The Smoke Signal

By: Kerrie Wu This year, Leadership 2 introduced the Homecoming Agreement Contract, a form which all students need to sign in order to participate in Homecoming performances.  This form lists all regulations regarding Homecoming Week activities, including safety guidelines, performance restrictions, and the punishments for breaking these rules. Most notably, performances may not include sexual or racial references of any type, and students doing dangerous stunts must have prior permission from the activities director and class advisors. This form also includes a new ban on booty dances, which contain explicit material.  A class that performs a booty dance will automatically be…

Smoke Signal Tribute To Steve Jobs 1955-2011         Steve Jobs, the man, the myth, the legend, passed away on October 5th, 2011, a stormy Wednesday night. Jobs, and his company Apple, brought to us revolutionizing products, like the iPod, iPhone, and iPad. These products refashioned their respective industries, as well as the lives of the students here at MSJ. You can’t walk into any class without seeing a dozen iPhones on students’ desks, and maybe a half dozen more in their hands.      Jobs was born on February 24th, 1955 to a single mother who had never…