Category: News
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Meeting NA’s Newest Teachers
by Christina Lu ’17, Staff Writer This school year, Newark Academy welcomed seven new faculty members, each bringing a unique background, different experiences, and new perspectives to share with the NA community. The Minuteman Newspaper sat down with four of NA’s newest upper school teachers – Abigail Ayers, who teaches Math; Bernard Lockhart-Gilroy, who also…
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Zika Faces Congressional Stalemate as Pesticides Ravage Beehives
by Alena Zhang ’18, News Editor With over 15,000 confirmed Zika cases in the US, government officials in the southeast have entered a state of panic. Although New York recently surpassed Florida as the state with the highest number of travel-related Zika reports, the disease continues to spread north from Puerto Rico and the Virgin…
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Trump and Clinton, Forged by Conventions, Eye the Oval Office
by Zachary Burd ’19, Staff Writer Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are locked in a struggle to the death for the US presidency. With only a few months until the election, the candidates are preparing for the final stretch of campaigning. Over the summer, each of the major political parties hosted a convention to…
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News Top 10
by Dean Tan ’18, News Editor June 12: Orlando Nightclub Shooting At around 2 AM on June 12, 29-year old Omar Mateen stormed the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Using an assault rifle and pistol he left 50 dead and 53 wounded in the worst mass shooting in US history. Following a 3-hour standoff and…
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Brazil: A Democracy in Crisis
By Simon Gorbaty ‘19, Staff Writer In August, billions of eyes around the world were fixed on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Following the Olympics, however, stories regarding the country remained center stage in the news. The impeachment trial of president Dilma Rousseff had been underway since July. On August 31, the Senate…
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Turkey’s Failed Coup d’Etat: The World’s Eyes Now Trained on Erdoğan
By Spencer Wang ’19, Staff Writer Over the past two years, Turkey’s stable republic has been unbalanced by numerous tragedies. Since 2015, over 330 civilians have been killed in terrorist rttacks — 169 of whom were murdered in Ankara, the nation’s capital. In addition, Turkey’s lenient border policies have brought pressure from over 2,700,000 Syrian…
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Behind the Scenes of Spring Break Immersions
By Dean Tan ’18, News Editor Over spring break, Newark Academy students and teachers travelled around the world, hiking across mountains and walking through busy city streets on the India and France immersion trips. Communicating in different languages, immersed in vibrant cultures, and surrounded by new environments, these members of the Newark Academy community were…
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The Largest Data Leak in International History
By Alena Zhang ’18, News Editor The Panama Papers: over 11.5 million documents, 2.6 terabytes of data, and 214,000 companies involved. Discovered by German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Panama Papers recently revealed the secret financial dealings of some of the world’s most famous people. The emails and files show how a Panamanian law firm, Mossack…
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Remembering Supreme Court Justice Scalia: The Legacy of an Originalist
By Dean Tan ’18, Staff Writer Antonin Gregory Scalia, the longest tenured justice of The United States Supreme Court and widely considered to be the most influential Supreme Court Justice of the last few decades passed away suddenly on February 13 at a resort in West Texas. Justice Scalia was 79, having served nearly 30…
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Zika Virus Races Through South America; Raising Women’s Rights Issues Along The Way
By Alena Zhang ’18, Staff Writer In January, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the Zika Virus was likely to spread through all of the Americas by the end of 2016. The disease is primarily transmitted by a species of mosquitos that also carries dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever. In February, the WHO declared…