Archive for March, 2016

Campus Laundry Service Washes Students’ Clothes in New Hampshire Facility

March 26, 2016 at 7:15 pm Comments are Disabled

We’ve all seen the white trucks of E&R Campus Laundry and Dry Cleaners driving across the Choate campus and stopping in front of various dorms. Every week, our laundry bags are whisked away by truck drivers to the E&R headquarters located in Manchester, New Hampshire. According to Mr. Patrick Caveny,Read More

Deans Revise Absence Policy

Deans Revise Absence Policy

March 26, 2016 at 7:14 pm Comments are Disabled

The start of a new school year brings with it some changes in Choate’s discipline policy. Choate has revised its absence policy in order to address the ineffectiveness of the previous years’ system. Students absent from any commitment, regardless of whether the commitment is academic or non-academic, will now penalizedRead More

Headmaster Curtis Unveils Student Center Plans

Headmaster Curtis Unveils Student Center Plans

March 26, 2016 at 7:13 pm Comments are Disabled

Get ready, students! Ping-pong tables, foosball, large HD flat-screens, and a new Tuck Shop with an even larger collection of smoothies, burgers, and fries are coming your way. At last week’s school meeting, Headmaster Dr. Curtis unveiled the layout plans for the new Student Activities Center (SAC), to be calledRead More

Campus Doctor Begins Tenure

Campus Doctor Begins Tenure

March 26, 2016 at 7:11 pm Comments are Disabled

With a wave of sickness circulating campus, it may not be long until you make a visit to the Health Center; when you’re there, you might meet Dr. Christopher Diamond, the new Director of the Health Center. Dr. Diamond, who was welcomed to the school at the September 16 all-schoolRead More

Blind Artist Sees Paint

Blind Artist Sees Paint

March 26, 2016 at 7:07 pm Comments are Disabled

People often dismiss with incredulity the famous story of music composer Ludwig van Beethoven, who lost his hearing yet continued listening to his own productions by feeling the vibrations of the instruments. It can be hard to believe that anyone could transcend the senses like this, but parallel stories suggestRead More

Acapella Holds Joint Auditions

Acapella Holds Joint Auditions

March 26, 2016 at 7:06 pm Comments are Disabled

Acapella. Choate acapella. It’s always been a thrill for those of us cheering offstage as the Whimawehs, Liliths, Maiyeros, Bella Cantos, or Kaprophones dazzle the crowd with their charisma and lyrical energy. The week of September 3 marked annual acapella auditions, when students from every form sing their hearts out,Read More

Instagram Movement Inspires

March 26, 2016 at 7:04 pm Comments are Disabled

Instagram, an app that a large portion of the Choate student body uses, usually consists of feeds with selfies, snapshots of delicious desserts, and artistic photographs of the beach. Though Instagram was created for amateur photographers to upload their photographs and share them with a community, recently, a group ofRead More

Annett Ho ’18: New and Note-worthy

Annett Ho ’18: New and Note-worthy

March 26, 2016 at 7:04 pm Comments are Disabled

Only three weeks into the school year, Annett Ho ’18 has already left her musical mark on the Choate Arts program. Ho, a new sophomore from Taipei, Taiwan, is a violinist with talent far beyond the normal high school student, an ability that is evident in her playing for theRead More

Andover Day: A Budding Rivalry

March 26, 2016 at 7:02 pm Comments are Disabled

It’s 5:00 p.m. on a Tuesday, and I am shocked to find Josie Lee ’16 crying in the back corner of the girls’ locker room.. She is too distraught to tell me what’s wrong, but I already know what this is about: senior soccer. No other sport on campus pushesRead More