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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