A Tasty Taste of SAES
April 8, 2010 • Joe Chaney, Online Edition Co-Editor
Filed under Student Life
There’s only one place to learn about the culture of your friends and peers at St. Andrew’s and get to eat it too, and that place is “A Taste of St. Andrew’s.” Hosted by Ms. Stacy Kincaid, Diversity Coordinator, and the SAES Diversity program once a year, the event asks students to prepare... Read more »
Food and Fun for the Bored and Broke: Great Places in DC
April 8, 2010
Filed under Student Life
Do you know where to find authentic dim sum for under $8? A Sunday flea market where you can find antique pieces of art from the other side of the world, and lunch within a block? Do you know where you can have a pork dumpling and blintzes lunch within a block of St. Andrews after a Saturday sports practice? According... Read more »
Sick of Facebook Chat Glitches? Not Anymore
March 28, 2010 • Joe Chaney, Online Edition Co-Editor
Filed under Student Life
Everyone knows that Facebook chat is unreliable. It works ALMOST every other day. But Facebook’s teaming up with AOL has brought a new way to use Facebook chat through a more dependable means. I can’t even begin to count the times that I have been talking to someone in Facebook chat and all a sudden... Read more »
A Family Affair
March 13, 2010 • Andres Grimm, Staff Writer
Filed under Student Life
The number of teachers with students at St. Andrew’s has increased by 1050% in the past five years–from two children to twenty-one. This major increase is connected to tuition remission, an opportunity for a better education, and the simple convenience working where their child attends school. The... Read more »
Hot or Not? Apple’s New Product: The iPad
March 2, 2010 • Matt Adams, Staff Writer
Filed under Student Life
Soon to be Apple’s newest product, the iPad. So what exactly is an iPad? An iPad is pretty much a combination of an iPod Touch and an iPhone, basically an iPod on steroids. Apple is releasing two different versions of the Ipad: the wi-fi only version and the wi-fi and 3G version, each with a separate... Read more »
From Paris With…Terrorism
February 25, 2010
Filed under Student Life
If you take the movie “Taken” and replace Liam Neeson’s quiet, determined, and practical character with a man remarkably similar to John McClane of “Die Hard,” and add elements of a Jackie Chan and “Mission Impossible” movie, you get “From Paris With Love.” Another way to describe this... Read more »
Lost in the plot of ABC’s “Lost”?
February 25, 2010
Filed under Student Life
For those of you who don’t know what has happened in “Lost” here are some of the key developments from previous seasons. The Island has special healing powers. John Locke was unable to walk before coming to the Island and yet now he can walk on it. Rose Henderson Nadler came to the Island with... Read more »
A & J’s: Stretching Your Dollar as Far as Possible With Northern Dim Sum
February 19, 2010 • Peter James
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At the bottom corner of a small building in Rockville next to the Woodmont Country Club is one of the best bargain restaurants in the metropolitan area. A&J’s is a small family owned restaurant which serves Northern Chinese dim sum. Opening the door, the first things you notice are the spicy,... Read more »
Is Tetris too old? It’s More Popular Than Ever
February 4, 2010 • Matt Adams, Staff Writer
Filed under Student Life
The 2-D boxes keep falling and falling… You keep up, trying to beat your friend’s high score. You’ve spent many hours on this doing the same thing over and over again, but it never gets old. You know what I’m talking about… the game of Tetris. Tetris was thought up and created in 1984... Read more »
Rise in teen pregnancy
February 4, 2010 • Matthew Graves, Staff Writer
Filed under Student Life
A recent Washington Post article (“Rise in teenage pregnancy rate spurs new debate on arresting it” by Rob Stein) reported that, “The pregnancy rate among teenage girls in the United States has jumped for the first time in more than a decade.” Teen pregnancy had risen three percent between 2005... Read more »
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