Monthly Archives: January 2016

Almost everyone wants to win the lottery. Right? Despite all of the ostensible benefits of hitting the jackpot, winning the lottery is can be more of a curse than a blessing. Winning such a large sum of money can put a target on one’s back, leading to constant harassment from strangers and unreliable financial investors.

 In these crucial weeks leading up to the primaries, both Republicans and Democrats are seeing the unprecedented success of non-traditional candidates in their respective parties. On the left, Vermont Senator and self-proclaimed socialist, Bernie Sanders, is giving Secretary Clinton a closer contest than previously anticipated. And on the right, the bombastic real estate mogul and…

Samsung’s SmartThings platform is one of the largest competing smart home standards. Image source.

Chipotle’s notorious end to 2015 has carried over to the start of 2016. The Mexican restaurant chain has been hit with a federal grand jury subpoena for an outbreak of norovirus in some of its California locations. The subpoena was revealed last Wednesday, January 6, in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The investigation will be…

Last spring, in her class president candidacy speech, Christina Lee promised her class a “senior lock-in.” Despite the unlikelihood that a school sleepover of 92 eighteen year-olds could be achieved, Lee prevailed. With the help of the upper school faculty and a meticulously planned and extraordinary night,  all involved transformed a Friday night into a memorable gift…

Defeating Teays Valley 121-41 on Friday, January 8th, and then defeating Granville 95-73 on Saturday, January 9th, the girls had a grand kickstart to the new year.

Back into action after a three-week break with a meet on Friday, January 8, and another on Saturday, January 9, the boys first competed against Teays Valley at home and won every event and finished first with a score of 115, 61 ahead of Teays Valley. Dylan Warren’17 and Max Dreisbach’18 led the team with two…

Nestled between the famous German Village Book Loft and this areas’s historic housing lies one of Columbus’s best coffee shops: Stauf’s Coffee Roasters. Stauf’s combines the best of a small coffee shop experience with the efficiency of a large chain. The coffee shop’s location also gives it a hip aesthetic that is unparalleled in the…

Columbus Underground’s Best Bites: Sweet Treats event is coming back for its second year. On February 9th, 30 local eateries and dessert creators will come together at the Columbus Athenaeum, giving every sweet tooth a night to remember.

In its 15-page CSPA (Columbia Scholastic Press Association) evaluation for its 2015 Gold Medalist Award, “The Academy Life” is praised as “very reader friendly,” its “paragraphs are brief, excellent,” its “headlines are very good,” along with a “wonderful image” (Second Annual Art Fair), and esteemed for its opinion and editorial sections.