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The academic task force puts its best foot forward as it enters the new school year
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The academic task force puts its best foot forward as it enters the new school year

  • Jonathan Luu '27, Staff Writer
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The Academic Task Force (ACTF) is a group of people who want to develop an environment that both fosters work and the observation of holidays […]

The high school’s latest course additions: how Advanced Placement is enriching student opportunity
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The high school’s latest course additions: how Advanced Placement is enriching student opportunity

  • Kaya Charoensiddhi '27, News Editor
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The start of the new school year marks an exciting expansion to the high school’s academic curriculum with the addition of two new Advanced Placement […]

Curtains close on the old theater curriculum… and open for act two
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Curtains close on the old theater curriculum… and open for act two

  • Alexis Lee '25, Editor-in-Chief
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Mimicked voices, scattered footsteps, and muffled laughter fill the Little Theater as Mr. Skylar Grossman, the new theater director at the high school, teaches his […]

The Bradford’s fall featured artists
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The Bradford’s fall featured artists

  • Joanne Zhang '25, Editor-in-Chief
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Each month, the high school’s Visual Arts Department selects student artists to showcase in their 3-D and 2-D art categories. The Bradford is featuring the […]

The girls’ swim and dive team makes waves with team spirit
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The girls’ swim and dive team makes waves with team spirit

  • Josie Song '26, Features Editor
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This past fall, students at the high school may have seen several girls dressed up as Adam Sandler, adorned in baggy t-shirts, gym shorts, and […]

The senior slide towards sadism
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The senior slide towards sadism

  • Elizabeth Hoerter '25, Executive Editor
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For most of the high school’s seniors, early November is when the multi-year process of readying college applications —  test scores, grades, essays, and financial […]

Pop quizzes: A pop of terror
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Pop quizzes: A pop of terror

  • Evie Simon '27, Arts Editor
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Students enter the classroom, homework ready, expecting a lecture. Instead, the seats are in rows and the teacher tells them to quickly choose a desk. […]

Talking for the touchdown: advocacy for the addition of homecoming
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Talking for the touchdown: advocacy for the addition of homecoming

  • Elizabeth Hoerter '25, Executive Editor
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Homecoming, with its roaring crowds, packed dance floors, and rousing school spirit, has not occurred at the high school since 2008. This year, however, the […]

The high school’s AI policy: Too restrictive? Too open? Just right.
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The high school’s AI policy: Too restrictive? Too open? Just right.

  • Katherine Xu '27, Editor-in-Chief
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I grip my pencil tightly as I scribble down what can only be described as a rudimentary summary of what I studied the night before. […]

Harvest for Harvard: with college fees topping $90,000 per year, students turn to black market organ sales to fund higher education
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Harvest for Harvard: with college fees topping $90,000 per year, students turn to black market organ sales to fund higher education

  • Elizabeth Hoerter '25, Executive Editor
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With the news of Boston University, Wellesley College, and Tufts raising undergraduate costs to surpass $90,000 a year, and increasing pressures to stand out in […]

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    By Freddy Alexander '27, Staff Writer
    Boston is a town blessed with tremendous sporting success. We claim 38 championships in hockey, basketball, football, and baseball combined — we are literally one of the winningest cities […]
  • The basis behind the ban: the new Google resource restrictions
    By Camden Chan '27, Staff Writer
    On September 29, an email from the high school’s technology office was sent out to every student in the Wellesley Public School system, notifying students that they would be losing […]
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    By Katherine Xu '27, Editor-in-Chief
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  • Taboo isn’t a game: why political discussion belongs in the classroom
    By Katherine Xu '27, Editor-in-Chief
    In 2023, the high school vetoed a student-planned “USA Day” from spirit week. In an email sent to members of the community, Dr. Jamie Chisum, principal of the high school, explained that […]

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