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Continue Reading School News Benet Hall Turns 100 March 23, 2020 Katie Brill '23 The date carved on the cornerstone of Benet Hall is 1919. Construction continued until its completion in 1920. The sidewalk that winds in front of Benet and St. Joseph Halls offers a glimpse of what the structures would have looked like in their early years. A brilliant white staircase bridges the snow-covered... Continue Reading Current Events A Moral Dilemma Lily Dokhanchi ‘21 April 30, 2020 Right now, doctors and nurses are doing everything possible to help fight Covid-19. Their lives have been changed in drastic ways, but there are also many others who have... COVID-19 Has No Borders Mia Huerta ‘21 April 20, 2020 Shivering, malnourished immigrants huddled in cage-like detention centers after being separated from their families. Pens divided by metal fencing are their only... GROWING PAINS Kendall McKay '20 April 20, 2020 Milk. Eggs. Pork. Onions. Beef. Cabbage. These are just a few of the items that make up trillions of dollars and millions of livelihoods. However,... View All School News SG Election Results: Corona Edition Annie Watson ‘22 August 17, 2020 • No Comments Although the COVID-19 pandemic replaced classroom lectures with early-morning Zoom calls, one part of Benet pride remained the same during e-Learning: voting for Student Government president and vice president. The catchphrase-filled... SG Election Week 2020 Adrian Paner ‘22 June 30, 2020 • No Comments Student Government Election Week is usually a fun week for both candidates and students voting for them. It usually occurs at the end of April or the first week of May during the school year. However this year due to COVID-19,... View All Sports An Abrupt Ending Ben Paoni '21 April 16, 2020 • No Comments Due to COVID-19, the Benet boys basketball team experienced an abrupt ending to an exciting season. After a terrific Redwing victory at the IHSA Regional Championship (57-43), the IHSA Sectional at Hinsdale... The 2020 Benet Girls Basketball Team Reagan Rodenbostel '21 March 10, 2020 • No Comments Even though Benet’s girls basketball team’s season came to an unexpected end, it does not take anything away from the fact that they had an unbelievably successful season. The team ended with a 29-3... View All Clubs Math Team Success Sarah Meece ‘21 March 10, 2020 • No Comments Einstein! Pascal! Euclid! Budd! Skaluba! Jimenez! We all know these first three people— they are famous mathematicians who have contributed greatly to the face of mathematics. However, who are the last... Engineering Olympiad Abby Doyle '21 March 5, 2020 • No Comments On Friday, February 21, Mr. Pat Marshall took three teams of students, 16 kids total, to College of Dupage in order to compete in the annual Engineering Olympiad event. The students participated in a series... View All A & E Arts in Adaptation Mattie Cieplak ‘21 July 30, 2020 • No Comments During a typical summer, there are many ways to entertain and educate yourself. Whether it is taking an art class, joining a sport’s camp, or participating in local theatre;... A Virtual Broadway Stage for Musical Performers Kristine Allen '20 April 22, 2020 • No Comments During these hectic and unsure times, it seems as though, in the words of Lin Manuel Miranda, “The world turned upside down”. Unfortunately, one of the many unforeseen... The Arts in Quarantine Mattie Cieplak ‘21 April 20, 2020 • No Comments As people in Illinois have been following the shelter-in-place order for over a month now, many radical changes have taken place in peoples’ lives. Many have lost their... View All SALT & Being Benedictine Benet’s Eucharistic Ministers: Experiencing Their Faith Margot Striegel ‘20 September 16, 2019 The definition of the word “extraordinary” is “exceptional to a very marked extent.” There is no better way to describe this year’s Extraordinary Ministers of the... 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