“To everybody here at St. Anselm College, a big thank you-- Gracias-- for hosting us today…”   From the moment he walked on stage, Julian Castro’s Mexican heritage was on full display. To a crowded room of a hundred people, he described his vision for America under a Castro presidency.   I...

Coming into November 2018 election day, I didn’t have many expectations of what it would be like. This year was my first year being eligible to vote. Naturally, I was very excited about being able to partake in a practice so essential to our political system. Due to being away at school, I wasn’t...

A single sheet of A4 paper requires five liters of water to produce. At Holderness, we pride ourselves in the measures we take to minimize our waste through efforts like our compost machines and recycling. However, paper remains a high demand on our list. In fact, in 2018 alone, approximately 225,000...

We have all learned about the Holocaust. Anyone, student or teacher, at Holderness can define the Holocaust as a mass genocide of Jewish people during World War Two. We know about concentration camps and gas chambers, and some of us can likely spew a plethora of statistics on how many people died. This...

Last year, I was presented the Ceramic Book Prize by Mr. Franz Nicolay.  The citation says, “Shaun Kwan demonstrated his dedication to each creative idea and followed through on them with research, determination, and an emerging skill set ready to take on any conceptual challenge. Shaun also persevered...

The week we got back from Winter Break, students were required to go to an assembly and watch the Screenagers, a documentary on the effects of screen time. For some, the mention of Screenagers is met with laughs and groans, but it has also made people more observant of their screen use. Even if students...

The presence of technology in everyday life is undeniable, but for me, there are situations in which the extent of this presence is concerning. As most individuals of this generation, I am an offender of phone overuse. However, over my four years at Holderness, the ever-increasing presence of technology...

When I came to Holderness two years ago as a freshman, I was devoted to alpine ski racing. When getting to know the rest of my class, I would often introduce myself as an “Eastern Alpine Skier.” Everyone knew what that meant. My skiing was something many of my classmates could relate to and completely...