This spring break, ten students in Honors History of Western Art traveled to Italy, including four writers on The Papyrus: Allison Palmer, Steven Zhang, Louisa Prentice, and Aarav Seth. During our trip,...
Every Papyrus article you have read in the past year has been the product of late nights, tight deadlines, and many iced coffees. While this may apply to each of our school newspaper’s 40 writers, it...
Every so often, a few scrolls on Instagram will land you on a girl in a blue dress skating her heart out, her body swaying to the rhythmic beats of “Stateside” by Zara Larsson and PinkPantheress in...
“The tribe has spoken.”
For over 25 years, Jeff Probst has uttered this iconic four-word phrase that has since defined the world of Survivor. First airing in May of 2000, CBS’s renowned...
In honor of the tantalizingly slow release of Season 2 of the medical drama to end all medical dramas, I would like to make a case for why The Pitt is novel, brilliant, and worth a watch (and maybe...
“Wait, they’re not blue, they’re indigo!” It’s a familiar scene: a fellow student insisting to a faculty member that their blue jeans are in fact just black or purple with a blue-ish tint. These...
Let me paint you a beautiful picture: Jacob Elordi at the airport, classic novel in hand, sporting a leather jacket, with a designer bag resting on his shoulder. Performativeness is the show of something...
At Taft, dorms mean a lot. For approximately 84% of us, they are a second home, some place to reset and connect with friends and faculty. Within these spaces, we experience everything from the highs of...
On April 1st, the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in December 1972, took flight. The Artemis II set out to make history in a lunar flyby that would be the furthest distance...
When Jenny Rowe missed her sub-3:30 marathon goal in Rome by 45 seconds, she didn’t recalibrate her expectations. She booked another race, this time in Cleveland, Ohio, and ran until those 45 seconds...
