Features
Club Profile: Model UN
Nuclear wars, Game of Thrones, cyber security—there is no better space at Concord Academy to debate pressing issues than Model United Nations. One minute delegates are arguing about how to distribute vaccines to ensure equitable access, and the next minute intense...
Fall Dance Project: Family Weekend Performance Overview
On October 7, 2022, the opening day of Family Weekend, the Concord Academy Dance Project performed for the CA community. Rika Okamoto and Alex Brady, the choreographers of CA Dance Project, teach their students weekly how to express emotions through movement and...
Hungry For Knowledge: How Dining Hall Staff Member Maria Kazanjian Came to CA
The Dining Hall staff members at Concord Academy often are unappreciated. Their tireless work, effort, and dedication to nourishing the community can get lost in the chaos of the busy academic day. When a student reports to kitchen duty twice a year, they are reminded...
Medical Club Vaccination Campaign
On Friday, September 30, 2022, Concord Academy’s Medical Club held a vaccination campaign in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The club Co-Heads Joanne Oh ’23, Akira Trivisvavet ’25, and Shahin Aliabadi ’23 diligently planned this campaign. Shahin said, “[We did it] so that we...
Senior Spotlight: Eric Lin
Frequent visitors of Bradford House are familiar with Eric Lin ’23, an affable figure in the common room. Eric is regularly spotted lounging on a sofa, feasting on a tub of Ben & Jerry’s. Those who visit Bradford on a weekend could find Eric among the crowd...
Fall Mainstage Preview: She Kills Monsters
On October 28 and 29, the Concord Academy theater program presented the play “She Kills Monsters” for the 2022 Fall Mainstage. “She Kills Monsters” is a play set in the 1990s about two sisters: Agnes—the older sibling, a stereotypical teenage girl who obsesses...
News
Family Weekend Changes
In many ways, Family Weekend this year was the same as last year. Just like last year, it fell on a Friday morning at that perfect time of fall in New England when the leaves have turned red, yellow, and orange. A similar herd of name-tagged parents descended on the...
The Centennial Chapel Challenge
The history of the Chapel began in the 1700s, long before it found its home at Concord Academy. During the summer of 1956, the Chapel, previously known as First Freewill Baptist Church of Snakerty Brook, NH, was taken apart and moved to CA. Shortly after, it was...
The Nord Stream Pipeline Leaks
On September 26, 2022, Nord Stream pipelines 1 and 2 began to leak within hours of each other. The European Union has deemed it sabotage, based on the low probability of both pipelines leaking within such a short time. Additionally, blasts were detected by the Danish...
Upcoming Events at Concord Academy
There is a lot to look forward to this coming month at Concord Academy, from sports events to performing arts projects, as well as several significant holidays. This November is fully packed with ways to get involved in the community. In fact, the first notable event...
Wrongful Conviction Day 2022
On September 30, the Prison Justice Project (PJP) club hosted Concord Academy’s fourth annual Wrongful Conviction Day Assembly. Each Wrongful Conviction Day, exonerees, loved ones, advocates, and community members gather to lift their voices against injustice in...
Family Weekend Changes
In many ways, Family Weekend this year was the same as last year. Just like last year, it fell on a Friday morning at that perfect time of fall in New England when the leaves have turned red, yellow, and orange. A similar herd of name-tagged parents descended on the...
Opinions
The Great Concord Pumpkin Spice-Off
Here in Concord, we are lucky enough to have a multitude of cafés to choose from to get our caffeine fix, and this fall I set out on a mission to discover which Concord café produces the best PSL. At every store, I ordered the smallest size of their hot pumpkin spice...
Salem Witch Trials: Should We Really Be Entertained By Them?
During break the other day, I heard some of my classmates talking about the release of Hocus Pocus 2. This got me thinking about how the Salem witch trials are displayed nowadays as entertainment, and they take away from the seriousness of their victims’ plights. The...
The International Student Experience
There is a quietness that exists here that I do not get in Saigon. I hear constantly the small hum of a quiet suburbia, a town riddled with stillness and quietness and not much else. Existing in this white town, limited to only the reaches of Extended Campus, is...
The Media Matter
I hate to be one of those people who goes on a semester away and then continues to talk about it for the next half of their time on Earth, but my time away has awakened me to a realization. It seems that the increasingly prevalent the ways in which we procrastinate...
Queen Elizabeth II
The Queen is dead. She was the latest iteration of queenship: a ceremonial position that through existing should have helped her nation hold itself together by giving it a common identity. Now not only the Commonwealth nations will need to grapple with her passing,...
Should Clubs Move to Schoology?
Have you ever felt that clubs at CA are a little too disorganized? I’ve often felt that there are too many clubs that are super disorganized or rarely meet. Clubs, especially the more serious ones, should use Schoology to increase commitment and communicate with their...
Arts
Don’t Worry Darling: A Disappointing Twist and Incoherent Message
When I first watched The Sixth Sense, a horror thriller released in 1999, the twist at the end of the film was shocking to me. It was also the only logical explanation for the inexplicable moments throughout the film. Generally, the same should be said for all quality...
New Gallery Spaces in the Main Building
The new gallery spaces are about to open up for students and faculty members across the hallways in the main building. A variety of visual art forms such as photography, painting, drawing will be displayed. The 2022–2023 Student Arts Council, which consists of three...
A Generational Story of Suffering: Pachinko Book Review
“History has failed us, but no matter.” Min Jin Lee opens Pachinko with a puzzlingly simple statement that ultimately encapsulates the powerful five-generation saga that unfolds within the book’s pages. Set in 20th-century Korea and Japan, the book follows Sunja, the...
The Martyr of Japanese Cinema: Juzo Itami
Trigger Warning: Suicide is mentioned in this article. How does an internationally acclaimed filmmaker, hailed once as “the heir of Kurosawa”, fall into the abyss of obsolescence? Japanese director Juzo Itami’s films are celebrated in the West, but Itami himself...
Science and Tech
NASA Tests Planetary Defense
Protecting Earth from an asteroid strike is common in science fiction, but it is also a concern for real scientists. On September 26, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) crashed a spaceship into an asteroid in order to alter its course. The...
Ripples From Hurricane Ian Make Their Way Up to CA
Hurricane season is in full force, and one of the strongest storms so far was Hurricane Ian. This Category Four tropical storm initially made landfall on September 27 in Pinar de Rico, Cuba. It also impacted the Artemisa, Mayabeque, and Havana provinces, prompting the...
Science Elective Spotlight: Advanced Organic Chemistry
What makes a class special can vary. Sometimes it is a teacher, sometimes the material. In Advanced Chemistry: Organic Structure and Function, taught by Science teacher Will Tucker, it is certainly a balance of the two. As anyone who has had the pleasure of taking a...
Sports
Fall Athletics Spotlight: Girls Varsity Volleyball
Girls Varsity Volleyball is the heart of fall athletics at Concord Academy. Competitive, tight-knit, and driven, the team is as motivated as ever to improve. Under the leadership of coaches Darren Emery and Peter Boskey and Co-Captains Madison McCaslin ’23, Isabella...
2022 MLB Playoffs
The 2022 Major League Baseball playoffs are well underway, with a third of the field already eliminated as of October 13. The new playoff format solidified under the new collective bargaining agreement expands the playoff field to 12 teams, eight of which play in an...
The 2022 FIFA World Cup
The Champions League and Copa Libertadores are undoubtedly some of the biggest football competitions in the world. But they all live in the shadow of the king- the FIFA World Cup. Every footballer’s biggest dream is making it to the World Cup, and it is believed to...