Upper left: New locker rooms are coming along. Work is adjacent to Athletic Department offices. (Isabella Morris’22/ Media) Upper right: Clearing space for the new field house, which will located next to the new locker rooms. (Sari Shocket’22/Media) Middle: Exterior of new weight room, next to current weight room. (Liesel Goldfarb’22/Media) Bottom: Interior of new…
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CA families throw colors and celebrate Holi. (Panya Bhinder’21/Staff) On Sunday, May 5, from 2 to 4 pm, Columbus Academy families came together at the Lower School playground to celebrate the Indian festival of Holi, ushering in spring with love and color. Traditionally held in mid-March, Holi, also called the festival of colors, commemorates the…
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Hayden Compton’19 slams a dunk during April Absurdity’s finals. (Josh Tu’21/Staff) April Absurdity started two weeks ago, with teams getting eliminated left and right throughout the month. As the school’s parody of March Madness, April Absurdity is a popular tradition that Miles Razek’20 started a few years ago and has kept running ever since. Teams…
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On April 22, a professional develoopment day, CA’s Blood Drive still collected 16 units of blood. The donations have the potential to save 48 lives. Carolyn Zhang and Lindsey Dunlap in partnership with the Red Cross, ran the Blood Drive, a service tradition that can save up to hundreds of lives a year. This month,…
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A Passover seder plate commemorating the Exodus. (Flickr) Starting at sunset on Friday, April 19, and ending in the evening of Saturday, April 27, the Jewish holiday of Passover celebrates the Israelites’ freedom from slavery in ancient Egypt. Passover, or Pesach, commemorates the Book of Exodus. Each year, families around the world tell the story of the…
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AS in years past, the service fair attracts a large crowd. (Marcus Grewal’19/Staff) Columbus Academy has always emphasized the value of community service, and this year’s Service Fair was no different. Held on Thursday, April 18, the event took place by the fireside of the school’s Dining Hall. At Academy, each high school student completes…
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Top: Progress on the new field house and addition to the Athletic Entrance. Walls are begining to go up, and the foundation is being prepared! Bottom left: The roof and walls continue to go up on the addition to the Weight Room! Bottom right: Construction of the theater is set to begin next week, following…
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All of us. All in: Mrs. Carter and her middle schoolers cheering at the drop off circle! (Sarah Neltner ’20/Media) On April 4-5, Columbus Academy hosted its third day of #AllDay4CA, the annual event that began in the spring of 2017. The 25-hour event brings Vikings of all generations together by contributions to the Annual…
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This week’s construction updates. (Andrew Barren’22/Media) Top left: Progress on addition to new field house and athletic entrance area. Top right: Preparations for the addition and remodeling of theatre-set to begin following Academy’s production of Rent. (April 18-20) Bottom: Additions to Weight Room and Athletic Entrance areas.
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Election Tuesday was enacted in 1845, over 150 years ago. November was just after the fall harvest, and winter was coming.
Continue Reading CommentsAs if the 2016 Presidential Election could not get any more out of hand, last week New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie, endorsed Donald Trump’s candidacy. Christie, who sought to be portrayed as the tough guy in the room, departed the race earlier in February due to a disastrous result in the New Hampshire primary and…
Continue Reading CommentsIn 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…
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In 1916, Paul Schoedinger, a senior at Columbus Academy, created the motto “In Quest of the Best” for the first hard-bound edition of the yearbook,The Caravel. The school community took a liking to Schoedinger’s mantra, and it was eventually adopted as Academy’s official statement. Ever since, “In Quest of the Best” has served as…
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Art Society booth. (Inji Kang’19/Media) From Spike Ball to Future Leaders in Healthcare, this year’s Club Fair had it all. After participating in a morning of Service work, students returned to the Senior Quad to take in all of the student-run clubs offered this year. Junior Class President, Kyle Channel, organized the event. With over…
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If the Senate’s bill becomes law, consumers will lose even more control over their data. (Image/ Licensed under Creative Commons Zero)
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Cannae Inc. plans to send an EM drive to space for testing. Image courtesy of NASA.
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Almost drowned in the hubbub of the iPhone 7 event was the announcement of collaboration features for Apple’s iWork software suite. The collection of productivity apps, which includes Pages, Keynote, and Numbers, will soon gain the ability to have multiple users edit a document simultaneously.
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The FCC has allowed the merger of Charter and Time Warner Cable under the condition that the merged company does not use data caps. Image courtesy of Greg Elin
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Tesla has yet to make a boom in the auto industry, but that is starting to change. Stirring up the nation with its release of Model 3, Tesla expects to make over $300 million in immediate revenue.
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Ohio is usually cloudy, so sunny days are rare. Three of our state’s cities list in the US’s top 10 of the cloudiest. Cincinnati ranks 51%, Columbus with 52%, and Cleveland—with little surprise—at 55%. On February 24, central Ohio’s was a warm 75 degrees Fahrenheit. About one week later, it was a freezing 32. For…
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Under new leadership, the FCC is reversing several policies made under the previous administration. Photo courtesy of Greg Elin, licensed under Creative Commons.
Continue Reading CommentsWhen I first heard the grandiose descriptions of the technology that MagicLeap, “the world’s most secretive startup” was producing, I dismissed it as an overwrought marketing scheme. After viewing the few demos that the company has posted, however, I can’t wait until the product is on the market. Rony Abovitz, MagicLeap’s CEO, calls the technology…
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Harnessing energy from the sun while producing little carbon emissions is no small feat. Yet for years, we have been using a technology to do just this: solar panels. These bundles of photovoltaic solar cells have always been praised for being greener than the burning of fossil fuels. Solar power is the quintessential clean energy…
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Last Sunday, Tom Brady led the New England Patriots back from 25 points down to win Super Bowl LI in dramatic fashion over the Atlanta Falcons. The game was truly epic. It had the first overtime and the largest comeback in Super Bowl history. While the game lived up to the billing as perhaps the…
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