This November the Hargroves Center hosted the first Upper School Coffeehouse performance of 2016. Will McQuillan, ’19 sat down with student leader Evan Gorski, ’17 and Upper School Student Activity Director Andrew Lee to discuss the show in Earthquake’s first ever audio news story (listen below).
This year the Mexican exchange celebrates its 30th anniversary. Each January, six GFS students travel to Tlaxcala to live with host families and to attend La Escuela Secundaria Técnica Número 1 “Xicohtencatl Axayacatzin,” as a part of the thirty year Mexico Exchange. Here are some thoughts from this year’s visitors: Luis Angel Marin Coheto...
This May, planet Earth is undergoing the effects of not only one retrograde, but two. When a planet goes through retrograde – appearing to move backwards in the sky – it gets unsettled from its normal position. It acts out, usually causing a fair amount of distress amongst the tiny and already distressed human race....
The College Board recently redesigned the SAT, and the redesigned test will first be proctored in March of 2016. The new test will align with the Common Core Standards — the controversial, nation-wide public school math and reading curriculum which David Coleman, the new President of the College Board, designed and implemented before taking over...
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...
Since the turn of the century, 805 players have been arrested in the National Football League. But in September, for the first time since July of 2009, the NFL went one full month without any players getting arrested. This is not indicative of some upward trend; rather, it is a testament to how poorly informed...
