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This is my final issue on the KO News, and I thought I’d use my last editorial to reflect on my time at the KO News and—maybe—to give some advice. When I signed up for journalism in my freshman year, I had no idea what the KO News was. I just thought it might be […]
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A healthy school environment is one characterized by open communication. One of the most important roles of a school’s administration is to keep its student body informed about campus events and news. However, the KO administration does not directly give students access to an important source of information: the Wyvern Weekly. Often times, student hear […]
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I wrote an editorial in September about how we, as students, should value KO as more than a mere stepping stone on the way to college. In the wake of the New York Times’ recent investigative piece on the TM Landry College Preparatory School in Louisiana, I thought it would be appropriate and fitting to […]
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by Ben Small ’19 and Lian Wolman ’19 Colson Whitehead’s novels span seemingly disparate genres. His words take readers from the horrors of slavery, to current day Central Park, to a futuristic apocalypse—transporting them with metaphors, pop-culture references, and wry humor. He encapsulates facets of the human condition in each page. Mr. Whitehead said that […]
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A mere 19.9 percent of eligible voters aged 18 to 29 voted in the 2014 midterm elections, according to a Pew Research Center survey. Given the recent 2018 midterm elections on Nov. 6, I think that it is crucially important to reflect as a school and as a community about what it means to be a […]
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Welcome to the first installment of “Ben There Done That,” a monthly column in which we — Bens Small and Poulios — recount an adventure or experience we had during the month. For this issue, we went to the Glastonbury Apple Harvest Festival. But first: some brief thoughts on the “Pre-Hewett day” food truck. It […]
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Have you ever had one of those mornings where everything went wrong? You hit the snooze button one too many times. You’re exhausted because last night, you were cramming for a biology test you completely forgot about. You don’t have time for breakfast—supposedly the most important meal of the day, or something. Coffee and a […]
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As a senior, the college application process is something that has been on my mind: mountains of supplements, activity lists, standardized test scores, interviews, essays and pressure. Some of the pressure is self-imposed and some is societally-imposed. There is pressure to take the hardest classes and get good grades in them all, to assume leadership […]
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On Friday, Sept. 14, Director of Service Quality at Otis Elevator Brian Frye spoke to this year’s Symposium class, elevating students’ understanding of vertical means of transport and the culture surrounding them. The Symposium class is currently reading “The Intuitionist” by Symposium author Colson Whitehead. The novel follows the first woman of color elevator inspector: Lila […]
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KO’s website boldly advertises that 90 percent of seniors choose to take at least one Advanced Placement (AP) class, from the 17 AP classes KO offers. For many KO students, these AP exams — the source of much pain, suffering, and stress — have recently come to an end. However, students are not yet free […]
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