black song, I tried to make it sound cool, telling all my friends,... (more...)

I bought the beads! I promise!

Danielle Kincs, Editor-in-Chief
March 15, 2011
Filed under Humor

The smell of urine and garbage hanging in the air, the charming dance moves of the scruffy overly-enthusiastic man holding a mysterious drink in a paper bag, multiple shops claiming to sell “Voodoo spells and curses”… I knew immediately this was going to be a vacation to remember. Ah... (more...)

From bookworm to “California Gurl”

Danielle Kincs, Editor-in-Chief
February 22, 2011
Filed under Humor

I have a confession to make. I have a blue wig in my closet. I’ve showed up––rather, made an appearance––at a party with Pauly D on my arm. Yes, the quiet girl some think is named Daniel Kinks (that pronunciation is wrong by the way) who sits in the back of the class and––gasp––doesn’t... (more...)

Administration blocks Skype on student computers

Danielle Kincs
September 13, 2010
Filed under News, Top Stories

In response to students communicating across the school with each other via Skype during the day, the administration disabled the application on BSM laptops September 9. However within only hours of the school administration blocking Skype use at both school and home, students have already... (more...)

Changes coming to BSM marketing and communications department

Danielle Kincs
June 22, 2010
Filed under News

Students may have wondered why the faces of their classmates have been turning up in their mail. This is only one of the projects the BSM marketing and communications department has been working on this year. However, with changes coming to the Website, logo, and other internal and external... (more...)

What happened to genuine good deeds?

Danielle Kincs
May 14, 2010
Filed under Opinions

From a young age, children are taught to do good deeds for other people. This idea of goodwill is reinforced throughout students’ lives from singing at nursing homes in Girl Scouts to organizing food drives in elementary school. The stressed importance of doing good deeds for others is... (more...)

Internships ruin summer plans

Danielle Kincs
May 10, 2010
Filed under Opinions

As the school year begins to draw to a close, students are making plans for their summer break, and recently it seems like summers are becoming an extension of “Building Your Future Day.” Instead of the warm sunny days spent hanging out with friends, many students will be preparing... (more...)

BSM needs classes for “real-life” experiences

Danielle Kincs
April 19, 2010
Filed under Opinions

As I watched a certain friend of mine wander aimlessly in the halls after school one day, looking pitiful with jumper cables wrapped around her neck, I thought to myself: “Could this have been prevented?” Her car had died, and she did not know how to re-charge the battery and was... (more...)

Heardontv.com

Danielle Kincs
April 19, 2010
Filed under News

Ever heard a really good song on TV and didn’t know what it was called? Not to worry, the life saver that is the Internet once again comes through for us so that we all don’t go crazy. Heardontv.com’s purpose is in its name: a resource to find songs that were heard on... (more...)

Olympic obsession

Danielle Kincs
March 9, 2010
Filed under Humor

It was the first day of March and I had fallen into a deep depression. No, it wasn’t because I realized that we were still at least two months away from some glimmer of spring (yes, the first official day of spring is in March, but who are we kidding? We’re in Minnesota). The... (more...)

Italy tour update

Danielle Kincs
March 5, 2010
Filed under News

The world famous canals of Venice, Michelangelo’s beautiful paintings in the Sistine Chapel, and the legendary Colosseum of Rome will all have to wait. BSM’s planned trip to Italy has been rescheduled for spring break of 2011. “It gives us a year to plan and budget,”... (more...)

Koshiol and Overbo saying goodbye to debate

Danielle Kincs
March 4, 2010
Filed under News

Starting next year, the debate team will no longer be graced with the same animated conversations or unmistakable fashion sense. Ms. Änna Overbo and Ms. Kari Koshiol will no longer coaching. After having coached for many years, Ms.Koshiol and Ms. Overbo have made the decision to discontinue... (more...)

New student teacher is pursuing his dream

Danielle Kincs
February 19, 2010
Filed under News

For most of us, high school is the first step towards college, careers, and our future. However, for Mr. Alan McCarthy, going back to high school is the last step before his new career. Mr. McCarthy didn’t come back to high school to learn the subjects again; rather, he came to teach... (more...)

So this one time in band class…

Danielle Kincs
January 25, 2010
Filed under Activities, Student Life, Top Stories

Sometimes they seem to go unnoticed–but they are always there, at every home football game in the fall. In the winter, they are cheering at the boys’ and girls’ basketball games, causing the Great Hall to resonate with the tunes of “Soul Man” and “Smoke... (more...)

Freshmen debaters sweep tournament

Danielle Kincs
December 17, 2009
Filed under Activities, Student Life

Kristian Evans and Adam Bamonti have been known to bicker like siblings, and as the only freshmen on BSM’s debate team, they seemed to have taken up the roles as the younger brothers as well. However, on December 5, these two “younger brothers” proved that they were anything... (more...)

Battle of the brains

Danielle Kincs
December 4, 2009
Filed under Activities, Student Life

The average person probably wouldn’t know the atomic symbol for antimony, nor the name of Medea’s husband in Greek mythology, but at a Quiz Bowl meet, the contestants (and the questions) are far from average. Quiz Bowl requires the elite few of the trivia junkies and all-around... (more...)

22,000 bricks later: an Eagle Scout Award

Danielle Kincs
November 29, 2009
Filed under Student Life

On the cold morning of Halloween, volunteers sat huddled brushing off the excavated bricks of BSM’s reflection path. Half of the bricks that once made up the winding path from the softball field to the track were already loaded on pallets. While many other students may have been planning... (more...)

Enlightenment salon

Danielle Kincs
November 29, 2009
Filed under Student Life

Poets, philosophers, and royalty from all over Enlightenment-era Europe met on November 10 to converse and share ideas with marked British accents. Recalling their life stories and discussing the current issues of the era, the characters were convincing, seeming almost real–until one... (more...)

Security guard devotes life to safety

Danielle Kincs
November 3, 2009
Filed under Student Life

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night keeps this loyal sentry from directing traffic or watching over the school with his golf cart. His name is Jon Pachkofsky, although to many he is simply known as “the security guard.” Many students are familiar with Pachkofsky,... (more...)

Bowling team: the first “non-competitive” sport

Danielle Kincs
November 2, 2009
Filed under Activities, Student Life, Top Stories

The sound of crashing pins can barely be heard over Mr. Hawkins’ laughter as the bowling team practices under the dim lights of the alley. For the nearly 60 kids who participate in bowling this year, this is just another day in the glamorous life that is the bowling team. Many students... (more...)

ABC’s newest addicting TV engagement “Flash-Forward”

Danielle Kincs
November 2, 2009
Filed under Reviews, TV Reviews

Dogs bark, people scream, buildings burn, then suddenly a helicopter falls from the sky. The highways and roads are littered with thousands of over-turned cars. There is death and destruction everywhere. The entire world is in utter Armageddon-grade chaos. There couldn’t be a better... (more...)

A day at the race track

Danielle Kincs
October 9, 2009
Filed under Humor

Some said I was crazy to go to Florida in the middle of the summer: the heat and humidity would be terrible, not to mention the threat of hurricanes. All I thought about was sitting on a beach, storing up sun for the long winter. I was driving with my grandpa and my brother on a three-day... (more...)