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Girls’ Swimming and Squash Take Founders

March 30, 2018 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

During the winter season, both the Girls’ Swimming and Girls’ Squash teams won first in their individual Founders League Championships. Girls’ Swimming beat last year’s Founders Champions, Loomis Chaffee, and Girls’ Squash beat last year’s first place team, Hotchkiss. Both teams demonstrated perseverance, determination, and most importantly, passion for theRead More

President Donald Trump P’00 signed tari s on imported aluminum and steel on March 8.

Trump’s Tariffs Will Only Help The Democrats in the 2018 Midterms

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President Donald Trump P’00 signed proclamations on March 8 to impose a 25% tariff on steel and a 10% tariff on aluminum in an effort to protect American manufacturing. Trump’s announcement, following a week of hints, rattled the stock markets and sent the United States’ trade partners scrambling to negotiateRead More

The Distinct Exhilaration of Performing at School Meetings

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Performing at school meeting is unique. For an artist, the whoops, hollers, and name-shouts that they elicit simply by stepping foot on stage are thrilling. This may not be the sort of energy one often associates with classical music or jazz. At school meeting, however, this energy is generated byRead More

Protestors demand stricter gun laws at a New York City march.

The Great Debate: Should the U.S. repeal the Second Amendment?

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The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads, “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” This is now understood as the right of an American citizen to keep aRead More

NASA Engineer Rachel Schwartz Visits Choate Campus

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Ms. Rachel Schwartz, a key engineer for NASA in their push to put humans on Mars, stopped by campus last Friday, March 23 to talk to students about her career and her experiences working with the space program. Ms. Schwartz is the Senior Project Engineer on the Orion program, aRead More

With Putin’s Reelection, U.S.-Russia Tensions Heighten

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In an unsurprising landslide victory, Russian president Vladimir Putin won his nation’s March 18 presidential election, cementing his authority in the country and its surrounding sphere of influence for another six years. Putin’s continued presence in office will undoubtedly worsen the already tense relations between Russia and the West. ByRead More

Alex Du '21 completes final checks of his robot in preparation for competition.

Choate Robotics Qualifies for Worlds

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Continuing its three-year streak of VEX Worlds Championship attendance, the Choate Robotics team recently had two robots qualify at the VEX Southern New England Tournament for the World Championship. The VEX Worlds Championship, which is held in Louisville, Kentucky, runs from April 25 to April 28 and hosts a numberRead More

Valour Club: A Fashionable Platform For Building Confidence

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The start of the spring term always brings an array of new clubs; one notable addition is the fashion club Valour. Introduced to the school with its video “Denim In Motion,” Valour promises a fun, vibrant new way to look at the clothes students wear. However, the club’s president, KrystalRead More

Gun violence has caused mixed feelings around campus.

Recent Gun Violence Divides Choate Campus

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In the wake of the Parkland shooting, young people from across the nation have taken the national gun violence conversation into their own hands, specifically regarding school safety. On campus, many individuals, from freshmen to science teachers, have joined in on the conversation. Many in the student body agree thatRead More