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Peer Support to Hold First Meeting of Years

Jake Saferstein September 28, 2014

  All Peer Support members will participate in a series of icebreaker activities to learn about each other and Peer Support itself at the first group meeting on Monday. According to Peer Support coordinator...

Students tour club booths at Activities Fair

Jake Saferstein September 15, 2014

Students roamed the quad and signed up for clubs at Activities Fair Sept. 15 during break. The 66 clubs each tried to attract sign-ups by displaying posters and handing out treats such as candy, cookies...

Activities Fair to allow students to browse clubs

Jake Saferstein September 3, 2014

Prefect Council will host Activities Fair during break Sept. 15 to allow students a chance to browse and sign up for clubs. "I didn’t really have much time to participate in clubs at the upper school...

Summer school enrollment up by 10-15 percent

Jake Saferstein June 20, 2014

The number of enrollments in the summer program increased this year by 10 to 15 percent, with 1,071 students signed up by mid-June and a few hundred more students expected to sign up by August. About half...

Artist creates giant bear for class

Jake Saferstein May 28, 2014

Grizzly bears can grow up to nearly 10 feet tall and five feet wide, and can weigh up to 1,500 pounds. Darby Caso’s ’14 bear is nearly as big, but weighs almost nothing and is made out of plastic. The...

90-minute exams before winter break to replace midterms

Jake Saferstein May 28, 2014

Mid-year assessments will replace midterms next year and will be held in December the week before winter break. There will be two 90-minute exams each day. "This decision was trying to be sensitive to...

English teacher voices character in alum’s game

Jake Saferstein April 30, 2014

English teacher Adam Howard ’93 is voice acting for his old student, Sam Farmer ’08, on Farmer’s video game, Last Life. Farmer put the game on Kickstarter April 9 to raise funds to finish development. "It’s...

Prefect Council hosts 4th Coffee House

Jake Saferstein April 30, 2014

Students and faculty packed the lounge Monday after school to watch singers, actors, musicians and magicians at the fourth Coffee House this year. To kick off the performances, coffee and snacks were served...

2 teachers win India Fellowship

Jake Saferstein April 28, 2014

Two members of the faculty have been awarded the India Exploration and Immersion Faculty Fellowship sponsored by the Cultural Heritage and Arts of India Club and the Gunter-Gross Asia Initiative. Visual...

School websites safe from Heartbleed bug

Jake Saferstein April 10, 2014

Internet security experts have found a major security bug, Heartbleed, that allowed people to access users’ connection to secure websites and obtain their secure information. The bug now has a patch,...

16 Students take AIME competition

Jake Saferstein March 19, 2014

Sixteen students took the American Invitational Math Exam March 13, based on their scores on the American Mathematics Competition. The AIME is a three-hour, 15-question test. If students do well on the...

College Board to redesign SAT, deans not expecting changes in prep

Jake Saferstein March 19, 2014

The College Board announced plans to redesign the SAT by spring of 2016. The new format will return to a 1,600 point scale, 800 for math and 800 for "Evidence-Based Reading." The essay will become optional...

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