2015 was not supposed to be a record-breaking season for Varsity Boys’ Soccer. As starting midfielder Andrea Berghella ‘16 says, “This year we weren’t expecting much; we didn’t even aim at making the playoffs at the beginning.” A few months prior to the start of preseason, GFS graduated six varsity players. The Tigers “thought this...
“Ex Machina” is a successful science fiction film currently in wide release about feminism. And that is really, really, really important. The basic premise of the film is that reclusive genius Nathan (played by the brilliant Oscar Isaac) invites Caleb to his mountaintop house/lab, where Nathan convinces him to conduct tests with Ava, an artificially...
If you choose to hang out in Hargroves, you’ll likely be accosted by the sights and sounds of the iPhone. It seems like everywhere you look, groups of students sit around around tables hunched over smartphones, or with laptops lined up like ducks in a row. Technology is omnipresent in our lives; it consumes our...
On Thursday, December 12th, the junior class traveled to the constitution center to attend “Capture The Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs Exhibit.” The exhibit includes all 153 prized photos, dating back to 1942. What seemed like just another class field trip to us juniors, turned out to be much more eye opening than any of...
Aaron Pareki via Flickr Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have brought everyone in the world together. Especially on Instagram, this world has created “Instagram famous” people—including Isabel King ’14 (@kingandthequeen) and Manuel Lorenzino ’14 (@sir_zino). Both have over 1,000 Instagram followers, a pretty large following, and work hard on the their pictures. They have gained Instagram...
Ronald Epps Ron Epps arrived at GFS in 2001. Before working at GFS, Epps was a cleaner, a mover for his father’s company, a dishwasher, and he has worked in the cafeteria as a cook. Dick Wade loved Ron’s chilli and when Epps found this out, “It really touched my heart and after I learned...
