The 2015-2016 school year is coming to a close, and with it comes the final edition of the Campitor! I am so proud of the hard work our writers and editors have done this year and the progress we have made in the past year. In just the last 9 months, we have created our… Read More Letter from the Editor
By Jack Lattimore, Campitor Co-Editor in Chief As I was thinking of what to write for my final article in this final edition after having worked with Campitor for all four years of high school, my mind immediately turned to the issues about which I care most: those of social justice and inequity. And, when… Read More House Bill 2: An Ugly Reminder of North Carolina’s Underlying Inequities
I don’t really like the school lunches because they’re not really as healthy as I’d like them to be. I also don’t want to starve throughout the day. What should I do? -Apple Juice Dear Apple Juice, I would suggest two things for someone in your situation. 1) If you really don’t like the lunch… Read More Advice from a Friend
By Yannet Daniel I have had the privilege of helping lead the two clubs that, in my opinion, are two of the most important and influential clubs at Cary Academy–Reedy Creek ESL Tutoring and the African American Affinity Group (AAAG). Rachel Maydew (’16), Sneha Advani (’16), Claire Goray (’16), and I help with the logistical… Read More AAAG and ESL: The Alphabet Soup of Real Human Impacts
By Arman Kassam It has been an active year for diversity at Cary Academy. Early in the year, COEXIST hosted an open mic session and CA students attended the Triangle Diversity Alliance conference. MLK day featured Dr. Eddie Moore, who confronted us with the idea that we must stop dreaming and start doing. Four students… Read More Recap of OneWeek and COEXIST
By Esra Balkas Despite the SAT stealing some of our team members, our team for the NC State chess tournament, composed of Tommy Bright (’17), Jonathan Kacvinsky (’17), Shane Hoffman(’18), and myself, powered through, placing 8th out of 30 teams. Additionally, we have had many successes at local team tournaments with significant rating improvements for… Read More 2016 Chess Club Activities and Competitions
Now that the year has wound down, Spirit Cup is Student Council’s priority. Since Spring Tailgate, Student Council was busy planning the Dodgeball Tournament (May 10th and 12th) and the end-of-year Scavenger Hunt (week of May 16th). The Scavenger Hunt is a great opportunity to win Spirit Cup points – not to mention it’s the… Read More End-of-Year Student Council Update
By Maddie Mizelle The mission for Operation Storybook is to utilize the creativity and individualized skills of students at Cary Academy to create books for children in our local community and in other parts of the world. So far, Operation Storybook has only been offered as a Discovery Term here at Cary Academy, but extending… Read More Operation Storybook Outreach at Cary Academy
We are now already well into the third trimester, and with that comes the third (and penultimate) edition of the Campitor! Enclosed in this edition, we have articles on topics from social activism to Cary Academy clubs and organizations to politics. All of us are absolutely thrilled at the diversity of articles we have received… Read More Letter from the Editor
By Sneha Advani If you’ve walked through the senior hall or senior corner anytime recently, you know that the environment is a little different than it is in the rest of the school. Seniors are all relaxing and talking to their friends, getting ready to leave campus and take advantage of their senior privileges, or,… Read More Third Trimester Seniors: Capstones, College, and Counting Down to Commencement
I’m currently in an elective which I don’t like, so next year I want to switch to something else, but am not sure how I’ll like that. I know I can switch out in the first two weeks, but I want the credits. I also want a study hall so I can have a period… Read More Anonymous Advice from a Friend
By Abigail Turner How many branches of government does the United States have? How many years does a member of the United States congress serve? How many senators are there? In the 1960’s, just 27 percent of adults could answer my first question, 30 percent could answer my second, and even worse, just a few… Read More Political Ignorance and Education in America
By Rosie Hoile Youth lends itself to idealism, passion, and energy. It also lends itself to ignorance, neutralism, and a basic desire to have fun. These two sets of characteristics often clash in my own mind as I try and combat a desire to put forth all my effort into my homework or grades while… Read More The Infamous Topic of Social Justice, and Why It Shouldn’t Matter So Much Anymore
By Student Council The second trimester has come and gone, and with it Student Council’s biggest dance, Winter Semi-Formal. The Student Council team worked diligently to make sure that the dance was spectacular and filled with glittering decorations, lights, and snowflakes. All students – including the Chinese exchange students – had a blast dancing the… Read More Student Council Update: Semi-Formal, Variety Show, and More to Come!
By Julia Gong In Trimester 2, Key Club members participated in a handful of terrific officer endorsed events as well as their own individual events. From Brown Bagging for the Wilmington St. Men’s Shelter to Ubuntu, the Food Bank, and the Blood Drive, CA students lent a helping hand both within and outside of our… Read More Key Club Volunteering in Trimester 2
By Tori Borlase In mid-February, a few members of the new Model United Nations club and I attended our first ever Model UN conference. The conference, hosted by Duke University, took place at the Durham Convention Center and over 600 passionate students from across the country had attended, including CA delegates representing the countries of Turkey, … Read More First Ever CA Model UN Conference
Midway through our second trimester, Cary Academy is back in full swing with its busy students, fun events, and excitement for the rest of the year. In the past few months, we’ve had inspiring guest speakers, an exhilarating and competitive Spirit Week, fun holiday festivities, and a shift in the student body, inspired by Ms.… Read More Letter from the Editor
Note from the editor: This article is the first in a continuing series; throughout the year, Upper School students will submit anonymous questions, and our advice columnist will reply here. Stay tuned for more advice in the coming issues, and leave a comment below with your opinion as well! How fancy should your outfit… Read More Anonymous Advice from a Friend
By Jack Lattimore, Campitor Co-Editor in Chief “Maybe we could create a school grounded in nature,” I hear as I stop by to see how one group is doing. Walking to the next table, they seem to be going down a completely different path, talking about how splitting the school into “Harry Potter” type houses might… Read More A STEP from Ideal to Pragmatic – The STEP Forward Conference
By Alexandra Smith You walk up the stairs in the library, unsure of what you’re going to find once you step through the doors to the Makerspace. You’ve heard things about it- after all, it’s where Art and Design is, it has a bunch of science things, and it’s where you really don’t go to… Read More A Typical Robotics Meeting
By Emily Lane and Hanna Saklad The key to a happy life is a happy stomach. Doctors and nutritionists both know that diet is directly tied to health. However, in a culture constantly running from one place to another in the race-like succession of school, homework, sports, extracurricular, and social events, it becomes easy to… Read More Learning to Cook: CA Cooking Club
By Julia Gong Quick Pics Flashback: in October, Key Club sponsored the annual Flash Pink Bagel Sale in support of breast cancer awareness. Our ribbon-shaped bagels were generously bought by the CA community, and our volunteers had plenty of energy and enthusiasm (despite the early hours) and kept the bagels comin’! Up to Speed: Although… Read More Key Club Update: Bagel Sales and Spirit Week
By Micaela Rosen During Trimester 1 break, Peggy McIntosh– a feminist and anti-racism activist– visited CA. She gave a keynote address called “Power and Privilege” that was open to the entire community and also led workshops with CA faculty. Peggy McIntosh received her Ph.D from Harvard University, where she concentrated on Emily Dickinson’s poetry.… Read More Peggy McIntosh: Power and Privilege
By Hope Ferris “If I be waspish, best beware my sting” warns Katharina, the caustic and sharp-tongued leading lady of Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew (2.1.223). In the early 1590s, the Bard completed his clever comedy about a war between the sexes, in which the beautiful Bianca must wait until her sister is… Read More Changing Times: Two Film Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Play The Taming of the Shrew
By Vera Wei This year, the Student Global Leadership Institute (SGLI) hosted by Punahou School at Hawaii gathered students from ten different countries around the globe to explore and discuss the topic of equity. The SGLI crew from Cary Academy has decided to tackle the lack of equity in the scope of education. One concern… Read More Student Global Leadership Institute ESL Initiative
By Audrey Daley Spirit Week seems to get more and more competitive every year, and with this year’s ramping up of the Spirit Cup, competition during Spirit Week seemed to heighten all the more. From Pajama day to Blue and Gold day, Chargers of all ages wore eclectic ensembles to win points for their grades… Read More Spirit Week: Fiercest Yet? And the Future of Student Council Events
By Rosie Hoile Almost every school has their version of it. It comes in many shapes in forms—whether it’s known by the traditional Gay-Straight Alliance or it branches out into more inclusive but edgier labels like Queer-Straight Alliance or even G.L.O.W. (Gay, Lesbian Or Whatever)—but it’s always recognized and avoided by a majority of the… Read More The Gay One: A Look Inside Cary Academy’s GSA
Welcome to the first Campitor edition for the 2015-2016 school year! In this edition, we have articles on many organizations within the CA community from SADD to Key/Beta Clubs to Reedy Creek ESL tutoring and more! We are very thankful to all the writers who took the time out of their busy schedules in order to… Read More Fall 2015 Letter from the Editor
By Sneha Advani, Co-Editor of the Campitor As usual, there have been a lot of changes this year at Cary Academy: new students, new teachers, new classes, new policies. For example, this year, CA classes have transitioned from using the StudentTree and MyCA websites to using a new online environment: Veracross. Although Veracross brought its… Read More Change in Cary Academy
By Julia Gong Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No. Because if you look just thirty degrees down, you’ll see the Maker Space in the admin building—the heart of the loved-by-all Science Olympiad team of Cary Academy. Last year, our Science Olympiad team had a very successful showing at the National Ready Regional… Read More Outside of the Classroom: Science Olympiad Preparations
By Alexandra Smith Watching the seconds tick down on a clock had never been as intense as it was in the semi-finals match. Time seemed to stand still as I watched from behind the glass windows that separated the humans from the robots at THOR. THOR, more formally known as “Thundering Herd of Robots,” was… Read More Hard At Work: The Cary Academy Robotics Team
By Audrey Daley You saw it here first: SADD’s theme of the year is Pay It Forward! After last year’s poignant mock crash, SADD will be focusing not only on awareness and making sure that teens understand the consequences of their actions, but also kindness and putting good out into the world. Kicking the year… Read More SADD’s Pay It Forward
By Jack Davis, Katherine Carlton, Melissa Hamrick, Julia Glass, and Patrick Mulqueen Last spring, when we began to plan the upcoming year for National Honor Society (NHS), each officer brought in different ideas: more Cary Academy-focused service projects, greater publicity in the community, more technological integration, etc. But each of these ideas was grounded in a… Read More The State of NHS
By Julia Gong This year, Key Club has started off with a blast! Many new members of the community have joined us in our efforts, and many memorable events have been offered in August, September, and October. The September Special Needs Dance, which our members attend every year and enjoy, and the Blood Drive, held… Read More Key Club Service
By Rosie Hoile “Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It’s important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It’s the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.” –Dorothy Height Cary Academy has always shown a commitment to the betterment of our community through service.… Read More Global Awareness at Cary Academy
By Rachel Maydew Every Tuesday and Thursday, at 3:45pm on the dot, you will find a convoy of Cary Academy students journeying to our sister school, Reedy Creek Elementary, to tutor students in the English as a Second Language (ESL) program. Some of us will be on the bus discussing our upcoming tests, and others will… Read More The Journey of an ESL Tutor
By Vera Wei Beta Club has long remained one of the biggest student-led service organizations on CA’s campus. This year, recruitment for volunteers began early at the orientation before the beginning of school. Freshmen and their parents were given a glimpse of Beta’s role in the Upper School and the local community. Beta currently hosts… Read More Beta Club Service
