We started Volume 53 of the Rank&File with a number of perhaps rather bold goals. Despite operating with a staff that was far smaller than any of us were used to with just 13 members, we hoped to radically expand our online presence and improve on our role as aContinue Reading
While graduation robes have traditionally been blue for female students and red for male students, the robes graduating seniors will wear for the ceremony at the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall on June 21 will be columbia blue with two red stripes and red ribbon cuffs. “The purposeContinue Reading
For the second consecutive year, creative writing club Quills to Keyboards held an Open Mic Night at Caffe Amouri on May 28. Performances ranged from prose and poetry writing to musical numbers, and included people outside of Marshall alongside club members. The event ran from 7 p.m. to 9:45 p.m.Continue Reading
Popular disappointment with white actors replacing people of color in fictional roles, a process critics have dubbed whitewashing, has led to movements mainly through social media. These include hashtags such as #OscarsSoWhite and #StarringJohnCho, an artistic endeavor to replace white leading actors with Asian-American actor John Cho on various movieContinue Reading
Minecraft Club’s co-presidents, senior Garrett Brothers and junior Hahnuel Shin, led an interest meeting on March 11 in C106 and since then have held informative meetings as part of the club’s informal structure. The co-presidents came up with the club as a place for Minecraft enthusiasts to play alongside theirContinue Reading
Thursday, members from a variety of service clubs like National Honors Society, National Science Honors Society, Envirothon, Key Club and Earth Force met after school in the Native Species garden as part of a cleanup effort in celebration of Earth Day. “Some people aren’t a part of any club, theyContinue Reading
On the weekend of March 5, junior and varsity wrestler Lea Gobec placed first in her division at the USA Judo Scholastic National Championships in Irving, Texas. Gobec moved from Croatia in August of last year, and has been practicing Judo for 11 years. Gobec won two matches through ippon,Continue Reading
The Marshall Museum, although in a small corner of the school, depicts the long standing history of both the school and the man this school was named for: George C. Marshall. General Marshall served many years within the United States defense department and devised Operation Overlord, in which the AlliedContinue Reading
It’s difficult to argue that summer vacation isn’t a great time. After a grueling school year and its dizzyingly cathartic end, a long break seems almost vital for us all to keep forging on. However, summer vacation is an exercise in excess. German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus presented the forgetting curveContinue Reading
Followers of the hit franchise reflect on the movie I think they did a really good job. Star Wars had such a huge impact when it first came out because no one had really seen anything like it before, so it’s hard to follow that act. I liked the referencesContinue Reading