Eggplant Identities
Aioli Cheese ’23 – Aly Clark ’23 (Editor) April Fulsome ’23 – Louka Scarabello ’23 (Editor) Aspasehar Gus ’25 – Sehar Mahesh ’25 (Editor-in-Chief) Bob the Tomato ’23 – Michael Coyne ’23 (Editor) Broccoliflower ’25 – ChatGPT (Contributing Writer) Cavendish Goo ’24 – Cavin Xue ’24 (Editor-in-Chief) Donut Huckleberry ’24 – Donald Heddesheimer ’24 (Contributing … Continue reading
Hockey’s Final Win in The Baron Cup
Since the start of the 2022-2023 winter season, the Western Reserve Academy Ice Hockey team has shown excellent performance in each game. Starting the season with a big win over Solon City School with a score of 9-1, the team has continued to bring back outstanding results to WRA. With the hockey team finishing their … Continue reading
Athlete Spotlight: Arianna Meyers
Straight out of upstate New York, basketball player Arianna Myers is a powerhouse and unstoppable force. She is a key player who makes an immediate impact the second she steps out on the court. Taking home a win against rival Hudson, Arianna was the first to score, having 10 points, two 3s in the first … Continue reading
Riflery: Shooting for Success
Beginning in 1986, a small team consisting of six shooters in the basement boiler room of the Murdough Athletic Center, riflery has grown into popular 24-person varsity sport. This season, they competed in various shoulder-to-shoulder and postal matches, including the Gary Anderson Cup, Western Brown Invitational, and the Atascocita Postal. Mr. Ong, the head coach … Continue reading
Handbook Changes Redefine Student Government
At the beginning of the 2022–2023 school year, Western Reserve Academy put several new handbook policies regarding student government in effect. Last year, breaking the rules in the handbook meant presenting your case to a group of students and faculty to determine your punishment. At the beginning of this school year, however, changes in the … Continue reading
WRA Model UN Conference
The Model United Nations is a student-run organization that serves as a simulation of the United Nations, educating participants about world issues and promoting peace and the work of the United Nations through cooperation and diplomacy. Along with Western Reserve Academy’s success at conferences held by Brown and Northwestern University, the leaders have also organized … Continue reading
Compass Speaks: The Class With No Limits
Compass Speaks is a program Western Reserve Academy offers for 11th and 12th grade students. The Compass program inspires tenacity, creativity and initiative. Students in the program identify a problem that needs solving; they can explore something they’re passionate about that doesn’t fit a traditional curriculum. The teachers of the Compass program, Dr. Borrmann and … Continue reading
Cartwright Dryer Fire Accident Was Not Really An Accident?
Late 2022, on a Wednesday evening, fire trucks rushed to Cartwright. Many were confused as to what was going on, but it would later be revealed that a dryer nearly caught ablaze. Although it appeared to be another dorm accident – this time caused by an economical dryer, the fiasco was actually a publicity stunt … Continue reading
Black Herstory & Futures — Review of She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore
She Would Be King, by award-winning author Wayétu Moore, centers the stories of three characters as their individual and collective experiences are told via historical fiction and magical realism. The late 2018 novel explores the Indigenous history of Liberia and the attempts to colonize the region. As the story progresses, the three characters convene across … Continue reading
Fire and Ice: A Time for Community Growth
Each issue, two Reserve Record writers debate an important issue for “The Coin.” February’s issue is Pros vs Cons of Fire and Ice. This year’s WRA Fire & Ice Festival was a massive success, with a wide range of creative activities that perfectly represented the theme of fire and ice. The Ohio Burn Unit wowed … Continue reading
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