Dear Reader, Congratulations on a wonderful year! We are proud to bring you the last full issue of The Campitor for the 2021-2022 school year. We are also thankful for a relatively normal end to a year marked by a return to normality. This issue covers everything from the first Grandparents & Special Friends Day… Read More Letter From the Editors
Perhaps you have noticed the prices of items at the grocery store increasing, or perhaps each visit to the gas pump has been taking a toll on your wallet as of late. Inflation, the gradual increase in the price of goods and services over time, is responsible for these higher prices. Today, it costs $168.77… Read More Why Are Prices Rising? by Ella Gupta
On March 25, Cary Academy hosted the first on-campus Grandparents’ & Special Friends’ Day since the beginning of the pandemic. Guests accompanied their students to X Day Activities and had the opportunity to partake in various activities. For example, some grandparents attended Pancake Chemistry Palooza, participating in a “seminar discussion about the chemical function of… Read More Grandparents and Special Friends Day by Ella Gupta
The Supreme Court is one of America’s most hallowed institutions. Made up of one Chief Justice and eight associate justices, it was established in 1789 as the third branch of government and serves as the ultimate arbiter and bastion of justice. It was originally intended to be non-political and independent, not to be influenced by… Read More Ketanji Brown Jackson by Maya Gupta
Anyone who’s driven on American roads can attest that bumper stickers are a ubiquitous feature of the country’s landscape. In a 2,000 person survey conducted in 2017, drivers across the country were given an opportunity to voice their opinions on bumper stickers, yielding some interesting results. College/Alma mater stickers reigned supreme throughout the South, while… Read More Bumper Stickers by Kate Sandreuter
Relieved. Validated. Thankful. That’s how I felt when I saw that the Browns were out of the Deshaun Watson sweepstakes. In that moment, I didn’t care about the shameless way teams were throwing themselves at, fawning over, and begging for a quarterback who had sat out the last season amidst 22 active civil suits of… Read More Thoughts on Deshaun Watson from a Female Browns Fan by Amy Snively
In almost every cafeteria across the country, you can find a friend or a classmate who skipped lunch each day for an entire month. Sounds strange, right? Not if you are one of the 1.3 million Muslim kids in America, and that month is Ramadan. This year, April 2nd 2022 was the first day of… Read More Fast Forward by Salim Alvi
Just as spring has welcomed new changes on campus, the budding of the trees that line the quad and 75 degree days which occur with increasing frequency, Cary Academy has ushered in an exciting new development. The recent lifting of the school mask mandate has signaled to many students and faculty the long-awaited end of… Read More CA Mask Mandate by Kate Sandreuter
A month or so ago, I became interested in the frequency of online discussion of the short story “Cat Person,” which was published in the New Yorker in 2017. It was not unusual for my social media algorithm to present me with awkwardly phrased, yet ardent, teenaged literary discourse and attempts at cultural analysis. However,… Read More Cat Person by Kate Sandreuter
The first humans on Earth were born around 2 million years ago. The Neolithic revolution began around 12,000 years ago. Since then, humanity has never looked back. Inventions, innovations, and, most importantly, civilization, has evolved to the status it is today. Yet, oddly enough, a favorite pastime certain people have developed is trekking through the… Read More Spring Outdoors Trip by Isabel Chang
