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From the NYC streets to Tillinghast Hall

February 26, 2018

Arts & Entertainment

SPOTLIGHT: Sheila Ferri, Lower Division Art Teacher

February 6, 2018

News

Testing center reorganizes, changes policies

February 6, 2018

Arts & Entertainment

Horace Mann Dance Company presents… Emotion in Motion

January 30, 2018

News

Conservative commentator, Princeton Professor converse at assembly

January 30, 2018

News

Students, faculty advocate for rights at second annual Women’s March

Ben Wang

January 30, 2018

Horace Mann students and faculty protested at the second annual Women’s March on Saturday January 20th, 2017. English teacher Rebecca Bahr went along with her husband, son, and mother. She wanted “to protest the state...

Reflecting on Unity Week speakers and workshops

Griffin Smith and Malek Shafei

January 30, 2018

Members of the school community learned about the concept of covering and discussed issues like race, sexuality, and religion through student and faculty run workshops and guest speakers in the 2018 Unity Week. The week,...

School plans switch to wind powered energy

Abigail Salzhauer

January 30, 2018

Starting next December, the school will be making the switch to wind powered energy. “Over the course of the past decade, we spent quite a bit of time looking at how best to move our physical plant needs toward a greener...

January 30, 2018 • No Comments

Social Event Stress From parties to pictures on vacation, many students face the pressure to change their eating or exercise habits to fit an appearance ideal at social gatherings. “Everyone wants to fit in and be liked,” Upper Division Director of Counseling and Guidance Dr. Daniel Rothstein said. “It becomes unhealthy when it becomes your primary focus, and most of who you are becomes about how you look.”...

Aspects of identity: the impact of non-Western names

Nishtha Sharma

January 30, 2018 • No Comments

In fourth grade, JJ Ryu (10) made the personal choice to go by “JJ” rather than her legal name, Jih Su, after she noticed that her peers and teachers failed to make an effort to pronounce her legal name. “My teachers would always call me totally skewed names that sounded like Jih Su, but weren’t. It really bothered me because I feel like people weren’t even trying to learn my name,” Ryu said. Names are a...

BIGGER, faster, better, stronger: the truth about living up to male body image expectations

Becca Siegel and Simon Yang

January 30, 2018 • No Comments

At the school and within society, men are often expected to look like the celebrities that grace magazine covers. The social pressure that accompagnies these expectatations has caused many male students to work out and diet, Stephen Angelakos (12) said. Although not all of the pressure can be attributed to external expectations, many guys are still internally motivated to exercise and eat healthy, Grant Kaufman (12)...

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Arts & Entertainment

The One Acts: The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes

Peri Brooks

February 9, 2018 • No Comments

During her sophomore year, Amrita Acharya (12) began to work on her play “The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes,” which has developed into a play that combines themes of love, class-divisions, and political views during the...

Music Week Preview

Becca Siegel

February 9, 2018 • No Comments

From being serenaded by a violin before a test to the ingenious Strokes covers of the 12th-grade band, “I’m lactose intolerant but I still enjoy ice cream,” music plays an integral part of life at the school. In the...

Student-Written One-Act Festival preview February 6, 2018
Annual Asia night celebrates culture February 6, 2018
BEHIND-THE-SCENES: Interview with Dance Co-Presidents Lauren Smith (12) and Juli Moreira (11) January 30, 2018

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Opinions

Acknowledging the role of censorship in art

Binah Shatsky

February 6, 2018 • No Comments

Censorship is an artist’s enemy. The key to art, particularly performance art, is complete honesty, total lack of inhibition, and extreme vulnerability. As a result, art is a productive setting to breed...

The danger of blind pessimism among teenagers

Vivien sweet

January 30, 2018 • No Comments

A couple of days ago, my younger sister’s friend, Abby, who has a sister in ninth grade at Stuyvesant, came over for a play-date. Although I’m terrible at talking to giggling 11 year-olds, I managed...

Paying it forward: a thank you from Zhao (9)

January 18, 2018

Recognizing the reality of sexual harassment

January 18, 2018

How we can improve HMO

December 10, 2017

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Lions' Den

Varsity Squash roars into National Championships

Edwin Jin

February 6, 2018

The Varsity Squash team comes into today’s US Squash National Championships with an 11–3 record. The team will be competing in Div. III throughout the next three days...

Fencing team performs well despite tough competition at ISFL

Julia Robbins

February 6, 2018

This past Saturday, Prettyman Gym was filled with excitement during the Independent School Fencing League Individual Championship. The tournament was broken up into girls...

Star freshman fencers rise to occasion at national tournament

Connor Morris and Andrew Cassino

January 30, 2018

Freshmen twins Celine and William Owens (9), nationally ranked fencers, travel around the country and even the world competing in saber youth fencing tournaments. Celine won...

Student-athletes compete at highest level

January 18, 2018

Girls’ Varsity Basketball loses to Maria Regina despite valiant effort

December 9, 2017

Boys’ Varsity Basketball falls to Regis in a high-scoring match

December 9, 2017

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