Author: zgross14
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Welcome Back, Lady Liberty: A Look Back at the Government Shutdown
By Aidan Fox ’16, News Staff Writer On October 1, after the government could not come to an agreement on how to fund itself, it shut down. The shutdown had far-reaching consequences. Immediately, over 800,000 federal employees were furloughed, or forced to take a leave of absence without pay. An additional 1.3 million federal employees…
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A Building Full of Welcomed Strangers
By Danielle Sidi ’14, Staff Writer, Anna Hope Emerson ’16, Staff Writer, and Rakhi Kundra ’17, Staff Writer Every year, Newark Academy says hello and goodbye to members of our community. This fall the community has welcomed eleven new faculty members. The new teachers not only contribute to our learning environment in the classroom, but…
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Syria for Dummies: A Primer for One of the World’s Bloodiest Conflicts
By Zachary Gross ’14, News Editor For those in the Newark Academy community who might have questions they were too embarrassed to ask, The Minuteman has provided an explanation of the basics of the conflict. Where is Syria? Syria is located in the Middle East, south of Turkey, north of Jordan and Israel, east of…
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From Sheremetyevo to Livingston: Newark Academy Reacts to the Snowden Saga
By Aidan Fox ’16, News Staff Writer On May 20th, Edward Snowden, a former computer system administrator for the National Security Agency, fled the United States to seek refuge in Hong Kong. On June 6th, the British newspaper the Guardian reported that the NSA was secretly collecting millions of telephone calls, emails, and texts, news…
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Dr. Naif al-Mutawa Provides Newark Academy With a Poignant Message at a Turbulent Time
By Zachary Gross ’14, News Editor On April 15, 2013, the same day the world was struck with the horrors of the Boston Bombings, Dr. Naif al-Mutawa, a Kuwaiti clinical psychologist and creator of the popular comic series The 99, delivered a poignant message about tolerance and freedom of speech to the Newark Academy community as…
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Newark Academy Says Goodbye to Longtime Faculty Members
By Aidan Fox ’16, Staff Writer “It’s the natural ebb and flow of any school or any business. People come and make their contributions and you hope you can hold on to those who make the best contributions for as long as possible,” said Mr. Rollenhagen, Dean of Faculty, with reference to the six teachers…
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Newark Academy Buzzes In on the Gun Control Debate
<a href=”http://polldaddy.com/poll/7081469/”>What is your opinion on the gun control debate?</a> By Will Delaney ’14, Staff Writer On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza opened fire inside Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing twenty-six people, most of whom were children. The incident, which followed other recent mass shootings at a movie theater in…
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March Madness: It’s Mad!
By Cory Tell, Staff Writer, ’14 While college football may present the most pressurized and condensed regular season in all of sports, college basketball gives fans a full month of elimination games, where excitement and thrill are met with trepidation and anxiety. The NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament, commonly known as March Madness, is…
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When Our Heroes Aren’t Really Heroes
By Zachary Gross, Sports Editor, ’14 Over the past couple years, the sports universe has been rocked by scandal after scandal. No sport has been left unscathed as fans from college football to track have been left questioning the integrity of their respective sport’s brightest stars. Fans are slowly realizing that their heroes and role…
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The World Baseball Classic: Valuable International Event or Waste of Time?
By Tyler Park, Staff Writer, ’14 Baseball is not only America’s national pastime, but also a worldwide sport that is gaining an increasing following across the globe. The World Baseball Classic reflects this growing international influence. It pits baseball teams from sixteen nations against each other in a one-of-a-kind tournament. The 2013 installment of the…