Images and watercolor paintings of nature around campus!
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Seniors on their last day of Dialogue for Democracy, photo by Mrinalini Keskar.
“Don’t be afraid to throw Secretary Aidan Sheeran-Hahnel under the bus,” she laughed.
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Photo Courtesy of Buck Institute for Education.
Everybody knows that you eat turkey at Thanksgiving, hand out candy on Halloween, and hunt for eggs on Easter, but did you know about spending February 13th with your BFFs for “Galantine’s Day” or that you should be enjoying some delicious honey for “National Winnie-The-Pooh Day” on January 18th? Keep reading to find out about some lesser-known holidays that might brighten your day!
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Graphic By Liam Dwyer ‘22
A discussion with AAPI identifying CGS staff about the uncomfortable reality they face and steps the institution may one day strive towards taking.
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"It does it in such a way that it is never like exploiting the issues. It never uses them just for like shock factor. It always makes sure to really tell real stories.”
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Over the last few weeks, the Catlin Gabel Upper School students elected members of the 2022-23 Catlin Gabel Student Association. There were elections for five positions, and each candidate gave an in person or virtual speech vying for the spot.
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The college admissions process for the class of 2022 has been monumental in several ways. Many of the decision letters I received - whether they were acceptances, waitlist offers, or rejections - contained a sentence about the record-breaking number of applications they had received this year.
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Media consumption has shifted in the past couple of years, with the oversaturation of news outlets, commodification of news stories, and rise of social media. News outlets are faced with multitudes of challenges, publishing stories every minute, prioritizing clicks, and balancing revenue from digital ads and subscriptions. How do these shifts impact the way journalists approach their work?
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In this piece, which combines student-generated video, photography, and writing, the members of American Environmentalism ask questions few consider: just what is Nature? Are we a part of it? Is it merely a social construction? Can we heal our broken relationship with the natural world through science, or do we need a spiritual or religious link to Nature if we are to find a viable way forward?
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The question of whether or not to cut meat out of my diet has weighed on me for a few years. The fact that a plant based diet could lower my risk for cardiac events, and veganism decreases the amount of methane and carbon dioxide generated by cattle grazing, is certainly enticing.
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Catlin Gabel School has proven remarkably transparent in communicating its strategic planning initiatives since their implementation began with the 2017-18 academic year. These initiatives include a commitment to “encourage appreciation for and understanding of the natural world.”
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Currently, over one third of the world’s fisheries are overfished, meaning fish are caught faster than they can reproduce and grow. Worse yet, scientists at National Geographic predict that “global fisheries will collapse by 2048 unless we find a way to stop rampant overfishing.”
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Portland, Oregon, has been dealing with a housing crisis since 2015 when Mayor Charlie Hales declared it a city-wide emergency. Since then many volunteer opportunities including Beacon Village have come out to shine hoping to engage the Portland community in ending the housing crisis.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman to be confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court in its 233-year history.
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The day has finally come for the Class of 2022 to say goodbye to Catlin Gabel (CGS). Some of us have attended CGS since preschool, and others joined this very year. Regardless of when the Catlin journey started for each of us, the friends we have made here have become family.
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During the pandemic, many jobs around the country have had to readapt to the Covid lifestyle. And one of the professions most impacted was teaching.
This has led to an increase in teacher departures from their positions, and that movement has come to Catlin Gabel School (CGS) as well. This year, we’ve already seen multiple faculty leave the Upper School, including English teacher Krystal Wu.
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“When you live in a foreign culture you start to understand how your home culture influences everything that you see. I remember being constantly challenged by things that were very new to me, and trying to resist the urge to say that they're bad or that they're not as good.”
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In a world where recipes can span back thousands of years, the mug cake is a very recent invention. Mug cakes are, as the name suggests, miniature cakes constructed, cooked, and eaten from mugs. They first rose to prominence in 2009 in a popular YouTube video, although a recipe in a cooking magazine was already circulating in 2008.
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