Here and Now
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Stone Ridge Actresses: Under the Spotlight
Written by Niya Cyrus Imagine blinding lights and feeling like there is nothing more than you and the stage that you are standing on. “When I’m on stage, I can’t see the audience because of the lights, and [I] have the impression of being enveloped in them,” says Olenka Wellisz ‘17. “I feel as though…
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Results of the “Fun Poll!”
After asking the SR student body a series of possibly the most hard-hitting and revelatory questions ever conceived, it is now time to report the results:
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Keeping Up With Katie Ledecky
Not every Stone Ridge girl takes a gap year to prepare for the Olympics. And Missy Franklin doesn’t say “I don’t know if she has any weaknesses. If she does, we haven’t seen them yet,” about just anyone, let alone a Stone Ridge graduate. As the one and only Katie Ledecky prepares for the summer…
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Higher (priced) Education
Often times, we find ourselves getting so caught up in the price of college tuition that we forget about how much it costs to just apply to college. There is a lot of spending that goes into the whole college process: ACT/SAT tutoring, the actual ACT/SAT test, the cost of traveling to various colleges,…
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Online Shopping
Online shopping. A way to distract yourself. A way to shop endlessly without spending any money. A truly convenient way to shop for those who do not enjoy the crowds at the mall or leaving their house. While most physical storefronts have an online shop as well, there are retailers that only sell products online.…
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Coachella Fashion
Coachella. The music festival that makes everyone who doesn’t attend severely envious of the filtered Instagram pictures and live twitter updates. Coachella seems like the greatest time ever. It takes place in the Indio desert in California so desert storms often occur, but that shouldn’t deter you from going. The lineup for this year includes…
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A Wonderful Celebration of Diversity at Stone Ridge
Black History Month is a glimmer of hope for students during the month of February at Stone Ridge. The halls are typically slow and melancholy during the month of February, but what often goes unnoticed are the tireless efforts of the people who make Black History Month possible. Students and faculty advisors spend months planning,…
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Attending an All Girls School during Women’s History Month
Here at Stone Ridge, feminism is not an unfamiliar concept to students. Though we’re more likely to become an activist like Dorothy Day before we learn about her in the senior theology elective Leaders of Faith and Agents of Change, our school community goes to great lengths to promote female empowerment throughout everything we do.…
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When the Curtain Closes
Lights up. It’s a chilly Sunday afternoon on the Stone Ridge campus. The entire cast of Shrek the Musical is crowded around a table of snacks, something every cast member is evidently fond of after a long day of rehearsal. They have spent three hours rehearsing while they could have been doing schoolwork, or, rather,…
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Voices Behind Photographs
Behind the Scenes of AP Photography’s Teacher Feature As a tribute to the exquisite work in AP photography’s latest project featuring the Teachers of Stone Ridge, the journalism crew wanted to go behind the scenes of their work and uncover the true meaning of their photographs. I had the opportunity to speak with some…