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By Bennett Smith. On Friday, January 30, the Seven Hills Mock Trial program competed in the annual District Competition, performing against other Ohio teams at the Clermont County Courthouse. Though the three Seven Hills teams included many students who had mock trial experience, none of the teams advanced to the Regional finals. The teams began to meet in early September, even before the mock trial case, which is used across the state, was released. Every Sunday from 11-1, the teams studied Emerson Jones vs. The Buckeye Junior Correctional Institute, aRead More

By Bennett Smith. On January 30 and 31, twenty-four Seven Hills students travelled to the annual Model United Nations Conference held at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. Led by seniors Avery Coombe and Srishti Kapur, the Seven Hills delegation looked to follow up a strong performance at the University of Dayton Conference earlier this year. The 400 Model UN conferences that are held each year seek to teach students research, debating, and teamwork skills through learning about diplomacy and international relations. Students are assigned a country to represent and aRead More

By Stuart Edwards. Junior Kate Coley made a fantastic debut into the world of directing with her production of Sez She, written by Jane Martin, at Essex Studios on January 23 and 24. Sez She is a collection of 37 monologues detailing many aspects of the daily life of a female. The production featured Gina Cermiele-Mechley, Chelsea Rice, Olivia Cremisio, Perri Olson (12, Turpin High School), Daisy Bentley (12, Turpin High School), and Olivia Ulmer (12, Highlands High School). Sez She was staged “in the round” allowing the performers toRead More

By Mehul Patel and Curtis Sun. At Seven Hills, students are offered an ever-expanding variety of electives, giving them the opportunity to pursue burgeoning interests outside of core academic classes. In the coming years, the school plans on adding more non-traditional classes. The school will offer four of these classes in the upcoming school years: Archeology, Environmental History, Computer Engineering, and Biotechnology. How soon these classes will be made available is largely based on enrollment, as well as the availability of the teachers. That being said, it is very likelyRead More

By Bennett Smith. Film artist Lauren Collette (11) is using her talents to promote the cause of the Madisonville Education and Assistance Center (MEAC). Collette, who has family and friends who volunteer at the Center, aims to highlight the deeds of MEAC. MEAC seeks to “provide clothes, food, and really anything that families can’t afford themselves.” Annual drives, especially during the holidays, which Collette notes is the “hardest time” for the Center, collect as many as 300 turkeys for Thanksgiving and hundreds of toys for Christmas. MEAC also runs anRead More

By Michael Heldman. On January 31, the Seven Hills 7UP Club will be hosting the annual Winter Formal Dance. In past years, this dance has not been well attended, so 7UP is being creative in getting students to attend the dance this year. Last year, the masquerade-themed dance ended 45 minutes early as a result of poor attendance. Many people thought the dance was too awkward, and they felt uncomfortable because of the empty dance floor. 7UP, which is making a number of changes to this year’s formal, wants peopleRead More

By Michael Heldman. Did you see all the ads to vote YES on Issue 8 last fall? Many Cincinnati’s were proud to announce that the campaigning was a success; but what was Issue 8, and why does it matter? Last August, Hamilton County Commissioners voted to put Issue 8 on the November ballot. The result was a a five year, quarter-cent sales tax increase to fund the restoration of Union Terminal. The building itself is decaying and it required money to ensure it would receive necessary repairs. Since the successfulRead More

By Bennett Smith. Last Friday, twenty-five Seven Hills students travelled to the University of Dayton (UD) for the annual Model United Nations (UN) conference. The conference, held at UD for over a decade, is run by university students, many of whom study foreign relations or international diplomacy. The Model United Nations program aims to teach students about diplomacy and international relations through research, debate, and public speaking. Students, who are referred to as “delegates” during deliberations, represent a given country in one of the United Nations’ many committees such asRead More

By Michael Heldman. For twenty-one years, Hillsdale Assistant Food Service Manager Pat Kramer-Carroll has been a member of the Seven Hills community. One day Brian Goertemoeller (12) was buying his lunch with some friends and he noticed an orange wristband that Kramer-Carroll was wearing. When Goertemoeller asked why she was wearing the wristband she told him about her beloved grandson, Nate Kramer. Nate Kramer was diagnosed with Leukemia at the age of twenty-three. Now twenty-five, he is still battling the disease. Kramer-Carroll says that as a teenager “Nate was known to be someoneRead More

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By Alex Hunter. Sophomore Shane DiGiovanna had the opportunity of a lifetime on Thursday, October 16 – he gave a TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Talk at Memorial Hall in Cincinnati. TED Talks have become a global phenomenon in the last decade as they offer a platform for the brightest minds to share their ideas. These talks are given at TED sponsored events throughout the world, and DiGiovanna was invited to speak at the TEDxCincinnati event “Vibrant Curiosity.” DiGiovanna, like previous TED presenters (Stephen Hawking and Steve Jobs), had seven minutesRead More

By Mehul Patel. Every year there are many new clubs founded in the Upper School. One of the new clubs this year is Investment Club, which has created a stock market game open to the entire student Upper School student body to participate in. The game is hosted through Marketwatch.com and starts by giving each player with $100,000 in imaginary funds that can be used to invest in the market based on factual prices. Students see the same stock symbols, market information, and prices as do actual traders. Students alsoRead More