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The Falcon

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Dawn FM: Synths, Syncopation, and Style

Alex Ginsberg February 25, 2022

“Dawn FM was mediocre at best.” That’s what I first said about Abel “The Weekend” Tesfaye’s new album, Dawn FM, after listening through it for the first time. But after a couple of months...

The Student Handbook: The Terms and Conditions You Might Want to Read

The Student Handbook: The Terms and Conditions You Might Want to Read

Xan Brown February 8, 2022

The Friends Select student handbook. That 80-page booklet you were given at the beginning of the year that you probably threw in your bag and never thought about again. That 80-page booklet that you signed...

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Roundtable: What to do with the City Service Block

Lily Brin '23: I am glad that the service block is currently being used as an extended office hours. I’m sure it is helpful for students who have had to quarantine or are otherwise needing to meet with...

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Reforms for 45,000 U.S. Gun Deaths a Year

Maxx Sovinski and Mingcan Li February 4, 2022

These two articles were written in Dave Marshall's elective course, U.S. History through Current Events. After studying the history and current state of gun violence in America, students picked potential...

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Let’s Put an End to Animal Testing

Elle DiBianca February 4, 2022

Your basic eyeshadow from Maybelline cosmetics may seem like a harmless product, but behind those blue sparkles is an ugly truth. During the product testing process, some animals have their fur shaved...

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Op -Counter Op: Lady Bird

Margot Schneider and Patrick Ryan January 28, 2022

Lady Bird, a 2017 coming-of-age movie, is about Lady Bird MacPherson, a head-strong, stubborn, self-absorbed teenager attending a Catholic high school in the early 2000’s. She struggles with finding...

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Seniors Should Have November 1st Off as a College Workday

Shirley Wang January 27, 2022

On November 1st, on the second floor of Friends Select’s main building, I was fully engrossed in my computer and locked in position. My eyes followed the screen when I scrolled down. I typed fast on...

Should Timing of Upper School Lunch Be Changed?

Should Timing of Upper School Lunch Be Changed?

Mingcan Li January 26, 2022

In the class period before lunch, the sounds of growling stomachs break the silence. Some students complain in a whisper that they could eat hundreds of cheeseburgers after class, while other students...

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The Problems With Perp Walks

Henry Fogg January 25, 2022

In the United States justice system, there exists a phenomenon known as the “perp walk.” Perp is short for perpetrator. A perp walk, walking the perp, or frog march, is a practice in American law...

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Online School, Better than Offline School?

Jonas Gruber January 19, 2022

While we are still very much living in a COVID era with the emergence of new variants like Omicron, the days of lockdowns and self-isolation still seem more like a distant memory. Along with that, the...

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Defining Journalism: Calling Moral and Ethical Standards into Question

Margot Schneider January 18, 2022

Suppose there is a breaking news item, perhaps a national scandal or a weather emergency, that people really should know at that time. Let's also suppose that the sole journalist with access to this...

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Are eSports Really Sports?

Asa Johnson January 14, 2022

Lebron James, the second best basketball player of all time, is making $162 every second as he stands on the court of the 2020 NBA Finals in front of 10 million live viewers. Meanwhile, Kim "Canyon" Geon-bu,...