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The Student News Site of Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

The Vanguard

The Student News Site of Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

The Vanguard

Facing Failure: Varsity coaches

Facing Failure: Varsity coaches

Anna McGrath, Staff Writer May 4, 2021

The topic of failure can often be taboo, but not running into failure is impossible, especially in an environment like BB&N, where people are always striving toward self-improvement. In this first...

Mars venture signals the triumph of science

Mars venture signals the triumph of science

Brendyn Burkitt, Staff Columnist May 4, 2021

Millions of years ago, humanity had just begun experimenting with sticks and stones. Now, we are exceedingly close to putting a man on another planet, potentially passing another historic rung on this...

Meet the canceled characters

Meet the canceled characters

Fatmata Sesay, Assistant Production Manager May 4, 2021

As an avid YouTube watcher and social media consumer, I am very plugged into pop culture, which over the past few years has been dominated by cancel culture, where a large number of people, all linked...

Stop transphobic transgressions

Stop transphobic transgressions

Jacqui Haining, Staff Columnist May 4, 2021

Since February, two companion bills known as HB1/SB10 have been edging closer to implementation by the Alabama Senate. While the bills’ name may look like a jumble of numbers and letters to some, they...

Senior shares lessons of luck with over 200 eyes and ears

Senior shares lessons of luck with over 200 eyes and ears

Mary Randolph, Editor-in-Chief May 4, 2021

Eating chicken wings and watching the Moth Eastern Virtual StorySLAM from home, Ruthie Osagie ’21, mid-bite, was shocked to hear event host Ophira Eisenberg call her name to perform a story, she said. “I...

Fellowship recipients continue Marina Keegan’s legacy

Fellowship recipients continue Marina Keegan’s legacy

Nathan Bornstein, Staff Writer May 4, 2021

This year’s recipients of the Marina Keegan Fellowship plan to honor Marina Keegan ’08’s ideals of activism and community with summer projects involving graduation portraits and body positivity....

Inside BB&N: Global Exchange Ambassadors

Inside BB&N: Global Exchange Ambassadors

Madera Longstreet-Lipson, On Campus Editor May 4, 2021

Available every other year, the Global Exchange Ambassador (GEA) Program allows participating Upper School (US) exchange trip students to have a more complete understanding of the country they visit through...

‘Made with love’: Black history mural inspires reflection

‘Made with love’: Black history mural inspires reflection

Audra Soni, Contributing Writer May 4, 2021

Something big, bold, and beautiful—that’s the vision Upper School (US) English Teacher Alda Farlow had for the hallway between the theater and the library, where she undertook the creation of a giant...

Studio arts classes feel different this year — Creating art doesn’t

Studio arts classes feel different this year — Creating art doesn’t

Danielle Brennan, Arts Editor May 4, 2021

Scroll through the school’s virtual art gallery on Padlet.org, and your eye will flit from column to column, seeing dozens of winter studio art pieces in just a few minutes. The uniform digital stands...

Chauvin trial is not the end

Chauvin trial is not the end

Augie Hawk, Editorials Editor May 4, 2021

“Justice isn’t the same as the injustice happening in the first place.” “I hope law enforcement doesn’t use this as an excuse in the future: ‘We took accountability that one time, and therefore...

Maybe give Mayer a chance

Maybe give Mayer a chance

Carson Eckert, Staff Columnist May 4, 2021

A couple of summers ago at a sleepaway camp, my bunkmates and I were sitting around a welcoming fire we had brought to life in the woods of Maine. As we relaxed and enjoyed each other’s company, our...

Letter to the Editor: AAPI hate must stop

Letter to the Editor: AAPI hate must stop

Kat Chen, Kira Tian, Andrew Zhao, and Jane Mo May 4, 2021

On March 16, 2021, a 21-year-old white gunman fired in multiple spas in Atlanta, Georgia, killing eight people, out of which six were Asian American women. Since the beginning of the pandemic, hate crimes...

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