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The student news of St. Paul Academy and Summit School

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Senior Maggie Gallagher gives blood and senior Moira McCarthy supports her at the Jan. 31 Blood Drive. We organize the blood drive because people need blood and there are so many things that prevent people from donating, we want to make as many donations as possible, McCarthy said.

Annual Blood Drive ends in success, 29 units donated

Emily Thissen, RubicOnline Editor February 1, 2017
At the annual Red Cross Blood Drive, SPA students, faculty, and staff, donated 29 units of blood.
She became scared to speak, scared to let anyone know what she was thinking. She became known as the quiet girl, senior Mackenzie Kuller said during her speech on Nov 22.

Senior Speech Illustrations: Week 11

Iya Abdulkarim, The Rubicon Editor November 29, 2016
View the illustrations of excerpts from the senior speeches given on Tuesday, Nov 22.
Junior Moira McCarthy benefits from a healthy environment.

Going green benefits the environment and helps the body

Noor Qureishy, InDepth Editor May 22, 2016
Going green does not only benefit the Earth but also ourselves.
Bank accounts and other ways of managing money give students more responsibility while allowing them freedom with their spending. “It helps me think about saving money more than having it in a piggy bank would, [and] I like being able to take it out whenever I want,” sophomore Maya Shrestha said.

Students save with bank accounts

Claire Tipler, Sports Editor February 9, 2016
St. Paul Academy and Summit School students learn how to manage money and savings through the use of bank accounts and debit cards.
Collins tells students and faculty about his trip in Mongolia.

Human ecologist Darron Collins shares experiences with students

Stephanie Li, Arts & Entertainment Editor September 30, 2015
Collins visited SPA on Sept. 21.
From left to right: sophomores Ashley Jallen and Sophia Rose, and seniors Lexi Hilton and Sabrina Brown model the new dress code. I like how we have more freedom to wear what we want, Rose said.

Finalized dress code published in 2015-16 student planner

Clare Tipler, Sports Editor September 11, 2015
The new dress code has been published in the Student Planner.

2015-16 student officers elected

Clare Tipler, Sports Editor May 1, 2015
USC, SAC, and DC officers were elected for coming school year on Apr. 21.
Sophomores Kathryn Schmechel and Moira McCarthy represented the Maldives at this years Model United Nations.

Students participate in mock government event over Spring Break

Clare Tipler, News Editor March 30, 2015
Take a look into a day in the life of a Model United Nations attendee.
Sophomore Ella Matticks checks out a Blood Drive poster in the athletic hallway, one of many posters posted around school. “I think [the Blood Drive] is a great thing our school does,” Matticks said.

Registration for Blood Drive begins

Emily Thissen, Sports Editor January 28, 2015
This year's Blood Drive will be held on Feb. 3.
Can songs themselves really impact how girls thinks? Sophomore Kathryn Schmechel thinks empowering songs really can motivate girls liker her. “They can contribute to how people view themselves and others,” she said.

Female artists release controversial chart-toppers

Dianne Caravela, Staff Writer December 8, 2014

Women artists have filled the top five spots of the Billboard Hot 100 songs for five weeks in a row for the first time ever. With this recent landmark in the popularity of female artists, people have been...

School and siblings dont always mix, but theres no denying the support siblings receive from having brothers or sisters already on campus. I was not constitutionally inclined to do...anything that involved public speaking- [I was] painfully shy. But the fact that Hagop did it...gave me confidence that I could, senior Thomas Toghramadjian said. From left to right: Charlie Hooley, Michael Hooley, Ellen McCarthy, Moira McCarthy, Justin Jallen, Ashley Jallen, Thomas Toghramadjian, and Raffi Toghramadjian,

Siblings share stories of home & school

Meghan Joyce, Catherine Braman, Arts and Entertainment Editor, Online EIC December 1, 2014

Big siblings serve as classmates & offer advice by Meghan Joyce Sibling dynamics are undeniably complex. Only siblings can know each other well enough to be both the bane of their siblings’ existence...

SSJ GLOBAL members get organized and motivated for their letter writing campaign under the leadership of co-presidents Moira McCarthy and Kathryn Schmechel. “I don’t want there to be the chance that if [sexual assault] happens, that nothing would be done about it,” Schmechel said.

SSJ Global writes for safe college sexual assault policies

Mari Knudson, In Depth Editor October 23, 2014

As upperclassmen start to consider what colleges they would like to apply to, they ask themselves many questions in order to narrow down their prospective list of schools. They debate the benefits of urban...

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