This year, my team Fantasy Quidditch took home the gold, taking first place out of ten teams. I didn’t have the best winning percentage, or the top seed, however when push came to shove, my team outperformed everyone else. I struggled with a few key injuries during the season, which contributed to a few of my losses, but with everyone healthy in the playoffs, Fantasy Quidditch proved hard to beat.

 After leading the East division despite a late comeback from Jason Flam and Hrvoje Zolo’s team “Rajon Rondo,” I surged into the playoffs defeating Charlie Morrisey’s team “Westbrook? O no its weestbrook” five to four, and Nate Hanley’s team “CP3.” six to three for the championship.

Hanley, despite not being on Clarion 2^nd semester, took earn second place despite a few key injuries throughout the season. Jon Stevanovich’s team “Burger n Large Frye Please” took home third, despite having the best total stats on the season.

My lack of fantasy and basketball knowledge prevailed this year, and my first five picks, Stephen Curry, Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Al Jefferson and John Wall powered my team to eleven wins, six losses, one draw, and one championship.

I wish all the Clarion staff best of luck next year in the competition, and hopefully someone uses my strategy of taking John Wall as early as possible.

Left 4 Dead is all about Co-Op, whether it’s two players or four players. The new content stays true to that, but it is more focused on a streamlined versus experience where there are two teams of four (four survivors and four infected). It will also support the survival game mode where swarms of the undead constantly bombard you and three other survivors until your inevitable demise.

The new campaign entitled “Crash Course” connects the first two campaigns of the story. After you escape the zombie infested Mercy Hospital in a helicopter it soon crashes in the outskirts of Riverside, and your objective is to make your way through the infested town to escape safely in a fortified bus.

Consider “Crash Course” to be a shot of adrenaline to your zombie killing experience. It’s a great two chapter campaign that only lasts about thirty minutes but should hold your appetite until Left 4 Dead 2 hits the shelves this November.

Left 4 Dead is arguably the best zombie apocalypse video game to ever be released and Crash Course only extends the zombie killing romp that we all know and love.

Due to the inflow of student and teacher requests, new music will now be played. Secretary Betty Sharp in the principal’s office explained the process of how the hallway music works. When a compact disc is delivered to the office, it must first be listened to make sure it lacks any vulgarities.

“Anything that goes onto that machine must be cleared by Mr. Passeralla,” she said.

Anyone can give a CD into the office, but they should make sure it’s clean. Sharp suggests attaching a sheet with the lyrics to all of the songs. When the disc is declared vulgarity free, it is taken to room 163 where a CD player is constantly playing. The CD player is constantly playing because once the bell goes off the speakers are turned on and the CD plays for exactly 4 minutes. This is why listeners may notice the same song always plays at a certain time; the disc is always on a loop.

Regarding the lack of musical variety, Sharp said “As soon as things calm down [we hope to have a lot more of it].”

Hopefully things will calm down fast.