The longest-running newspaper in historic The Reserve Record Hudson, Ohio VOL. CII....No. 3 WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY, HUDSON, OHIO. NOVEMBER 2015 Talented Musician Tells All C-Squad Soccer Success Story Campanelli Speaks his Mind Coin: Faculty Face-Off Keila Delgado ’17 shares details about Learn about the undefeated season of Peter Campanelli ’18 shares his thoughts Students contemplate stature while staff her musical career. Reserve’s own C-squad soccer team. on a pressing campus issue. debate the emerging gig economy. PAGE 4 | ARTS PAGE 8 | SPORTS PAGE 9 | OPINION PAGE 10-11 | THE COIN Millions of Dollars Raised for Massive Changes A College By FRANCISCO BLANCO ’18 Counseling Western Reserve Academy re- cently announced the most ambi- Adventure tious fundraising campaign the school has ever been a part of: “The By YING KA LEUNG ’18 Campaign For Excellence and Ac- and NIRAJ NAIK ’16 cess.” The Campaign will satisfy Over mid-fall break, around two four major needs to maintain ex- dozen students from Western Re- cellence and access, which include: serve Academy went on a college raising money for faculty support, trip around the Boston area, which providing more financial aid to stu- the College Counselling Office and dents, bolstering academics, and re- College Visits Company hosted for storing Brick Row’s signature archi- our school. It was a three day tour tecture. The Campaign has already including visits to schools such as: added two endowed faculty chairs, Northeastern, Boston University, created more funds for financial aid Emerson, Brown, Harvard, MIT, and remodeled the exterior of the Tufts, Boston College, Babson, Chapel, including the renovations COURTESY OF WRA.NET Wheaton, Wellesley and Olin. As- on the Maker’s Space. According sociate Director of College Coun- to Assistant Head of School for Ad- nors, thus it gets more difficult to will depend on the amount of “hit the road and meet with Alumni seling, Anna Barlow and Assistant vancement, Mark Lafontaine, The raise money.” The public phase is money raised and the level of need and foundation representatives” to Director of Admissions, Thomas Campaign for Excellence and Ac- projected to last another three to teachers have for new classrooms. raise money and “ask the right peo- Adams-Wall and College Visits rep- cess, has been in its “quiet phase” four years and they hope to “put the Seymour Hall’s renovations will ple at the right time for the right resentative, Meghan Gainey hosted of raising donations. In the Cam- fundraising to bed” by 2019. The prove to be the most complex as gift.” The school expects to have this trip. paign’s quiet phase of raising money public phase donors include, but the school will look to create new 57,000,000 dollars in funds by June Students boarded their flight to the school reached out to frequent are not limited to, Alumni still pur- spaces and classrooms that serve 30, and the campaign will have a Logan International Airport on Fri- donors and alumni. This group suing a higher education, current many uses and are efficient learning 65,000,000 dollar minimum. The day night. They checked into the consists of roughly 100 donors, parents and friends of the WRA environments. Seymour Hall is cur- ambitious goal has been set, now Inn at Longwood in the Longwood and the school raised around 70% community. The WRA faculty is rently being evaluated by architects the challenge is convincing fringe Medical District late, and began of the approximate current total of quite supportive of The Capital looking to develop plans to make donors that this plan will work. to prepare for their many visits. 52,000,000 dollars from these do- Campaign as 100% of the faculty the building more energy efficient. “We are lucky that we have a lot of Chaperones gave students $10-15 nors alone. has donated to the mission. Seymour’s construction is expected people that will buy into the plan for meals, and students explored The public phase of fundraising Historic Brick Row will be a ma- to start hopefully either in the 2018 because they had great experiences the food court and local college has begun now that the school has jor beneficiary of the campaign as or the 2019 school year. here,” explained LaFontaine. This town to find one-of-a-kind cuisine exhausted their generous group of the funds from the Capital Cam- The Capital Campaign is mov- plan hopes to further those great in Boston-area restaurants. On Sat- donors. LaFontaine elaborated that paign will help remodel President’s ing along smoothly, but there is still experiences and create an environ- urday night, students were able to the Advancement Office is “going House, The Chapel, and Seymour money to be raised, and the Ad- ment in which great experiences are explore Quincy Market, a shopping further from the core group of do- Hall. The remodeling of Seymour vancement Office will continue to possible. district in Boston. Several languages carried across the market as shop- pers bustled from store to store. While the group had to suffer Caterham Scholars Visit from Surrey, England through the horrors of Boston’s dents from WRA around London interesting to learn about American as the British syllabus, so I was able derelict mass transit system, they By BLANCA LOPEZ ’16 and other parts of Surrey, England. Government through an American to understand the material in class did manage to get an excellent taste and AJAY DAKAPPAGARI ’16 In return, during their week long lens compared to our British per- and even answer some questions.” of colleges aboveground. North- From October 20 to October stay at WRA, both students and spective.” She went on to explain British students also noted some eastern’s new dining hall received 28, nine students from the Cater- faculty tried their best to recipro- the different ways of teaching and differences. Craston observed, “The the highest accolades, thanks to its ham School in Surrey, England cate the favor. For most of their methods that differ between Cater- Chemistry classes covered differ- varied selection. “The cookies and visited Western Reserve Academy. visit, Caterham students attended ham and WRA. ent topics than our British classes.” brownies were placed on hot-plates The WRA-Caterham Exchangeclasses corresponding to their in- Some students found their favor- Clearly, the overall style of Ameri- to maintain a nice warm tempera- Program annually sends students to terests. As a prospective Govern- ite classes to be those in the STEM can classes was a unique experience ture,” Adam Birch ’16 explained Caterham over summer break, who ment and Politics major, Caterham fields rather than the humanities. for the British students and this through his third brownie. Tufts’ then highly anticipate the arrival of student Annabelle Vandort, found One of the Caterham scholars, Alex gave them a new perspective on the dining hall was also commended the British scholars to WRA during her class with AP Government and Craston, plans to pursue studies in American education system. for its ice cream area—with close the fall. As the British both hosted Politics teacher Matt Gerber quite the former area, so he attended Cal- The Caterham scholars were also to a dozen flavors. Sadly, Barlow WRA students at their homes and helpful. After attending a few class- culus, Chemistry and Biology class- exposed to the areas surrounding dragged Ying Ka Leung ’18 out of school, they also graciously went es and attempting to take a test, An- es. Craston remarked, “The math Hudson, Ohio. Their first trip af- Tufts’ dining hall before he could out of their way to tour the stu- nabelle explained, “It was beyond classes covered the same material ter arriving to the United States try them all. took them to Cleveland where they During the trip, group mem- toured The Rock and Roll Hall of bers were also able to meet former Fame. Jamie Graham observed, “I members of the WRA community. was amazed at the beauty of the Sophie Shen ’15 led the group in building and enjoyed all the dis- a tour of Tufts, and the group also plays.” The British had a great ex- encountered Kelly Hedgspeth and perience attending their first Friday Trevor Levin ’15 at Harvard, who night football game when they vis- gave some students a wonderful ited Hudson High School to watch tour of the university’s lesser known their football team play. treasures. After their stay in Ohio, they em- When asked about application barked on yet another journey to strategies, our guides recommended Washington, D.C. to visit various to “just be yourself.” The MIT and government buildings and see all Harvard guides added, “And get kinds of interesting sites around the perfect test scores, by the way.” Stu- capital city. The Western Reserve dents were deeply impressed with Academy community greatly ap- their Boston experience and eagerly preciated the presence of the Cater- look forward to another exciting MAX BORRMANN ham Scholars and will miss them all college counselling trip to Califor- The Caterham students pose for a photo with their American counterparts on a crisp autumn day. dearly. nia in the spring. 2 RESERVE RECORD NEWS NOVEMBER 2015 The Reserve Record Established in 1925 Doe Educates Community Editor-in Chief Ajay Dakappagari The Reserve Record is the student- October Issue Corrections Editor-in Chief Tim Lund run, monthly newspaper of Western Reserve Academy and the voice of In Caleigh Tiley’s Nostalgic Associate Editor Max Borrmann and for the student body. It aims to Alumni Come Back For Rally,the Managing Editor Niraj Naik educate its staff, writers and photog- author was incorrectly marked Copy Editor Taryn Washburn raphers on journalistic style, format, as a freshman.