Monday January 14th  marked the airing of The Carrie Diaries, also known as the CW’s attempt to replace Gossip Girl. Similarly based on a best-selling book about teenagers in New York City, The Carrie Diaries, a prequel to Sex and the City, follows 16-year-old Carrie Bradshaw (played by Anna Sophia Robb) as she deals with…

The Rematch. On January 3rd, Academy’s boys basketball team traveled to Newark Catholic and suffered a tough 9-point loss in double overtime to the previously unbeaten Green Wave. Ever since that loss, the team has had one game highlighted on its schedule. This past Friday, in a game senior Daniel Aronowitz described as “the biggest…

Interview by Kyle O’Hara’14. Video by Elliot Nick’14.

Video by Nikhil Patel’14

Texts from parents flooded Academy high school as teachers locked doors, turned off lights, and shut shades. Students looked around, curious whether the emergency warning signaled a practice. But this was no drill.

As most students lay sound asleep in their beds, this past Saturday, January 12, members of the Academy girls’ swim team shined when up against the state’s best at the 7th annual Northeast Classic Invitational in Canton. With close to 80 teams racing in the meet, the Vikes put up a valiant effort, showing many…

Ruzzle is the next big app to sweep across our student body, following the popular Snapchat. Ruzzle’s format is much like “Scramble with Friends.” Players make usernames and can set up their accounts with Facebook or Twitter, linking them to a wider variety of potential opponents. Each player must request to challenge a friend, and…

It’s the middle of January, and third quarter has just begun. Third quarter is often said to be the most miserable time of the year, with summer still months away and seemingly never-ending stacks of homework. What should be warmly welcomed by students, however, is that only 6 out of the remaining 9 weeks before…

I admit I don’t know much about technology. Letter and number combinations that name items make little sense to me, and the speculation of future inventions has never been my interest. That said, I still found myself intrigued by the products showcased at the CES (International Consumer Electronics Show) that took place in Las Vegas…

Open Heart, Elie Wiesel’s account of his 2011 bypass surgery, should be the next book you read. While it is light in physical weight (fewer than 100 pages), this work packs a massive emotional punch. Wiesel, who wrote Night, about his time in the hell of Nazi concentration camps, again reflects on facing the abyss-this…