Where others see an empty stage, theater director Brennan Roach sees the end of the world — three different times. Now in his fifth full year teaching drama at Jones, Roach has spent the last month and a half putting together this year’s fall play, “The Skin of Our Teeth” by renowned playwright Thornton Wilder. Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning three-part allegory for mankind follows...
Whether pressuring an opponent, running up to score or back to defend, Elhofy zooms across the field. But this isn’t a big game. This is how Gabriel Elhofy, a senior, practices and how he found himself committed to playing Division III soccer for Wesleyan University.
Elhofy developed a love for soccer the moment he started playing. While he tried other sports, soccer stuck. His love...
On Sept. 24, the Whitney Young girls varsity volleyball team walked through the Jones gym doors. They had not lost a conference game in two years and the Jones Eagles planned on ending that right then and there. The game began and the score stood at 24-23 in the third set. The Eagles were up one point. The serve came over and got passed perfectly, set beautifully and then spiked straight down...
A sharp crack sounds throughout the Harborside International Golf Center as a perfectly arced golf swing strikes the middle of a ball. A familiar noise to the Jones-Payton boys golf team, who spend their fall afternoons with the smell of a freshly cut green wafting into their nose while driving down the fairway of this very course, practicing day after day to maintain their status as one of...
Scroll through TikTok and Instagram long enough, and “girl math,” “girl dinner” and “girl logic” are almost impossible to miss. What started as a harmless joke on the internet has become a part of everyday language with women joking about everything from spending money to making decisions.
For teenagers, these phrases are not difficult to encounter. According to the Pew Research...
Everyone performs gender. That doesn’t mean everyone’s gender performance is inauthentic; quite the opposite. Gender is something you do, not something you are. While a Hollywood or theatre actor may be praised for an “authentic” performance of a character, this doesn’t mean that the actor literally is that character.
Regardless of personal experience, this doesn’t mean the...
For the 2026-27 school year, the Jones administration introduced a new detention policy: three tardies in a week or a skipped class period will result in one detention with three detentions resulting in a loss of privileges. This new policy was uncharacteristic of Jones, but I did not think much of it. However, when I received an undeserved detention, it became clear that the administration does...
