Category: Feature
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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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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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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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How to Read the News
By Sophia Ludtke ’20, Feature Editor Every day we are flooded with news about what is happening in the world. Optimistic or dire, serious or frivolous, it seems as if the world is always talking about the latest big story. But, where do we learn this information? From family and friends, to standard newspapers, to Snapchat,…
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What Asian Heritage Month Means To Me
By Charles Pan ’18, Feature Editor May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a month celebrating the culture and history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Initially introduced as Asian-Pacific Heritage Week in 1977 to the U.S. House of Representatives, it was later extended to become Asian-American Heritage Month…
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What Asian Heritage Month Means to Me
By Abbey Zhu ’18, Feature Editor May. May is the fifth month of every year. May clings to last bits of spring; the weather borders on summer heat and humidity and it’s the last full month of school before summer break. All in all, very exciting, if I do say so myself. If I asked…
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Council Spotlight: June Term Committee
By Vicki Li ’18, Staff Writer Most schools end mid-June, but Newark Academy’s academic classes end on May 25 this year. Even considering the fact that NA is a private school, that date is pretty early. However, NA students don’t stop learning on May 25, but rather switch to a different and innovative approach to…
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Council Spotlight: Community Service Council
By Sophia Ludtke ’20, Staff Writer Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to…
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Council Spotlight: EIT
By Abbey Zhu ’18, Feature Editor The Equity and Inclusion Team, or the EIT, was founded by former math teacher and Director of Equity and Inclusion Ms. Addison in 2014. At first, the group started with two to three grade representatives, no exec board, and six or seven faculty members. Now, the EIT is headed…
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Council Spotlight: Honor Council
By Charles Pan ’18, Feature Editor Of all the councils at Newark Academy, the Honor Council is perhaps the most secretive, yet most important. But, many students still do not know about the importance or the workings of this essential group. A committee of two faculty members, three seniors, and four juniors, the Honor Council has…