for Forum Updates Humanities Lab Plans

Amelia Bush & Cleo Kilpatrick | Managing Editor & Photo Editor

On Feb. 10, student body president Justin Krelitz ‘23 led the Forum meeting which began with a club charter. Several ninth graders presented

Next, leaders from Political Roundtable proposed a plan of partnerning with SPA’s Politics Club to host a community conference open to high schoolers across the Twin Cities. Roundtable wants to fly in Olivia Seltzer from Harvard to come speak at an event in the spring.

Treasurer Sam Hardy ‘24 stated that $650 remains in the forum budget for the rest of the year, so while the club leaders

Defend the Den, a rivalry event with food and games that was first held last year during a Blake/ Breck baseball game. During the meeting, they started planning logistics, created a group chat for easy communication, and started brainstorming ideas to boost engagement amongst both schools.

They are still figuring out dates for this event; Tia Gnanapragasam ‘25 asked if this event will interfere with other sports games happening on this day, but Nick Rathmann is the point person for scheduling. Forum is still waiting to hear back from Rathmann about the date for this event.

Differing opinions from students, faculty

Ueland & Rowan Wallin | Co-Editors-in-Chief

As of late, discussions surrounding the implementation of a Humanities Lab (which would be comparable to the existing Math Lab) have arisen at the Upper School. A Humanities Lab would encompass help for students in all literature, history, social studies, and philosophy idea. I’ve seen a lot more people using the Math Lab in the past couple years, so people would probably take advantage of [a Humanities Lab]. The [humanities] teachers probably have time to [supervise] it.”

Ben Cady, social studies teacher and Forum faculty representative, said, “If we’re just teaching writing skills—like how to write a thesis, how to support that thesis, how to find evidence—then all humanities should be able to do that.”

Indeed, Kaylee Chen a new club idea: Game Development Club. They have a goal of bringing together people who are interested in coding and creating games. The ninth graders explained that any level would be accepted because they too are not experts in this field and they are all learning together. Forum voted to charter this club. haven’t figured out the logistics, Forum faculty representative Ben Cady suggested to come back to their next meeting on Feb. 16 and present a more concrete plan for this event.

Next, Hardy and Zellie Olson ‘25 reported on their recent meeting with Breck’s student council on this year’s

Sarah Warren brought up that the Parent Association (PA) wants to do the design contest for the Homecoming sweatshirts again for next year. Warren said they need another Forum member for this committee along with Krelitz. Uma Bhardwaj ‘24 volunteered to be on the committee, as she was on it last year. This committee is meeting Feb. 23 with the PA to go over details. Lastly, juniors addressed the Feb. 8 town hall meeting which included heated opinions about the idea of creating a Humanities Lab.