Lily Rimm ’25, Associate Managing Editor
• March 17, 2025
President Trump designated English as the official language of the United States through an executive order signed on March 1.
This controversial order reverses decades of federal policy originating...
“Ciao,” “hola,” “bonjour” and “guten Tag;” these words carry familiar echoes of human connection and interaction across diverse ranges of cultures and countries. Many speak their familiar...
The issue of foreign language education in the United States is one that is as old as America itself.
The founding fathers sought to establish an “intellectual agenda” for the new country. Looking...
It was summertime when Rishabh Mandayam ’21’s phone lit up with a text from Benji Schussheim ’20. “I want to create a machine learning algorithm for stuttering,” it said. “Are you in or are...
Siri Kanter ’20, Associate Managing Editor
• December 17, 2019
German students at Staples took a field trip to the UConn Storrs campus to learn about German culture on Nov. 14. Staples placed first in the Quiz Bowl, a competition in that tested students’ knowledge...
By Charlie Colasurdo ’18
In a New York Times article entitled, “Why Bilinguals are Smarter,” author Yudhijit Bhattacharjee reported, “Speaking two languages rather than just one has...
Most graduated seniors leave for college by a car or plane ride across the United States, but only a handful of students take a plane outside of the U.S. to another country.
In fact, according to the...
Chinese language students, teachers and townspeople gathered at the Westport Library on March 7 to celebrate the Chinese New Year. The festivities began with traditional food and gamesand were followed...
Ah slang, or whatever the kids are calling it these days.
You hashtag everything, and you’re “sorry not sorry”—whatever that means.
And everything is “bae,” whether a boyfriend or a pizza,...
