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Tim Pope ’13: The Burch Ranch, an airy, open space that gleams in the sunlight and disappears under the star-soaked night sky, fills with jet-lagged students from Episcopal, Haverford, and Agnes Irwin each October. They come to join local Montana high school students for three days of art workshops in creative writing, photography, visual art, … Read More “An artist reflects on Big Timber” »
Jessica Bai ’16, Sarah Barr ’16: The Domino Club came to Episcopal Academy’s Merion Campus in the early-to-mid 1990’s as an adaption of a club for girls at the Springside School. Since then, the club has evolved into an outlet for aspiring actors and skilled crew members, allowing them to plan the Upper School’s theatrical … Read More “Going behind the scenes of the Domino Club” »
Suzy Chen ’14: Episcopal is a school flourishing with artistic and literary talent; Epolitan, the school’s literary magazine, serves to encourage these gifted artists to exhibit both their creative writing and visual artwork. Each year, Epolitan compiles student work, ranging from 2-D and 3-D visual art to photography to poetry and short stories. Timothy Pope … Read More “Epolitan plans to expand” »
Tyler Haab ’14, Moose Recktenwald ’14: The Episcopal boys cross-country team has been competing strongly this season, looking forward to EA/Haverford glory for, what would be, the 11th time in a row, under Coach Jim Farrell. It therefore comes as no surprise that this month, Scholium has decided to give the Boy’s Athlete of the … Read More “Boys’ Athlete of the Month: Steven Lucey” »
Andrew Stone ’14, Jack Keffer’14: The Episcopal varsity girls’ soccer team is off to a great start this year, threatening to win the league title for the third time in four years. Behind the team’s success is workhorse Kaitlyn DiMarco ’13, Scholium’s November Athlete of the Month. DiMarco has been involved with the sport since … Read More “Girls’ Athlete of the Month: Kaitlyn DiMarco” »
Dimantha Andrahennady ’14: Over the last few years, the Modern Language Department has seen growing success and increased diversity in its curriculum, especially with the recent addition of Mandarin Chinese. Despite the inherent difficulty of the language, the Mandarin program has grown to 37 students across five levels of courses. As Mandarin is the most … Read More “Episcopal should consider adding Arabic” »
I opened my laptop, adeptly activated my Freegate [an application that enables Chinese internet users to view government blocked websites] and logged into Facebook. As I waited for the webpage to show up, a fact suddenly dawned on me: I don’t need a proxy server anymore. After a fourteen-hour flight halfway across the world, I … Read More “A letter from Northeast Yucai School” »
Michael Quinlan ’14: Recent concussion studies have led many to question not only the future effects of these injuries on students but also the future of high school athletics. Described as a “concussion epidemic” by New Mexico Senator Tom Udall, much of the concerns focus on the effects of concussions sustained playing football. Both Christopher … Read More “A look into the reality of concussions” »
This week’s prize puzzle is a special type of simple logic puzzle known as kenken. For instructions on how to complete kenken, here is a quick tutorial from New York Times Puzzle Editor, Will Shortz http://www.kenken.com/misc/videos. Another good short tutorial can be found at http://www.kenken.com/howto/simple. In the first kenken each row and column … Read More “This Week’s e-Scholium Prize Puzzle” »
Jessica Bai ’16, Sarah Barr ’16: Founded in the 2010-2011 school year by Spencer Ivey ’11 and Matt Lasensky ’11, two avid doodlers who could not fit art classes into their schedules, the Da Vinci Club had the initial purpose of providing a casual setting in which students could doodle, relax, and eat lunch somewhere … Read More “Da Vinci Club’s Goals Expand Beyond Campus” »
Why is Dan Clay, Upper School theater director, so excited about this year’s fall play, “The Love of Three Oranges”? Perhaps it’s the fun Commedia dell’Arte style that it tackles, based on classic Italian fairytale parodies with a pinch of Three Stooges-esque slapstick comedy. The comedic play is a modernized version of a 16th century … Read More “Love These ‘Oranges’” »
Kayla Coleman ’14: It has been widely publicized over the last month that the Upper School Theater Department has undergone significant changes lately, with the complications arising from the failure to obtain the rights to perform “Chicago” taking center stage. Not as widely known, however, are the more impactful changes that have been made to … Read More “Theater Department Adopts New Play Commitment Policy” »