By Max Tiffany ’21 THE ROUNDUP Students at Brophy have always been active in the local and global communities and there is almost no job that they cannot get done as a team. Brophy students working on political campaigns throughout Phoenix are a perfect representation of that in action. Eli Reed ’21 first heard about […]
By Thomas Haak ’23 THE ROUNDUP Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Brophy Open House will still carry on in person and will be able to provide a first look at Brophy’s campus for 8th graders while maintaining the AMDG protocols. The Open House will take place on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020, from noon to 4 […]
By Ridge Peterson ’21 and Max Tiffany ’21 THE ROUNDUP There is no overstatement for the tragedies caused by the COVID-19 pandemic that swept through the nation this year, and more concern is growing now that the flu season is starting to take its course. While COVID-19 has been Brophy’s main area of concern for […]
By George Anton ’21 and Carl Justice ’21 THE ROUNDUP Brophy is cancelling classes on Nov. 3 and is scheduling a Day of Democracy in its place. Robson Gymnasium also will be a polling location for Maricopa County on Election Day. Students will also have the opportunity to participate in various democratic activities from home […]
By Sergio Arvizu-Rivera ’23 THE ROUNDUP Mr. Pete Burr ’07 has been working hard since March of 2020 in order to rebrand The Red Army as The Stampede in light of The Red Army possibly carrying negative connotations. The Brophy community has been known as The Red Army for over eight years, a name that […]
By Jude Unrein ’23 THE ROUNDUP Brophy staff members are making changes to the way the ACT and SAT will be taken in order to keep testing as safe and available as possible. Some of these changes include increasing the number of testing rooms to decrease the number of students in one room, having desks […]
By Ryan Loo ’21 THE ROUNDUP This past summer, the nation experienced bouts of civil unrest and protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd, one of the latest in a number of highly-publicized incidents of police brutality and killings of unarmed Black citizens. Floyd’s death influenced pervasive shifts throughout America’s landscape. Corporations have issued […]
By Sergio Arvizu-Rivera ’23 THE ROUNDUP With the new AMDG protocols put into place and split lunches enforced, students and staff are working hard to adapt 8th hour into their daily routine. In the weeks before students returned to school, Brophy announced a new set of AMDG protocols concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. The AMDG protocols […]
By Nathan Wise ’21 THE ROUNDUP The Brophy/Xavier Advocacy Club has expanded its community-building efforts online as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the uncertainty of the pandemic brought about difficulties to continue its collaborative efforts of raising awareness in marginalized communities, the student-led group created an Instagram account to resume its advocacy efforts […]
By Xander Welty THE ROUNDUP At the end of the 2019-2020 school year, Brophy’s contract with its old internet provider ended which meant we had to find a new internet provider. The winner of the bid to be Brophy’s new internet provider was a company called Sun Corridor. Mr. Mica Mulloy ’99, the assistant principal […]
