On October 11, Head of School Bo Lauder announced that Blair Parker, the three year head of the Friends Seminary Upper School, will vacate her position at the end of the school year. Parker will take on...
On October 7, word of Hamas’s attacks in Israel instantly spread to every corner of the world, as did the shock of the war that continues to unfold. The war’s effects did not miss Friends Seminary.
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On November 6, during a Meeting for Announcements, Hassan Wilson, Friends Seminary’s Dean of Faculty, announced that Friends’ schedule committee would start the process of deeply analyzing the current...
Who doesn’t love a good chicken sandwich every once in a while? After three long periods at school with nothing but state capitol cookies from the commons as snacks, one is usually dying of hunger by...
This past summer, I traveled to Vietnam and Thailand on a three week trip, where I learned about the countries’ cultures and lifestyles. Throughout the trip, I picked up on an underlying theme regarding...
At a time when politics can feel so bleak, the Political Action Club at Friends wanted to remind you that there is still great hope to be found. We are starting a series of articles in The Insight to share...
The Friends Seminary Teachers Association (FSTA) is the school’s Teachers Union and has been an integral part of the Friends community since the association’s founding in 1976. The Union...
Corporate ethics have long been a topic of debate and frustration in the U.S. In recent years, consumers have been enraged by Apple’s connections with exploitative child labor, the PGA’s surrender...
The Friends Girls Varsity Volleyball team had a very successful year, finishing in second place in the ACIS conference and only losing two games throughout the season. This was exciting because the team...
The world that the characters of Foe inhabit seems far in the past, millenia in the future, and uncomfortably familiar with the state of today’s world and AI’s ever-growing abilities. The film exudes...
After almost three years without water fountains (due to Covid), Friends has recently reinstalled the glorious machines. Despite gratefully spraying the water into their mouths from the fountains, many...
This November, Friends buzzed with excitement as the community welcomed its first-ever exchange students from Barcelona. For three weeks, six tenth graders from Colegio Sant Ignasi—a prestigious Jesuit...
