Rose Lipner, Features Editor
From Stanford University to the SATs, cheating is prevalent in all parts of the country, at all grade levels and at all levels of academic talent.
Fifty-nine percent...
On Facebook one night last December, Josh Goldner, Henry Wineburgh, Daniel Steinberg, Jacob Toczek and Gabe Silverstein were brainstorming about Rabbi Segal's release of the latest in his “Kosher Korner”...
By Eric Bazak, Features Editor
• February 22, 2015
Juniors’ eyes are glued to heavy Compass books as they fidget in the hallways, enveloped in insurmountable stress. There is only one explanation: SATs are coming up.
But how objective is the SAT? Do Shalhevet students have a level playing field with students in public schools – or with each other?
By Rose Lipner, Features Editor
• February 20, 2015
It was supposed to last until 9, but by 7:30 p.m. Feb 19 Mexikosher was all sold out of fresh, made-from-scratch tostadas — fried tortillas topped with sliced chicken, red cabbage, radishes, and a peanut,...
By Eric Bazak, Features Editor and Alexa Fishman, Editor-in-Chief
Half Mexican, half Japanese and five-sevenths kosher, Katsuji Tanabe won the Food Network’s Chopped reality cooking competition last...
A recent Boiling Point poll of students with licenses found that most Shalhevet drivers regularly break several laws while driving, and 42 percent have already been in an accident — despite having been licensed for, at most, just two-and-a-half years.
A full bottle of vodka lay nestled in a bush, out of anyone’s line of vision in the unlikely case a parent would come home. A few sophomores lounged on a couch, speaking incoherently as one of their...
Although Shalhevet did not formally commemorate the passing of legendary human rights leader and statesman Nelson Mandela, the five minutes in between class and Town Hall Dec. 5 were particularly quiet,...
Shalhevet's new iPad program has transformed classes for both sophomores and freshmen into intricate and technologically advanced courses -- as well as an opportunity to play the latest games and explore...
Both locally and nationally, schools are grappling with questions of how to best use technology without turning classrooms into free time for other electronic pursuits.
An informal Boiling Point survey...
By Tamar Willis, Deputy Editor-in-Chief
• November 20, 2013
Melissa transformed into Mah Lissa. Natalie rechristened herself Nah Tally, and Kaili became Kay Lee...in cyberspace, that is.
With college application season heating up, seniors have begun changing...
