Monthly Archives: April 2012

Preview of Bye, Bye Birdie Each year around April and May, everything seems to center around one group of people: the seniors; the students who are finalizing the legacies  they will leave on Columbus Academy.  This year, 20 seniors are involved with the Upper School Musical, Bye Bye Birdie, and each one brings his or…

I’m going to let you in on what’s going on with the campaign, and it’s simple: you may as well inaugurate Barack Obama for his second term. He’s an incumbent solidifying his position with a juggernaut of a fundraising operation still in place from his first run for office. While Romney has been slogging through…

On Friday, April 13, parents and students crowded the cafeteria for the school’s annual “All That Jazz” concert. In top form, the Jazz Band did not disappoint the packed crowd. As Chris Nolan’13 explained, this year’s concert included a great mix of traditional jazz songs and more untraditional jazz-fusion: “We’ve got some good stuff going.…

Three dances from the now-infamous decision on grinding (not including last year’s cancelled Winter Formal), dances have become fun again. Prom, which took place on March 31st, included casino games, television screens on which to watch the Final Four games, and, unlike other dances since “the decision,” students dancing. The most obvious change in the…

(Reported on day after Prom) The economy continues to sputter along like a three-legged hippo. People are turning to extreme solutions to make ends meet. This past weekend, for example, strangers from all walks of life lined up around city blocks to buy a ticket for the biggest Mega Millions jackpot in history, a cool…