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The walls are covered with art. In the main hall, eight boards full of black and white pictures are hung, with a picture of every student and faculty member, taken from the first day of school that particular year. Students hang out on the carpeted floor, playing cards or doing homework. Vacuums buzz three times a week, when the entire school takes time out of their day to clean "Grandma," 8th grade science teacher Herb Bergamini has affectionately named the building.
These are all normal sights and sounds at the Northwest School, a 6-12th grade independent private school in Seattle, WA. The historical landmark building originally housed the Summit School and was turned into office space in the late 1970's. The founders of NWS, the late Paul Raymond, his wife Ellen Taussig (who is the head of school currently) and their colleague and current biology teacher Mark Terry.
The school is bustling with over 450 students, some of whom come from other countries and live at the school's 50-person dorm just across the street. The school upholds community, diversity and respect as it's strongest core values. Three times a week the student body cleans the school; bathrooms, hallways, dusting, you name it. Every student takes part in an effort to remind students that this is their space and they should treat it well, or they will be cleaning it up later. Parents often remark how they wish they could get their kids to this at home!
Community, to NWS, means eating lunch together in the dining hall everyday, as well as meeting once a week as entire student and faculty body. Raymond felt that no child, based on creed or background, should have less than the next, so everyone eats the same food and gets the same wonderful education. Community meeting, which takes place every Thursday morning, is a bundle of announcements by students and teachers alike, ranging from a track meet or basketball game to reminding students to tip at the many coffee shops students frequent nearby.
Many of the quirks and traditions that make NWS unique, are what alumni remember most about their adolescent education. One difference from a regular high school, is that the school doesn't have "cut" sports. The national championship winning Ultimate Frisbee team fields almost 200 students every year, in different divisions. Many have gone on to play for the US National team.
Students are also encouraged to diversify their class schedule. NWS runs on the "Quint" system, rather than semesters or quarters. Every seven weeks students get a break ranging form three days to two weeks. They are given evaluations in lieu of grades, and are encouraged to change courses every seven weeks, in art and PE classes, to help students find new interests and learn new things.
As students and teachers alike would tell you, it's a great place to learn, be yourself, and grow up.
These are all normal sights and sounds at the Northwest School, a 6-12th grade independent private school in Seattle, WA. The historical landmark building originally housed the Summit School and was turned into office space in the late 1970's. The founders of NWS, the late Paul Raymond, his wife Ellen Taussig (who is the head of school currently) and their colleague and current biology teacher Mark Terry.
The school is bustling with over 450 students, some of whom come from other countries and live at the school's 50-person dorm just across the street. The school upholds community, diversity and respect as it's strongest core values. Three times a week the student body cleans the school; bathrooms, hallways, dusting, you name it. Every student takes part in an effort to remind students that this is their space and they should treat it well, or they will be cleaning it up later. Parents often remark how they wish they could get their kids to this at home!
Community, to NWS, means eating lunch together in the dining hall everyday, as well as meeting once a week as entire student and faculty body. Raymond felt that no child, based on creed or background, should have less than the next, so everyone eats the same food and gets the same wonderful education. Community meeting, which takes place every Thursday morning, is a bundle of announcements by students and teachers alike, ranging from a track meet or basketball game to reminding students to tip at the many coffee shops students frequent nearby.
Many of the quirks and traditions that make NWS unique, are what alumni remember most about their adolescent education. One difference from a regular high school, is that the school doesn't have "cut" sports. The national championship winning Ultimate Frisbee team fields almost 200 students every year, in different divisions. Many have gone on to play for the US National team.
Students are also encouraged to diversify their class schedule. NWS runs on the "Quint" system, rather than semesters or quarters. Every seven weeks students get a break ranging form three days to two weeks. They are given evaluations in lieu of grades, and are encouraged to change courses every seven weeks, in art and PE classes, to help students find new interests and learn new things.
As students and teachers alike would tell you, it's a great place to learn, be yourself, and grow up.
Husky fans relive the excitement of past Husky wins, while celebrating their 16-13 over the Trojans of USC this pas September.
On a gloomy day in Seattle, WA, the USC Trojans came to destroy the worst team in the country from 2008.
Fans came from all around to see the #3 Trojans, hoping to see an upset.
Superfan and UW senior Sofia Goldberg loved the ambiance. Though wishing she had sat in the student section, the game was the highlight of her weekend.
Throughout the game, the 90-year-old stadium shook from the excited fans.
And eventually, to the dismay of the Trojans, the Huskies won with a field goal with three seconds left.
Watching the student section empty out on to the field was probably one of the coolest things ever.
Fans came from all around to see the #3 Trojans, hoping to see an upset.
Superfan and UW senior Sofia Goldberg loved the ambiance. Though wishing she had sat in the student section, the game was the highlight of her weekend.
Throughout the game, the 90-year-old stadium shook from the excited fans.
And eventually, to the dismay of the Trojans, the Huskies won with a field goal with three seconds left.
Watching the student section empty out on to the field was probably one of the coolest things ever.Searching for a decent (and cheap) frame shop for my new Ork Poster, I read on Yelp about this place on Broadway. Low and behold, I had stumbled into Chinatown. At just 10am on this 92 degree September day, it was like I had hit a gold mine of color. Old and new in Chinatown sat right next to each other, along with English and Cantonese.
Though technically what I had found myself immersed in was New Chinatown, after Old Chinatown had fallen into decay and was torn down for a major rail terminal, now known as Union Station. New Chinatown was founded in 1938, by Chinese American community leader Peter Soo Hoo Sr.
The New Chinatown in LA is the third largest in the country, and has been made famous by many movies such as Rush Hour and 15 Minutes.
My favorite part about it was obviously the color, but also the juxtaposition of the language, and it seemed almost interchangeable in the area.
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PharmacyAnderson Cooper's PR manager deserves a raise. Anderson Cooper, most well known for his aptly named show Anderson Cooper 360--and his disgustingly well groomed, grey locks--has no awful middle school pictures to look at or misquotes that will play forever on the Internet.
Or so we think.
Searching AC on the Internet only tells you that he might be gay (never confirmed nor denied by anyone in Cooper's camp) and that Keith Olbermann has some beef with him. Cooper keeps his private life unbelievably quiet, not even rebuffing rumors as to his sexual preference so not to add any kind of fuel to the fire.
AC keeps up a blog, Facebook and Twitter, all the while keeping everything spotlessly clean of any kind of personal life. One might even question if he eats, sleeps and breathes news, which might actually be true except for the fact that he actually took a job that would allow him to have more of a personal life (The Mole on ABC), without actually mentioning what kind of personal life he might have.
Cooper even jokes that he has been "a news junkie since he was in 'utero."
The one and only thing Cooper tends to speak out about from his past and private life, is his brother committing suicide in 1988, essentially in front of his mother. It is hard to wonder why he talks about this, and nothing else, but really, who cares?
Why do we, the public, care if he only does his job; report the news? Shouldn't we be happy we don't see Cooper gallivanting around Louisiana when he covered Hurricane Katrina? Why is that bad?
Well, part of me wonders what bias' he might have, and without knowing about his private life, we have no idea. Although he does say that his job is to cover the news without bias, and I think the public trusts him more, rather than less, because we know nothing about him outside of CNN.
Yes, we can find out his birthday, that his was born to a wealth Vanderbilt heiress, his email, that his brother committed suicide. It's not a big deal to me that I don't know if dates men or women, or has a dog or a cat, or lives in NYC or LA. I like the mystery of thinking he sleeps at his desk at CNN and is always there to cover something I am interested about, all the while doing it, seemingly, without a bias.
That same thing can't be said for journalists who endorse.
