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Yale senior Meghanlata Gupta joined the sophomore class on Wednesday, Feb. 24 in a webinar enlightening people on the Native experience through a presentation entitled “Spaces of Resistance and Hope: Centering Indigenous Stories and Imagining New Futures.” Ms. Gupta is the founder and lead editor of Indigenizing the News, which is a digital newspaper that […]
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During this pandemic winter, Head of School Tom Dillow has only called one snow day but has taken advantage of the school’s familiarity with Zoom and called two remote days due to weather. Students are concerned about whether or not we will have real snow days next year and Mr. Dillow said that this was […]
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Acclaimed Broadway actress Barrett Wilbert Weed visited a Zoom on Friday, Feb. 26, at 5:00 pm as a part of the Broadway @ KO program in order to coach three select students on their singing and acting abilities. These three students were given the opportunity to sing for and receive feedback from Ms. Weed within […]
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Tracy K. Smith will serve as KO’s 2021-2022 Symposium author, and English teacher Mela Frye (next year’s teacher) is working with the rest of the English department as they begin accepting applications from current juniors. Tracy K. Smith was born in Falmouth, Mass. and was raised in Fairfield, Calif., deeply influenced by writers like Mark […]
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Director of College Advising Jami Silver led a Zoom webinar on Monday, Feb. 22, introducing KO sophomores and their families to the college admissions process. Ms. Silver ’96, who has been involved in college admissions for the past 20 years, along with Associate Directors of College Advising Peggy Clark and Matthew Waldman, shared information to […]
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For the first time in their 18 year history, the Crimson 7 recorded a song, “Good Ol’ A Cappella,” in Roberts Theater on Feb. 3, 2021. While in 2016 the boys a cappella group of the KO Upper School recorded a song in an official recording studio, this was the first time they recorded a […]
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KO held its annual Lunar New Year celebration on Friday, Feb. 12, organized by juniors Charles Zhao and David Shi along with members of the Asian Culture club. The Lunar New Year celebration most famously takes place in China but is celebrated in other countries following the Lunar calendar as well. The Lunar New Year’s […]
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The KO News has been fortunate to have senior Hunter Meshanic on the staff. As a sophomore, Hunter took the journalism elective on a whim, simply to fill out his schedule, but since then, he has gained a newfound passion for writing for the KO News, specifically for the sports section. Hunter has an extensive […]
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Scouring Netflix for the best new movies and series to watch, senior Shreeya Chalikonda will surely be missed as an irreplaceable member of the KO News reviews staff. Shreeya has worked on the KO News staff for two years as an associate reviews editor, writing about two articles each month and helping to edit other […]
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After a long tenure with the KO News crew, we bid farewell to senior Jaden Weinstein, a passionate and inquisitive writer for the sports section. Jaden’s first introduction to the world of writing articles was in his journalism class. “I first took journalism because writing articles for the school seemed particularly interesting to me,” Jaden […]
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