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Yearly Archives: 2023

In this holiday season of giving, you may struggle with choosing the perfect gift for everyone in your life. While you may be tempted to give up and bulk order some gift cards or fuzzy socks, I’ve compiled a list of what Warde students ACTUALLY want this year. (Hint: It’s […]

What Warde Students Actually Want for the Holidays

December 19, 2023 in Opinions by Charlotte Stack

The end of autumn and beginning of winter marks a time that almost everyone can get excited about–the holiday season! Storefronts and homes are fully decked out with lights, hot chocolate and eggnog is widely available for drinking, and wintry tunes are in the air. Holiday music is a well-known […]

Ranking and Rating of Popular Holiday Hits

December 18, 2023 in A&E / Opinions by Julia Zagar

Dear Warde Students, After the, admittedly unwanted, Carillon performance shown to students on December 15th, it has come to our attention that many of the upperclassmen in attendance appreciated the music and musical spectacles. This is a reminder from the Board of Education and Choir Department in conjunction that your […]

You’re too Dumb to Enjoy Christmas Music

December 16, 2023 in Blur by Alex Renzulli

Every winter, Warde music students get to perform in Carillon: a holiday show where the band, orchestra and choir groups come together. When our peers watch our performance, they only see the finished product, and none of the work that goes into it. So, as a violinist in the Philharmonic […]

Insider Look Into the Making of Carillon

December 15, 2023 in News by Charlotte Stack

There are quite a few changes with this year’s Carillon performance, the Warde music program’s annual showcase of the semester’s efforts. Amongst these changes is a new type of invitation for underclassmen. A new type–meaning that none has been issued. The rumored reason–a punishment for the misbehavior the class of […]

In Defense of Underclassmen: Carillon

December 15, 2023 in Opinions by Anshika Sinha

Our Town is “the greatest American play ever written,” or at least that’s what Edward Albee, the late and I’m sure, great playwright said. Now whether the Warde theater department faithfully upheld that glowing review from eighty years ago, is up to those who showed up at the three day […]

Why You Should Watch Warde’s Play, Our Town

December 11, 2023 in News by Charlotte Stack

Whether it’s teachers’ constant reminders or iconic depictions of high school, there’s always been an awareness that elementary and middle school were just stepping stones for the end goal of everyone’s careers in the public school system. As a result of this awareness as you move from one grade to […]

Dear Freshmen

December 6, 2023 in Opinions by Mayerli Castaneda

At 8am Eastern time on November 29th, 2023 Spotify Wrapped was released. What should’ve been an occasion for streamers to view their most listened to artists and songs of the year, quickly took a turn for the worst when a number of innocent individuals found their accounts had been hacked. […]

Have You Been Hacked by Lil Durk?

December 4, 2023 in News by Sabrina Cassano

The DECA Pumpkin Contest, as some of you may know, is an annual competition held by the Distributive Education Clubs of America Organization that allows students to celebrate the Halloween season by decorating this classic autumn staple. High school students around the country were able to submit pictures of their […]

2023 DECA Pumpkin Decorating Contest: A Thorough Review

December 1, 2023 in Opinions by Charlotte Rotelli

With the start of the second marking period, many students have adjusted to the changing conditions that come with a new school year. For the returning members of the Warde community, however, some of you may feel as if something has been missing from Warde’s weekly routine. I am of […]

What’s Going On With WardeTV?

November 21, 2023 in News by Yousef Ebrahim

This weekend is Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. As I’ve been preparing for the holiday, I’ve found myself reflecting on the Diwalis of my past. During this contemplation, I thought of a shocking similarity; almost every Diwali I’ve celebrated has been overshadowed by stress about school. Recently, in […]

Why Isn’t Diwali a School Holiday?

November 10, 2023 in Opinions by Anshika Sinha

Imagine this: It’s a Friday night, you just completed the three hours of homework and missing assignments for that one class you’ve been brutally neglecting since the beginning of the school year, and you decide to reward yourself with a nice, long social media break. You log onto TikTok […]

Identifying the Meanings of “Common” Teenage Slang

November 2, 2023 in Opinions by Charlotte Rotelli

During the annual trip to Yale’s art museum, AP American Studies students were able to visit local restaurants in New Haven for lunch. A group of 8 decided on Sushi on Chapel, which was later described as “a religious experience” by Gwen Kenny. Upon first inspection, the restaurant did […]

Sushi on Chapel= The Best Dining Experience of Your Life

October 21, 2023 in Opinions by Charlotte Stack

Fairfield Warde High School, If you are a Freshman, Sophomore or Junior, you may have noticed a slight change to the PSAT format this year. Although it may have been difficult to see after the two hour buffer time prior to the exam, all tests were taken on computers, not […]

You Probably Shouldn’t Have Taken the PSAT

October 19, 2023 in Blur by Alex Renzulli

*Some names have been REDACTED for the safety of the author* Last week, I went to [REDACTED] teachers’ classroom with the intention of asking for extra help in [REDACTED] class. To my surprise, I instead saw a secret meeting between the three class presidents outside of the very public, […]

The Big Lie

October 11, 2023 in Blur by Amogh Ganjikunta