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The Circle Voice

The Student Newspaper of Groton School

The Circle Voice

The Student Newspaper of Groton School

The Circle Voice

Reintegration over Retribution

Reintegration over Retribution

Lena Aloise '27 July 31, 2024

The word prison calls to mind images of a bleak, dangerous place without hope for anything beyond barbed wire and concrete walls. It conjures the feeling of being trapped, confined, and overcrowded yet...

The Messiness of Military Aid

The Messiness of Military Aid

Daniel Mao '26 July 31, 2024

Congress passed three separate aid packages totalling $100 billion dollars to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan last month. Surprisingly, the packages stirred huge controversy within the Republican caucus. Some...

Campus Encampments and Echo Chambers

Campus Encampments and Echo Chambers

Daniel Palmer ’25 July 31, 2024

University campuses across America are aflame with protest. Green spaces have been taken over in recent weeks with students in protest of the Israel-Palestine war. Rows of tents forming encampments have...

Depolarizing by Debate: Fostering discussion between a right and left wing commentator.

Depolarizing by Debate: Fostering discussion between a right and left wing commentator.

Daniel Mao '26 March 2, 2024

It was just another Fourth Form dinner until someone asked that fateful question: What do you think about the new affirmative action ruling? The table immediately went quiet; all I could hear was the person...

Should Groton Have a Second Form?

Should Groton Have a Second Form?

Max Fan '25 and Rose Fischer '28 March 2, 2024

Con: Let’s get rid of the Second Form. By Max Fan ‘25 When some of the now-graduated forms remember my Second Form year, they will perhaps recall the sounds of screaming our form echoed through...

Illustration by Clarke Trevino '25

Tackling Gender at Groton

Anders Caspersen '25 March 2, 2024

As we develop our identities at Groton and attempt to find commonality among our peers, we tend to define ourselves along a single attribute: gender. This divide, which stems from the dorm structure, is...

Six Letters I Can’t Escape

Alisa Gulyansky '24 January 27, 2024

Throughout winter break, a startlingly trivial question came to dominate my mind: whether or not to keep the title “Groton” in my social media bio after I graduate. It feels so silly, entirely insignificant,...

Continuing Groton's Episcopal Tradition

Continuing Groton’s Episcopal Tradition

Samuel Lu '27 January 27, 2024

Nestled cozily in the heart of Groton School, St. John’s Chapel stands as a testament to our enduring affiliation with the Episcopal tradition, which began with the founding of Groton nearly 150 years...

Finding Light in the Darkest Time of Year

Finding Light in the Darkest Time of Year

Lena Aloise '27 January 24, 2024

During winter term at Groton, many students find themselves walking to sports practices in the dark, feeling too tired to socialize or work after school, and struggling to adjust to the brutally frigid ...

Gen Z’s Minority Mythology

Gen Z’s Minority Mythology

Joy Cao '24 December 13, 2023

“Dude, that smells nasty!”   In one episode of Fresh Off the Boat, the first ever U.S. sitcom focused on Asian Americans, we watch as Eddie Huang goes through the quintessential ethnic minority...

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