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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

Horns and Halos

September 6, 2023

Overthink. Eat. Sleep. Repeat.

Richelle Chang, Column Writer September 6, 2023

I sat in a conference room in the Almy Library, adding the finishing touches to my Junior Profile this past April on a stressful Friday afternoon. At this point in the day, most everyone had already left...

From top left to bottom right: Brian Brennan ’24 proudly displays his catch with friends; Alexandra Kluzak and Darius Sinha (both ’24) are The Vanguard’s own Barbie and Ken; Anshika Chadda ’26 embraces his friends at the IFNet camp in New Hampshire; Olivia Lee ’25 rocks out at music camp; Upper School (US) French Teacher Madame Roucher- Greenberg and former US English Teacher Zoe Balaconis run into each other in France; Jemma Harvey, Hadley Earl, Kate Furey, Meghan Britt, Caitlin Mara, and Sophia Recupero (all ’24) are country queens at Morgan Wallen’s Fenway concert; Emilia Khoury ’25 and her friend eat the fine prosciutto and melon Italy has to offer.

Summer Highlights

September 6, 2023

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Oppenheimer: the man who destroyed the world

Beckett Dubovik, Features Editor September 6, 2023

Julius Oppenheimer is just as troubled as one might expect a scientist developing an atomic bomb to be. A scene in the second half of his eponymous biopic where he tests the bomb brings his moral quandries...

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Barbie… a feminist?

Alexandra Kluzak, Editor in Chief September 6, 2023

Fellow feminists, we can claim a victory. A blonde pawn of the patriarchy has defected to our side. Her name is Barbie. You may think, ‘Barbie…a feminist?’ ‘That braindead doll…a feminist?’...

‘Crazy in Love’ with Beyoncé at the Renaissance Tour

‘Crazy in Love’ with Beyoncé at the Renaissance Tour

Dahlia Roberts September 6, 2023

As a little girl who wanted nothing more than to become a singer, I idolized Beyoncé. She stood above all as a role model. In elementary school, I would walk around my house and classrooms teaching everyone...

Taylor Swift is an icon of our era

Kate Rice September 6, 2023

The Eras Tour. Five continents and 50 shows lasting three-and-a- half hours each. Taylor Swift performs 44 songs from her ten albums, each known as one of her “eras.” Since her last stadium tour in...

Supreme court overturns affirmative action in 6-3 decision School considers the aftereffects

Supreme court overturns affirmative action in 6-3 decision School considers the aftereffects

Graham Lee, Projects Editor September 6, 2023

For more than half a century, colleges have employed affirmative action to create ethnically and racially diverse classes. However, on June 29, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the use...

Lyricism: when it works and when it doesn’t

Lyricism: when it works and when it doesn’t

Henry Kirk, Column Writer September 6, 2023

What makes a good song? Or more specifically, since I am focusing on lyricism, what makes a song well-written? Obviously, there are artists—like Bob Dylan—who immediately spring to mind when one mentions...

William (left) embraces his American pen pal, Will (right).

United at last: Will Benjamin ’25 meets pen pal of nine years in Malawi

Yancheng Zhao, Contributing Writer September 6, 2023

With the rapid rise of digital communication, hand- written letters may seem antiquated. Will Benjamin ’25 disagrees. He has spent nine years forging a friendship with his 16-year-old pen pal, William...

Wildfires burn in Canada.

Climate change strikes throughout the summer

Kate Rice, Sports Editor September 6, 2023

Record-breaking temperatures and raging wildfires are just two of the ways the burning of fossil fuels and other human activity have damaged the planet this summer. A heightened concern in recent years,...

‘No Labels’ moves toward partisan politics

‘No Labels’ moves toward partisan politics

Jack Moskow, Column Writer September 6, 2023

Even though the major political parties will not convene to formally nominate their standard-bearer for another year, many pundits have already declared that 2024 will be a repeat match-up of the 2020...

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