February 25, 2022 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
Photo by Audrey Kaye /The Choate News Dear Choate, Thank you again for letting me serve as your Student Council President this past year. It has been an honor and a great source of happiness. Thank you to the council members working alongside me as we ferried initiatives between theRead More
February 25, 2022 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
Graphic by William Gao/The Choate News I love my American Studies class. But, for the past three months, the course has taught me fewer lessons on U.S. history and literature than it has on the compartmentalization of trauma. Between September and December, I spent numerous hours every week — bothRead More
February 25, 2022 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
As the community made its hopeful, masked return to something like normal last spring, we, the 115th masthead of The Choate News, began our tenure. Only four of our editors had ever experienced in person Editors’ Meetings, so as we crammed into the newsroom at the beginning of this year,Read More
February 25, 2022 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
Photo Courtesy of DW News With the recent coup d’état in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, the U.S. finds itself in an awkward position — having to condemn yet another U.S. trained African coup leader. The United States has a longstanding policy of foreign intervention, tracing its roots to the 19th century,Read More
February 25, 2022 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
Photo Courtesy of Reuters As Omicron cases continue to rise around the world, the countries most impacted are now forced to choose how best to deal with the rising cases. Hong Kong and Singapore are two cities that have been significantly impacted by this new wave of cases and haveRead More
February 25, 2022 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
Graphic by William Gao/The Choate News On February 8, it was revealed that Kamila Valieva, a 15-year-old figure skater for the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) and the favorite to win the gold medal, had tested positive for the banned performance-enhancing drug trimetazidine. Trimetazidine purportedly improves endurance by increasing blood flowRead More
February 11, 2022 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
Graphic by William Gao/The Choate News Ever since second grade, I’ve known that I want to be a writer. But I didn’t think that high school would be the time to pursue that passion. In my mind, the purpose of attending a college-preparatory school like Choate was to, as theRead More
February 11, 2022 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
Graphic by Yujin Kim/The Choate News Not only did Covid-19 shut down schools and prevent gatherings, but it also brought forth a crisis of mental health. The grief, anxiety, and depression that children have experienced throughout the Covid-19 pandemic is spreading into classrooms and hallways. Studies have shown increased cryingRead More
February 11, 2022 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
Graphic by Yujin Kim/The Choate News The 2022 Winter Olympic Games will take place in Beijing, with an opening ceremony scheduled for February 4, 2022. While the focus of the opening ceremony is to introduce the elite competing athletes with grandiosity, the gathering of high-ranking politicians is an essential partRead More