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Students Establish White Antiracism Group

Izzy Ebede October 20, 2020

Friends Select’s new White Antiracism Group (WAG) is looking to engage community members to partake in conversations about racial injustice and white supremacy while dismantling their own biases towards...

Carly Siegel '21 and Zoe Siegel '24

The Sundry Siblings of Friends Select

Peter Ryan and Margot Schneider October 20, 2020

The Ryan'sThe Schneider'sThe Coleman'sThe Siegel'sThe Bushee'sThe Sovinski'sThe Wampler'sThe Verstegan'sThe Squires'sThe Ryan'sThe Levine's Friends Select’s Alma Mater asserts that students see...

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The 2020 Application Season: Do Standardized Test Scores Matter?

Anna Kane October 19, 2020

The pandemic shut down any non-virtual college activities, visits, and information sessions. Students seeking information about colleges were unable to visit campuses in person. Numerous seniors applying...

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Friends Select Baseball Coach Drafted to MLB

Aidan Dougherty October 19, 2020

Former Friends Select baseball coach and Yale University pitcher, Brook Hart, was signed by the Colorado Rockies in the 2011 MLB draft. While Hart was playing pickup basketball at University Park’s...

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Friends Select Sports Continue Despite COVID-19

Mia Cohen October 19, 2020

All Friends League competitions will be postponed until at least January 1, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As opposed to normal schedules, each sports season will have just three weeks of practice...

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Travis Scott Burger Spikes Sales

Mark Aaronson October 16, 2020

On September 8th, rapper Travis Scott and his label, Cactus Jack Records partnered with McDonalds to produce the “Travis Scott Meal,” luring massive amounts of customers to the popular fast food restaurant,...

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Administration Drops Dress Code Midriff Rule

Olivia Shuman October 16, 2020

The upper school administration has revised the dress code in this year’s handbook to allow showing midriff, reflecting the work done by students over the past three years. The rule against showing...

Opinion: Sixers' Doc Rivers the Wrong Man for the Job

Opinion: Sixers’ Doc Rivers the Wrong Man for the Job

Peter Ryan October 12, 2020

After early playoff exits for three consecutive years, the Philadelphia 76ers replaced longtime head coach Brett Brown with Doc Rivers, who parted ways with the Los Angeles Clippers after a second round...

Student Reactions to Asynchronous Wednesday

Student Reactions to Asynchronous Wednesday

Margot Schneider October 12, 2020

The start of the 2020-2021 school year looks different for a multitude of reasons, one being the major schedule changes. Classes occur now just twice a week for longer intervals, with many breaks in between....

Opinion: VP Debate Drenched in Misogyny

Opinion: VP Debate Drenched in Misogyny

Lily Brin and Henry Planet October 12, 2020

While the first and only vice presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence (featuring “the fly”) left us considerably less furious than the presidential debate on September 29, there were...

Cynthia Vainstein, Upper School Spanish Teacher

Cynthia Vainstein: Using Nicknames to Bring the Community Together

Margot Schneider and Mia Cohen October 8, 2020

You may know her for her unique nicknames or her unusual views on spending time in nature. Cynthia Vainstein, Upper School Spanish teacher of five years, grew up in Peru and took international studying...

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Fontaines D.C.’ s A Hero’s Death is a Listless Let Down

C.C. Servon October 7, 2020

The British Isles have been overtaken by post-punk music in the past few years. Bands like IDLES, Girl Band, and Heavy Lungs have found critical and commercial success by carrying the effects-laden mantle...