The Lawrence

05/07/2022

Let us into Pop -136th

05/08/2020

Hello everybody, The Lawrence is back on Facebook! The 140th Board has been hard at work throughout the last several weeks and published its fourth issue of the term today!

Check out the 5/8 issue here: https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Ffile%2Fd%2F10qfl3gRPiyjIfLHTzAPl58i7HZJN17sb%2Fview%3Fusp%3Dsharing%26fbclid%3DIwAR0KeyJCVXAgIkNGPDB7HT8h6s-qd6_xVLJcZmu3VuFCfXmC7ZO1PJmujpg&h=AT0VwTNjvStekiZSCb1uGNu7TARZ6binsX_ir2ty5nZjmSmxFCVRf154sF9MMpp9vC1q_9rr8pTHYx7F3H2_rwUNC_jlju8KWtbgiIMAecyyuMz0MZN3iGlUXA82UtObAI9rHfpbwrcau0I

You can find past issues while searching for individual articles or work by certain writers, on our website: https://www.thelawrence.org/

Attached is the Photo of the Week by Lara Hensler '22.

05/10/2018

Hi all!

The Lawrence is planning to do profiles on V Formers taking gap years. Please contact Editor-in-Chief Linda Li at [email protected] if you know any students who intend on taking a gap year, and might be interested in being featured for this article.

Thanks,
The 138th Board of The Lawrence

04/27/2018

In honor of Pride Week, Co-Opinions Editor Katherine Xiong '19 discusses the lack of representation the LGBTQ+ community at Lawrenceville receives due to the stigma surrounding it in this week's editorial. "It will take the entire community coming together [...] to prove to everyone that we at Lawrenceville do not celebrate quiet, apathetic tolerance but open, unrestrained acceptance of our peers."

Under the typical precedents of The Lawrence, I should not be writing this editorial. I should not have spent the weekend pestering everyone I knew for content. I should not have reached out to more than 10 people for interviews. And we as a Board should not have put together this week’s Features ...

04/24/2018

Hi all Lawrenceville alumni!

We are now accepting articles for our alumni weekend issue of The Lawrence, which we are publishing on May 4th. Articles would be due Sunday, April 29th at 8:00 PM. You can reflect on your Lawrenceville experience, discuss aspects of Lawrenceville you liked/disliked and would have changed, or just write on anything Lawrenceville-related.

Please reach out to Editor-in-Chief Linda Li at [email protected] if you’re interested or if you have any questions, and she will put you in contact with the relevant section editor.

Thanks,
The 138th Lawrence Board

04/21/2018

Audrey Safir '20, Shreya Kumar '20, and Arya Singh '20 speak with students and faculty to gain more insight with regards to the Prefect Program, following prefect announcements last week.

Each year, rising V Formers apply to live in underclassman Houses as ‘prefects,” serving as an integral part of the School’s student support system. Lower, Circle, and Crescent Houses made prefect announcements for the 2018-2019 school year on Thursday, April 12. Each Circle House selects thre...

04/14/2018

Kelsey McAlister '20 explores the role of athletics in the decision-making at the Admissions Office. Hear perspectives from Athletic Director Tripp Welborne, admissions officers, head coaches, and student-athletes:

With 36 varsity teams and no school district consistently supplying the School with athletes, how does Lawrenceville sustain its athletic programs? Most would say we do this through the recruitment of student-athletes, which is partially true. However, students and faculty alike hold many preconceiv...

04/07/2018

III Former Natalie Drill '20 and II Former Jacqueline Chen '21 sat down with some of the most familiar faces around campus from Main Street. Hear their stories:

Gingered Peach Owner Joanne Canady- Brown: http://www.thelawrence.org/article.php?id=3569
Purple Cow Owner Tom Pearce: http://www.thelawrence.org/article.php?id=3562
TJ's Manager Pedro Gonzalez: http://www.thelawrence.org/article.php?id=3564

03/31/2018

In the 138th Board's first issue, IV Former Lucas Maloney responds to many protesters' sentiments at the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C:

“My request for a specific proposal is often met with buzzwords like ‘sensible gun legislation’ and an ‘assault weapons ban,’ but rarely do I find someone with specific plans in mind.”

“While ideals are a great starting point, we must determine exactly what sort of reforms we want rather than following the ambiguous, yet ostensibly popular rallying cry of abolishing ‘assault weapons.’ Moreover, these ideas bring up broader questions of the rights outlined in the Second Amendment.”

Students traveled to Washington D.C. to demonstrate in the March for Our Lives this past weekend, encouraging Congress to pass legislation to prevent mass shootings. While the clear majority of our peers support stricter gun regulations, I support reforms in different areas. Although everyone acknow...

02/17/2018

IV Formers, Hunter Korn and Shaezmina Khan, offer opposing views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

"The reason that Palestinians resisted and continue to resist is that they understood that the consequence of Zionism was and continues to be the territorial disposition and displacement of Palestinians." - Khan

"Regardless of one’s opinion on their fairness, settlements are not the core obstacle to peace. Rather, the unwillingness of Palestinian leaders to make concessions, as Israel has done in the past and has offered to do again, impedes a reasonable and just solution." - Korn

“Everyone has a right to live in his home, and no one may uproot them,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a speech last year. One must, however, understand their context. Netanyahu was extending this inalienable right exclusively to Israeli settlers—who have been taking over an...

02/10/2018

V Former Emilia Figueroa-Valik reflects on the apathy embedded in Lawrenceville's culture:

"As Ms. Nazario explained the significance of a photograph displaying mutilated hands outstretched over a Bible, I felt unsettled and devastated by grief. Close to my seat at the very front of the auditorium, however, I spotted a girl playing solitaire on her phone. I left Nazario’s address early to go set up my workshop. A swarm of other people were leaving as well. Laughing boisterously, they rushed out of the KAC. They weren’t facilitating. They were just leaving early."

I’ve reached the conclusion that writing a senior column is pointless. And, in unraveling this sudden revelation, I’ve also found several other activities equally fruitless, including (but not limited to): writing for the Lawrence in general, playing an instrument, reading a book, listening to a...

02/04/2018

"They must be honest, but not too honest. They must be real offenses, but not too real. One might confess to eating lobster at an expensive restaurant, for example, but not to listening to American radio. Though both actions are technically breaches of China’s communist code, only one is punishable."

"I must be myself, but not my whole self. And as with the expensive dinner, students also learn never to confess to real offenses or be emotionally honest with others or themselves. We learn to make every struggle a commodity, every mistake a sob story."

Katherine Xiong '19 discusses the inauthenticity of the college process as her IV Form Spring quickly approaches.

Communist Party officials in China face an interesting conundrum: In demonstrating their devotion to their ideology, they periodically denounce their own lack of commitment to those ideals. Yet their confessions walk a fine line: They must be honest, but not too honest. They must be real offenses, b...