Front runners Biden, Warren, Sanders, and Buttigieg vy for the Democratic nomination. (Graphic by Carolyn Vaziri’22) Democrats are torn. Thirteen primary candidates remain, locking horns for the nomination. The crowded field represents a broad ideological spectrum, from moderates like Amy Klobuchar to far-leftists like Bernie Sanders. Is the safest option to select a moderate to…

Academy welcomes new college counselor, Jon Wagshul. (Andrew Barren’22/Media editor) What do Tom Cruise and Assistant Director of College Counseling, Mr. Wagshul, have in common? Besides high school roots in the northeast, they were both lawyers in the Navy JAG Corps, one in the movies, one in real life. Mr. Jon Wagshul joined our school…

Same-sex couples could lose critical health care if providers choose to discriminate (Flickr/ Jose Antonio Navas).  In 2017, President Trump and vice president Mike Pence met with a legal scholar who advised them on social issues, including the likelihood of reversing Roe v. Wade. According to The New Yorker, two sources confirm that when the discussion…

Sophomore Max Walker stops just before the crease as he shoots on goal. (Henry Rubey’22/Staff)  The Columbus Academy Ice Hockey team (est. 2017) had its first test of the year on Friday, November 8,  in a preseason scrimmage against Gahanna Lincoln. Without the players who were in a football game, the Vikes fell to the Lions…

Republican Senator Margaret Chase-Smith from Maine, 1943 (Wikimedia Commons).    Sixty-nine years ago, Senator Margaret Chase-Smith, a Republican, stood on the Senate Floor and delivered her “Declaration of Conscience,” in which she condemned her fellow party member, Senator Joseph McCarthy.    Months earlier, McCarthy had announced to the Ohio County Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling,…

Ambassador Ford joins the US Navy and local government on a tour of dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (Wikimedia Commons).  US Ambassador Charles A. Ford is a native of Dayton, Ohio. From 2003-2005, he served as Vice President of the American Foreign Service Association, and from 1982-2009, he lived in Latin America and Europe.  He…

Maggie Rogers enters to the pantheistic hymn, “Color Song.” (Charles Belford ’22/Media) Three years ago, Maggie Rogers was a second-semester senior at New York University, and she found herself in a creative slowdown with her lyrics, even contemplating the idea of becoming a music journalist instead of an artist. This weekend, she performed her first…

Dean of students, Dr. Pascal Losambe. (Photo/Carolyn Vaziri’22 and Andrew Barren’22) The 2019-2020 school year has already welcomed many changes–from the construction of a new field house, the addition of a girls’ golf team, to the arrival of a new Director of Athletics in Mr. Jason Singleton. For our Upper School’s Dean of Students, change…

Mayor Pete Buttigieg is the first openly gay presidential candidate. (Wikimedia Commons) It’s 2008, and Barack Obama is losing grip of his candidacy. He still clings to the unraveling rope that is his political future. Sermons of his former minister, Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., were publicized, revealing the minister’s resentful sentiments against whites. Wright said…

Academy’s Morris Hall Gallery features works by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson. (Andrew Barren’22/Media) Eric Dozier, an activist and singer-songwriter, visited our school last week in celebration of Black History Month, and he taught the community an important word: Sankofa, which was coined by King Adinkera of the Akans and translates to “Go back and get…