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A&E

Spotlight on Academy’s 2017 Madlab Playwrights

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

News

Debate Team Places as Octa-Finalists in States

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:

A&E

Never Halfway with Cloud Nothings

(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

A&E

Open Mic Hits All The Right Notes

(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,

Opinion & Editorial

This Is What Democracy Looks Like

(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