A crush. An Affirmative Action program. A tiny guardian angel who decides to play matchmaker. Struggles with inner demons personified as people, complete with death, melancholy, and self-loathing. What the above have in common is that both deal with scripts (byKami Tibbles’17 and Taylor McGowan’18, respectively) are among the selected 10 ten-minute plays, all written…
Anders and Channell at state competition in Public Forum Debate. For the second year in a row, Columbus Academy sent a debate team to the state competition in Public Forum. Senior Caroline Anders and sophomore Kyle Channell spent March 3 and 4 debating at Berea High School, competing in a grand total of eight rounds:…
(Photo/Abby Jeffers’18) Cleveland’s pop-punk band Cloud Nothings has always pushed the limits of mainstream indie rock. Its first four albums were an abstract mess of post-punk glory, and despite claims that the fifth album sacrifices that passion for popularity, the band goes all out on these nine songs. After adding guitarist Chris Brown to the…
(Photo/Julia Gurevitz’19) Despite concerns about a lack of performers, Music Club’s second Open Mic of the year was undoubtedly a success. Musicians played both serious and silly songs, including The Academy Life‘s very own, Ellie Jeffers’20, rapping Dr. Seuss’s “The Cat In The Hat.” The event even attracted students from outside of the Academy community,…
(Photo/Abby Jeffers’18) Chants of “Stand up! Fight back!” filled the air in downtown Columbus on Sunday, January 15, as thousands of people marched in a demonstration of women’s rights and gender equality. In a sister march to the Women’s March on Washington, which will be held on January 21, supporters walked a mile from Washington…
This week, Ohio lawmakers passed the “Heartbeat Bill,” a measure that would make abortions illegal once a heartbeat is detected, which is usually around six weeks of pregnancy. After being tacked onto a child abuse bill at the last minute, the Heartbeat Bill made it through both the House and the Senate for the first…
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