Articles by: Haley Chang '18

Mr. Peard to Retire After 30 Influential Years

Mr. Peard to Retire After 30 Influential Years

May 27, 2016 at 6:24 am Comments are Disabled

There is one quote that particularly stands out to 30-year Choate English teacher Mr. Trevor Peard. He elaborated, “There’s a quotation up in my classroom. It’s from Mary Oliver, and it says, ‘That’s the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. Here you are, alive. WouldRead More

Stafford ’16 and Landau ’17 Craft Nuclear Disarmament Proposal for International Conference

April 24, 2016 at 2:37 pm Comments are Disabled

Standing before a crowd of students, professors, and politicians, Arielle Landau ’17 and Dylan Stafford ’16 delivered their successful presentation, “Nuclear Disarmament: Unseen and Unseen Threats,” at the 2016 Critical Issues Forum (CIF) in Monterey, California. The annual conference, managed by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, tookRead More

Illustration by Kevin Xie

Backpack Bandit Leaves School Uneasy

April 8, 2016 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

Eight thefts have occurred on campus within the past two months, and the culprit has yet to be found. In the wake of these thefts, most of which have involved backpacks being stolen from outside the dining hall, the school has implemented several measures aiming to prevent similar events fromRead More

Emily St. John Mandel Visits Choate

Emily St. John Mandel Visits Choate

March 27, 2016 at 12:00 am Comments are Disabled

Choate welcomed Ms. Emily St. John Mandel, author of this year’s required summer reading book Station Eleven, to speak to students and faculty on Wednesday, October 14. Apart from being the author of the widely-acclaimed novel, Mandel is also a 2014 National Book Award finalist and a 2015 PEN/Faulkner AwardRead More

Third Annual Service Day Inspires Students and Faculty

Third Annual Service Day Inspires Students and Faculty

March 26, 2016 at 7:41 pm Comments are Disabled

Now in its third year, Choate’s annual Community Service Day has had its most prolific operation yet, with students and faculty packing over 20,000 more meals that what the school had expected. Choate students and faculty packed 170,424 meals on Friday, October 2. This year, Choate again partnered with HarvestRead 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

OneDrive or One Problem?

March 26, 2016 at 6:46 pm Comments are Disabled

Prepare to say goodbye to Dropbox. Beginning this fall term, Choate is encouraging students and faculty to use OneDrive, a cloud storage service by Microsoft that allows users to easily create, edit, and sync files. The switch to OneDrive benefits the school in several ways. Last year, Choate moved itsRead More

Student Council President and Vice President 2016-2017

Student Council President and Vice President 2016-2017

February 23, 2016 at 7:10 pm Comments are Disabled

This spring, newly-elected Student Council President Cecilia Zhou ’17 and Vice President Namsai Sethpornpong ’17, will assume their positions and lead the school into the 2016-2017 academic year. In the all-school meeting on Wednesday, February 10, ten rising seniors stood on the main stage of the Paul Mellon Arts CenterRead More