The movie left much to be desired from Johnny Depp; he fell into Captain Jack Sparrow’s character more so than The Mad Hatter. Depp was upstaged by Helena Bonham Carter, who played the Red Queen. Carter’s performance was very dramatic and well suited for the Queen of suites.

CMR waspaired with Helena Capital under the direction of Dr. Edwin Powell and GFH was paired with Missoula Hellgate to perform four pieces under the direction of Dr.  Robert Taylor. Dr. Taylor had previously worked with the GFH Symphonic Band at All Northwest.

The four bands performed two concerts, one on Monday night as their own separate bands and another on Tuesday night as the two mass bands and a percussion ensemble. The band members dedicated nearly seven hours daily to rehearsals for Tuesday’s performance.

Hey. My name is Jesse Whyte. Seth Bonilla and I are teaching German. On Tuesday, Seth and I went to the sixth grade class at Lincoln Elementary School. We will be going to Lincoln five different times. Last time on Tuesday, we taught numbers 1-10, how to say my name is, hello, and good bye. Mr. Reitz is their teacher. Mrs. Reitz, the German teacher from GFH, is his sister in-law. The sixth graders had a lot of fun. On Tuesday, they tried to say numbers and hello in German. Today we are going to Lincoln for another lesson. We will review numbers and teach colors. See ya!

Wyclef Jean has recently released a new music video telling his people, Haitians, to “hold on, be strong”.

Jean’s new music video for the song ”Hold On” is a calling to his people to keep moving through the tough times. He teams up with Mavado to produce this inspirational song.

Not only is this song inspirational for Haiti victims, it calls to all who hear it to donate to the cause and send a text message, YELE to 501501 to donate $5. The Yele Haiti Foundation was started by Wyclef Jean to collect donations that will help Haiti victims.

Members of the Performance team collaborated with members of Student Council to recruit members of the student body to participate.

Morning announcements helped to advertise the lack of initial participation and English teachers also pitched in to help gather willing seniors.

The scramblers, a familiar scene at pep assemblies, spell out BISON with their bodies in between a random, unchoregraphed dance.

America’s 5-3 hockey victory over the Candian team fell ironically close to the aniversary of the “Miracel on Ice,” the unprecedented American upset over the Soviet Union. The only difference between the two upsets came in the fact that, despite the overwhelming odds of a Candian gold, this Amercian team came to the ice better conditioned, more confident and more experienced. Now, the Canadians, while not out of the medal race yet, face a long, hard path back to the podium.

Amercian speed skater Apollo Ohno made American Winter Olympic history by winning the most collective medals of any athlete at a Winter Olympics and cementing his position as the most decorated winter Olympian athlete of all time.

Amercia currently tops the medal chart at 25, with seven gold, eight silver, ten bronze and 36 events left to run.

Haitian officials briefly detained two American citizens in Port-Au-Prince on Tuesday as they attempted to leave the country escorting six Haitian children.

Later both the U.S. and Haitian governments confirmed that the incident was a misunderstanding and that the officials responsible questioned the documentation the Americans presented to remove the children.

The miscommunication came right on the heels of the arrest of 10 Baptists and the detention of the 33 Haitian children they attempted to take back to America.

The six children, who were being taken to families in Minnesota, remain with the Americans in a government nursery school. Officials say the adults are cooperating and attempting to ensure that there will be no further problems with their taking the children back with them.

Sophomore Josh Morin, a 125 wrestler won first place for his weight class and so did sophomore Cole Mendenhall at 119. Justin Smart, a senior, won second place for the 105 weight class.

The Bison qualified 22 wrestlers to wrestle in the State tournament, but, due to illness and other reasons only 20 wrestled. With the loss of two wrestlers the team still did extraordinarily well. The fight to the top took more than just a good match, it took patience and acceptance of a few all but fair referees.

Lately the issue of sexting and other messaging abuse has gotten the attention of the media and MTV has a new campaign, A Thin Line. The point of this campaign is to make teens aware of the dangers of sexting and even texting things that may harm someone emotionally.

One commercial of a young woman in a towel poses as “Rachael’s sext” and claims to be around forever. Another of a girl who sent her boyfriend a nude photo and claims that it is not like the whole world will see it. There is no guarantee that once a sext is sent it will be kept private. Things happen and some people forward messages like that of show them to others. This is the message MTV is trying to get across teen minds with their A Thin Line campaign.

Another commercial shows a young man getting tattooed with words and phrases texted to him. This resembles the lasting effect words can have on a person.

The more “real” commercials promote a discussion between a group of teens, one question refers to sneaking peeks at a boyfriend/girlfriend’s phone while he or she is not looking. Even sneaking looks at someone’s phone is an invasion of their privacy, one girl admits to having looked through her boyfriend’s phone while he was sleeping and another girl share a story of catching her boyfriend looking through her phone. Trust is another issue A Thin Line brings up; trust someone enough to not go through their phone while they aren’t looking.  The questions these teens are prompted to answer are more than just sext related, the teens talk about saving messages that may not be sexual but may be personal, how messages can be kept forever and may leak out to people they were not intended for. One discussion topic even brings a law to the table, if you are over 18 and are caught with a nude photo of anyone under 18 (even yourself) you may be registered as a sex offender.

A Thin Line shares with teens that there are thin lines between a lot of things: public and private, confidential and consequential, insult and injury, your right to know and his right to privacy, staring at the screen and hiding behind it, curios and controlling, words and wounds, him and the whole school, fun and forever, friends and a mob, this moment and forever, delete and forward, attentive and obsessive, lol and omg, and a joke and a threat. All of these lines are to help teens understand the law, their rights, and the reality of texting, sexting and even online messaging.