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First-year teacher Brian Bakkala teaching a middle school Latin class.

Latin teacher shows you can go home again

Alumnus Brian Bakkala returns to AMSA in a new role
By Sarthak Panda, Features editor January 23, 2016

When Brian Bakkala isn’t in a classroom teaching, there’s something very familiar about him. Part of it is that he’s young, but there’s something else. You stare, squint, think, mentally erase...

Anagha Indic has always had a ready smile and superior social skills.

An alumnus with wisdom, and the skill to share it

By Alyana Vera, Co-opinion editor January 11, 2016

Of the 45 AMSA alumni—now college students—who returned for the school’s “Back to the Future” event on Friday, Anagha Indic stood out. It was probably the smile so omnipresent during her high...

Do guns make us safer or do they simply make violent acts easier to commit?

Can America actually talk about guns and violence?

Part Two: Potential solutions
By Raphael Cohen, Co-opinion editor December 20, 2015

If not now, when? These familiar words seem always to be looming over discussions of gun violence in the United States. Countless American lives have been lost to something that seems so curable, yet...

AMSA principal Dr. Michael Curry was a late bloomer academically, but he made up for lost time.

The man who would be principal

Dr. Curry had a long educational journey
By Lexi Ryan, Staff writer December 18, 2015

He lasted three weeks as a stockbroker. “By the end of the day, I just had to get out of there!” Sitting alone, calling people to talk about stocks all day was intolerable for a young Michael...

First-year Vice Principal Erin OConnor, right, speaks with a parent in the lower school.

AMSA’s Renaissance woman

By Mykalah Jacob, Co-editor December 18, 2015

Picture this: A student walks into an administrator’s office expecting a brief conversation about an after-school club. Instead, the talk flows for 30 minutes and includes exchanges about recommendations...

There were a number of candlelight vigils across the country after Americas most lethal mass shooting, at Virginia Tech University in 2007.

Gun violence in America: When will it end?

Part One: The problem
By Raphael Cohen, Co-opinion editor December 18, 2015

How much is a life worth? A light disappears from the world when a life is extinguished—an innocent flame cut short. This year alone there have been 311 verified mass shootings in the United States,...

The train tracks leading to the entrance of the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp.

A personal journey through the Holocaust

By Rebecca Perlin, Staff Writer June 17, 2015

“Speechless is the best way to put it,” AMSA English teacher Adrienne Masiello said when asked to describe the response that 10th grade students had to a presentation given on May 14 by junior Rafi...

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