Category: Editorial
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Stress About Relaxation: What Happened to Summer?
Emily Swope ‘22, Editor-in-Chief As I sat down in the NA courtyard on the first day of school to eat lunch with my friends, we all agreed: it felt like we never left. After almost three months away from the traditional academic schedule and course load, students should feel refreshed and recharged for the new…
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The Future of The Minuteman
As I sat down to write my first ever Minuteman article, I didn’t know where to begin. My assigned topic was LiAngelo Ball, a college basketball player who I had never heard of. My only instructions were to “write 500-700 words” and “include media.” I googled LiAngelo and began to write a somewhat bland article…
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Innocent Until Proven Guilty…But Not if There is Cash Bail
By Julia Schwed ‘21, Editor-in-Chief We all grow up learning that in the United States everyone is “innocent until proven guilty.” But what we are not taught is that every year hundreds of thousands of people are incarcerated before being convicted. Of the 2.3 million people incarcerated in the United States at the start of…
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Why We Can’t Take Peaceful Transitions of Power for Granted
By Erica Edman, Editor-in-Chief I used to think of the Revolution of 1800 as just one of countless vocab terms buried in my old AP US History notes. Two-hundred and twenty years after the revolution, the prospect of transferring political power from one party to another seems pretty mundane in America. I don’t blame myself…
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Stop Racism, Not Black Votes
By Julia Schwed ‘21, Editor-in-Chief It is no secret that there have long been efforts to disenfranchise people of color in the United States. For years, these efforts primarily were focused on making it more difficult for people of color to cast their votes. One of the tactics that has been used in several states…
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Removing Club Meetings: NA’s Attempt to Halt the Spread of Coronavirus
By Kayla Cohen ‘21, Editor-in-Chief As schools across New Jersey shut down due to coronavirus cases, NA is determined to remain open, implementing preventative testing and maintaining the safety standards that have governed this fall semester. Trying to limit the spread, the Newark Academy Return-to-School Task Force has announced that during the winter months, students…
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The Legacy of RBG
By Julia Schwed ‘21, Editor-in-Chief On Friday, September 18, 2020, what Democrats––and anyone who cares about freedom of choice, ObamaCare and equal rights––had been dreading happened: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away. Justice Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Clinton in 1993 and, by the time of her death, was…
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An Examination of NA Sports During COVID-19
By Kayla Cohen ‘21, Editor-in-Chief The return to school looked unsurprisingly different this year with masked students, repurposed spaces, and a transformed way of learning while six feet apart. Virtually every part of NA has changed in some way: students attend their advisor group every day, the Fall Drama is entirely virtual, Sage lunch is…
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How NA Has Changed Forever
By Erica Edman ‘21, Editor-in-Chief After six months of remote learning and social isolation, we have finally returned to normalcy… ish. Instead of being welcomed by a teacher at the door, we’re greeted by a robot scanning our temperature. Our definition of a classroom has taken on a completely new life as we try to…
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The Untold Story of LGBTQ+ Activism in New Jersey
By Kira Lu ‘20, Editor-in-Chief “Hurt but not surprised” by the lack of LGBTQ+ representation in history textbooks, Henry Chandonnet ‘21 and Olivia Madreperla ‘21 created The Untold Story to spotlight LGBTQ+ activists, issues, and artists in New Jersey. Could you tell us a little bit more about your interviews? How do you choose people…