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Last Friday, January 13, at 7:30 p.m., professional dancers Lacina Coulibaly and Wendy Jehlen took to the Paul Mellon Arts Center’s main stage to perform their dance duet, “Entangling.” The origin of this unusual name comes from the dance’s inspiration of quantum entanglement. Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon in whichRead More
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My parents have always been highly conscious of the rapid pace at which the world changes. In 2000, my father read a news article about the extinction of the Pyrenean ibex, a subspecies of the Iberian wild goat, once found throughout the Andorran Pyrenees. At that time, my brother hadRead More
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Walking around Choate’s campus, hearing the soundtrack of Hamilton: An American Musical being played, sung, or discussed is not a rare occurrence. The show has been a success both in New York and in Chicago, as well as among members of the Choate community, so we are lucky to callRead More
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Diversity Day — a time for a part of the student body to reflect on what it means to live in a community like Choate’s, and a time for the other part to just be happy that they don’t have to go to classes. However, it would be a mistakeRead More
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Picture the entire town of Wallingford trying to fit in the PMAC. Tomorrow, January 21, the streets of Washington, D.C., and other major cities will be much, much more crowded. Held on the day after the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, the Women’s March on Washington will greet Trump onRead More
January 20, 2017 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
For the past six months, Choate students and Wallingford residents have been anticipating the opening of the new local Starbucks. Starbucks, whose previously closest locations were in Meriden and North Haven, has opened a shop in the new strip plaza along Route 5 at the former site of Merriman Motors.Read More
January 20, 2017 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
January 20, 2017 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
Choate Boys’ Wrestling has a very interesting dynamic this year, which I’ve become privy to through my role as manager. With two team captains and a mix of athletes from each grade, the wrestling team is anything but boring. Sam Madden ’17 said, “I’m not really sure if the freshmenRead More
January 20, 2017 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled
Before last Monday, Amir Idris ’17, a four-year senior from South Euclid, Ohio, and Alice Xu ’18, a three-year junior from San Francisco, Calif., had never so much as heard of each other. As their first ever conversation, Idris and Xu sat down to discuss the following question. (Okay, soRead More