Category: Opinion

Exploring pandemic responses, which one is best?

As America reaches its third month of quarantine and as 30 million Americans have filed for unemployment, when will it be appropriate to open up? Should we develop herd immunity or maintain our lockdown?

Graham Wood '20 and Prasaus Yeager '22, Staff Writer and Paper Opinions Editor

May 21, 2020

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Tags: coronavirus, Covid19, lockdown, pandemic, podcast

Pass/fail grading system prompts discussion

Lyah Muktavaram ’22 and Anastasia Thumser '22

April 28, 2020

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Tags: fail, final, Grades, Pass, podcast

Staples students’ reflect on current social distancing

Hannah Kail ‘22 practices social distancing by face timing her friends instead of meeting them face-to-face.

Lily Caplan '22 and Charley Guthartz '22

April 21, 2020

Tags: community, coronavirus, friends, podcast, social distancing

Westport needs community during pandemic

Everyone is at risk of contracting and/or spreading COVID-19. With Westport’s number of confirmed cases rising, Westporters should help each other out and try to slow the spread.

Charlotte Armstrong '21 and Tallula Stvan '21

March 27, 2020

Tags: coronavirus, COVID-19, nail salons, opinion, pandemic, podcast

Nationalism is rising, but is it necessary?

People are beginning to take charge with nationalism. Whether this is good or bad, is up for you to decide.

Prasaus Yaeger and Hannah Cohn

March 25, 2020

Tags: discussion, Nationalism, Parallels, podcast, politics

Underclassmen display mixed feelings over recent PSAT testing

With the PSATs coming up, students try their best to study using the student guide that was given out during the connections period.

Shira Zeiberg '22 and Tori Wilson '22

March 10, 2020

Tags: choices, optional, podcast, PSAT, test

Students dispute whether the cafeteria is the best place to eat lunch

The bridge is a popular place during lunch periods, there are many tables and chairs to eat or hangout, however as the picture shows there was a large mess left by students which is one of the reasons students are supposed to eat in the cafe.

Lily Caplan '22 and Lucy Zuckerman '22

March 3, 2020

Tags: Bridge, café, community, lunch, podcast

Is the cost for the County Assemblies Dance worth attending?

Anna Seiple ’21 debates whether or not the price of counties is worth attending.

Ella Stoler '22 and Lily Caplan '22

February 5, 2020

Tags: cost, County Assemblies, dances, Dress, hype, podcast

Early Decision application outcomes create too much stress for seniors

Many students apply to their schools through the common application, a software that helps distinguish which applications are early decision (ED) and which are early admission (EA). Applicants are only allowed to apply to one ED school, but can often times also apply EA elsewhere.

Lily Kane '20, Broadcast Director

January 2, 2020

As a senior in high school, it is virtually impossible for me to escape the ever-increasing stress of the college process until I am in a school I’m happy with. For many seniors in my same position, these two weeks of mid-December are perhaps the most stressful of the entire year. With early decisio...

Tags: college, early decision, legacy, Seniors, stress