Category: Feature
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Welcome to the Feature Section!
When the Minuteman was in print, the feature section was the center of attention. From its color-heavy formatting, to its perfect placement as the newspaper’s center page, the section caught people’s eyes and welcomed them into fifteen minutes of interesting, related writing. The move online, which brought a slew of positives, leveled the sectional playing…
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From There to Here: A Faculty Member’s Reflection on the Changing Role of Technology
By Mr. Beckman, Special Faculty Contributor The last newspaper I wrote for was The River Road Reporter. It was 1986, and I was not only chief reporter, but also editor, calligrapher and cyclist. For two summers, I collected news, recipes, poems and classified ads from all the neighbors; my mom was the typist, and my…
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Evolving Technologies
By: Alena Farber ’13, Feature Editor, & Cynthia Yang ’13, Staff Writer For a set of articles centered on technology, it only made sense to go to two of the school’s experts. So we sat down with Mr. Harris and Mr. Scott to figure out where, exactly, Newark Academy technology is heading, especially in light…
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On the Lighter Side of Things: The Ten Stupidest Smartphone Apps
Compiled by Cody Reid-Dodick ’13, Feature Editor Most of the time, technology is used for incredibly serious things. Hospitals use it to detect and cure disease, the armed forces use it to defend our nation, and programmers continue to develop codes that expand the parameters of our knowledge. But sometimes, tech is used in less-important…
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Faculty and Technology: A Mixed Bag
By Ben Shifrin ’13, Staff Writer Newark Academy is a school that prides itself on its varied and creative uses of technology as a teaching tool. Our vast resources have been utilized to provide the faculty and student body with the pinnacle of learning technology. But as it stands right now, the usefulness of…
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Is Social Technology Really Taking Control of our Lives?
By Shreya Srivastava ’13, Staff Writer Facebook, Twitter, texting, and video chatting are all well known for their abilities to hook teenagers into the cyber world. Even for someone like me, a person rather hesitant to catch on to the Facebook movement, these communiqué methods have become such an integral part of life that I…
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Obama at Midterms: Is now the time for “neutrality”?
By Katie Johnson ’11, Staff Writer On January 20th, 2009, from the energized atmosphere of Newark Academy’s auditorium, the school watched President Obama’s inauguration ceremony. It was an unspoken truth that the majority of the Newark Academy community was Obama-mad. Indeed, in a recent Feature Section survey targeting NA students and faculty members, 85% of survey…
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Opinions on the Blackboard: Politics in the Classroom
By Louise Lamb ’11, Feature Editor “Academic responsibility.” It is a phrase not heard very often by Newark Academy students, and yet the concept saturates our discussions and classrooms all the time much to our ignorance. Faculty members constantly work to maintain it, and students continually take it for granted. I am talking about responsibility for the education of…
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Welcome to Liberal Academy
Jake Wieseneck ’14, Staff Writer Newark Academy is located in one of the most liberal states in the Union. The state of New Jersey is composed of 700,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans as of November 2010. While New Jersey has been known to vote Republican on the local level at times, such as in the…
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Could you please pass the politics?
By Kendall Fawcett ’12, Feature Editor From a very young age I was surrounded by adults discussing current events and politics. The dinner table was my CNN. My parents never hid their views on American politics from me. In fact, they encouraged me to take an interest and to develop my own opinions, whether I…