Assassins accidents cause rules to change
Josh Power, Reviews Editor
May 7, 2018
Filed under NEWS, STUDENT LIFE, TOP STORIES
Assassins, a Nerf battle royale in which students compete for glory and prizes among their fellow classmates, is a unique, highly competitive game played at high schools across the country. The premise is that students form teams and pay a fee to play, "killing" other participants by shooting them w...
Student-directed plays engage students in unique ways
William Lyman, Staff Writer
May 1, 2018
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Every spring students embark on the challenging, at times stressful, experience of acting or directing a Student Directed Play. Completely organized and executed by student directors, the program takes place over a couple weeks in April. During these weeks of auditions, direction, rehearsals, tech rehears...
Environmental authors program brings Dr. Kimmerer
May 1, 2018
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The Otis Environmental Authors Program was created by Philip Otis ‘91’s family following his death in 1995. Otis was a student ranger and was participating in a rescue mission at Mount National Park. The objective of the mission was to save a man with a fractured ankle. The man, however, w...
College map made anonymous
Anderson Blum, Sports Editor
May 1, 2018
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Blake’s College Map, located in the college counseling area, will have a noteworthy change when it is posted for the class of 2018. The map will still show all of the schools our seniors will be attending next year, but unlike past iterations of the map, student names will not be included. The pr...
Science Olympiad Completes Great Year
Anderson Blum, Sports Editor
March 16, 2018
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Another year of Blake’s Science Olympiad has come to an end, with the Bears winning the title of second best small school in Minnesota at the state tournament on March 3. The Blake team competed in multiple tournaments leading up to state, including one at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls....
Gallery: Students, faculty walkout to support 17 lives lost in Florida
Alyssa Story, Social Media Editor
March 14, 2018
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Lead by Anika Gutzke '19 and Zehra Kahn '18 over 30 students and faculty members participated in a peaceful walkout and 17 minutes of silence. Prior to the moments of silence, students gave both planned and spontaneous speeches. Both Gutzke and Kahn spoke, along with Anna Kruesel '18, Will Lym...
Sneha Sinha explores family tree
Eva Berezovsky, Managing Editor
February 7, 2018
Filed under ARTS & CULTURE, NEWS
“Understanding my family gave me a lot of voice, even though I’m not literally speaking,” says Sneha Sinha ‘18 regarding her first semester independent study. Ready for her next step as an artist after taking all three levels of Drawing and Painting, Sinha eagerly launched the drafting of her coll...
Martha Bennett Gallery debuts bird themed exhibit
William Longley, Staff Writer
February 7, 2018
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There is a new exhibit this month in the Martha Bennett Gallery on both art and nature. Students from Brian Sago’s Printmaking II teamed up with students from Will Bohrnsen’s Environmental Science to create an exhibit that is both educational and pretty to look at. The exhibit looks at t...
Dr. Graybeal comments: Blake’s take on vape
Elizabeth Opp, News Editor
December 15, 2017
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Following this month's InDepth, "Vaping Culture," students, teachers, and parents alike have been questioning the realities behind this trend in our community. Associate Head of School, Dr. Anne Graybeal, comments on the subject in an interview with Spectrum Q: What do you think about the trend of swit...
Martha, Kaback team up to bring new era of boys’ volleyball
Zachary Marmet, Staff Writer
December 10, 2017
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As the excitement from Power Puff football dies down, junior boys have decided to bring back that same idea in a new way with the creation of the Blake Boys’ Volleyball team. Boys’ volleyball is new to Blake, but that doesn’t stop founder and captain Alex Martha '19 and coach Steve Kaback from ha...
Sophomore dean Mr. Canfield explained
Madeline Meskan, Contributing Writer
December 10, 2017
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Mr. Canfield, the new Dean for the Class of 2020 and freshman biology teacher, is enthusiastic to bring his Harvard experience as well as naturalist experience to Blake. One of Mr. Canfield’s goals is to bring a new perspective to Blake about how sophomores prepare themselves for college. Having b...