The Scroll, for many of those involved, is more than just a club. It is a seemingly limitless dedication towards the singular goal of producing a coherent, interesting, and thoughtful issue. It is the textbook definition of a labor of love. Board members spend their time collaborating with staff writers to strengthen their articles, laying out issues on ancient computers in the Kendall basement, conducting interviews, and close reading every article in every issue to make sur

During Spring Family Weekend, my English class held a parent-student symposium on Helena Maria Viramontes’s novel Under the Feet of Jesus. This novel explores the life of Estrella, a child who tries to navigate life as the daughter of migrant farmworkers in the Central Valley of California. The book is unforgiving to its characters and their circumstances. They wake before dawn, working under the blazing sun, and fight for basic human dignities that, by virtue of their availa

HEIDI LIANG/DEERFIELD SCROLL Dear Reader, Putting pen to paper has never felt so hard. As I sit in my room and attempt to write my final letter to you, I find myself stopping every minute. Memories of my time spent writing for this paper, some going as far back as freshman year, come flooding in. Processing each of these on its own is a joy; reflecting on them collectively, however, pains me as I realize I can never fully convey all that the Scroll has given me in one letter.

HEIDI LIANG/DEERFIELD SCROLL Of course, as always, this year’s Deerfield Forum speakers all excelled in their fields. Of course, more than any past Forum, they eagerly debated and examined each other. Of course, their ideas kept students discussing the whole week, an unfathomable length for our attention span. Yet, the debate’s circling around definitions and predictions made the arguments slip by each other, missing the underlying assumptions where disagreement really sprang

Dear Scroll C Board, Publishing a 12-page or 16-page issue in a month is no joke. We, the CI Board, are only beginning to figure this out. It requires a special form of dedication— a passion and commitment so unwavering that transcend the impossibilities constructed by the burdensome boarding school setting. There are simply so many components that must go into an issue, from articles to interviews, from graphics to photos, and the margin of error is so small that these compo