By Minsoo Jung ‘21 News Reporter Since returning to school, especially during quarantine, many students have turned to video games while spending time in their rooms. Being that community members were restricted…
Month: September 2020
Mercersburgers are no strangers to natural disaster
By Dorothy Skuba Gray ‘23 News Reporter Pandemic. Social unrest. Political crisis. What next? No matter where you spent the summer nor what news occupied your inbox, you also certainly heard about…
Performing in a Pandemic
By Emma Shuford ‘22. Arts Editor Theater performances worldwide have been greatly hindered by the COVID-19 pandemic as socially distancing in theaters, for both actors and audiences, is difficult or impossible to…
Fight Back, Democrats
By Zain Qureshi ‘22 Opinion Editor On September 18, liberal icon and pioneer for women’s rights, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG), passed away. She served on the Supreme Court from 1993 until…
Mercersburg pivots in order to open
By Greta Lawler ’23 NEWS Reporter On Sunday, September 13, Head of School Katie Titus welcomed the school at Convocation with very important news. To replace the lost athletic season, the MAPL…
Delicious or Dilemma?
By: Melody Howe ‘22 NEWS Reporter This year Mercersburg has hired a new food service to replace Sage: Meriwether Godsey. They have had to contend not only with the task of learning…
The temporary PGA
By Matthew Tavarez ’22 NEWS Reporter In the absence of PGAs and opportunities for physical activity in general, the on-campus quarantine has proved to be difficult for most on campus. Community members…
All in this together: Virtual Burg 2.0
By Dalilah Melkumova ’21 NEWS Reporter The alarm clock rings. I grab my phone from the nightstand and squint at the screen in a futile attempt to check the time. As soon…
Socially distanced socializing
By Molly Willis ’22 NEWS Reporter After the quarantine for on-campus students, the Student Activities Committee hosted a series of events, including a campfire and two movie nights. Underclass students headed to…
Rest in power.
By Sarah Noorbakhsh ’21 Editor-in-Chief Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday, September 18, was a powerhouse. She was, and still is, an American cultural and feminist icon, who,…