Following the annual Celebration of Leadership Assembly, the Academy Life Editorial Board met with RJ Mitte to discuss his experience with cerebral palsy, and career as an actor, philanthropist, and celebrity face of the #CutTheBull campaign to end bullying and provide support for children with disabilities. A condensed version of the interview lightly edited for clarity and grammar appears below. Photos…

On Wednesday, October 19, juniors will be eagerly sharpening their number 2-lead pencils as they embark on the annual PSAT (Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) with close to over a million and a half other eleventh-grades students worldwide, including those juniors enrolled in American schools abroad.

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? The three R’s that we all learned as kids, reminding us that with a little extra effort, we could make our planet a little cleaner. Yet it appears that our community has been struggling with one R in particular: recycling.

A five-month long controversy about the Dakota Access Pipeline not only threatens to harm our environment in the case of a spill, but it proves to be a monumental event in our modern history as it has become a nationwide fight for Native American rights.

“You have a notification.” With no regard for my surroundings, my eyes are drawn to the screen. Whether I am in the middle of a conversation or am finishing a math problem, my attention suddenly dissipates. My finger moves to the screen on its own accord. Social media has a huge impact on museums, which…

Cannae Inc. plans to send an EM drive to space for testing. Image courtesy of NASA.

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.

To those of you who are new to our community,The Academy Life is the student newspaper of Columbus Academy. We have been enjoying an online-only platform since November 28, 2011. Unlike many other student publications, ours is the product of a zero-period journalism class rather than an extracurricular group. We strive to be the voice of the…

Student Council kicked off the school year with a carnival-themed tailgate to precede the first home football game of the season. The quad, adorned with games ranging from corn hole to potato sack racing, was packed with students lining up at the face paint and hairspray stands to add a little more color to their…