STUDENT GOVERNMENT. Run and led by the students, the student government is made up of student-elected officials who help run the school and basically communicate with the administration on the students’ behalves. They help with the planning of various activities around the school, such as the school dances and Homecoming, and take student problems to the administration for review and discussion. The positions that are available to be run for are: President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. The secretary deals with meeting times, places, and dates for the student government, and they only meet when there is an issue to talk about or an event to be planned.
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CLASS GOVERNMENT. The class government differs from the student government because the officials are elected by the class rather than the entire school. Each class, from freshman to senior, has a class government that can deal with class-specific events, issues, and celebrations. For instance, the junior class government takes a large part in planning Prom, and the senior class government takes an even larger part in planning the senior class trip. The positions that are available to be run for (for each class, which means there is a total of sixteen elected officials) are: President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. The secretaries of each class government are in charge of scheduling new meeting times, places, and dates, although they only meet when they have an issue to discuss or an event to plan.
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YEARBOOK. Understandably enough, the production of Lucian Academy’s yearbook is a yearlong affair that plenty of students take interest in. The seats in the yearbook staff, limited to fifteen, are considered highly desirable among many students attending Lucian Academy, although anyone who wants to help out is welcomed to. The staff is mainly in charge of chasing down photos of special events, bullying photo-unfriendly students into getting their pictures taken on picture days, and making content cuts so the yearbook isn’t hundreds of pages long by the end of the year. There is a student elected editor and the teacher editor, who is always Dulcea Pickett, and they’re both in charge of deciding on the layout and basic content of the pages that aren’t filled with student/faculty pictures. The yearbook club meets in what is unofficially called the yearbook office (it’s actually computer lab #3, but the yearbook club has all but taken it over).
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NEWSPAPER. Lucian’s Scope is the school newspaper, published once a month and highly anticipated by many of the students at Lucian Academy. There are newspaper meetings held every day right after classes in what the newspaper students like to call Newspaper Headquarters (usually called News HQ for short)--it reality, it’s just a room that has been dedicated to the compilation of the newspaper in general. However, not all newspaper members are required to attend the meetings, although the editor-in-chief, assistant editor, and/or Barbie Avery are at these meetings no matter what; without the approval of editor-in-chief, the assistant editor, or Barbie Avery present, the content of the newspaper cannot be changed or updated. Every regular newspaper club member (between the photographers and columnists required for the newspaper, there are usually around fifteen to twenty of them) has a key that will unlock the News HQ, although the guest columnists/photographers/members who have yet to contribute two successful (aka: printed) columns/photographs to Lucian’s Scope do not have a key and are dependent on the regular members for entry into the News HQ.
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Members: Ansel Gee, Mordrid Trueblood

THEATER CLUB. Sponsored by Judith Marks, the Theater Club is responsible for putting on two three theatrical productions throughout the school year. The plays are always highly anticipated by the student body in general, and the cast and crew lists are usually large enough for most people who are interested in participating to snag some sort of position in the production. Usually, one of the plays will be a comedy and the other one will be a drama, although it isn’t unheard of for two comedies or two dramas to be put on in a single year. Lucian Academy is often open to the public during the play’s production weekend, and quite a few people from the neighboring communities will come to watch the students put on their plays; the money obtained from the five dollar entrance fee (students with recent Lucian Academy IDs are admitted free) goes to the Theater Club for future productions. The Theater Club itself only meets every other Friday right after classes, although there play practices are scheduled much more often than that.
Members: Sydnee Sinclair

ANIME CLUB. The anime club is sponsored by Nakato Yamashita and is a club all about anime! The students who are part of the anime club will gather once or twice a week, usually on Thursday after dinner, in one of the ‘TV rooms’ on campus. These rooms are basically what their name says they are: rooms with a large television and plenty of comfortable chairs (although there are plenty of times when the members of the anime club push all the chairs away and stretch out on the floor with bean bags, pillows, blankets, the occasional snack, and each other for company), and there is always one TV room booked at least once a week for the anime students to watch part of an animated series in. This is a relatively laidback club that doesn’t require predictable attendance by the members, although the president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer of the club are expected to be at the meetings regularly as they are the driving force in deciding what next anime is watched next (as everyone else in the club seems to have a ton of opinions on the subject and rarely want to compromise).
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ADVENTURE CLUB. The Adventure Club is a club geared specifically toward students who get a certain thrill out doing adventurous things out in the wild. Sponsored by Hannah Hammel and Herman Pratt, the Adventure Club often hosts weekend trips that is open to Adventure Club members and nonmembers alike; membership is open and steady attendance to the club meetings will give the student the benefits of voting on where the next trip is and a guaranteed spot on the school bus—members are given the traveling forms at least three days earlier than the public receives it, after all. The Adventure Club will occasionally cooperate with other clubs for their next adventure, such as the Fencing or Ultimate Frisbee clubs, and are willing to do whatever it takes to have fun. The Adventure Club meets every Tuesday after dinner for a half hour meeting where they go over potential places to visit…they also decide meeting places and times for their next excursion at the meetings, although the out-of-school events usually take place on Saturdays.
Members: Sydnee Sinclair, Adam Wicks

HORSEBACK RIDING CLUB. More of a team than a club, the Horseback Riding Club is sponsored by Pamela Sullivan and does require a certain amount of horse knowledge in order for someone to officially join the club. Because the club travels to horse competitions all around South Carolina (and occasionally to neighboring states), new members are only sought out and accepted during the first two weeks of classes and all members (new and old) are expected to attend the try outs and treat them seriously. Aside from the competitions that they attend, the Horseback Riding Club members also offer riding lessons to the rest of the school in an attempt to help generate further interest in the club itself. The team leader of the club is more of a glorified title than anything else—the competitions and events they will attend and participate in are already decided by the time classes start for the new school year. This is a yearlong club that encourages students to stay at Lucian Academy during all holidays, including summer break, and all members who stay during the holidays are given the added benefit of attending more competitions than the other members. The team leader is required to stay over breaks, something that everyone in the club is explicitly reminded of when election time rolls around. The horseback riding club meets every Tuesday and Thursday in the stable right after classes, and early in the morning on Saturdays when they have a riding competition to get to. Also, please keep in mind that the horseback riding club does not allow members to bring intact male horses onto campus for boarding purposes (they have a hard enough time keeping intact male horse animal spirits from impregnating the mares when they go into heat) and that most members of the club will be expected to provide their own horses. The club does offer a few school horses that are kept in the stables yearlong and officially belong to Lucian Academy, which makes giving riding lessons to interested students possible and allows more flexibility for students looking to compete in more than a few events per horse show (this also means that less financially stable club members can 'borrow' a horse from Lucian Academy's stables, although they do not own the horse and may have to share her/him with other Lucian Academy students).
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Members: Maggie Malmesbury

DANCE CLUB. Led ever so bravely by Blair Metcalf, the dance club holds tryouts for new and old students alike during the first week of classes. There is no public limit to how many students can join the Dance Club, although an observant student might notice that Blair never accepts more than twenty students and much more often accepts twelve to fifteen (with the majority of the members being female) students. There is a dance production put on at the end of the year by Blair and the Dance Club (with considerable cooperation from the Theater Club--they provide lighting, sound, and costume assistance), and they use the proceeds earned by the weekend long production (five dollars for entrance, regardless if you’re a complete stranger or Blair’s best friend) for future Dance Club excursions. The Dance Club also put on other, mini dance productions that are choreographed by members of the Dance Club, and there have been years when Blair decided her ‘team’ was talented enough to enter a competition or two. Because the club itself is so small there is no real student government; essentially, Blair’s word is Law. The dance club meets every Monday and Friday in the dance studio at 5:00pm--however, Blair has been known to hold dance club meetings every day of the week when certain events are coming up and she feels the club members need to get more practice/time in so everything goes smoothly.
Members: Adam Wicks

FENCING CLUB. On guard! The fencing club is an open membership club that will accept any student participation at any time of the year, and is obviously all about fencing. Ignatius Heaton’s leadership gives the club a relaxed and calm kind of atmosphere, and it’s a place most students come to have fun and enjoy themselves rather than be structured and controlled. The club doesn’t have any set leadership and decisions are made by the majority vote--in this occasion alone, it pays to be a predictable member, as a new member cannot vote until after he or she has attended at least three meetings in a row. The subjects the fencing club votes on vary, although it often has to do with attending various fencing competitions and participating in fundraiser events for the community and for the club itself. The fencing club also travels to Andisville’s high school every Saturday, where they teach any elementary, middle school, or high school aged student how to fence. The Fencing Club meets every Monday and every other Wednesday in the main gym after classes for actual fencing and every Saturday around 10am to get on a school bus to go to the high school in Andisville.
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Members: Sydnee Sinclair

LITERARY MAGAZINE. But Don’t Save Me, the title of Lucian Academy’s literary magazine, is often shortened down to BDSM in normal conversation (and the title of the literary magazine often puts the four letters in focus so anyone with a brain could see the true intention behind the long name)--and yes, it was an intentional decision that the club members voted on after the school officially became the home of The Punishers. BDSM is published only once, at the end of every school year, but is something that the literary magazine members work on all year round. The club meets during both school semesters and, for the first semester and a half, simply goes over anonymously submitted work (the work can be submitted by anyone and is sometimes a requirement for English assignments), and the magazine allows written works, artistic works, and (something new since last year) musical works to be submitted. There are only three ratings to give submitted material--yes, maybe, and no--and the maybe material is always gone over again during the second half of the second semester. The second half of the second semester is saved for compiling all of the desired works into a reasonably sized magazine and deciding what goes where, etc. The literary magazine meets every Monday and Wednesday right after classes (and usually lasts until dinnertime, although students are more than welcome to leave early or come late) and is run by Francis Spelman and the club elected editors of creative writing, nonfiction, poetry, art, music, and other (those are the topics all submitted work is classified under). Because BDSM is published with a CD for the musical works and for readings of specially selected short stories and poems, the magazine costs $10 per copy (although it is free to the people who have their work published in the magazine).
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ROBOTICS CLUB. The robotics club is managed and maintained by Pamela Sullivan, although she takes a back seat to the club elected president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. The robotics club is a yearlong commitment that doesn’t require tryouts or extraordinary knowledge of robots and how to make them (although it is useful); it’s a learning experience that everyone walks away from glad they participated in it, as everyone who participates always seems to learn something by the end of a meeting. The meetings generally consist of the students working on their robots, either individually, in pairs, or in larger groups, and listening to music brought in by the students. Although they don’t compete outside of their own club, the robotics club students often hold mini-matches between their robots that anyone from Lucian Academy is welcomed to attend. The robotics club meets every Wednesday and Saturday after dinner in one of the science rooms, although the actual room tends to change depending on what is open and available and what is currently being used for other activities.
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Members: Asher Goldstein, James Henson

SCIENCE CLUB. The science club, sponsored by Natasha Wilcox, is obviously a club that has to do with science. From attending/participating in science fairs to visiting interesting museums, the science club members stay in touch with the most recent scientific breakthroughs during their 5:30pm meetings every Thursday in Natasha Wilcox’s biology classroom. They do have a club elected president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer, and these students are the ones who plan most of the trips and make sure the club has the appropriate funds in order to enter science contests, visit museums, and otherwise find ways to participate in the constantly evolving world of science.
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Members: Asher Goldstein

ULTIMATE FRISBEE. Meant specifically for the hyperactive and the Ultimate Frisbee fanatics, this club is sponsored by Rosa Izguierdo and meets every Monday right after classes; depending on weather conditions, they will meet in the main gym or on the field closest to the gym. And the Ultimate Frisbee club then does what the name promises: they run around the field or gym, play Ultimate Frisbee, and usually have a good time. Because the club is rather laidback and the only strictly enforced rules are the rules of the game itself, the teams usually change every meeting. Rosa Izguierdo usually referees the games, although there have are times when she chooses to run with a team and lets someone else play almighty master of Ultimate Frisbee for the day/match.
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Members: Olivia Hadian, Sydnee Sinclair, Adam Wicks

FITNESS CLUB. Sponsored by Coach Wakeman, the fitness club is a club focused on the physical fitness of all of its members. Run somewhat like a football boot camp, plenty of other Lucian Academy coaches have sent their teams to participate in the fitness club for the extra edge of working out for an hour or so on Monday and Wednesday. The fitness club meets from 7:00-8:00pm on Mondays and Wednesdays; they meet at the track (or in the main gym, weather dependent) on Mondays and in the weight room on Wednesdays, and the only ‘government’ the club really has is Coach Wakeman himself. Students looking to lose weight/tone up often come to the fitness club for his guidance, and attendance at least once a week is a requirement for the football team and occasionally some of the other sports teams.
Members: Amelia Owens,

STUDENTS OF COLOR CLUB. The students of color club (fondly known as SOCC, which is pronounced sock) is a club meant to help eliminate continuing prejudices against non-Caucasian students. Led by Walter Devenpeck and the club elected president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer, SOCC is open to all of Lucian Academy’s students, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. SOCC is an important club because it is always looking for a way to better the community and further end racism in America; they participate in equality marches and other peaceful demonstrations to show that all men and women are equal, they run fundraisers to raise money for foundations that are geared toward ending racism, and they are an active participate with the Gay Straight Alliance for Secret Santa, Inc. SOCC meets every Monday at 8:00pm for a brief meeting/update on what they’re currently doing in the neighboring communities, and every other Wednesday at 6:00pm for a more in-depth meeting—they will not have a Wednesday meeting if they are scheduled to do some sort of charity event another day of the week.
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Members: Asher Goldstein, Sydnee Sinclair

ART CLUB. The art club is loosely run by Morgan Amherst and the club elected president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer, and is more of an open club whose members don’t really do much beyond meeting and playing with various art forms. Each year, the club uses the money they raise from random art sales and the money the school gives every club to make wildly decorated and sometimes controversial sweatshirts and to take their yearly trip to the art museum. By the time dedicated members of the art club are seniors, they know the halls of the art museum so well they could walk it in their sleep; luckily, there’s always some sort of new attraction set up that inevitably even inspires excitement in Morgan, who has been to the art museum so many times he’s lost count. The art club meets in Morgan’s main teaching art room every Thursday after dinner and generally continues until everyone is tired of art or, more rarely, until a more responsible authoritative figure sticks his/her head in and reminds the members that it’s almost lights out. Occasionally, the secretary will schedule another meeting during the week/weekend if Morgan is willing and enough students ask for it.
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DEBATE CLUB. Another one of those exclusive clubs, the debate club holds open auditions during the first week of classes where any interested student is more than welcome to come and prove that he or she can talk coherently in front of an audience of strangers. After the first week of classes is finished, the true work begins with the debate club, as it does participate in a statewide debate competition that runs up until the end of first semester. There are no meetings of debate club during second semester, although debate club meets right after classes for about forty five minutes to an hour in Tyler Evelyn’s speech classroom on Tuesdays. There is no club elected officials, although Tyler does choose a senior to help him out with the meetings and occasionally leaves that senior to act as the Big Boss while he’s fulfilling other school related commitments.
Members: Alastair Ashford, James Henson

GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE. Created in the attempt to end homophobia and help the world become a more accepting and friendly place, the gay straight alliance is led fearlessly by Jacqueline Lightbody and the club elected president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. Oftentimes, the gay straight alliance deals with fighting against homophobia in the school and neighboring communities, although they also participate in other serious issues, such as AIDS awareness. They also participate in a few school functions, such as Secret Santa, Inc. and, a little less officially, the Sadie Hawkins dance--yes, the club members do encourage everyone they know to cross-dress to the dance, because what fun would it be without a little added spice? The gay straight alliance often gathers in the student lounge in the main classroom building every Friday at 6:30pm, although their meetings are more static than other clubs and they have been known to change their meeting times if a majority of their members are busy with other commitments.
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Members: Ansel Gee, Asher Goldstein, Amelia Owens, Sydnee Sinclair

MATH CLUB. The math club, sponsored by Walter Devenpeck, is actually a math team that actively competes in a semester-long math competition. However, unlike other clubs that stop meeting after their ‘active semester’ is over, the math club meets every other Friday right after classes during the first semester to stay sharp with their math skills and they meet every Friday and Saturday right after classes and right after breakfast or right after lunch (depending on whether there is a competition or not) respectively during the second semester (which is when the math season is considered active). They usually leave for their math competitions early on Saturday mornings, which is why they meet right after breakfast on competition days, and return late afternoon/early evening on Saturday.
Members: James Henson

ENVIRONMENTAL CLUB. The environmental club is sponsored by Quinn Schuyler and the club elected president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. Held in Quinn Schuyler’s regular classroom during the meetings they aren’t going out to somehow help the environment, the environmental club will usually meet on Wednesdays for a short meeting right after classes that a lot of members don’t end up going to because of other club commitments--the real activity of this club generally happens on Fridays and Saturdays, when the environmental club will sponsor an environmentalist speaker or go out into the real world and do some sort of environmental friendly act. They sometimes team up with the community service club when they’re doing similar things, although the environmental club also works hard to keep Lucian Academy clean and free of pollution from inside and outside influences. For example, one of the accomplishments that many of the environmental club members are proud of is when they managed to convince the administration to use environmental friendly cleaners, toilet paper, etc.
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Members: Olivia Hadian, Sydnee Sinclair

COMMUNITY SERVICE CLUB. The community service club is a club that is dedicated to helping out Lucian Academy and the nearby communities without receiving anything but thanks in return. Led by Kathryn O’Malley and the club elected president, the community service club meets every Tuesday right after classes in Kathryn’s Economics classroom. Once there, they usually spend about twenty minutes or so discussing current and future projects, and then they usually meet every Saturday or Sunday or so in order to do something helpful in the community; from cleaning up garbage on the busier highways to volunteering at a somewhat-local retirement facility, the community service club likes to stay active with the nearby communities and in the school itself. One of their more popular projects is The Angel Project, where a lot of students who aren’t usually involved with the community service go along with the regular community service club members to various hospitals and dress up in Christmas-esque costumes so they can somehow give Christmas cheer to the hospital patients they meet (Christmas cheer often comes in the form of little gifts, Christmas cards, and various Christmas carols sung by the more musically talented people in the group).
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Members: Olivia Hadian

HONORS CLUB. Less of a club and more of an exclusive organization that accepts students the moment their GPAs are high enough to get them on the honors or high honors lists at the school, the honors club is sponsored by Quinn Schuyler and does not have any meeting times or meeting places. The most the honors club does is hold a few small events for its members, such as a fancy dinner or maybe by giving out a few passes to randomly selected students (usually in a drawing-like setting at the fancy dinner) that allow the students who own the passes to skip classes for the day (all tests, quizzes, and homework must be made up and turned in the next day and this pass is void during finals week, and only one pass per student is allowed to be cashed in per year, although they do not have a set expiration date). Honestly, the honors club is just a nice little extra commitment that can be added to a senior resume. Please note that in order to join the honors club, students must have a GPA of 3.6 or higher.
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WINTER SPORTS CLUB. The winter sports club is a club that meets mostly during the winter months of school, although there are the occasional ‘catch up’ meetings they’ll throw for anyone interested in getting together and obsessing over their chosen winter sport. Although skiing, snowboarding, ice skating, and tobogganing are the most common of sports played by the winter sports club members, other things such as snowball fight competitions, snowman building contests, and other obscure or nonexistent winter sports have been included in the yearly competition the winter sports club puts on for the rest of the school. It’s one of those highly anticipated events that plenty of students participate in because who doesn’t want to spend $0.75 on a cup of hot cocoa or participate in a spontaneously dirty snowball fight? The winter sports club also offers a more competitive route for their more competitive members, where they can be sent to participate in winter sports matches all around the United States (usually skiing, snowboarding, and figure skating); participation in the yearly winter sports competition is mandatory by the more competitive students (unless a competition conflicts with the day scheduled for the event). The club is sponsored by Nathaniel Knapp and Gabrielle Newbury and meets every day during the snowier months of school, and the meeting place is usually an impromptu thing; the club will meet just inside the academic building right after classes and they’ll decide where to go from there. Attendance is not something this club requires of its ordinary members, although anyone looking to participate in the yearly competition should plan to attend at least three meetings a month (this goes for those competing around the United States as well).
Members: Amelia Owens, Mordrid Trueblood