Archive for February, 2017

Jacob Meyers ’17 (second from left) works with a student as another tutor waits for someone to help.

Writing Center Remains an Underutilized Resource

February 3, 2017 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

The Writing Center opened last February as a new support system to help students with compositions. Students can visit during any stage of writing process, from brainstorming to finalizing. But a year since it has opened, there remains a disconnect between its offerings and students.  According to Emma Griffith ’17,Read More

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Basketball Recruit Brad Landry ’18

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A Wallingford native, Brad Landry ’18 had always dreamed of attending Choate. This year, he was recruited to play for Boys’ Varsity Basketball. And, not surprisingly, Landry has proven to be a real asset to Choate’s basketball program. I met with him to discuss his history with basketball and hisRead More

Spiritual Life Open House Encourages Student Reflection

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From January 22 to January 29, various religious and spiritual activities and opportunities were extended to everyone on campus, marking this year’s Spiritual Life Open House. Reverend Ally Brundige, Director of Spiritual Life, explained, “Our spiritual life team of chaplains, advisers and student leaders designed our “Open House for AllRead More

Ms. Nash addresses non-violent resistance in the modern world.

Truth to Power: Venerable Activist Diane Nash Speaks at Yale

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On Wednesday, January 25, Yale University welcomed Ms. Diane Nash as the keynote speaker of its Annual Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. program, which was open to the public. Two recent Choate alumni, Uzo Biosah ’16 and Esul Burton ’16, who are now Yale students; two Choate faculty,Read More

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Behind the Wheel with the Remsen Rink Zamboni Drivers

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On Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, Choate students flock to the ice rink to watch their peers play hockey, with the occasional break for the Zamboni to come through. However, few actually know the Zamboni drivers and how they came to be. I spoke to three of them – WilliamRead More

English Department to Add More Variety to Senior Course Offerings

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The English Department will restructure the sixth form English curriculum for the 2017-2018 academic year. Next year, Choate will allow seniors to choose between taking a year-long course, or 3 one-term classes. The year-long courses are Classical Tradition, The Humanities Course (formerly Humanities Sequence), Voices of Empire: Post-Colonial Literature, andRead More

Community Voices Solidarity for Those Affected by Immigration Ban

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Choate students and faculty are anxiously monitoring further developments in the chaos after President Trump’s P ’00 executive order restricting immigration from predominantly Muslim countries last Friday. It is hard to predict what the repercussions of President Trump’s executive order will be on Choate’s administration. “Protecting the Nation from ForeignRead More

Manchester by the Sea, Our Latest Must-Watch

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Kenneth Lonergan wrote and directed one of this year’s critic-adored films, Manchester by the Sea, a movie that rightfully earned him two Academy Award nominations for “Best Achievement in Directing” and “Best Original Screenplay.” The film received six nominations, which speaks volumes about the casting director, Douglas Aibel, as threeRead More

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The (Un)hidden Danger of Intellectual Diversity

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Throughout the age of Twitter, our beliefs and allegiances have come to label us more more visibly than in any other time. Anyone with an internet connection and a political bent must wade through a bog of ideological identifiers and reductive hashtags to formulate a descriptive persona. Will you shareRead More