Editorials

Re-examining Lawrenceville Student Activism

          On a Tuesday in March, year 1229, students from the University of Paris entered a tavern in the quarter of Saint Marcel. After some rowdy...

Today’s Culture, Tomorrow’s Tradition

          This past week, Head of School Stephen Murray H’54 ’55 ’65 ’16 P’16 ’21 swore in a new generation of Lawrentians at the annual Convocation...

Rest Well, Lawrenceville

In Greek mythology, Achilles is depicted as the peerless hero of the Trojan War. Countless legends recount his apparent invincibility; having been dipped into the river Styx as an infant...

Tick-Tick Boom!?

Homework: everyone’s favorite aspect of Lawrenceville student life. By this point in the academic year, every student has become accustomed to the grind of pushing through three to four subjects...

New Council, Same Challenges

The blossoming of flowers and the arrival of warm, sunny days mark not just the start of spring but of the long-awaited election season, in which a number of admirable...

The Straight and Narrow: Broadening Horizons

Lawrenceville's first batch of female students was admitted in 1987, bringing an end to the 177-year-old all-male legacy and transitioning the School into the co-ed environment it is today. Hooray!...

How to Incorporate ChatGPT into Lawrenceville Life

Generative AI: It shows up everywhere. From the endless pits of the YouTube recommended page to notifications from The New York Times, there always seems to be something trending about...

Learning to Love Lawrenceville

In last Thursday’s first presidential forum, ten IV Formers aspiring to lead our student body faced a gargantuan question: “How would you define our campus culture? How might you work...

Who's Really at the Wheel?

A popular existentialist parable describes life as a road trip down a muddy path. As your car traverses down the road, it kicks up mud that flies every which way....

Three Cheers for Consumerism!

With the commencement of Turkey Term, the Lawrenceville community spirals into a concoction of stressed furor and holiday spirit. New classes and co-curricular activities begin while campus comes to life...

Hocoprosal: The Performance of a Lifetime (or term, really)

With Homecoming just weeks away, we students brace ourselves for an inundation of Instagram-worthy Homecoming proposals (colloquially known as Hocoprosals). From puns on poster boards to elaborate fruit loop arrangements,...

The Board Speaks: An Odd Way to Stay Balanced

1. Surviving (Read: Thriving)   When I was younger, my parents always told me to “find a job that makes enough money that allows you to do what you love.”...

Bound in the Binaries (and How to Get Out)

The sun beat down vigorously, the day so hot you could almost see waves of heat radiating from the ground. We had already been en route to our campsite for...

Making Memories a Moon(cake) Away

Last week was the Mid-Autumn Festival.  Mid-Autumn Festival, or as I’ve called it my entire life, 中秋节, is a Chinese holiday that brings families together under the fullest moon of...

Sourdough (and Life)

1. The humble beginnings of a sourdough loaf: the sourdough starter. Initially, the starter is nothing but a glob of flour and water in a jar. Yet, as these ingredients...

Big Nate, Big Autri, Big Summer Dreams

As a child, one of my favorite comic strips was Big Nate. Nate was nothing like me—he enjoyed going to the beach, neglected his schoolwork, and constantly made trouble with...

Learning Leadership in Uneasy Times

As I left the office on February 24—the last day of the 141st Board’s tenure—I couldn’t help but feel that my world was coming to an end. Here were the...