Please exclude the critters

September 6, 2006

After years of complaints that the school lacked a sense of community, the administration has finally come up with a practical solution. Unfortunately, the house system will only be put into place at the Middle School. The Upper School would benefit from the same program.

Give us a student center

September 6, 2006

Though it’s only been a few months since the first shovelful of dirt was moved at the Middle School, it’s already time to start thinking about a modernized Coldwater campus. The new Director of Upper School Master Planning John Feulner is going to be soliciting suggestions this semester about how best to remake the campus, and here’s ours: free up flat space for a central campus center and everything else will fall into place.

College Board: it's not me, it's you

September 6, 2006

I could ignore hearing about those SAT Is that got rained on and mis-scored last year (although mainly just because it didn’t directly affect me and thus was unimportant). I could ignore the lengthy SAT I, although spending five precious Saturday hours in Chalmers 309 is certainly not an experience I would recommend to anyone who could avoid it.

Oh, the places you'll go

September 6, 2006

Right now, a farmer in Peru is plowing his field. A woman in Bangladesh is selling bracelets on the street, a businessman in New York just closed a deal, and a college dropout is playing guitar at the Promenade, his case open for tips. Buddhist monks in China are chanting while a baker in Paris is placing baguettes in the oven.

Reading is believing

September 5, 2006

A book-hungry upper school student digs her feet deeper and deeper into the ground as she progresses page by page through her copy of Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece “Anna Karenina,” a novel recommended in the suggested summer reading list by Stephen Bellon, former English teacher at the Upper School.