Category: News
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“I Now Pronounce you…?”
By Megha Poddar ’15, News Editor For the first time in the state’s history, on October 21st at 12:01am, same-sex couples throughout New Jersey eagerly exchanged vows, becoming officially married under the state constitution. New Jersey was the 14th state to allow queer marriage and the first to do so in the wake of…
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The Debt Ceiling For Dummies: What You Didn’t Know About the Country’s Most Recent Political Crisis
By Zachary Gross ’14, News Editor In Part Two of the For Dummies Series, The Minuteman explains the basics of the debt ceiling and its relevance to current political discourse. What is the debt ceiling? According to the United States Treasury Department, the debt ceiling is the total amount of money the country is authorized…
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Welcome Back, Lady Liberty: A Look Back at the Government Shutdown
By Aidan Fox ’16, News Staff Writer On October 1, after the government could not come to an agreement on how to fund itself, it shut down. The shutdown had far-reaching consequences. Immediately, over 800,000 federal employees were furloughed, or forced to take a leave of absence without pay. An additional 1.3 million federal employees…
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As Customs Continue, The Academy Welcomes New Traditions
By Anna Hope Emerson ’16, News Staff Writer Spirit Week and Homecoming Weekend have always held a special place in the culture of Newark Academy. Students of all grades anticipate the spirit-filled week, which culminates in the community cheering on sports teams, participating in fun events in the lower parking lot, and coming together for…
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Cutting Edge Discoveries in Genetics Amaze the Community
By Daniel Edman ’16, News Staff Writer On October 3, 2013 the Newark Academy Science Department hosted Dr. Sam Rhine and his Genetics Update Conference in the Kaltenbacher Hall. Kristie Petillo ’14, a student taking Biotechnology, called the presentation “an amazing learning opportunity and completely worth the year’s long wait.” Dr. Rhine is a professor…
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The U.S. and Iran: Has a New Era Begun?
By Megha Poddar ’15, News Editor On September 27th, President Barack Obama spoke with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran over the telephone, signaling the first direct conversation between the leaders of the alienated countries since the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979. For the past thirty years, the United States has imposed a wide range of…
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A Building Full of Welcomed Strangers
By Danielle Sidi ’14, Staff Writer, Anna Hope Emerson ’16, Staff Writer, and Rakhi Kundra ’17, Staff Writer Every year, Newark Academy says hello and goodbye to members of our community. This fall the community has welcomed eleven new faculty members. The new teachers not only contribute to our learning environment in the classroom, but…
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Syria for Dummies: A Primer for One of the World’s Bloodiest Conflicts
By Zachary Gross ’14, News Editor For those in the Newark Academy community who might have questions they were too embarrassed to ask, The Minuteman has provided an explanation of the basics of the conflict. Where is Syria? Syria is located in the Middle East, south of Turkey, north of Jordan and Israel, east of…
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Voice Proposals Make a Difference: New Electives
By Sanya Bery ’17, News Staff Writer Whether the class is Holocaust Studies, where students dig into a deeper and greater understanding of the Nazi’s atrocious massacre of the Jewish people or Politics of Change, where Mrs. Schottland leads discussions about the world’s most serious conflicts, electives have always been popular among Newark Academy students…
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Crossing the 38th Parallel: Alum Matt Reichel’s Take on North Korea
By Megha Poddar, News Editor On September 24th, students and faculty alike welcomed Matthew Reichel, Class of 2005, as the Academy’s first global speaker for the year. Mr. Reichel has had the unique opportunity of working and living in North Korea for several years, as he co-founded the Pyongyang Project in 2009, a self-sustaining…