The new MacOS Catalina default wallpaper. (Apple) Announced at WWDC 2019, MacOS Catalina was released to the public on October 7. Although Catalina doesn’t bring many system-wide overhauls, a number of native apps has been revised and updated, and the connections between Apple devices have been improved. One of the new features brought by Catalina…
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North side of Field House. (Ella Morris’22/Media)
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Senior Nikki Turley saving lives by donating blood. (Sarah Neltner ’20/Media) On October 16, Academy’s Service Board partnered with the Red Cross to host our first blood drive of the year in the Athletic Lobby. Organized by Mrs. Bening and Mrs. Crain, along with Service Board shapers seniors Lindsay Dunlap and Carolyn Zhang, the drive…
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October 12 Update: West end of Field House. (Ella Morris’22/Media)
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Melissa Soderberg speaks to Upper School students in the first assembly held in the renovated theatre on October 11. (Courtesy/Andy Morris) The newly renovated theatre was unveiled last Friday, much to our students’ delight. After moving the 5th grade into the Lower School, the administration realized that they needed additional seating for assemblies and other…
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OJCL Fall Forum attendees play a competitive game of ultimate frisbee. (Carolyn Zhang’20) On Saturday, October 12, Latin students across Ohio attended the 4th annual Ohio Junior Classical League (OJCL) Fall Forum, an all-day exploration of the Latin language hosted by Columbus Academy. This event was planned for months in advance by the OJCL…
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(Sarah Neltner’20/Media) Academy and Sage have made great strides in the Dining Hall to accommodate people with dietary restrictions, including making Academy a nut-free zone. Now, they have gone a step further and created a gluten-free bar for students, faculty, and visitors alike. Sage does not usually have a specific gluten-free bar, because of the…
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Eliud Kipchoge runs monumental 1:59:40 26.2 miles on October 12. (Wikimedia Commons) It’s official: Eliud Kipchoge has just redefined running as we know it. On Saturday, October 12, the 34-year old Kenyan native lined up at Prater Park in Vienna, Austria, with 41 pacemakers and a timing car by his side to attempt what has…
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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…
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Lower schoolers participate in a scavenger hunt about blood donation. Rules are outlined in photo. (Carolyn Zhang’20/Staff) On Tuesday, October 1, a Red Cross representative visited our Lower School students to deliver a presentation about the Blood Drive. To familiarize our younger Vikings about what is involved in our Upper School Blood Drives, seniors Lindsay Dunlap and…
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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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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…
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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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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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The Columbus Academy
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Gahanna, OH 43230
Vivian Bradner-Young
Class of 2022
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