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Gargoyle guide to the week in entertainment, March 3-9

[UPDATED] Carl Zielinski fills in ably for an ailing Kumars Salehi while Laura Dripps is her usual wry self as the entertainment guide returns after a three-day weekend. But the big news this week comes in Gordon Ruan's video game section, where three strong releases — led by "God of War: Chains of Olympus" — will satisfy just about any gamer.

Senior trip: Can I have a time-turner please?

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"Senior trip! Senior trip! Senior trip!"

All last week, my head was ringing. In fact, it took quite a bit of willpower and concentration to focus on more important things, like packing and signing permission slips. Guess who wasn't obsessed about the trip to the Wisconsin Dells?

Three Uni students advance to final round of North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad

[AUDIO included] Only four students from Illinois will be competing in the final round of the 2008 North American Computational Linguistics Oympiad next week — and three of them are from Uni High. Sophomore Diana Liu, senior Ethan Berl, and sophomore Daniel Wilson each finished with a score above the U.S. cutoff mark in the competition's first round.

The pencil vs. the keyboard

Computers are amazing. In particular, Word documents enable us to write faster, delete things quickly, and cut, copy, and paste. The regular old pencil-and-paper method is being used less and less.

My question is: Will it become obsolete?

She said what?

Gossiping is something that occurs within every high school. It's not something you can really stop. Uni, though, is such a small community that it feels like one small thing can travel throughout the entire school in the matter of a lunch period. Sometimes people I don't even know are talking about something I thought only pertained to me and my friends.

Film review: "Definitely, Maybe"

Will Hayes is in the midst of a divorce when his daughter, Maya, starts to ask him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know everything about how her parents met and fell in love. And therein lies a tale. Maritza Mestre found herself wrapped up in both the story and the way it was told.

Habitat for Humanity '08: Working for a cause

[AUDIO included] Each year since 1997, close to 20 Uni students choose to spend their Agora Week sweating and working in one of the most impoverished areas in America, the Mississippi Delta. They do so as part of history teacher Bill Sutton's annual Habitat for Humanity trip. Find out how this year's students fared during their stay in Clarksdale, Miss., and listen to Sutton and seniors Shivani Khanna and Anna Cangellaris talk about their experiences.