Recently, Groton has been investing time and resources into constructing and renovating facilities across campus. But have we been spending too much money on these projects, and are they necessary? Let’s...

Why does Groton foster unhealthy relationships? Various theories include the hookup culture, the teacher practice of roaming, and the fact that there is so little free time here to spend quality time with...

The Handbook offers this equation for homework: Form x 10 = minutes of preparation time per class. This, however, is far from reality. Students and faculty are aware of this limit, but it is not executed....

We see it most obviously in chapel, in the Dining Hall, in the Forum. It’s laced into our schedules, giving preference to older students in course selections. It finds its way into our social lives,...

A. Wei Over the past two years there has a been a drastic increase in the number of clubs at Groton. I’m not entirely sure what is to blame for this recent explosion in the number of clubs, but my personal...

It’s 10:30 at night after a long, busy Monday, and after check-in all you want to do is brush your teeth and crawl into bed. But you have an English essay due tomorrow—and you haven’t even started...

It is a Saturday night. The student center is full of dancing teens, dominated by the stench of hormones and sweat-soaked DIY muscle tees. Slowly, as the night progresses, groups break off and exit the...

  The recent change from disposable paper cups to reusable plastic cups has received some negative feedback since the switchover. Many reusable cups will be lost and will cause an annoying increase...

This summer I went to The Gambia, an extremely small African country surrounded almost completely by Senegal, for two months at an medical research council camp where my godmother worked as a malaria research...