More than in most years, freshmen athletes are making a mark on Tarrier sports. In fact, four of this fall’s six varsity teams have freshman starters. “There are so many freshmen on varsity teams this year because our class is very athletic and competitive,” said David Goldstone (’13) a varsity cross-country runner. Many freshmen have [...]
Everyone googles. In fact, search engine Google has become so popular that “googling” has its own definition in the dictionary. But there are other recently developed search engines attempting to copy Google’s success. Meet Bing, Microsoft’s newest search engine that replaces previous search engines, such as MSN Search, Windows Live Search, and Live Search. Bing [...]
Gaming geeks and fighting fanatics alike are excited over the new installment of the Halo game series, which came out Sept. 22. Halo 3 is an exhilarating update of the XBOX 360 game, published by Microsoft Game Studious, which can be for single users or for multiple online players. The game takes place in a [...]
Although students are generally nonchalant about the H1N1 swine flu virus, the school is taking preventative measures against possible outbreaks of the virus flu in the upcoming flu season. The school will offer a vaccine to students on Thursday, Oct. 29 as a nasal spray called FluMist. Families who wish to get their children vaccinated [...]
The Gardasil vaccine, which hit the market in June 2006, has been administered to most of the female student population of the Upper School. Recently, however, serious side effects may have been linked to the drug. The vaccine was designed to protect women against four strains of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) that can lead to [...]
