By Jacqueline Desautels A recent interview with Mr. Andrew McLean, head of the Brooks Exchange Program, made it clear the program is having a great year. The Hungarian, Spanish, Peruvian, and Scottish exchange students enjoyed their stays and Mr. McLean says he was impressed by the effort of the Brooks community to welcome and include…
Winter Sports – an Exciting Wednesday!
By Connor Silva Although it can be cold and dark for much of the winter sports season, it is a time like none other at Brooks. Because half of the season is during Winter Term and because of the varied practice and game times, students have extra opportunities to watch classmates compete in games. There…
Brooks Delegation Attends Model UN Boston
By Colin Khater Sixteen Brooksians recently spent the weekend in the heart of Boston simulating members of the United Nations, foreign diplomats, and the world press corp. This is Model UN. The Boston conference, one of many held throughout the country, is the end result of many weeks of work for…
Brooks Contingent Attends Diversity Conferences
By Jacqueline Desautels Earlier this winter, Brooks sent a group of six students and five faculty members to Anaheim, CA to attend the People of Color Conference (PoCC) and the Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC.) The PoCC and the SDLC s, in its 30th and 24th year, are run…
Dress Code – A Struggle
By Madison Dunn Ever since students received an email over the summer outlining this year’s new dress code, there has been a range of response to it. While some students and faculty are enjoying the more relaxed Academic Dress days and Spirit Saturdays, the Formal Academic Dress days and the new policy…
Dress Code – Easy!
By Connor Silva This is my third year at Brooks. I was used to waking up, throwing on clothes, and having to tie a tie in the morning. While this may seem like an easy task, try doing it after a mere five hours of sleep, while you are rushing to get to…
Brooks School Dress Code Through the Ages
By Lami Zhang In 1947, Frank D. Ashburn identified one of the core problems within the Brooks community – dress code. He was appalled by the “lack of standards” in how the teenage students dressed and considered it a “manifestation of deep trouble in the world.” Like many other…
Winter Term 2018 – The Best Winter Term Yet
Thanks to the The Massachusetts Film Study, Exploration, and Creation Winter Term course for sharing, with the Brooksian, the following videos created by students. Surfing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wxX-h3goSc Car Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3MiBRKzjmc&t=36s Making Art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RKhHem7QjU Mock Trial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQHAn25FAog Wall Street: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFmyy-mNHSU
Radium Girls Was a Lesson in History
By Caroline Samulok This past fall, the play Radium Girls, by D.W Gregory, was a great success. For cast members, rehearsals were about more than practicing lines and blocking, they doubled as history classes. Radium Girls is based on true events during the early 1900s. For those of you who are not experts…
Seven Things Only Brooksians Understand
By Jacqueline Desautels Getting more emails than texts Boys of Fall Saturday mornings Fresh off the boat haddock What dress code is… just kidding Life is a riddle and a mystery “On onBrooks”
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