ICSD is a massive entity, serving over 6,000 students at a dozen schools. Unlike the executive branch of the federal government, however, the decisions that…
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IHS Brain Team Continues Winning Streak
On January 28, IHS’s quizbowl team, the Brain Team, traveled to Rutgers University for HFT, their first tournament of 2017. After going undefeated in 10…
Club Feature: Physics Club
Odds are that you didn’t know IHS had a Physics Club, and in fact, it didn’t until this November. The concept is not a new…
Despite its Name, Student Power has None
Every year, IHS holds elections to select students as representatives to the Board of Education (BoE), Student Council members, and class officers in our system…
Music Department Takes on Fresh Look
The IHS Music Department is beginning the school year with new faces and a dramatic change in class structure. William Makin was hired as the…
Behind the Creation and Changing of School Schedules
School schedules are a complicated animal to pin down. The nature of course requests ensures that some students will inevitably be dissatisfied with the schedule…
Life after College: Graduate School and Entrepreneurship
High-school students rarely spend time considering the future, not so much out of inability to do so as pragmatism. Freshmen have all the challenges of…
Haiku of the Month
Eclairs or cookies Though I may be a glutton I just cannot choose
“Can you picture how drop-dead gorgeous this city is in the rain? Imagine this town in the ’20s. Paris in the ’20s, in the rain.…
The Importance of Video Games
At heart, I have always been a gamer. I don’t play during the weekdays, when my repository is backlogged with homework, studying, and other tasks…
Tetrisbooks
With a Chromebook in the hands of each student at IHS, you can bet that schoolwork isn’t the only thing the shiny new devices are…
Minimalist Playlist
Minimalism (n). Music: a reductive style or school of modern music utilizing only simple sonorities, rhythms, and patterns, with minimal embellishment or orchestrational complexity, and…
Food Review: A Dissertation on Noodles
It’s a fact of life that different people have different tastes, and that fact makes itself clear in the literal sense when it comes to…
Czech This Playlist Out
Despite the modern-day stigma directed toward younger fans of classical music by their peers—let’s face it, you’re going to be called a nerd—it is our…
Food Review: Silkworm Pupae
I’ve often heard that the worst thing about eating bugs is thinking about it. They’re actually very tasty—or at least, that’s what the people from…
Concert Review: Emanuel Ax
Cheers and applause erupted from the packed hall as Ax took a bow and seated himself at the piano. I expected a dramatic silence as he prepared, but got nothing of the sort as Ax immediately launched into Beethoven’s "Sonata Pathetique."
Staff Feature: Keith Harrington
A familiar face to many who have passed through Boynton Middle School, the former eighth-grade Social Studies teacher Mr. Harrington now plays the newly-minted role…
Go Set a Watchman Review
First off, I want to make two points clear. One is perhaps fairly obvious: don’t read Go Set a Watchman if you haven’t already read…
No Homework is a No-Go
Three years ago, President Hollande of France proposed abolishing homework nationwide. His views on education are as blurry as his glasses.
Teaching in China
This past summer, I went to China primarily for my annual visit to my extended family. Then I was faced with an unexpected obligation: Nie…
The Resistance: How to Play Mafia, but Better
Like Mafia, the game is one of strategy and persuasive deception, but it offers far more depth and gameplay experience while being as simple to set up and play.