Author: cpan18
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From Philosophical Questions to Hiking Boots: NA Student Summers
By Sophia Ludtke ’20, Feature Editor Two and a half months. 88 days. 2112 hours. 126,720 minutes. In June we all fantasize about these seemingly endless two and a half months of summer, but as days turn to hours turn to minutes, summer is gone before we know it. Now that we are all settling…
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10 Quick Tips for Newark Academy Students!
By Ben Leit ’18, Humor Editor and Registered Nurse I believe it was Alexander MacWhorter who once said, “Boy oh boy, I am so stressed out for this IB Enviro test, I could just murder an endangered red panda! Lol.” Well, as a current NA student in what my mother hopes to be my only…
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A Summer-y of NA Students’ Summers
By Ellie Pitkowsky ’18, Humor Editor and Short Person It would be a wild understatement to say that Newark Academy students get excited for summer. After the excitement for convocation dies down, summer planning and complaining about a lack of sleep begin. However, when talking to students about what they did this past summer, answers…
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NA Teachers on Summer Break: Mrs. Rezvani and the Southwest Immersion
By Abbey Zhu ’18, Feature Editor Chaperoning thirteen high school students on your birthday in the sweltering American Southwest heat sounds less than ideal, but Mrs. Rezvani, a health and physical education teacher at Newark Academy, along with Mr. Stourton in the English department and Ms. Winiarski in the College Office, did just that this…
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A Letter to the Editor: Newark Academy Alumni’s Response to SEAL Team Seniors
By Anthony Giachin ’17, Former Sports Editor and Newark Academy Alumni It has recently come to my attention that there has been some division within the Newark Academy community in regards to the requested spirit week theme of “Navy Seal Seniors.” It is my understanding that this theme proposal has been denied by the administration…
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The Life of a Student Athlete: Privilege and Burden
By Sam Keller ’19, Sports Editor With the NCAA March Madness Tournament behind us, and the collegiate spring athletic season in full swing, among the thrilling competition and crushing defeats, previously unknown young stars emerge with almost celebrity status. But delving deeper, the life of a collegiate student-athlete is more than just what we see…
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The Return of the Bronx Bombers
By Young Se Choi ’18, Sports Editor On February 6th, 2017, Bleacher Report released an article projecting the final standings of the Major League Baseball (MLB) 2017 season. In the AL East, the New York Yankees were projected to finish second to last finishing with a mediocre record of 81-81. Bleacher Report even predicted that…
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Thirteen Reasons Why: Raising Awareness or Romanticizing Suicide
By Vicki Li ’18, Arts and Entertainment Editor Netflix’s new original series, Thirteen Reasons Why, released on March 31, and rapidly rose in popularity amongst teenagers. Based on a book written by Jay Asher, the show picks up after the death of Hannah Baker, who leaves behind thirteen cassette tapes, each indicating a reason of…
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The Casting in Ghost in the Shell Should be a Ghost of the Past: Yellowface in Hollywood
By Abbey Zhu ’18, Feature Editor “Scarlett Johansson is stunning in Ghost in the Shell.” A man’s voice seeps through my earbuds and bursts my bubble of concentration. I’d been listening to a killer playlist that had been interrupted by this ad, and I was a little annoyed. The man’s voice is from a Spotify…
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Taxing Sugar
By Zachary Burd ’19, News Editor Obesity is expensive. Besides the hundreds of billions of dollars a year spent on weight-related health care expenses, obesity costs many Americans in subtler ways, such as increased job absenteeism and even decreased fuel efficiency. One popular solution to this problem is a tax on sugary beverages, which include…