By Meghna Padmanabhan ’17, Section Editor 593: The number of students that make up this community, spread out over 81 communities in New Jersey. When I applied to Newark Academy’s class of 2017 before freshman year, one of the first things that was brought to my attention was the fact that each and every student…

By Ryan Gajarawala ’18, Staff Writer Ever since the conception of America, there has been a certain set of ideals that have spread through society. In the First Amendment, Americans were given the rights to freedom of the press and “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” These basic tenets of the First…

By Spencer Glassman ’19, Staff Writer Dear President Trump, First I would like to congratulate you, which I have not formally done yet, for winning the election. I wrote an article predicting your defeat last spring, and you truly did overcome seemingly insurmountable odds. I may not have supported you during the primaries and I…

By Meghna Padmanabhan ’17, Section Editor Decisions are tough. The dreaded “would you rather” game drives people nuts by forcing them to choose between two equally desirable or equally despicable choices. Though hypothetical, these decisions feel like life or death, and the imaginary consequences of choosing wrongly are surely enough to keep you up at…

By Sophia Chen ’20, Staff Writer The exams are coming up and stress is building within the Newark Academy community. Although it might seem as if summer was just a few weeks ago, our exams are this Monday. So as we get closer to exams, we see the effects of stress. An exam could be seen…

By Meghna Padmanabhan ’17, Section Editor Alone, silence pervaded the community of Newark Academy on November 9th, 2016. Horror, silent satisfaction, and simple shock were competing to be heard among both teachers and students, yet this is only an example of how one small group of people was affected by the results of the 2016 election…

By Amanda Cohen ’18, Staff Writer and Brady Sheaffer ’18, Staff Writer On Tuesday, November 8th, the United States Election Day, our Newark Academy community decided to conduct a mock election in order to provide the students and faculty with an opportunity to vote for their preferred candidate. Each person that was interested in voting…

By Meghna Padmanabhan ’17, Commentary Editor 21-year old Khalil Abu-Rayyan, a Muslim man from Detroit, went through a sudden break up with a woman he had wished to propose to. A couple months later, he poured out his sorrows to another woman over the phone, believing her to be a 19-year-old Iraqi-American Muslim woman named Jannah.…