Category: Feature
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Behind the Scenes: Spirit Week in Action
By Matteo Moretti ’17, Staff Writer It’s mid-October. Everyone has settled back into school life, and the routine of last school year and all the ones before is starting to reassert itself. Before we all put our heads down and work hard like NA students do, there is one event that everyone cannot wait for… SPIRIT…
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Behind the Scenes: The True Life of an NA Student
By Sanya Bery’17, Feature Editor Summer has come and gone, reduced to only distant memories buried deep in our brain beneath math formulas and chemical compound structures. After the first week or two of the fall semester, we begin to adjust to a six-day cycle and the patterns of school more generally. Students at NA are…
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Behind the Scenes: Putting Homecoming Together
By Victoria Li ’18, Staff Writer Homecoming Day is an event that caters to everyone’s interests. It’s filled with silly competitions, exciting sports events, and to top it all off, a semi-formal dance night. We all enjoy these wonderful festivities, but we never really stop to wonder: Who organizes all these amazing events? If you…
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How-To: Fall Fashion 2015, NA Edition
by Erin Eagle ’17, Staff Writer School is finally back in session, and yes, your outfit will make a difference in how you feel on a dreary Monday morning. While picking out an outfit in the morning can be tiring, getting dresscoded by Ms. Galvin is not ideal either. It is important to maintain your…
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What To Do At NA During the Fall
By Sophia Busam ’16, Staff Writer Being back at school isn’t fun, but there is a lot to do around campus this fall to make the school year a little more bearable! You can start by coming out to support your favorite Fall Sports team… We have this thing called Spirit Week; I guess you…
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Fall or Autumn?
By Mauranda Men ’16, Feature Editor While it’s wonderful to have this set celebrating the season known as “fall,” the same period of time is also known by another moniker: “autumn.” Referring to the season as autumn is something seldom heard now, as if it were some archaic or outdated and obsolete word. Is there…
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Why Everyone is Falling for This Season
By Sanya Bery ’17, Feature Editor Summer is everyone’s favorite season because of the burning hot sun, the roaring waves and, obviously, the much-appreciated lack of school –and homework. Of course, sadly all good things must come to an end, and by the time September rolls around the tans have faded and the books are back,…
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This is Not a TOK Rapture
By Mauranda Men ’16, Feature Editor Math and science person. English and humanities person. Left brain. Right brain. Each day, students use these descriptions to describe their internally regarded strengths and justify the weaknesses they encounter in their academic journeys. I’ve often heard the complaint, “I’m an English person. That’s why I just don’t get…
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Featuring…The Mission Statement!
Our last Feature focused on Generosity of Spirit, a phrase familiar to most people at Newark Academy. Yet something that many students may not have considered since touring and applying is the Newark Academy mission statement, whose last three words are the source of the “generosity of spirit” phrase. The mission statement reads: Newark Academy will contribute…