olicy makers in the making: Sophomores hold their annual MUN conference
students alike dutifully prepare for this annual event, making it a classic right of passage in the Masters community.
where we stood with our country and the issue, and how we were going to go about fixing it.”
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With the bang of a gavel, the tenth graders kicked off their yearly United Nations simulation on Friday, April 4. This annual event is characterized by the unmistakable sight of students parading around campus in their “western business attire” looks, and hearing the distinct chatter of debriefing after an intense committee session. As it is a longstanding tradition at Masters, both teachers and
Sophomores participate in the required event every year, with lots of preparation and planning going into it weeks prior. As a first step, students chose their comittee, and then they got assigned a country in said comittee. Then, they write a speech and a general background of their country as it relates to their committee.
Sophomore Sam Friedman said, “We chose a committee and we had to gather information about it and our country, and then we wrote a position paper about
While many aspects of tenth grade MUN are similar to normal MUN, there are some major differences that impact many members of the Model UN team at Masters.
MUN member, sophomore, and Secretary General Talia Hird said, “There are a lot of things about MUN that just do not align with the tenth grade MUN, like writing a position paper in advance.”
Depending on what committee they are placed in, students gather around a big Harkness table and spread out around campus. During the conference, students go up to make their speech, and then they debate about the issue they’re a part of.
Students are also required to dress in the traditional MUN attire, which means formal.
Hird said “I think one of the best parts about MUN is wearing the outfits.”
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CLIMATE COMMITTEE DELEGATES DISCUSS flood risks and water shortage. Students had to think on the fly and deal with issues like extreme loss of freshwater.
Students, alumni and parents unite over the phone for the tenth annual Giving Day
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Instead of cramming for an A.P Bio exam during his free period, junior Nico Khoury-Levy reported to the Sharon Room to call alumni on the phone. He greeted them warmly, delved into a conversation about his experience as a student, and explained the Masters Fund in hope for a monetary contribution.
Masters celebrated their tenth annual Alumnae/i Giving Day on Thursday, April 3, which was a time when current students and parents connect with alumni over the phone, with the goal of receiving 148 (148 for years of Masters) monetary donations. If that goal was reached, an anonymous donor would give the school an extra $20,000. The reason for the calls and donations? The Masters Annual Fund.
Maureen Steinhorn, the annual
giving and stewardship manager, said, “The Masters Annual Fund is the only annual fundraising initiative for the school.”
“The Masters Fund essentially fills the gap between what we make with tuition and how much money we actually spend as a school.”
Giving Day also serves as an opportunity for alumni to connect with current students beyond the dollar.
Hilary Finkelstein, director of annual giving, noted that “Alums love
hearing from students. They love hearing what life is like on campus now and I think it’s very nostalgic for them to also share their experience. The thing about Giving Day is that it’s not necessarily the day that we make the most money, but it is the day that we connect with the most people.”
Khoury-Levy recapped his Giving Day experience enthusiastically.
“It was great to collaborate with fellow students and the advancement team. They were all really nice, and they guided me with how to call alumni,” Khoury-Levy said. “Connecting with them was a really exciting experience, and I learned so much about the alumni network for our school.”
Junior Danse Mobray added to the positive environment of the advancement team. She said, “A highlight for me during Giving Day was the positive atmosphere of the volunteers and Advancement team. It was really nice to see students and faculty collectively working together to achieve a greater goal for our school.”
The alumni office reached out to Emily Daly, an alumna from the class of 2006, to spread the word about Giving Day to fellow alumni. Daly remarked on the alumni-student connection.
Daly said, “Masters isn’t just four years. It’s really a lifelong commu-
nity. Being an alum and a student aren’t two worlds: it’s all sort of one giant family.” On Giving Day itself, Daly had a meaningful phone call with a parent of a seventh grader. She said, “When I got that call, I was having a really hectic day. It was great to receive a call from a parent from a school that I love so much.”
Mobray said, “Student connection is important to Giving Day because calling alumni to raise money as well as writing thank you notes creates a meaningful connection between former and current Masters students.”
Student involvement is a recent tradition, added just last year. Due to the positive feedback from students, alumni and parents, the advancement team will keep up that tradition. Steinhorn said, “Last year, we came back to the student model for the first time since COVID. We’re excited to continue that tradition for later years to come.”
Student involvement has made a huge impact on Giving Day. On Friday, April 4, an email went out to the Masters community notifying that they exceeded their goal of 148 gifts and received 157 gifts. In total, Giving Day raised $55,000 for the Masters Fund.
Mobray said, “I am so grateful to have gotten the opportunity to come together with the Masters community to support our school.”
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STUDENTS RAISE PLACARDS FOR debate in the European migration committee. They discussed the war in Ukraine, upcoming elections,
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NOAH ADLER LEADS THE East Asia committee alongside Emily Kasoff. This committee tackled issues such as freedom of press, cyber trafficking, and South China sea territorial disputes.
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Model minorities face
unattainable expectations
“They are so damn good at math.”
“Oh, he barely speaks. But I know he has the highest grade in the class.”
“They wear those glasses.”
“I don’t think they leave campus… always studying, you know.”
“Too perfect.”
You might already have a picture of the person that these quotes are talking about. These remarks, some made half-jokingly and others half-believingly, are just of a few that I’ve overheard at lunch chats, hallways and conversations. Chinese, or more broadly, the Asian identities, are often reduced to a narrow and hyper-academic stereotype: silent, robotic achievers that score high but speak very little. The so-called “mod-
el-minority.”
Coined by sociologist William Petersen in his 1966 New York Times Magazine article, “model minority” was used to describe Japanese Americans that had managed to succeed both academically and economically despite discrimination. Over time, this term applied to the broader Asian community - naturally smart, hard working, quiet and obedient.
This may seem like a compliment at first glance- but it is not.
“I tried to be friends with them and practice my English, but I couldn’t fit in with the lunch table.”
“They didn’t include me in their nights out because they assumed I would be studying for that math test.”
“I just stayed with my Chinese friends.”
These are samples of conversations I had with Asian students both on and off Masters campus. They reflect the isolation that is lost under the surface-level success stories.
The model minority myth is not just about how others see us. It shapes how we begin to see ourselves too. When we are constantly told that we are good at a subject and too busy for fun, it’s easy to internalize that model. I start to wonder if being anything else than perfect is a disappointment. I stop raising my hand unless I am sure the answer is right, or it seems intelligent.
Friendships become complicated.
People assume you are too serious, or that your social circle is self-sustained or boring. Teachers may expect excellence because of your history of success.
The worst part? There is no space to fail.
Being seen as a “model minority” makes you feel valuable only when you are making progress, only when you are achieving. It also erases the
diversity within the Asian community. Not every Asian student comes from a well resourced background and receives top SAT prep. Not every story is one of “success” – top grades, top colleges, smart, etc. Lumping 20 million Asian Americans into one stereotype means ignoring the wide range of identities, socioeconomic backgrounds, languages and experiences that exist in our community.
The one-dimensional narrative should stop defining multidimensional people. Regardless of ethnicity, we all have a range of passions and interests that may not be related to academics. Test scores, expectations, should not be the forefront defining factor of who we are. Maybe next time instead of assuming, we should start asking. And instead of labeling, we should start listening.
ASIAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS FREQUENTLY FEEL the pressures and generalizations that result from being a so-called “model minorty.” They are expected to achieve constant success regardless of differing backgrounds and priorities. These presumptions can cause Asian-Americans to feel valuable only when they are achieving the very specific type of success expected of them.
Re-rock the casbah: Why the World Needs Punk Rock Again
Perhaps what I look forward to the most every day is the brief period from 4- 4:30 p.m. where I blissfully ignore all existing research and scroll on social media. During this scroll I encounter “tradwife” vlogs and swipe through “prom dress inspiration” posts that seem to have an inexplicable fear of bright colors. I press “like” on a friend’s mom’s photo at the NYC “Hands off!” protest, noticing a lot more moms than friends before I close my phone for the time being and distract myself instead by blasting The Clash’s 1979 London Calling and finishing my US History notes on Reagan’s presidency.
The Clash was an influential British punk rock band that dominated the scene in the 70s and 80s. As cliché as it sounds, their punchy tracks have a particular quality that makes me want to put down my phone and lace up some combat boots. The Clash epitomizes the punk rock movement in a way even the renowned Sex Pistols
cannot; where others were reactionary and brash, The Clash was committed and insightful. The movement they created was by every means a product of the climate of the time.
By the mid-70s, England’s postwar prosperity had fizzled out and its people were confronted with inflation, unemployment and dwindling social service programs. The poor economy only worsened the existing societal issues of racism, xenophobia and po-
lice brutality that plagued London. Obnoxiously bourgeois “glam-rock” dominated the charts, blasting over the very real, glamorless lives of the working class. The stage was set for a punk revolution.
Living in the then fragmented neighborhood of Notting Hill, London, a young Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon, the band’s soon-to-be founders, had a unique viewpoint on the world. Growing tension between
the Black residents of Notting Hill and the police force culminated in an episode of riots and police violence at the Notting Hill Carnival in 1976. This conflict inspired their first single, “White Riot”, that called upon the white working class to join the Black-led fight against working class oppression, criticizing people’s comfort in comfort. Strummer’s lyrics commented on the dynamics that led up to the riots, saying “All the power’s
in the hands of the people rich enough to buy it.”
The Clash’s music continued to be inherently political. Their second studio album, London Calling, brought punk rock to the masses in 1979. The title track ominously suggests that the threat of war is very much still looming, and the rest of the album comments on other social issues from famine to nuclear annihilation. By now, the Clash was leading the punk movement on both sides of the Atlantic, eventually becoming more popular in the United States than the UK.
Unlike many of the artists of the time, the Clash developed their music to “fit the rhythm of the lyrics,” said guitarist Mick Jones, not the other way around. Their music was written to have “the urgency of a news report”, commenting quite explicitly on current events. A favorite song of mine, and one of their most popular, “Rock the Casbah,” is a playful track about the persecution of Iranian people for listening to popular music off their 1982 album, Combat Rock. The song represents the band’s rebellious character- resisting persecution through music. “Rocking the Casbah” is rising up against oppression, and jamming out.
If nothing else, The Clash asks you to get your head out of the sand. Indifference is out, action is in. They functioned under no law but their own and knew nothing of censorship. We have a lot to learn from The Clash’s unapologetic resistance.
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JOE STRUMER, THE CLASH’S lead singer, plays at a show in Philadelphia in 1980. The band dominated the punk scene in the 80s, capturing the collective psyche of an entire nation. Their unapologetic style and powerful lyrics helped them define an era, and their message still rings true even today.
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Revolution then, resistance now: America’s enduring legacy of dissent
AyAnnA Beckett Visuals Director & Opinion Editor
In the minds of many Americans, the Revolutionary War is more than a fight for independence. It is, in many ways, a symbol of what it means to be American, to be self-ruled and free from tyranny. The Revolution is engraved into the ethos of our nation as a statement of the core of American values, freedom, democracy and the right to self-determination.
However, today, the relationship between the act of revolution and freedom is far more complicated. While the ideals of the Revolution laid the foundation of America, the reality of who has access to those ideals continues to be contested. The promise that “all men are created equal” was never truly extended to all—and that gap remains painfully visible today.
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In 1775, if you asked a colonist, “What is freedom?” you likely would have heard a response like “equal representation in government” or “independence from the British.” For colonists, freedom was defined in clear and immediate terms and securing that freedom meant taking action. That action meant taking up arms, disrupting daily life and em-
AYANNA BECKETT ARGUES THAT American liberty has always required disruption. As modern rights are stripped away, she calls for a revival of the revolutionary spirit that once defined the nation.
bracing resistance as a moral imperative. The spirit of the Revolution was built on the belief that the only way to secure our independence was through direct and violent resistance, whether it be with armed resistance, riots or public demonstrations.
For instance, the Boston Tea Party, perhaps the most famous and impactful act of resistance preceding the Revolution, was an act of destruction. The battles of the war itself were deadly, with tens of thousands of casualties. Entire cities were thrown into chaos. The revolution completely disrupted the economy, the government and daily life. This wasn’t a peaceful request for change; it required a war.
Yet, even as colonists fought for their own liberty, they denied it to others. Black people were en-
slaved, Native Americans were displaced from their ancestral lands, and women were not allowed any real participation in society. While fighting for freedom, early Americans were also actively and systematically oppressing other groups, a problem that persists even today.
NOW
In modern-day America, most would like to say that we have acquired the freedom that our Founding Fathers sought for us to have and expanded that definition to include all people. From the Suffrage to the Civil Rights Movement, those who were excluded from that original definition have fought their way into having a seat at the table.
Yet, with every passing day, people are denied access to these freedoms. In state after state, basic rights are being rolled back. Voting rights are being suppressed. LGBTQ+ people, particularly transgender youth, are being denied access to gender-affirming care and are targeted by laws that seek to erase them from public life.
Women’s bodily autonomy is under siege through abortion bans and restrictions on reproductive healthcare. Immigrants are being mass-deported. Diversity, equity and inclusion programs are being dismantled in universities, schools, workplaces, government institutions and even museums.
These aren’t just policy changes. These are direct assaults on the freedoms that our country claims to cherish.
THE MYTH OF POLITE PROTEST
Today, methods for securing freedom have shifted away from violent demonstrations. Most modern movements use the power of peaceful protest to object to oppression. Movements like Black Lives Matter, the fight for LGTBQIA+ rights, and calls for economic justice continue to use peaceful protest petitions and political advocacy to address systematic inequalities. But as these movements grow, so does the pressure for them to remain respectful and quiet.
Samuel L. Jackson put it best in Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show: America does not like
it when a protest is “too loud, too reckless and too ghetto.” But history shows us that real change rarely comes without disruption.
The Civil Rights Movement succeeded not because it was polite but precisely because it was inconvenient. It disrupted commerce and policy. Disruption might make the common American uncomfortable, but it is the only way to truly promote peace because a society can not be fully at peace when there are people who are not treated equally.
FREEDOM REQUIRES PRESSURE
When more rights are taken away, when transgender youth are denied health care, when immigrants are mass deported, when DEI initiatives are being shut down around the country, protests that simply “raise awareness” aren’t enough. Change happens when people in power are made uncomfortable and when inaction becomes more costly than reform.
We no longer use muskets, but the fight is far from over. Now, we protest, we organize, we vote, but above all, we must remain willing to disrupt comfort in the service of justice. If we truly believe in the ideals the nation was built on, we must be ready to defend them, especially when they are under threat.
Seventeenth century blues: Reviving mercantilism and sabotaging the freedom of the free world
There was a time not so impossibly long ago when the global economy was unrecognizable. Mercantilism, a trade doctrine focused on the zero-sum accumulation of wealth, reigned in world affairs: nations established exclusive imperial spheres of influence with sky-high tariffs and minimized imports from all outsiders with the goal of total self-reliance. The natural outcome of this lack of economic interdependence was constant colonial conflict. The lesson? In a world before international institutions, without global free markets of comparative advantage, peace was simply less profitable than war. With the modern
world volatile as ever, protectionism has become popular, particularly in the Trump administration. Even total autarchy seems to be alluring once more. But history, as always, is the lesson for why we shouldn’t be tempted.
The world order which slowly replaced mercantilism -- now called “capitalism” -- was much different. Built around the revolutionary Anglo-Dutch invention of the joint stock company, it incentivized predictable legal systems enshrining property rights to make international commerce worthwhile, giving rise to democracy, liberty and the rule of law. Capitalism ruled as the global status quo for over three centuries, inspiring liberal revolutions against the previous mercantile structures, like the Glorious Revolution in Britain and the American Revolution. Eventually it created the world of unprecedented economic interconnectedness we inhabit today.
On April 2, President Trump announced sweeping tariffs on over 180 countries, verifying the world’s worst fears that America had abandoned not just leadership in the Western alliance but its place in the liberal international order altogether. I am not the type to make broad, overly-certain predictions of the future -- but if I am allowed one, I anticipate that “Liberation Day” will be celebrated in Moscow, Beijing and Tehran for many generations to come.
I will not reiterate the collapse of liberalism in trans-national order, nor ruminate on what precisely the Chinese
Century will mean for us, as many others have already done. Instead, I intend to consider more specifically what the administration intends this post-capitalist global future to look like.
Unfortunately, it seems, Trump’s view of trade policy resembles the mercantilism of pre-democratic global orders almost to a tee. In his perception, trade is an inerrant dichotomy, so far from the truth of economics as understood that it shouldn’t be surprising nobody’s attempted it in over three hundred years: you’re either getting a “good deal”, or you’re being “ripped off”.
This may sound petulant and childish -- it is. But it also stands in almost exact overlap with the classical mercantilist theory of trade: that a nation should produce everything it needs domestically or within its own imperial sphere of influence, exporting maximally and importing only the bare minimum.
In much the same way, Trumpism insists that trade deficits are universally toxic. Entirely zero-sum, it essentially fails to acknowledge even the possibility that an economic exchange between state actors can benefit both parties. It has no regard for the role of economic interdependence in sustaining peace and democracy, nor even an awareness of the basic truth that no single country is fit to produce every necessary good more efficiently than all conceivable foreign competitors: it only takes into account the short-term bottom line.
As in mercantilism, in Trumpism the chief recipient of revenue is the state and a select few cronyistic national companies (Tesla, anyone?) -- not individual capitalist producers broadly. Likewise, we can consider how the mercantile view of economics led to colonial expansion to prevent importing natural resources by acquiring them for oneself: what else can one call the Trump administration’s obsession with annexing Greenland for its abundant rare earth metals and natural gas?
Trump’s America also has an imperial touch in foreign policy. It disregards all alliances, except those temporary ones which are purely transactional. It bullies Ukraine into forking over mineral resources, for instance, totally ignoring the need for a like-minded coalition of states against an adversary (because, of course, it sees dictatorships and democracies as equally adversarial on the same incidental basis).
What we are witnessing is not the deranged kamikaze of America’s diplomatic and economic hegemony for isolationist clout, as many intelligent people have concluded for lack of a better answer. It is a deliberate attempt to reverse the global order to its pre-capitalist consensus of mercantile empire: to the days of might-makes-right.
Most by now see something deeply illiberal in Trumpism, and many have even made comparisons to fascism or other forms of autocracy from the past century. But Trumpism is no artifact
ALEX KRITZER SEES TRUMP’S tariffs as a return to 17th-century mercantilism. He warns that this shift threatens to unravel the global order that upholds democracy.
of the twentieth century -- it is of the seventeenth century, and this fact is essential.
This doctrine is so draconian and antiquated that it has not been implemented at scale since before the American Revolution. And if it should ultimately triumph, no matter how many delays it might take, April 2nd’s game of global economics proves one thing: liberal capitalism is over. Mercantilism is back. The redcoats have returned.
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Hunger Walk rallies community
rook E WisEr Editor-in-Chief
The Rivertowns CROP Hunger Walk returned for its 25th year on Sunday, April 6, with organizers hoping to step in where federal support has fallen short.
Hosted by the Irvington Presbyterian Church (ICP), the annual event brought together local organizations, youth groups, congregations and neighbors for a shared goal: to mobilize 200 walkers and raise $20,000 for hunger relief.
“For the last 25 years, we’ve hostthe CROP Hunger Walk, which is national movement started by faithbased organizations trying to address scarcity and hunger,” said Rev. Blaine Crawford, Minister of Word Sacrament at Irvington Presbyterian Church. “It has grown here in the Rivertowns community to not just include Irvington Presbyterian Church, but people from all different houses of worship, Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts and more, all focused on trying to address issues of food scarcity in our communities.”
CROP Hunger Walks first launched 55 years ago through the Church World Service under the name “Christian Rural Overseas Program,” originally focusing sending grain from the Midwest to communities in need. Today, the walks continue with the same guiding mis“No one in this world should be hungry.” Funds raised went to support global and local hunger relief, from Church World Services international to Feeding Westchester and the Dobbs Ferry Food Pantry.
SThis year’s theme, “Bridge the Gap,” references both the literal walk to the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge and the metaphorical gap caused by federal aid cuts to food assistance and social programs. “Since the pandemic, the demand at food pantries, even locally in Sleepy Hollow and Dobbs Ferry, has gone up exponentially. Further cuts at this time just put more people at risk, including many children,” said Rev. Crawford.
The day kicked off at 2 p.m. with a “Pre-walk Palooza,” on the ICP’s front lawn. Attendees, even those who were not walking, were invited and gathered to enjoy raffles, pizza, T-shirts (while they lasted) and an interfaith prayer setting off the looped walk to the bridge’s Welcome Center and back.
MaryJane Shimsky, a New York State Assembly member representing District 92, which includes Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, and Hastings-on-Hudson, highlighted these cuts. “We are going to have so much trouble with all the federal budget cuts, making sure that all of our residents have a decent life, including enough food to eat,” said Shimsky. “We are already in the midst of a big affordability crisis, as people know, and the Trump administration is cutting $1.5 billion from food relief to groups like Feeding Westchester and our food pantries.
Last year’s walk drew about 70 par ticipants and raised $7,500. This time, organizers hoped that the shrinking sup port for food programs would spark even greater turnout and support.
of the food program.”
Feiner added, “A lot of people think it’s only the homeless who need help, but these are professionals. These are your neighbors, people we know in the community who can’t afford to eat. It’s really horrible.”
The full route spanned 3.75 miles, with a group turning back at Lyndhurst for an easier, 2.25-mile journey. The event welcomed all ages and offered multiple ways to participate, including walking, donating, sponsoring a team or simply showing up.
“What we are going to have to do as a community is come out to events like this, donate wherever we can, volunteer wherever we can, to ensure everyone in our community has enough to eat, especially as other services fall by the wayside,” Shimsky said.
Rev. Crawford captured the spirit of the day: “It’s not just thinking it in our head, it’s not just feeling it in our heart. There’s something about getting into action, feeling it throughout our feet and our legs, that moves us beyond just this head knowledge we might have. We are meant to embody our values, not just think our values
DAY OF SERVICE
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Paul Feiner, who has served as the Town Supervisor of Greenburgh for 34 years, emphasized the event’s role. “I came out here today because I don’t want to be silent, and I’m really horrified by the cuts that President Trump is making relating to food programs,” Feiner said.
“When I stop by the Dobbs Ferry food pantry, I’m really surprised how many people I know who are taking advantage
es, at one point he really started making choices in his favor to develop himself as a human,” Hajjar said. “[Hector will] chuckle when he talks now about how he’s 50 years old and he’s going for his master’s degree for the first time, but what’s wrong with that?”
In addition to RTA classes, incarcerated individuals are also presented with education opportunities through programs such as the Bard Prison Initiative, a program that brings Bard College courses to prisons to give in-
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MISH gathered eight organizations on April 5, for a campus wide day of community service. In addition to AFYA, the organizations included:
THE SHARING SHELF
Combats clothing insecurity by providing children and teens in need with clothing.
PAWS WITH A CAUSE
dividuals an opportunity to receive a higher education while incarcerated. By reflecting on their past actions and character, it is easier for individuals to focus on their education.
“Education is key. Education is hugely important, whether you’re
ing visual art, music, economics, biol ogy, education is a kind of freedom,” Hajjar said.
As RTA shows, with the 1.8 million people incarcerated in the U.S., sup porting programs that focus on reha bilitation rather than punishment for individuals in prisons is more benefi cial to their personal growth.
“What RTA did for me was that it allowed me the space to look with in [myself], to explore the different things that were going inside of me,
safe space with a group of people that were like minded. The volunteers that were coming in [the prison], their hu man touch, like their kindness, their empathy, and things like that, kind of modeled something for me that I didn’t experience before,” Rodri guez said.
Enhances independence and the quality of life for people with disabilities through custom-trained Assistance Dogs.
MY SISTER’S PLACE
Works to end domestic violence and human trafficking by providing free education, outreach, and legal services,
GRASSROOTS GROCERIES
Fighting for dignified food access for all, activate communities by getting fresh food to those in need.
FEEDING WESTCHESTER
Helps with food insecurities throughout Westchester.
REPAIR CAFE
Repair broken things and encourage sustainability.
HEARTS & HOMES FOR REFUGEES
Inspire, educate, and equip volunteers, neighbors, and community organizations to resettle refugees and rebuild life.
CHERYL HAJJAR SPEAKS TO members of faculty, Ellen Cowhey, Laura Danforth and her wife Paula Chu at the exhibit opening.
Why it’s time to STOP performing femininity for the algorithm
NeeNa atkiNs Lead Features Editor
In the past two decades, the cultural perception of femininity has morphed, flipped and rebranded itself over and over again. I’ve lived through the “pick me” era, the coquette resurgence, the girlboss industrial complex, Barbie feminism and more. Each iteration seems to promise freedom, a shiny new way to define femininity on our own terms. And yet, every version ultimately finds a way to wrap itself around our necks like a silk ribbon: soft, seductive, but still designed to restrict.
Rejecting femininity used to be all the rage. The early 2000s and 2010s gave us the “Cool Girl” who swore off pink, mocked rom-coms and took pride in being “one of the boys.” We thought we were shedding patriarchal expectations, but in reality, we were just embracing a different and equally constraining mold. Then came the girlboss era, when women were told we could have it all, as long as we wore the right blazer and perfected the art of the overbooked Google Calendar. Work twice as hard, but never let them see you sweat. Be a boss, but also a bombshell. Be empowered, but not intimidating.
Today, the pendulum has swung back. Hyper-femininity is in, with pastel aesthetics, bows in our hair and ultra-girly catch phrases like “I’m just a girl” and “girl dinner.”
The Brat trend, epitomized by Charli XCX’s 2024 album, Brat, celebrated the messy party-girl archetype, while the coquette fashion trend borrows from Lolita-esque vibes, all lace and longing gazes.
At first glance, this revamped traditional femininity seems like a win. We’re reclaiming softness, romanticizing our lives and rejecting the sterile “hustle” culture that exhausted us all. However, when you step back, you start to wonder – are we actually choosing this or are we swapping one set of constraints for another?
One Reddit user, @Badcluesbears, put it best: “The girls are starving for community and clear expectations.” Maybe that is what all of this really comes down to. We want a sense of belonging, a set
of rules that tells us we are doing womanhood correctly.
Online discourse is riddled with micro-labels: clean girl, soft girl, tradwife, downtown girl, etc. Womanhood itself is almost like a trend cycle, a product to be rebranded and resold every few years. One minute we are rolling our eyes at the “dumb blonde” trope; the next, we’re romanticizing it in the name of ironic femininity.
Social media algorithms are the real girlboss now, profiting off this endless reinvention and feeding us aesthetics that turn self-expression
into performance. It’s more than just cultivating an online persona, with the heightened expectation to actually buy into these trends.
Clothing brands market prairie dresses, and previous hubs for party attire essentials such as PrettyLittleThing, now sell pieces for the tradwives and coquette girls. Amazon shops promote beige storage bins and all-gray loungewear for the clean girls. Even your bedsheets can be part of your “vibe.”
The message is incredibly clear: if you want to belong, you better have the wardrobe and skincare routine
to prove it.
A subculture might offer community and identity, but each one comes with its own set of unspoken rules. In the ‘90s, the Riot Grrl movement aimed to express feminism through punk rebellion, yet it largely excluded women of color. Additionally, Goth women have long used sexuality as a form of empowerment, but even within their own subculture, there was immense pressure to conform to a hyper-sexualized ideal. No matter the era, the expectation that women must be something (preferably marketable) remains.
What we’re really seeing is the same old story in a different font. The rise, fall and rebirth of femininity trends are evidence of how deeply we seek identity and belonging in a world that keeps repackaging womanhood as a product. The pressure to be something that is easily clickable, legible and sellable, never really fades, no matter if we don pink bows or power suits.
Nevertheless, maybe womanhood isn’t something to be summarized. Maybe it doesn’t fit inside a Pinterest board. At its core, womanhood should be an expansive space to grow into, not a role to play.
We don’t need another trend cycle to tell us who we are. We need to opt out altogether. Instead of asking how to perform femininity “correctly,” we should be asking ourselves why we feel the need to perform it at all. The real rebellion is not the existential choice between “girl boss” and “coquette;” it’s refusing to be defined by trends in the first place. It is time to start defining womanhood on terms that aren’t for sale.
The new internet policies spark backlash in boarders
Zara Murray Contributing Writer
Social media access during non-school hours has become a significant concern for boarding students, particularly international students who rely heavily on these platforms to stay connected with family and friends back home.
As of this year, Masters has introduced a no-phone and social media policy (see Community Standards: Respect for Shared Environment section on page 23) that blocks students from using social media while on the school internet. These current WiFi restrictions, which block social media access even during holidays and long weekends, have created challenges for the boarding community.
During this past Presidents Day, junior Adriana Pottier, a boarder from Spain, tried to use Instagram to message some of her friends back home, only for the page not to load. This reminded her that even though it is a long
weekend, the school wifi still restricts social media for boarders.
Many boarders run into this same issue every three-day weekend or snow day. They are unable to access social media as if it were a school day which is unfair because it is a weekend or holiday where boarders should be able to use their phones and laptops without that restriction.
Alex Cho ‘27, a boarder, said, “As a boarder, I find it very annoying that on three-day weekends, I am not able to be on social media and my WiFi cuts out at eleven pm. I think students, boarders included, should be able to enjoy their three-day weekends without treating the extra day like a school day when it clearly isn’t.”
As stated in the Student Technology Acceptable Use Policy “Use of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), the Resident network and the Masters_Guest network are strictly prohibited by current students.”
This policy puts boarders in a difficult dilemma of breaking a school policy or being able to use blocked websites. This policy
states that Masters students are prohibited from using any internet connection on campus other than the official Masters WiFi network.
Laura Yuan ‘25 said, “ I totally did not know this was a policy for our school. It is really unreasonable for the school to stop us from using VPN or hot spots on the three-day weekend when I want to call my family back home but am unable to due to these restrictions.”
The school should provide boarders with the same internet access on school-designated holidays, long weekends, and other non-academic periods – as stated in the academic calendar at the beginning of each school year–that they have on weekends.
This would lift social media restrictions during these specified days, ensuring boarding students can maintain important connections with family and friends without encountering unexpected barriers. This solution respects both the school’s policies and boarding students’ personal time.
AT MASTERS COMES with a lot of benefits, but the restrictions on the internet during weekday holidays is definitely not one of them. Murray argues that Masters should realign borders’ wifi to account for holidays.
SUBCULTURES MAY GIVE THE illusion of female independence, but Neena Atkins argues against this, claiming that subcultures further entrap women into a subjugating cycle.
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Investigating the relevance of historically women’s colleges
Allie FA ber Lead News Editor
Senior Sarah Schlapp used to be quiet in class.
“But coming to Masters and being in classrooms, primarily with other women, I feel like I was never questioned about my worthiness of being able to make a good point in class,” she said.
When Schlapp came to Masters in sixth grade, before the Middle School fully integrated its classes to be co-ed during the 2021-22 school year, she was unaware of how formative it would be to learn in an environment where she felt like her voice was valued.
“It felt like everybody was on an equal playing field, and I never had to fight to try and get myself into the conversation.”
Because of her positive experience in a predominantly female and gender expansive classroom, Schlapp said she is excited to attend Bryn Mawr College next year – a historically women’s school.
This spring, as high school juniors begin to prepare lists of schools to apply to for the annual round of college admissions, the question is raised: are historically women’s colleges still relevant?
In the 1800s, higher education for women focused on home arts, propriety and sometimes teaching to prepare women for the domestic sphere. Curricula increasingly expanded around the turn of the century to include similar course offerings to those at colleges and universities for men, and the prestigious Seven Sisters league – a group of historically women’s colleges including Wellesley, Barnard, Smith, and others – was formally established in 1926. These early renditions of women’s colleges generally achieved their original goal: expanding access to postsecondary education to women.
Many elite institutions only start-
ed admitting women in the late 60s and early 70s. Princeton University and Yale University, for instance, did not graduate their first co-ed class until 1973.
The Case for Irrelevance
Despite historical exclusion from higher education, women make up 58% of all college students as of 2020, and 47% of women in America aged 25-34 hold bachelor’s degrees as opposed to 37% of men.
The gender gap in college-level education has existed for decades –and continues to grow, with female students now overrepresented in the higher education pool.
Women are succeeding in their careers, too. In areas like law and medicine, they are making up nearly half of the professionals in their respective industries.
The New York Times held a print discussion in 2015 where professionals debated the necessity of
historically women’s colleges in the wake of Sweet Briar College’s (later reversed) closing.
“The popular idea that single-sex education benefits women comes from anecdotes about female leaders who were educated in an era when elite colleges did not admit them. For example, Hillary Clinton attended Wellesley College, but she also graduated from Yale Law School, which was co-ed,” wrote Diane Halpern, former president of the American Psychological Association and author.
“It is precisely because girls and boys spend so much time apart, practicing different skills and relational styles, that they walk into college classrooms with different types of academic confidence and career ambition,” Lise Eliot, a neuroscience professor and author, added.
The Case for Relevance
Statistically, all women’s colleges
Same time next year? Bridge USA may not make it to autumn
ellie Hise Editor-in-Chief
Senior and co-president of the Bridge USA club Jesse Gelman said he was sitting outside with a book when he “got the call from Nicole that it was over.”
In February, he and his co-president Nicole Rodriguez received an email saying that the club, one chapter of a national organization, would not be returning in September.
Gelman and Rodriguez, two seniors, are now navigating how to manage the club and hopefully keep it alive next fall. Originally in both high schools and colleges, the non-profit organization hosted
discussions on current issues with the goal of fostering civil discourse. Funds were directed towards hosting special events and speakers, and highschool chapters were given access to counselors. Now, with Bridge USA terminating their highschool program, the Masters chapter is soon to be on its own.
What is Bridge USA?
The non-profit focuses on kindling civil discourse and bridging political divides between students. According to Rodriguez, “It’s not associated with Democrats or Republicans, whereas at most colleges you have, like ‘College Dems’ or ‘College Republicans.’” The club chooses a specific current event to
focus on each meeting, and the presidents run a moderated discussion. Rodriguez said, “You can get the best conversation possible, where people feel like they’re interacting with new ideas and that everyone’s being respectful and present.”
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produce more leaders in their respective fields than their co-educational counterparts. Bryn Mawr’s Dean of Undergraduate Admissions, Nichole Reynolds, also makes the case that such institutions serve as “empowering, inclusive and collaborative” environments for female and nonbinary students. Others argue that attending historically women’s colleges inherently undercuts gender bias present in co-educational environments.
roommate to live with.
“Living in a world right now where politics are the undertone to everything, it feels a lot safer and more comfortable to be around women
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Hirdt ‘26
“Attending institutions that are all about women empowerment, and all about the idea that women are as capable of achieving and doing the things that men do in society, is an amazing thing,” Director of College Counseling, Adam Gimple, said.
Although they hold more bachelor’s and master’s degrees than men, women still only represent one-third of Congress and 28% of the STEM workforce. The postgraduate hustle to compete for internships, schmooze professionals and ultimately land a paying job creates a demand for networking opportunities. That, Carolyn Hohl ‘21 says, was one of the driving reasons behind her choice to attend Wellesley College.
“It’s definitely kind of an atmosphere of…if I saw a hiring manager that went to Bryn Mawr, I could reach out and have a conversation, mostly because we both went to Seven Sisters colleges.”
In addition to lifting each other up in the professional world, Hohl also mentioned that her Wellesley peers have helped her in more personal aspects of postgraduate life, such as helping her search for a
“The [Seven] Sisters community is really solid. I’m in a bunch of Facebook groups right now, and there’s still a connection between us, because we all have that experience of going to historically women’s colleges.” Politics, too, have played a role in the resurgence of women’s colleges. Two years into President Donald Trump’s first term in 2018, Inside Higher Ed published a piece deeming the surge in yield rates at historically women’s colleges a “Trump Bump.”
Quoted in the article, administrators at schools like Barnard and Bryn Mawr largely attributed their increase in yield to current events. In the wake of the 2016 election and the growing #MeToo movement, they said, students wrote more and more about pushing back against Trump’s policies and joining social justice movements in their application essays.
Historically women’s colleges and universities have a long legacy of political and social activism. Bryn Mawr students were deeply involved in the women’s suffrage movement, while Barnard alumni fought for civil rights well into their professional careers. While it’s too early right now to be sure, it’s possible that these colleges will see another “Trump Bump” in the coming years.
Nola Hirdt ‘26 is considering applying to Scripps College, a historically women’s school in California. “Living in a world right now where politics are the undertone to everything, it feels a lot safer and more comfortable to be around women,” she said.
SARAH SCHLAPP ‘25 RELAXES on a lawn in front of Bryn Mawr college, the college she will be attending in the fall. Schalpp chose to attend Bryn Mawr because of her positive experience feeling valued and included in discussions in a predominantly-female classroom.
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Mercy coaches bring mentorship and experience to teams
Ella Black Lead Sports Editor
Calling out to players mid-drill with confidence and moving across the field with the ease of someone with years of practice, current student-athletes and graduates from Mercy University have brought high level playing experience to Masters’ athletics in their roles as coaches. Not long ago, they were the ones in
These coaches have turned their college training into hands-on coaching, helping Masters teams, such as field hockey, lacrosse, basketball and soccer, improve.
When Logan Condon became Masters’ Director of Athletics in 2019, he saw an opportunity to collaborate with local universities to improve The School’s athletic programs. prior to Condon’s arrival, there were only one or two alumni from Mercy coaching at Masters, but it really wasn’t until the 2021-22 school year that they made a conscious effort to add more.
He reached out and visited Mercy University, Manhattanville University and Pace University, looking to establish a relationship that could benefit both sides. Mercy proved to be the strongest fit and had eager student-athletes who were interested in collabo -
Condon said, “Our students learn from current or former athletes who know the game, have played at a high level and can share their experiences.”
For the 2024-25 athletic season, there are eight Mercy coaches in the fall, three during the winter and five during the spring who are either students or alum -
One of the biggest challenges is managing the coaches’ availability. Some coaches are still playing on their college teams or have classes, so it can be difficult to balance their university schedule and coaching commitments.
Others, like Gianna Mott, who coaches both lacrosse and basketball, no longer competes in lacrosse so she can dedicate more time to coaching. Moving forward, Condon hopes to recruit more former college athletes who have the experience but fewer scheduling conflicts.
One example is Olivia Maute, who graduated from Mercy in 2024 with a degree in Health Science after playing goalie for Mercy women’s lacrosse team all four years. Now, back at Mercy, she is pursuing her masters in occupational therapy. Also, she has been an assistant coach at Masters for three years, helping with both the swim and lacrosse teams at the middle and high school levels.
Maute first heard about Masters from a teammate at Mercy during her junior year. “She had been coaching the soccer and lacrosse teams and knew they were looking for a swim coach,” Maute said. “After coaching the swim team in the winter, I was so excited to stick around at Masters in the spring for the lacrosse season.”
Senior Lydia Chioffi has had Maunte as her swim coach.
models a passing and cutting drill during practice. She graduated from Mercy in 2024 and has been coaching at Masters for three years.
She said, “It is so easy to relate to her because she knows what we are balancing and is often balancing the same things.”
The Mercy coaches have also become a part of the Masters community and participate in events outside of coaching. Many of them show up to support Masters athletes during other sports games, even ones they don’t coach, or eat meals with students in the dining hall after practices and games.
Condon said,“You see them everywhere, not just at practices
or games, but cheering on the kids they coach in other aspects of their lives. That’s what makes this partnership special.”
Even though Condon is moving on from Masters this year, he believes that the relationship between Masters and Mercy will continue.
He said, “We have a good relationship with the Mercy Athletics Department; they frequently refer their athletes to us, and current coaches often refer their peers as well.”
Athletes on campus grapple with work load and stress
Jack Bilman Web Editor
Student-athletes often struggle with completing their homework assignments on time and maintaining good mental health. Not only does practice cut into homework time, but students also get physically and mentally burned out.
“Sometimes when I come home, I just don’t have enough time to
do my work and get a good night’s sleep. It can be really difficult to fit homework into a busy schedule,” Henry Frasca, a sophomore and varsity track athlete, said.
To cope with this issue, students have to come up with creative solutions to manage their time. Eunice Wang, a senior and varsity fencing athlete said, “I actually do all of my homework on the weekends. Sometimes I’ll just sit in the cafe and do my homework from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.”
Another way that a student has
combatted this issue is by proposing to change school policy.
Sophie Moussapour, a senior, has been on multiple varsity teams throughout her high school career. Moussapour is in the process of writing a bill for the executive committee that, if passed, will “implement a policy within athletics where players can take a mental health day for practice 1-2 times per season depending on if you’re a varsity or junior varsity player.”
Additionally, Moussapour conducted a survey of the whole
Upper School. “A lot of people were giving feedback like ‘there’s a noticeable drop in my grades when I’m in a varsity season’ or ‘I get home two hours later’. This made me realize that athletics has become too much of a burden” Moussapour added. In addition to time stresses, student-athletes can face lots of pressure to perform. This can stem from coaches, family members or teammates who expect a high level of performance from an athlete.
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try to get students to a place where running feels like part of their life. That way it’s almost like a lifestyle.”
An article by John Hopkins Medicine, featuring psychologist Valerie Valle, said that young athletes “may have an unrealistic standard for themselves and start to equate their athletic performance with self-worth.” This can lead to a sports performance affecting daily mood or confidence.
-Ian Mook
Frasca said, “It took me a year or so to develop something against feeling negative about a bad race. If I have a bad race, I wouldn’t want to come into school and be affected by it, which I am good at now.”
Another issue that many student athletes face is mental burnout. Head Track and Field coach Ian Mook said, “We try to get students to a place where running feels like part of their life. That way, it’s almost like a lifestyle.” This helps prevent students from getting mentally drained by the constant physical effort, which is particularly important for runners, considering that it’s offered year-round. Wang, on the other hand, uses her time fencing as a break from the long school day. She added “It’s a time for me to relax myself and let out some of my worries and stress.” An effective method that Mook uses to keep athletes motivated is to have them set their own goals. He said, “When an athlete independently says ‘I want to qualify for nationals, I want to be an All-American,’ they’re more likely to stay engaged and excited for those achievements, rather than when it feels like the goal is forced on you.”
MERCY ATHLETE AND COACH for Masters Varsity Lacrosse Team, Olivia Maunte,
GIANNA MOTT, A MERCY athlete and coach for Masters Varsity Lacrosse Team, demonstrates a defense drill. She majored in Exercise Science and played lacrosse at Mercy until 2023.
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A STUDENT ATHLETE PUSHES through late-night schoolwork, balancing academics, soccer and the quiet strain of mental health challenges with limited downtime. The NCAA found that 44% of student-athletes report experiencing poor mental health symptoms daily.
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FAA meet highlights runners’ season progress
elaina Barreto Lead Opinion Editor
After weeks of intense training, recovery and steady improvement, new and returning track members had the chance to show off their progress at the Fairfield Athletic Association meet on Thursday, April 16, held at Greene Family Field. Masters athletes competed against students in The King School, Sacred Heart School, Greenwich Country Day School, School of the Holy Child and Harvey School. The meet marked a moment for runners to reflect on a season of growth, dedication and support
teammates.
Junior Ana Alexander, who received second place in the Girls 800 meter race with a time of 2:40.71, has been a member of the track team since her freshman year. She is usually involved in winter and spring track, but this school year she joined the cross country team during the fall. She has dealt with shin splints over the past few months, but said the pain has not been as intense as new runners who may not be used to the track.
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“If you're training every day, then the impact that your feet are going to have on the track and how it resonates in your body is not going to hurt as much. Someone who is new to track is going to have a harder time,” she said. While the beginning of a season can be difficult for new runners as they get used to the intense workouts, freshman Adrienne
Girzone said she believes she and other new runners have improved their stamina a lot in the past couple of months.
“In the beginning of my OCA runs, I felt I would take a lot of stops. I’ve been getting better at taking fewer stops and [running] longer,” she said.
On meet days, runners complete a series of drills before the race begins. Sophomore Natalie Ambrosio said drills usually consist of stretching and then jogging at the Old Croton Aqueduct (OCA) trail near Masters for 15 minutes. Then, runners do strides and prepare for the race. However, the practices before a meet are structured to be less intense in order for runners to conserve their energy before a race.
Alexander said Mondays and Tuesdays usually consist of harder exercises, such as block starts and two hundreds, and Wednesdays are usually reserved as recovery days after the intense workouts. She said that runners’ training and journey throughout the track season not only depends on the workouts that they’re assigned, but also the amount of effort they put into the work.
Despite the hard work and dedication that is involved in being a part of the track team, Girzone said she is still glad she joined because of the positive community.
“Track is very non-compet-
Alexander said, “[Runners do] write down [their running] goals at the beginning of the season, but really, [a lot] depends on the amount of effort they put into each workout. If you really want something, you're going to be putting in the effort into any workout that you get, so [training] really depends on the person.”
itive because it's kind of like a sport against yourself. A lot of people work hard, but also, there's no competition within the team. We’re all cheering each other on. [Even with] our competitors, we were all cheering for each other,” Girzone said.
Golf’s exclusivity makes team practice a challenge
Siena VerSaci Contributing Writer
At the high school varsity level most sport teams practice multiple days per week if not daily. This is not true for many student golf teams. “Rome certainly wasn’t built in a day,” said Jack Stevens, associate director of boarding admission and coach of the golf team. For Masters Golf, the team is being built up each year with rising interest. Golf club appeal however, is not impactful when the sport of focus is one so deeply rooted in hierarchy, wealth and exclusivity.
“In this Fairfield and Westchester county area, golf is private and exclusive,” Stevens said. Even a private school such as The Masters School, has difficulty gaining access to a golf course without having a player who is connected with a golf country club.
He said,“The team doesn’t have students who are members of Ardsley [country club] who are players on the golf team.”
Only teams with students who are members can have practice time, which highlights the elitism of the sport. With club memberships being so expensive, many teams have limited practice.
“Public courses are money-generating operations so to host us as a team would not be economically beneficial,” Stevens added.
“The courses around Westchester are private membership courses,” Stevens said. Though The Masters School has a partnership with Ardsley Country Club, where the team gets specific dates for home matches, the team cannot get daily or even weekly practice times. The team is limited to a day per month on the course aside from matches.
For schools without this access, it is very difficult to compete. Chris Mira, the golf coach at the Greens Farm Academy, said that the team practices “Five days per week, roughly an hour and a half per day.” The team gains access through a coach who was also a member of a club.
Chris Forester, the golf coach at Brunswick School, pointed out that, “It’s hard work to develop these relationships. It involves lots of emails, calls and personal visits to talk to the Club professionals.” He did not, however, mention money, a
key component in getting practice time.
Since Stevens started with the golf team three years ago, he’s noticed that interest in the sport has grown. When he started, there were 16 kids. This year, there are 33.
Increased interest, while good for the team, stresses the already limited resources available. Stevens said, “Due to limited space, the team must make tough decisions and cuts because we don’t have regular access to a golf course.”
“Practice time is 50/50. Half of the time the team is on
campus in the gym, hitting into a net called a flight scope, while sometimes the team goes to the local driving range,” golf team member Sam Donovan ‘27
said. “Getting the course and driving range time is tough with a large team.”
Understanding these difficulties, the team asks students to have golf equipment, to have played golf on a course, to have taken scores, to have a general knowledge of the course and know the rules and etiquette prior to joining the team.
“The most important rule is that the students are interested
and not just looking to fulfill their Athletic Credit Requirement,” Stevens said. He clarified engaged students create a good team atmosphere.
While facing limitations in the high-end sport, Masters strives to change the narrative of golf as a rich man’s sport. It is expanding golf’s accessibility by using programs like Youth On Course, which helps lower match entrance prices from $40 to $20 for students 15 and under, Stevens explained.
“There is also a co-curricular called Intro to Golf in the fall and you don’t really need any equipment for it,” Arrav Singh, a sophomore golf team member, said.
Though golf is an individual sport, the team remains unified. “There is comradery because while I know I’m competing for myself, I also want to see my teammates succeed,” Donovan said.
Despite the challenges the team faces, the team has nearly doubled in size. Stevens said, “Now, the team has found a sweet spot where even when they are not on the course, they hone in on the golfers’ games, allowing them to spend a day putting or even chipping.”
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THE BOYS VARSITY GOLF team competed at Birchwood Country Club on Monday, April 21. Despite limited resources, the program continues to grow over the years. This season, there are 33 students -- including both the girls and boys teams -- in the golf program.
MASTERS STUDENTS COMPETED AGAINST other private schools in the region at the FAA meet on April 16. On the left, Ceriah Clarke ‘27 runs alongside a student from Sacred Heart School. Captain Anna Shub ‘25 also placed second place in the girls’ 800 meter race.
WILLIAM BLACK