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April Issue
Current Year Articles
April 2024 / Current Year Articles
Exam Week: Studying or Satisfaction
Gilman has a very rigorous exam schedule compared to many schools in the Baltimore area. Most students take multiple two-hour exams over the span of a week, preparing them for college life.
April 2024 / Current Year Articles
Gilman Students in Future Scholars
Almost every afternoon during lunch, you might see seniors Jackson Heether, Jerry Huang, and Liam Rivers walking down to the Lower Lot. While you might think they are just trying to skip assembly, they are actually headed to Johns Hopkins to take college mathematics courses.
April 2024 / Current Year Articles
Pre-Game for Gilman Athletes
The Gilman Greyhounds finished the winter athletic season very well with seventeen All-MIAA athletes. So much goes on behind the scenes for each athlete.
April 2025 / Current Year Articles
A Greener Gilman
The Gilman Greenhounds Club, led by Mateo Garzo ‘26, says their mission is “to help steward our local environment and spread environmental awareness throughout our community… and to promote climate-conscious actions.”
April 2025 / Current Year Articles
Dollars and Derman
According to the World Economic Forum, there is a stark reality—around 50% of adults are financially illiterate. I’ve started this column with the hopes of educating Gilman students with a basic level of financial and economic understanding by meeting with alumni in the business world
April 2025 / Current Year Articles
Scheduling Behind-the-Scenes
Every spring, Upper School students submit course requests for their schedules the following year. Much goes on behind the scenes to ensure every student can take the classes he is interested in.
April 2025 / Current Year Articles
Raiders No More
So often in assembly, we hear Mr. Smyth and Mr. Ledyard speak of the traditions of Gilman. Each and every student shares a brotherly bond with one another, and blue and gray runs through our veins. A tradition that makes up Gilman is actively being changed: the Gilman Raiders.
April 2025 / Current Year Articles
Just How Stressful Are College Apps?
The average Gilman senior spends around 46 hours in total on their college applications. That’s a lot of time. The average senior will also have extracurricular commitments and homework from their classes in the fall. That’s a lot more time.
April 2025 / Current Year Articles
Who’s Next? Polling for the President?
The Gilman Five—Honor, Integrity, Respect, Humility, and Excellence—make up the fabric of our school community. Which of the Gilman Five do students value the most?
Cameron’s Column
April 2025 / Current Year Articles
Club Spotlight: Soccer Club
Soccer Club is a newly formed club that has gained a lot of traction. Founder Kevin Zheng ‘26 says he started looking for a club to fulfill his passion for the sport.
April 2025 / Current Year Articles
Student Body Candidate Intros
With spring coming into full bloom, the student-body presidential election in May is fast approaching. Six junior candidates have pledged to put their names on the ballot: Andrew Goodale, Randy Liu, Asher Mathai, Connor Souryal, Toby Rosenband, and Rohan Vesely.
April 2025 / Current Year Articles
100 vs. 4.0 GPA
A student’s grade point average (GPA) is one of the most important aspects of a college application when admissions officers make decisions. However, the way that GPA is calculated and measured varies significantly from school to school.
April 2025 / Current Year Articles
Apiary Club Spotlight
For years the Apiary Club housed 20,000 bees and produced plenty of honey. Sadly, over the summer, all the bees perished from a beetle problem.
April 2025 / Current Year Articles
Serenades: A Tradition of Music and Memories
Serenades, when the Traveling Men and their sister-school counterparts entertain the community by singing to dumbfounded students, is a longstanding tradition around Valentine's Day.
April 2024 / Current Year Articles
Science Monthly
Will an Asteroid Impact the Earth in 2032?
Birds and Quantum Entanglement:
How Do Birds Navigate? Universities Panic After NIH Funding Cuts
April 2024 / Current Year Articles
Fresh in the Theater: The Bob Dylan Biopic
Because I love the music of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez—the two great folk icons of the 60s—I was excited about A Complete Unknown, the new Dylan biopic movie, as soon as the trailer dropped.
April 2024 / Current Year Articles
Walton Staley ‘26 is the subject of The News’ second Cameron Column.
John: “Let’s start with something easy, what do you think about the geopolitical and economic state of the world?”
Quote of the Day
“The one who always thinks of others often forgets to think of themselves.”
