All students are familiar with the 8:00 AM check-in battle, as it is something that occurs every morning. Students have tried complaining, they have tried begging for the return of those last five minutes between 8:00 and 8:05, and they have tried intentionally showing up late in mass numbers in protest, but nothing has worked.…

In most families, it’s the parents who must worry about their children getting drunk or high. Liz Murray, author of Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard, grew up in a vastly different world. Day to day life was a struggle for Liz and her family. Liz’s parents…

The hallways of CA and the roads of Ohio should be treated as one and the same. Cars should yield right, keep up with the suggested speed of traffic, and only attempt to pass when it is safe and legal to do so. Following this logic, it’s understandable why the non-licensed freshmen have trouble navigating…

Sweaters, skirts, pants, socks, facial hair; at times it can seem like the school is trying to control every aspect of what we wear and how we look. The hallways buzz with complaints about “new” dress code rules and the unbelievable injustice of them. These complaints have always been around, but lately it seems like…

October 1st: Amazon releases the Kindle Fire HDX with Mayday technology. Samsung broadcasts the Galaxy Note 3. October 21st: Nokia and Microsoft each unveil new tablet updates designed to be iPad alternatives. October 22nd: Apple unveils iPad Air. So goes the vicious tablet industry. As Apple competes to keep its head above water, its main…

Altering our lives to change the environment isn’t always convenient. Some people feel they are entitled to unlimited consumption, and some people are just afraid to make the initial changes to live a more green lifestyle. For these people, simple, unobtrusive changes could allow them to help the earth without the hassle of changing all…

We have been hearing reports in the news about the NSA snooping through Google and Yahoo data centers and surveilling phones of foreign world leaders. Many Americans feel these actions cross a line because they fear what this means for the privacy of their own information. Several Columbus Academy students felt likewise after the distribution…

As the academic stakes get higher and performance demands get stronger, many Columbus Academy students must decide which is more important: a healthy amount of sleep or an “A” on their tests. Time-consuming sports, activities, part-time jobs, social media, family and friend issues, and standardized testing, take away from a nourishing amount of sleep. With…

We at Academy are lucky to have the kinds of resources that we do. Not only do we have access to a very high caliber of education, but we also, for the most part, have the luxury of choosing what clothes we wear each morning, what food to put in our mouths, and how we…

Upcoming in the 2014  year will come a new skirt rule: the controversial two-pleated skirt requirement. No matter what style of skirt that would have been chosen, somebody would not be happy with it,” says upper school dean, Mrs. Dillon. For those girls who feel uncomfortable with this mandatory style, Dillon says, “There is always an…