Celebrating Another Championship

By: Devin Munroe '16 To celebrate the men’s varsity soccer team’s amazing season, it seemed only fitting to interview their senior team captain, Doug Hill. Here are some of his thoughts on the season. Question:       What words come to mind when you think of your team? Doug Hill:      Energetic, fun, composed, and hard working. Question:      ...

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Third GOP Debate Recap

By Neel Lakhanpal '16: The third Republican party debate took place in Boulder, Colorado Wednesday night. It was broadcast on CNBC. Overall, I think the candidates kept their composure in the face of difficult and incendiary questions. There was, in my opinion, a surprisingly even distribution of speaking time among the candidates despite multiple candidates polling well below five percent. I don't...

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What I Learned from Shakespeare

By: Zachary Rosen '16 I need coffee. Do not do handstands when your pockets are full of flour. Please don't. I've already swept that floor twice. Just don't do it. Wear a second pair of boxers under your first pair of boxers. It may save your life one day. Or your dignity. Make sure to fall off of things gracefully. And, if you cannot, try to avoid hitting your head or getting dirt in your...

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Editorial: Our Nation's Broken Food System

By: Jack Zuschnitt '16 The American food system is broken. It is corrupt, defective, unjust, and failing. A bag of deep fried potato chips costs as much as a good piece of fruit. Independent family farms have shifted from being the norm to being a rarity. Corn byproduct can be found in toothpaste, soda, and milk. The vast majority of the miracle drugs, antibiotics,...

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Exciting New Club at Severn - SWAG (Supporting Women Across the Globe)

By: Katie Dubinski '18 Every year at Severn, there are dozens of new clubs that pop up at the club fair, on a very wide range of interests. One new club in particular has piqued the interest of many students: SWAG, or Supporting Women Across the Globe, a feminist based group focused on advocating women's rights. I sat down with the club’s co-leaders, sophomores Yasmeen Meek...

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Severn Runs

October 17th marked the 14th anniversary of the Baltimore Running Festival. There were over 24,000 participants, whether running the 5k, the relay, the half-marathon, or the full-- and over thirty of them were from Severn. Every year, the Severn Cross Country team trains for and participates in the half-marathon, doing long runs every Friday and building up mileage to get to 13.1. Training for the...

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Theatre Goers Club: An Inspector Calls

By: Zachary Rosen '16 A few weeks ago, the Severn Theatre Goers club went into Baltimore to see An Inspector Calls at the Everyman Theatre. The play was written in the mid 1900's by J. B. Priestley and follows the story of an Inspector Goule as he questions various members of a family about their involvement in the life of a girl who had just committed suicide (or did she? Do we know? We seriously...

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The Mourning Meating: Horoscopes October 20

By: Zachary Rosen '16 Aries: Prepare for battle. Bring knee pads and duct tape. Do not worry about heavy clothing; Argentina is warm this time of year. Taurus: Congratulations on running your marathon, Taurus. Your brother is very proud of you. Gemini: You move, slowly but steadily, across the cooling earth, the dried mud and the forms of dying leaves. You crawl without thought and without...

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The Mourning Meating: Severn Classes

By: Zachary Rosen, '16 Hello Severn students. Now that school has been going on for a while, many of you have probably gotten back into the thick of things with your classes. However, there have been a few modifications to the curriculum of many courses. The changes are as follows- All Chemistry classes will hereby be studying alchemy with a focus on transmutation of mercury and lead to gold...

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Midsummer Madness

By: Yasmeen Meek '18 and Jimmy Diamondidis '18 With the opening day of A Midsummer Night's Dream just around the corner, it will be the first time in twenty years that The Water Street Players present one of Shakespeare's classics. This show also marks Severn's first outdoor production, which adds a new and exciting element to the performance. As Jane Huang '18 stated, "Performing outside and...

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Ask The Admiral! Beware of Spring Fever.

Dear Admiral,  How do I stay away from Spring Fever? ********************************************************************************* Springtime is always the best time of the school year! It seems like just about everyone is playing a spring sport, looking forward to the warmer weather, and buying a refreshing Italian-ice at Rita’s. With all of the outside distractions beginning to...

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The French Exchange

By: Carley Thorne '17 After a long two weeks in which many Severn students were either relaxing on the beaches of Mexico or skiing down black diamonds in Utah, fifteen families are preparing their homes for the weeks after spring break.  These small few will act as guides and hosts to the French exchange students traveling on the eight and a half hour flight from Brest, France to JFK in...

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A New Leaf

By: Annie Mott '16 When April rolls around, everyone on the Severn campus is excited about two things: warm weather, and Prom (and, if you're a senior, the fact that this is your last month of high school -- ever). With flowers blooming and prom dress registries booming, the last thing on anyone's mind is Wednesday, April 22nd. Or, as it is more widely known, Earth Day.  Earth Day, born...

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The Adventures of Agent Sot; Chapter 9: The Kleindog

By: Zachary Rosen '16       The Victor-wolf has brown fur with black streaks running through it. He creeps around and leaps, but Sot jumps and kicks him in the throat, landing with a backwards barrel roll. She never realized she’d be using Krav Maga to fight oversized dogs. “Now would be a good time to fire at them. If we keep kicking them, their parents will sue us.”  ...

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The Life and Times of Agent Sot; Chapter 8: The Dog Days

By: Zachary Rosen '16       “What do you mean that was Victor Martinez?!” Ms. Sot tears some fabric from her sleeve and makes a tourniquet with it. In a few moments the bleeding stops.        Klein hands her a vial and a needle. “He didn’t bite you or anything?” Sot shakes her head. “This will prevent you from getting rabies or anything like what infected...

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NCAA March Madness: Your Bracket Is Busted.

By: A.J. Gersh '15 If you aren't following the craziness that is circulating around the 2015 Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament, you are definitely missing out. The Round of 64 is always home to the wildest upset match-ups and this season's games did not disappoint. Georgia State, a 14 seed led by Kevin Ware (formerly of the Louisville Cardinals...he gruesomely broke his leg in the 2013 Championship...

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Orioles Preseason

AP Photo, 2013 By: A.J. Gersh '15 Orioles fans, get ready...Baseball season is just around the corner! The Birds open their 2015 campaign on Monday, April 6th in Tampa Bay. Buck Showalter's team is looking to repeat their American League East title after winning the division by a whopping twelve games and finishing with a 96-66 record in 2014. However, this task is more simply said than done....

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Big Fish Recap!

By: Ben Carsley '18 Now that we have returned from a refreshing spring break, let us shortly recap the Water Street Players' musical, Big Fish.  It may surprise some of you to know that no less than a week after the curtains closed on the fall play, The Illusion, rehearsal for Big Fish began. After auditions, the cast began work on blocking the show, memorizing lines, working...

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Severn Varsity Girl’s High Preseason Hopes and Interview with Coach Sot

By: Devin Munroe '16 On February 20th the Severn Varsity girl’s lacrosse team received some exciting news. According to the USA Today Super 25 Preseason Girls Lacrosse rankings Severn held the rank of number 4. This preseason ranking has been the highest in history and gives hope for a promising season after only losing to the number one ranked team McDonogh by one in the semi-final playoff game...

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Crowd Sourced Language Learning

By: Zachary Rosen '16      The world today is incredibly globalized, a result of both the international economy and the world wide web. Social media can let people from different continents speak casually to each other. One can read the news from papers of any number of nations. Agricultural products and industrial goods, the tech gadgets and designer clothing, can all be moved...

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From Paris with News

Photo by the Examiner.com By: Zachary Rosen '16 Most everyone has been made aware, in some form or another, of the terrible events in Paris not long ago. A group of armed men attacked a small satirical newspaper (Charlie Hebdo), killing a total of ten editors and two security guards and sparking the popular tweet "Je Suis Charlie" (or the English equivalent, "I am Charlie"). They were pursued...

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