by Rebecca Stussman ’12 On Friday, December 16, I had the Kennedy Center Experience. I dressed in an urbane sweater-dress with chic boots and rolled up to DC alongside affluent, cultured families with their tiny but precocious children. I strolled along the decorative halls and browsed an overpriced gift shop. I even dined before my show at the lavish Roof … Read More
photo by Holly Cuozzo ’12 To raise money for the Special Olympics, juniors Cooper Weinberger [looking towards the water], Katie McCallister and Molly Nickerson, and senior Shannon Murphy frolic in the icy waters of the Chesapeake Bay for the Polar Bear Plunge. “[Participating in Best Buddies events] is a nice way to interact with the students that you don’t … Read More
Sherwood education is imperfect. We have both incredibly fulfilled students and those who are struggling; some who cannot stay awake in class and others who listen intently yet still face difficulty interpreting various teaching styles. At the heart of an education system filled with both dramatic success stories and tragic failures lies perhaps the most essential component of a classroom: … Read More
by Cal Wilson ’14 Want a quiet, little place to take your significant other for a special Valentine’s Day dinner? Mannequin Pis, located at 18064 Georgia Avenue, in the same structure as Wasabi Zen, is a quaint, Belgian restaurant that is sure to provide a quality night of fine dining. Speaking as someone who has traveled to Belgium, the restaurant … Read More
by Jamie Langbein ’13 Why Tim Tebow? Why do sports fans and non-fans alike know so much about an NFL quarterback who didn’t even begin the season a starter, who had a mediocre quarterback rating, and whose team got crushed in the second round of the playoffs? Must be his movie-star looks, right? Or maybe just the alliteration of … Read More
From January 30 to March 23, six Sherwood students will have their artwork exhibited at an art show sponsored by Johns Hopkins University. “This year, all the pieces reflect the theme ‘the next horizon,” said art teacher Michele Spangle. All six students who had their work submitted were Spangle’s students. “They received their canvases in November and completed the paintings … Read More
Vicky Florian ‘14 At a meeting of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology on January 6, five experts rejected Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ move to have the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) make Plan B available over the counter to women of all ages. Plan B, or the “morning-after pill,” is an emergency contraceptive … Read More
by Ellen Kirkness ‘12 Most seniors who aspire to attend college have long since submitted five or six or fifteen applications to schools all over the nation. For most of these students, College Board is visited more often than Facebook and College Prowler has way more hits than Twitter. Checking how we stack up with scores from the schools we … Read More
by Katie Mercogliano ‘14 It’s hard to deny that Apple has taken over the world over the past decade. Everywhere I go I see people browsing the hundreds of thousands of apps on their highly recognizable shiny, rectangular screens. But at what price are we willing to pay for the high-tech device? Last week, The New York Times published an … Read More
Daniel Frank ‘12 President Obama has put forth his plan to increase federal grants for universities and low-interest loans for students. The plan, Obama says, will reduce the cost of universities and increase the availability of higher education in the United States. The changes would include increasing the federal investment in the Perkins loan program from $1 billion to $8 … Read More