2020 Diversity Day Saved: 5 Channels on Zoom
Dekyi Tenzin Tsotsong, Senior Staff Reporter
June 22, 2020
For the first time in DMAE history, Diversity Day was a virtual event held online on June 19, 2020, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Diversity Day Club advisor Judy Aronson and approximately 75 members of the Club adapted the activities to a virtual platform to provide a fun event in response to the hardsh...
Senior Awards Ceremony
Katie Sudol, Senior Staff Reporter
June 22, 2020
Seniors, parents, and faculty of DMAE assembled for the Senior Awards Ceremony honoring and awarding selected seniors for their hard work and excellence throughout high school. The COVID-19 pandemic prohibited the ceremony from occurring in person. Nevertheless, the event took place as a presentation via Zoom ho...
Best Delegate Win at eMUNC
Jaslyn Tu, Staff Reporter
June 22, 2020
On Sat., May 30, 2020, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., DMAE’s Model UN team competed in a virtual conference run by Highland Park High School, eMUNC or Virtual Model United Nations Conference. Despite the quarantine, the team still participated in club activities with diligence and rigor. Many small detai...
Englewood Joins BLM Protest
Tenzin Dhasel, Managing Editor
June 22, 2020
The brutal murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis, MN, has reverberated throughout the nation, igniting protests and rallies across numerous towns, including several in Englewood, New Jersey. On June 6, 2020, around 300 people, all marching in solidarity and waving picket signs, spille...
NHS Inducts on Zoom
Arianne Garcia, Senior Staff Reporter
June 22, 2020
Scholarship, leadership, service, and character. These key principles are what DMAE’s National Honor’s Society chapter, Delta Sigma Mu, strives to uphold. On Monday, June 8, 2020, 36 eager inductees gathered on Zoom for the commencement ceremony. “The induction ceremony did not have some ...
Love Letter to the Class of 2020 & DMAE
Sarah Yang, Co-Editor
June 22, 2020
Time is nothing if not receding. It pulls back, abruptly and remarkably, before we can even recognize its silent departure, leaving us to frantically grapple with what still remains long after it loses us. Time abandons us too easily, but time also startles us into acknowledging what doesn...
Graduating from Uncertainty
Donghyun Brian Lee, Salutatorian & Co-President, Student Council
June 22, 2020
Friends, I am filled with both great joy and disappointment to speak before you today. I am excited and enthralled for the diverse and enchanting future ahead of us, but I am disappointed that we close this chapter of our lives called High School on our phones and computers. This, I kn...
Homophobia at DMAE What Can You Do?
Jaeden Williams-Edmonds, Staff Reporter
March 10, 2020
There is widespread homophobia on the DMAE campus. Every day, people on our campus use homophobic language to communicate with others. It seems as if the use of such terms has become normal in our school. In an era when the LGBTQ+ community is portrayed in the media as established, and with the legal...
Freestyle Design Winners
Danny Liu and Timmy Zhang
March 10, 2020
In the second week of December 2019, the DMAE Pre-Engineering freshman in Anthony Dinallo’s class had a chance to compete in a week-long Freestyle Design Competition. Out of the 20 students who participated in this event, four designs were voted upon to be 3D printed, and these students got to witne...
School Safety Focus Take 2
Arianne Garcia and Katie Sudol
March 10, 2020
Last month we wrote about school safety from the DMAE student’s perspective. With this edition, we focus on a DMAE Security’s standpoint. As students, administrators, and faculty walk into school every morning, their eyes first come across the security personnel gathered near the entrance. Whe...