Opinion
On a chilly October night, days before the United States presidential election, I was discussing the upcoming election with a fellow editor in the Scroll room. Since I had watched…
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Every four-year Deerfield student takes at least two years of history before they graduate. History, the study of the past,…
Editorial
“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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December 15, 2011
It’s easy to get any day student riled up about “exclusion,” especially with the recent introduction of a more structured residential curriculum.
November 10, 2011
Andrew Slade reflects on how Deerfield has supported him through difficult times.
November 10, 2011
If we leave behind a Deerfield society where no one has the nerve or cares enough to let their own voice be heard, we allow our own point of view…
November 10, 2011
Despite our political beliefs, we must understand that the promotion of ideologies that America has fought to avoid is becoming more and more popular among OWS protests.
November 10, 2011
Like other student-athletes looking to play the sport they love in college, I see the recruiting process as a just way to pursue and be admitted to any school I…
November 10, 2011
The people are real, as are their struggles, and it is time to revert to the way government used to be run, and should be run: of the people, by…
November 10, 2011
Sports carry far too much weight in a system supposedly meant to produce the most academically qualified students—people who will go on to be our society’s thinkers, revolutionaries, and problem…
October 12, 2011
While we are financed by the school, the administration does not exert any direct control over the articles or opinions we publish.
October 12, 2011
The negative responses “Seniority as More Than a Hierarchy” received from the class of 2011, amongst those of other extended community members, are due to the gross generalizing of the…
October 12, 2011
The United Nations recently hosted heated debates regarding the possibility of an independent state of Palestine bordering the Jewish state of Israel.