Student body observes Ash Wednesday
Alina Kushner, Reporter
February 26, 2020
The Convent & Stuart Hall community observed Ash Wednesday with an assembly at the Pine Octavia campus at which students received ashes on their foreheads and wrote an intention for the Lenten Season. Ash Wednesday is a Christian holiday representing sacrifice and reflection marking the be...
Teenagers can choose to donate, but don’t
Gabriella Vulakh, Editor-in-Chief
December 19, 2019
Depending on socio-economic class, teenagers are often the population with the most expendable income, as they are not providing for their families or supporting themselves through school and other extracurricular activities, yet many teenagers do not set aside allowance or job money for charities....
C-ing Clearly: It’s time to stand up
Cece Giarman, Editor-in-Chief
April 3, 2019
A series of photos of high schoolers at a house party went viral earlier this month. The pictures show a group of students around pull-out tables as they extend their arms in the Nazi salute and stand in front of a swastika formed out of what appears to be beer-filled, red Solo cups. Understandab...
Interfaith club encourages a variety of religions
Adele Bonomi, Senior Reporter
October 23, 2018
WEB EXCLUSIVE The interfaith club met during lunch today to discuss different faiths and ways to raise their voices in the school community. “At our predominantly Catholic school, other religions need a way to express themselves,” sophomore and co-leader of the Interfaith Club, Charlotte Ehrlich said...
Profiling a hot button issue
Liana Lum, Editor-in-Chief
October 1, 2015
Looking at images of Texas high school freshman Ahmed Mohamed's homemade clock, it is plausible his teacher misunderstood its function and mistook it for a bomb. But, what’s troubling is even after the clock was confirmed as harmless, the Muslim was still arrested, interrogated and suspended from school...
Teens have religious values, if not ‘religion’
December 12, 2014
The perception that today’s teenagers are increasingly distancing themselves from religion, spirituality and the values that they profess, and that teens’ religious knowledge is shallower than past generations’, is an unjust falsification that Religious values are still important to today’s...
Organized religion is the new counterculture
February 11, 2010
Jovel Queirolo Managing Editor The pews smell like stale floral perfume and a hardware store every Sunday. A sleepy warbling organ and a only a few enthusiastic voices back up a whining cantor singing “A-lle-lu-i-ah” as Father Mark takes his time settling the Gospel on its stand. Parishioners stand, b...
Mackenna Moslander and Elise Vulakh
June 8, 2020 • No Comments
WEB EXCLUSIVE In order to follow the guidelines of the Department of Public Health, Convent held both virtual and individual in-person ceremonies for the Class of 2020. The...
Students, faculty gather for 133rd annual Prize Day
June 3, 2020
June 3, 2020
We may never understand, but united we stand
June 2, 2020