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The Pirate's Eye

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The Pirate's Eye

WW-P offers first summer humanities elective
Vedant Trivedi ('26), Managing Editor

  This year, WW-P will be offering its first humanities summer elective: Asian American Studies. The four-week course will count for 2.5 credits...

A Sticky Situation: An Investigation into Chewed Gum at South
A Sticky Situation: An Investigation into Chewed Gum at South
Arjun Khanna ('25) and Miki Schnitzer ('25)

There is no feeling quite like accidentally touching a sticky, squishy substance underneath your desk. At first you pick at it in confusion....

Pirate's Eye journalists at CSPA.
Pirate’s Eye journalists strike gold
Miki Schnitzer ('25), Senior News Editor

     Dodging pigeons, braving crowded subways, and learning how to chase down stories-- just a day in the life of some fortunate Pirate’s...

Judy Sakran ('27), Arya Patel ('27) and Kennedy Sirmans ('27) posing with their project.
From Stumbling Blocks to stepping stones: how students are remembering the Holocaust
Saliha Ahmed ('25) and Miki Schnitzer ('25)

     In a black-and-white propaganda film from 1942 Germany, 14-year old Rosa Milewski looks hauntingly at a camera as she arrives at the...

The 2024 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
The Rockefeller Christmas Tree: from a humble idea to a holiday icon
Vidhi Kapoor ('27)

     Glistening with over 50,000 festive LED lights, stands a Norway spruce 74-feet tall in the middle of Rockefeller Center in Midtown...

Year in review: media hits and highlights
Cameron Aksman ('27) and Violet Prabhakar (

     The TV screen glows as the buzz of the award season kicks into full gear, all the glitzy ceremonies ahead that celebrate this past year's...

AND SIDDHARTH KHURANA (‘28)
A little help from my friends
Siddharth Khurana ('28), Opinion Editor • January 31, 2025

    What if the secret weapon against procrastination wasn’t a fancy app or a time management trick, but something as simple as friendship?...

If only: A review of “Arcane” season two
If only: A review of “Arcane” season two
Keerthan Murali ('25), Senior Culture Editor • January 31, 2025

     The best tragedies leave me wondering if only. For example if only Mercutio didn’t duel Tybalt maybe both Romeo and Juliet would...

Are the Olympics Overrated? Pros and Cons
Are the Olympics Overrated? Pros and Cons
Violet Prabhakar ('27) and Lilli Antolino ('27) November 15, 2024

Pro    Every four years, the Olympic flame ignites as we watch the stadium lights dim. Over the summer, the world once again turned its...

Re: Break the shell, keep the book
Sobhika Sampath

To the Editor: Sobhika Sampath When we are children, we are impressionable and only subject to read or watch the literature/film that our...

Re: “Should high schools have nap time?” (Dec. 21, 2021)
Raghav Kodiyalam, 2024

To the Editor: Shefali Saxena Having a designated "nap time" during our school time will prove more problematic than useful towards our general...

Re: “Pirate Pick: Dean Lourenco sprints to the top” (Dec. 21, 2021)
Armaan Seth, 2024

To the Editor: Danny McElroy 5:03, that is Dean’s mile time. Seeing Dean with the sprinters at track practice and seeing how unpredictably...

Listen to Levi, Lindsay, Nick, Darren and Radhika on this week's episode of the Unbuttered Baguette podcast to hear them discuss pringles, TV and commonly hated foods. Podcast Link
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