Students Advocating for Gender Equality (SAGÉ) has recently created a ten-student subcommittee aiming to foster a community more informed about consent and sexual intimacy on campus. The committee plans to collaborate with the administration to write official policies and procedures with more positive language.  Over the past two weeks, theRead More

Angela Ruggiero ’98 was elected as Chair of the International Olympic Committee Athlete’s Commission during the 2016 Rio Olympics this summer. Ruggiero is a former ice hockey player who has competed in four winter Olympics, winning one gold, two silver, and one bronze medal. Her first Olympics was in Nagano,Read More

Last Thursday, Lucas Ferrer ’17, Zoe Reid ’17, and Anselm Kizza-Besigye ’17 presented in front of the Board of Trustees Investment Committee, knowing that no student divestment movements at peer schools have succeeded yet. At their nearly hour-long presentation, the three seniors asked the committee to commit to halt futureRead More

Choate will be constructing a 10-meter tall weather tower near the Kohler Environmental Center (KEC) within the next fiscal year. The weather tower will record valuable ecological data such as temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, radiation from the Earth and atmosphere, soil temperature, and soil humidity. ThereRead More

Mr. Ashton Betancourt “I’ll miss his charismatic and passionate personality. I’ll also miss his amazing cookies and hot chocolate. Most importantly, though, I’ll miss the best teacher I’ve ever had,” said Arjun Katechia ’19, referring to Mr. Ashton Betancourt, who will retire this year to reunite with his family inRead More

Students representing various campus groups had the opportunity to chat with Ms. Rosalind Wiseman, who gave a well-received speech about teenage hook-up culture at a special program this pas fall. Her visit was the first of many to come — Choate has hired Ms. Wiseman and her business partner fromRead More

Long active in encouraging and accepting diversity on Choate’s campus, Uzo Biosah ’16 and Tomi Lawal ’16 were awarded the 2016 Princeton Prize in Race Relations on March 2.  One or two students from each of the twenty-six eligible regional areas won the $1,000 cash prize along with an invitationRead More

Students and faculty alike eagerly listened to mathematician Dr. Jordan Ellenberg’s address to students and faculty on the power of mathematical thinking on Tuesday, March 22 as the 2016 Charles Krause ’51 Fellow in Rhetoric. His speech expertly tied personal anecdotes with math, encouraging the community to accept uncertainty. InRead More