Boys’ Hockey Finds Success With 2A
Catherine Barry, Food Features Editor
March 9, 2020
The Boys' Hockey team has had a very successful season thus far with their new Head Coach Rob McClanahan. McClanahan was on the U.S. Olympic team in 1980 and a part of the team that beat the Soviet Union who had held the gold medal for many years prior. He is a well-known hockey player and now uses ...
Independent Schools Deserve Protections For Journalistic Freedom
Drew Rosenblum, Co-Editor-In-Chief
November 12, 2019
This story was originally published on February 1, 2019 “A student shall have the same right to exercise his or her right to free speech on campus as he or she enjoys when off campus.” While this is a seemingly desultory quote, it is the single most powerful tool of a private school j...
Vance Keeps Ninth Grade Fresh
Noor Naseer, Contributing Writer
November 2, 2018
With her role as the freshmen dean, Jen Vance has made new connections with freshmen while also strengthening those connections as students become upperclassmen. Before her current position, she was the junior and senior dean for the class of 2004 and then the freshman and sophomore dean for th...
Assassins accidents cause rules to change
Josh Power, Reviews Editor
May 7, 2018
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...
Seniors’ tattoos expressing the important motivations, realities of life
Josie Lagerstrom, Co-Editor-in-Cheif
April 30, 2018
For seniors Zac Johnson ‘18, Lucy Graham ‘18, Max Owens ‘18, and Abbie Nelson ‘18, getting “inked” was not a decision made lightly. Tattoos, legal at the age of 18, and the more recent minimalist tattoos have started trending among young adults. Johnson has two tattoos, one of the Great Se...
The Pope brothers
Zoe Zellmer, Staff Writer
March 18, 2016
“Compared to other siblings we are very close. We live together, work together… our lives, I would say, are very paralleled to each other’s.”
Words and Songs of Healing at the Thanksgiving Assembly
November 24, 2015
Learning lunch creates space for education and reflection
Chapel Puckett, Managing Editor
November 24, 2015
“For those of us who live at the shoreline / standing upon the constant edges of decision / crucial and alone,” Marie Michael recited. The learning lunch began with a recitation of Audre Lorde’s poem “A Litany for Survival.” Lorde’s poem encapsulates the emotional events in recent weeks regarding th...
Return to Sender
Jack Barker, Contributing Writer
October 29, 2015
An email a day. Maybe two. Who knew that such an ostensibly trivial issue would snowball into a major controversy? Kali Olson’s emails regarding new developments in the library have raised questions about not only the relevance of the emails themselves but also Blake’s communication systems as a whole ...
Press Release: Forum’s Forum
Mark Gustaferro, Contributing Writer
October 27, 2015
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as the United States’ thirty-second president, he took the office in one of the worst crises the nation had ever experienced. The Great Depression had devastated the American economy and put around 25% of the national population out of work. Despite the daunti...
Race at Blake
March 19, 2015
Despite what many white people would like to believe, race is still a prominent influence on America and at Blake. In our lives where overt racism on the individual level is not as visibly present, white students question why they are having “race shoved down their throats” when they can’t see...
What happened to Blake’s signature logo?
Deniz Ercan-Fang, News Editor
November 6, 2014
For years the Blake wordmark with ‘The Blake School 1900’ in blue font with a green circle partially encompassing the letters has been one of the iconic symbols of The Blake School. However, this iconic symbol, adopted 15 years ago, has recently been changed to the letters ‘BLAKE’ in blue as...
