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Rich Palazzese ’14: The EA Girls’ track 4×400 relay team of Brianna Belo ’14, Brittany Belo ’14, Julia Hondros ’15, and Tara Boyle ’15, qualified for Nationals last weekend. The four girls competed last week in the state tournament and qualified to compete for Nationals on Friday, March 14th with a time of 4:04, an average … Read More “Track qualifies for Nationals” »
Alexander Roker ’16, Billy Hartman ’16: In a world where sports like basketball, football, and baseball are often glamorized, we tend to overlook the game of golf. Unlike other sports, where players can rely on athleticism and strength, golf comes down to resilience, patience, and focus. These attributes are what Victoria Johnson ’14 loves most about the … Read More “Girls’ Athlete of the Month: Victoria Johnson ’14” »
Alex Burman ’16, Francis Lee ’16: With the unprecedented onslaught of snow this year, many spring sports are caught in a bind. With several inches of snow covering the tennis courts, baseball fields, and the track, and layers of ice covering the lacrosse fields, many teams have been forced to practice indoors in crowded spaces or travel … Read More “Snow complicates spring sports” »
Richie Palazzese ’14, Connor Martin ’14: In a league dominated by single sex schools like Malvern Prep, Haverford School, and Notre Dame, EA needs as much participation as possible out of its student-athletes. Trying to compete with half the number of athletes is practically impossible, and the diminishing number of championships on the boy’s side in … Read More “EA sports requirements must remain strict” »
Matthew Freese ’17, Conner Delaney ’17: Every athletic team needs a centerpiece, someone that can take control of a game, calm players in tough times, and lead teammates through adversity. Typical positions for such centerpieces include the point guard in basketball and the quarterback in football. In baseball, this job is often left to the true mastermind … Read More “Boys’ Athletes of the Month: Russell Rhoads ’14 and Adam Seibert ’14” »
Sammi Ciardi ’15: Brittany Belo 14’ is not only an extraordinary athlete and a standout student but also a fashion expert. She runs her own fashion blog, posibiliti.weebly.com, where she posts her own videos, creations, and text posts. When asked the age at which she became interested in fashion, Brittany exuberantly replied, “Birth!” She continued, “I’ve … Read More “Brittany Belo ’14: artist, designer, blogger” »
Amanda Molitor ’14: Imagine Dragons, following up on their extremly well received performance at Made in America last summer, returned to the Philadelphia area on March 7th to play a sold out show at the Camden’s Susquehanna Bank Center as part of their US tour in support of their debut album, Night Visions. This alternative … Read More “Imagine Dragons “On Top of the World” in Camden” »
Gianna Pileggi ’14: James Finegan, a Philadelphia native and EA music teacher, has been developing his violin skills since the fourth grade. “I grew up in the city of Philadelphia. I started playing the violin when I was ten years old, which is pretty old because most of my friends started when they were five or … Read More “James Finegan brings skills to Upper School Jam” »
Jessica Bai ’15: EA’s annual Spring Concert will be held on April 7th and, for the first time, it will feature a theme. This year, however, the concert will have a theme for the first time. The Music Department has decided on a “Broadway” theme in the hope that if familiar show tunes are performed, more … Read More “Broadway comes to Episcopal’s stage” »
Katie O’Reilly ’14: At Episcopal, the community seems to judge a student’s success solely on his or her college acceptance. And that is just wrong. A college acceptance is particularly one-dimensional. In the current era of higher education, legacies, millionaire parents, and connections into the admissions department are at some level significantly more valued than good … Read More “Limit the judgement of college acceptances” »
EUNICE JU / © 2014
Dear Editor, The editorial in last month’s Scholium, “Teachers Underestimate Internet,” underscored the evolving nature of academic assignments imposed by modern technology—specifically, Episcopal’s “unexplainable naivety…when it comes to the role of the internet in take-home assignments.” My knee-jerk reaction: there’s a reason that Turnitin.com exists. I respect the candor and curiosity expressed by the editor … Read More “Letter to the editor” »