Edition II
December 2014
Friends Seminary
Friends Announces New Academic Schedule By MAX TEIRSTEIN Next fall, the academic faculty is excited to introduce the new eight-day schedule into the lives of the Friends students. There will be a separate schedule for those in Middle School and for those in the Upper School. This new schedule won’t be assigned to the days of the week, like our present schedule, but will revolve around an eight-day cycle in which differently numbered days simply happen to land on days of the week. This means that for the first week of school, Monday through Friday will act as days one through five, and the following Monday to Wednesday will be days six through eight. Then, on Thursday, the schedule will restart with day one. This allows classes to continue without hiccup when there is an elongated weekend or break. Another new addition is the introduction of periods that are an hour and fifteen minutes long. The idea behind this change is to allow teachers to give a lesson without being rushed and to initiate a more hands-on class. This means students can work in groups on projects during class
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Jill Abramson speaks in the Meetinghouse on November 19.
Visiting Scholar Jill Abramson Kicks Off Residency By MAGHNUS MARENECK and co-inteviewed with SAM ZIEVE-COHEN
The Visiting Scholars program invited Jill Abramson, an influential figurehead in journalism and number five on Forbes’ “Powerful Women” list in 2012, to come to Friends Seminary. Abramson, who grew up in New York City, attended Ethical Culture Fieldston School and later received her BA in History and Literature from Harvard in 1976. After graduating, Abramson worked for Time Magazine until 1976, when she left to become the senior reporter in the
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Washington bureau of The Wall Street Journal. She was also first woman to become the Washington Bureau Chief, and later the executive editor of the New York Times. Abramson began her residency on November 19th. Her schedule was packed back-to-back from 8:45 to 3:15. Her visit included a visit to Charlie Blank’s Law class, discussions with the 4th and 7th grades, and a Q&A session with the Insight staff. The next day, on November
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20th, Abramson returned to Friends to give a lecture on freedom of press and Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks. For her first event, Abramson met with the Law class to discuss freedom of press and the Edward Snowden leaks. During her discussion, Abramson brought up the landmark Supreme Court case New York Times Co. vs United States. The case involved the government’s efforts to
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