By Dennis Jin V
These are extraordinary circumstances and extraordinary times. Our lives have been upended and our livelihoods changed, possibly forever. Everything is online now: our classes, our work, and, most troublingly, our knowledge about the outside world.
Continue reading Please stop writing about Corona!By Jayden Phan V
All Class V students in Mr. Pojman’s English class deliver a “speech of personal experience” to their classmates as a winter assignment. Jayden Phan’s was particularly compelling. It is reprinted here slightly abbreviated for publication.
Would you ever want to leave your country and live somewhere else? Imagine.
Continue reading My father left Laos in search of a better lifeFollowing a long-standing tradition, Tripod is proud to honor those elite athletes who have played a sport for every season of their six-year career. They are…..
Continue reading Meet this year’s 18 Season Club athletesBy Frankie Lonergan II
We all have ungodly amounts of free time. Here are some TV, movies, and music that I’ve used to keep me busy these past few weeks.
Continue reading Here are our picks of the Best Music, Best Movies, and Best TV to pass the time during the quarantineBy Jonathan Weiss I
RL’s first-ever virtual Recital Hall boasts everything from intimate in-home performances to composites of recordings made literally across the world. It features a remarkable variety of genre and production, with two solo acts, a live in-house act, and two acts recorded in separate places and edited together.
Continue reading First-ever virtual Recital Hall features student and faculty musiciansBy Peter Frates II
The 2020 varsity hockey team finished its season just under .500 this year. This group was led by captains Dante Cuzzi, Joey Ryan, and an experienced crew of seniors. Sam Ginzberg, Matt Traietti, Mikey Jones, Kevin Swan, and Kam Miller, each played a critical role in the team’s success and set examples of hard work for the underclassmen. From the freshman to the seniors, this team was extremely close, partly due to the great senior leadership.
Continue reading Facing tough competition, Varsity Hockey never lost heartBy Aidan Cook I
There is no question that the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic rivals the scale of some of the biggest crises in the history of the United States. As of April 16, over 22 million people in the country have filed for unemployment aid since President Trump declared a national emergency. The public health crisis has caused small businesses to shut down and layoff workers and even large companies have cut back production. These unemployment numbers, continuing to rise as the pandemic approaches its eighth week in the United States, are close to reaching Great Depression levels.
Continue reading Economic downturn is a national crisisBy Krishantha Muniappan VI
On April 21st, Roxbury Latin gathered for its third-ever virtual Hall with Nobel-prize-winning economist Dr. Esther Duflo, to conclude a series that has been focused on homelessness and poverty around the globe. This year, RL has already heard from four other prominent speakers experienced with this theme. The first was Matt Desmond, author of Evicted. The second, Tina Batista, is the director of A Bed for Every Child. The third was Kate Walsh, the CEO of the Boston Medical Center and the fourth, Bill Walczak, the co-founder of the Codman Health Center. Each told their separate stories in an engaging manner meant to educate and inspire their audience. As one might expect, the Nobel prize winner had no trouble meeting this standard with a riveting presentation of her own entitled “Fighting Poverty, with Facts and Passion.”
Continue reading Dr. Esther Duflo gives virtual HallBy Ben Crawford II
The coronavirus pandemic has upended many of our daily routines, from the way we socialize to the way we do our homework. However, COVID-19 has also prompted dramatic innovation: the introduction of online learning for high school students represents a major shift in modern schooling, and the new system is forcing us to re-evaluate several aspects of education we previously took for granted. Three changes in particular deserve our consideration.
Continue reading Reflections on education in the age of the coronavirusBy Vishnu Emani III
As we’ve all been getting acclimated to the new school environment, we have been trying to make the virtual school experience as similar as possible to what school was like before. Other than the nauseating clanging of the rolly-bags in the hallways and the experience of standing right next to the monstrous bells in the Classics wing, most of the physical school experience is worth trying to replicate. Specifically, I want to focus on how homeroom is being run throughout the different classes.
Continue reading Class presidents bring their personal touch to virtual homerooms
