Archive for March, 2017

Choate Robotics Team Hardwired for Success

March 31, 2017 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

Every day, one classroom on the first floor of the Lanphier Center is filled with light, conversations, and excitement. This is the Shattuck Robotics Lab, where the members of the Choate Robotics Team energetically build robots and prepare for competitions.  The Choate Robotics Team has a competition number of 6106,Read More

All-Gender All-Inclusive

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The option of all-gender housing may seem like an uncommon idea for many high schools across the nation, but it is actually being put into effect by many boarding schools today. In fact, Phillips Andover Academy will implement all-gender housing for the 2017-2018 school year. All-gender dormitories provide common roomsRead More

Editorial: 111th Editorial Board

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“Community” is a word that we use frequently at Choate. Its synonyms — group, body, population, populace — cannot replace the ideas and emotions that we associate with the word, one that aims to unite more than 800 students and 400 faculty and staff members from different hometowns, cultures, andRead More

À La Mode

March 31, 2017 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

Even after receiving people’s opinions on  life in Beijing, China, whether full-time residents  or term abroad students, their input could not have prepared me for the things I would think and feel during my first week there. It has been one week since I landed in this gigantic, nerve- racking,Read More

During her visit, Rev. White-Hammond facilitated conversations on activism.

Ecological Justice Minister Encourages Understanding

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At a time when Choate, the United States, and the world at large face a lot of division, Rev. Mariama White-Hammond came to Choate to discuss the importance of understanding and finding commonalities with others. During school meeting on Wednesday, March 24, Choate students and faculty listened to social activistRead More

A ballistic missile is paraded through North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang, as part of a military exhibition.

A New Nuclear Nation: Neutralizing North Korea

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On January 6, 2016, many Americans awoke to the news of yet another North Korean nuclear test detonation. Those same people now grip their armrests, hoping that newly inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump  P’00 has a clear agenda for North Korea — one other than inviting Kim Jong Un toRead More

Lucas Ferrer '17 speaks at the Divestment Committee information session.

Divestment Committee Recruits New Student Leaders

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With the responsibilities of the student leaders of the divestment initiative coming to an end, fourth and fifth form students met recently with current seniors to discuss the future of Choate’s fossil fuel divestment. The leaders, Lucas Ferrer ’17, Zoe Reid ’17, and Anselm Kizza-Besigye ’17, explained to the groupRead More

Stevenson Fellow Advocates for Public Service

Stevenson Fellow Advocates for Public Service

March 31, 2017 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

After many phone calls, Justice Margot Botsford, a ’65 graduate of Rosemary Hall, was chosen to come to Choate and speak to students and faculty as the 2017 Adlai Stevenson Fellow. Ms. Amy Foster, the HPRSS department head, highlighted two distinctive qualities of Ms. Botsford; she works in the judicialRead More

Lewis and Woodhouse to House Underformers

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Amid a schedule overhaul and a new iPad initiative, another change coming next year is in fifth and sixth form dorms.  Four dorms — Lewis, Pierce, Woodhouse, and Lowndes — will be switching the forms they house. Lewis is replacing Pierce and becoming a fifth form girls dorm, and PierceRead More