Photo Courtesy of Tribune News Service – Weekly Science Matters graphic: Asthma and allergies often occur at the same time. By Reece M. Krantz ’16 THE ROUNDUP Student athletes face many challenges in today’s world of competitive, 365-day-a-year sports schedules. Now more than ever are risks that can be associated with active participation. One of […]
Homework plays crucial role in effective learning By Joseph Valencia ’17 THE ROUNDUP Homework remains one of the most dreaded aspects of school, but most people realize to some degree that it has a role to play in learning. According to a study by Duke University, homework significantly helps students learn the material they are […]
Photo by Bryce Owen — Students experiment with circuits in the new Innovation Commons, Sept. 25. By Reece M. Krantz ’16 THE ROUNDUP Hector Valdouvous ’19 creates a cylinder on a computer program, and drags it into another shape. He is working on an object a freshman can use, a reusable candle. This summer the […]
By Reece M. Krantz ’16 THE ROUNDUP This year’s edition of the popular sports game “FIFA”released its cover athlete as they do every year, except this time they added Alex Morgan from the U.S Women’s National Team. Morgan will appear along side Argentinian superstar Lionel Messi on the American retail version. Other notable women’s soccer […]
By Reece M. Krantz ’16 THE ROUNDUP Generating school spirit is a wholesome art, and one that Brophy is rather famous for. The spirit of a school, good or bad, is not a fortuitous one. Whatever its character is, it can be traced back to a common cause or call. It is neither spasmodic nor […]
“NHL 15”—Electronic Arts—PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 6 out of 10 By Reece M. Krantz ’16 THE ROUNDUP “NHL 15” is the most recent iteration in Electronic Arts’ perennial sports congregation, often used as the benchmark for other sports games and other related events. Alas, this time is different. The NHL series […]
By Reece M. Krantz ’16 THE ROUNDUP In recent social movements, online networks have become mass communication tools and vehicles for mobilization. Online services have created a superficial and often arbitrary mental state between man and the world’s plaguing problems by scaling them to clicks or “likes.” Websites such as Facebook and Twitter are being […]
Reece M. Krantz ’16 THE ROUNDUP candybox2.net Oh God, Why? What horrible genius came up with this simple yet addicting Role Playing Game in the vain of “Cookie Clicker.” “Candy Box” is a persistent game that starts off simple and intriguing, but evolves to be a fully fledged American Standard Code for Information Interchange, better […]
By Reece M. Krantz ’16 THE ROUNDUP 7 out of 10 “Battlefield 4” is the next installment in the highly iterative series of modern First Person Shooters that focus on large, combined arms warfare with dynamic maps and destruction. The Battlefield franchise has always been about the mix of infantry and vehicular combat, striking a […]
Reece M. Krantz ’16 THE ROUNDUP Brophy students are called upon to do justice for others and to put themselves behind others, especially the poor. Any student can take this call and enforce it with his own personal justifications. Ethan Klein ’14 is a prime example of this. He recently spent a week in the […]
