Looking Back: The Girls Varsity Volleyball Season
Country Day’s volleyball season ended Nov. 2 after a 3-1 loss to Forest Lake Christian in the California Interscholastic Federation Sac-Joaquin Girls Volleyball playoffs semifinal. The varsity team ended the season with a 9-3 record, coming in second place in…
EDITORIAL: Locker rooms need to be opened for student use, find storage elsewhere
It’s early in the morning after a Country Day basketball practice, and the players are sweaty, tired and ready to get changed. But instead of entering the locker room — which is now little more than a glorified storage room…
Korean-inspired SomiSomi wows with taiyaki ice cream
After traveling a short distance to Curtis Park, I walk into SomiSomi — taste buds tingling with anticipation — ready for a cold and creamy treat. My eyes meet with a clean white and yellow fish-themed decor. I can see…
“Star Wars Visions” is an exciting journey into the galaxy far, far away
I’ve always been captivated by the vast and unique universe portrayed by the movies of the “Star Wars” franchise. Then, Disney announced “Star Wars Visions,” a series of nine animated “Star Wars” shorts films, would be released on Disney+ on…
Athletic educators: Teachers play non-competitive sports during their free time
Originally published in the Nov. 16 edition of the Octagon.
BEHIND THE SCENES: The maintenance and custodial team
There are a lot of things that make a school run smoothly. Many people associate the word ‘school management’ with the teachers who engage students in learning or the administrators who raise money for the various activities taking place on…
BEHIND THE SCENES: How the Country Day lunch program works
The clock hits 12:12, it is lunchtime. A wave of hungry students crowd in front of the library to grab their lunch, delivered from local restaurants. As they walk up to the lunch tables, students of all grade levels look…
‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ is a comedic masterpiece, strikes deeper meaning along the way
In Hollywood, sequels never seem to measure up to the originals. However, “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” a sequel to the 2018 film, Venom, was an outstanding movie that strayed outside the norm with its computer-generated imagery and creative storyline….
EDITORIAL: Getting the vaccine is our civic duty
Anti-vaxxers argue that vaccine mandates defy their rights to individual liberty, and yet, in Jacobson v. Massachusetts court case of 1905, the Supreme Court determined that vaccine mandates do, in fact, fall within the state’s power to protect the public…
EDITORIAL: Keep COVID-19 guidelines consistent!
It used to be impossible to imagine high school at Country Day without the traditions that define it, such as the Ancil Hoffman Park trip, where high school students play a game of capture the flag in teams of red…