Category: News
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Young People and Fentanyl: How Teens are Being Targeted
Gina Schreier ‘26, News Staff Writer Image Courtesy of CBS 8 Checking your candy on Halloween night was more important this year than ever before. Instead of the usual Halloween candy concerns, this year’s uneasiness was largely surrounding a drug called fentanyl. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 50-100 times stronger than morphine. It…
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One Assessment Too Many
By Emily Qin ‘25, News Editor Photo courtesy of Getty Images Even though school started just a few weeks ago, it may feel like we have been in school long enough that we can start preparing for our next summer break. Whether this feeling may be due to academic workload, extracurriculars, or early wake-up times,…
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PROFILE: New Upper School Teachers and the Newark Academy Learning Curve
By Anika Lippke ‘24, News Editor With a new school year comes a host of enthusiastic new teachers to the Newark Academy Upper School Community. After the first few weeks of the 2022-2023 school year, these five teachers are quickly learning to integrate themselves into the community. Warm welcomes from peers and students have made…
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The Great “Resignation”
By Allie Singh ‘25, News Editor Image Courtesy of Wired UK The Great Resignation is the moniker given to the record number of workers that voluntarily left their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the midst of the pandemic, workers sought job flexibility and higher pay as a means to adapt to the challenges imposed…
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Omicron: Effects on Schools
By Lola Cantillon ‘23, News Staff Writer This past fall, schools around the United States were reluctant to return to in-person learning with full attendance, due to COVID outbreaks. The start of the school year remained relatively tame due to vaccine distribution, mask requirements, and social distancing in classrooms. But, as the holiday season grew…
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Afghan Refugees Look to Rebuild their Lives in New Jersey
By Ava Cole ‘22, News Editor America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan came to an end in late August of 2021 with the U.S. military evacuating more than 120,000 people from the country, including both American and Afghan citizens. While the chaos of this mass evacuation has died down, the thousands of Afghan citizens who escaped…
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An Annual Tradition and What it Means to the Senior Class
By Trisha Bala ‘22 and Ava Cole ‘22, News Editors Members of the class of 2022 after going down the chocolate slide Image courtesy of the Yearbook They say you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. For students at Newark Academy, the absence of school events for the past year and a half…
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The Border Crisis: Biden Plans to Address Issues in Central America
By Ava Cole ‘22, News Editor The United States is facing one of the biggest surges of migrants at the U.S-Mexico border in 20 years. According to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S agents have arrested 171,000 migrants in the month of March alone, including more than 18,800 unaccompanied minors. But the Biden…
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History Repeats Itself In Myanmar
By Max Gorbaty ‘22, News Writer On the morning of February 1, 2021, the Tatmadaw—Myanmar’s military—seized control of the government. Democratically-elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party were detained. Military commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing, the leader of the coup d’état, was put in charge of the…
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Gun Violence: The Clear Problem and Not So Simple Solution
By Josh Virany ’22, News Writer According to the Gun Violence Archive, over 104 mass shootings, when four or more people are shot resulting in injury or death, have occurred already in 2021. When the organization reported the data on March 23rd, it had only been 82 days into 2021. To put that in perspective,…