Editorial
“I will act with respect, integrity, and care for others.” This the student pledges of Deerfield Academy, one we have gotten familiar with after almost half a year of Peep…
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“Just because I’m running doesn’t mean you need to run—it’s not Deerfield academics.” But in fact I did need to…
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Head of School Dr. John Austin has a long connection with the concept of institutional impartiality, first calling it principled…
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February 25, 2015
Rumors frequently pervade Deerfield’s campus. Isolated from the outside world, students become preoccupied with each other’s business. Yes, gossip is a natural phenomenon, as people are eager to share stories.…
January 28, 2015
Recent racially-charged events have elicited varied responses from calls for neutrality, to apathy, anger, disappointment, helplessness, and determination to make change. The grand jury proceedings resulting from the killings of…
January 28, 2015
Last year, the app Yik Yak swept through the Deerfield campus, prompting a series of community-wide conversations about our school values, accompanied by pleas from the administration to stop hurtful…
January 28, 2015
The Scroll commends Deerfield’s administration for considering and embracing student opinions regarding recent school decisions. This year, the deans have announced some (more or less) momentous changes: banning boys’ turtlenecks,…
December 17, 2014
One of our main goals at The Scroll is to address current issues facing the school community and to provoke discussion about these issues throughout the student body and faculty.…
December 17, 2014
Dear Reader, I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on Greenfield’s ongoing heroin epidemic and struggles with hunger and poverty as outlined by Heyi’s piece on page 2.…
November 12, 2014
Recently there have been some incidents that have drawn the attention of students to the need for mutual respect and protection of privacy between teachers and students on campus. We…
November 12, 2014
Due to the extreme stress that students experience from grades, Deerfield has decided that teachers will not show grades to freshmen students until the end of the term. While sophomores,…