Interview by Lee Solomon’14 Video by Elliot Nick’14

If you have walked around campus at all lately, you have seen it: students taking ugly “selfies” on their phones. You may have been asked what you are doing when you willingly pose for an unattractive picture. Why would anyone want to let others see these ugly photos? Aren’t there hundreds of apps allowing people…

12:40. . .12:45. . .12:50. . . and the doors remained shut. On Friday, the Columbus Academy stepped back in time over 200 years. In front of the dining hall, we witnessed the second coming of the French Revolution, one of the most violent and volatile periods in modern history. The sans-culottes roamed freely through…

Written by Andy Li’13 Graphics by Connie Zhang’14

After selling 18 million units compared to the iPhone 4S’s 16.2 million units within a span of three months, one has to wonder why the Samsung Galaxy S III is now the top-selling smartphone on the market. Perhaps the most obvious difference between the two phones is the size. The Galaxy S III has a…

Midterms are just around the corner, but I am finding myself in a rather lax state. A couple years ago, I might have poured tirelessly over U.S. History notes extensively. What’s worse is I never would have bothered to carve out some good ol’ “me” time in between studying, and after a couple of hours…

The Taliban has employed its most savage tactic in these past weeks to deter female students from going to school with acid attacks that disfigure, blind, and even kill its victims. Highly corrosive chemicals burn away at the skin and leave tissue damaged. This acid dissolves the skin, and depending on the concentration, can dissolve…

In February, 2012, Academy’s seventh-grade started a one-to-one iPad program. That upper school students will follow suit remains to be seen, although, iPads may be integrated sooner than expected. At the beginning of last year, the Middle and Upper School had iPad carts. Some teachers could book these for classroom use, but they were very…

Interview by Margaret Sutton’14 and Nikhil Patel’14 Video by Elliot Nick’14

Start with a regular piece of 8½ by 11 lined paper. Angle it so that the bottom of the piece of paper is facing you. Next, count 13 lines up from the bottom of the page, and fold the paper upwards along that line. Then, fold the piece of paper from left to right along…