By Nicky Niedermeier ‘12, LighterFare Section Editor. The students of the Upper School are regarded for their exceptional academic performance. What motivates our peers? Terror. Pure, unadulterated fear of the cast of characters that make up the Upper School faculty. Here’s the list of CCD’s top four scariest teachers.

By Nicky Neidermeir ‘12, LighterFare Section Editor. 7:45 AM—You wake up suddenly after realizing you have hit the snooze button three times…

By Claire Heinichen ‘11, Lighter Fare Editor. I may no longer seek to overachieve in all of my subjects, I can’t exactly hide from approaching deadlines and stacks of homework, so instead, I put them off. I am a master procrastinator, which is truly a lost art. So in the event that you are like me, and seek any excuse not to do school work, here is a list of my top 7 favorite ways to not get anything done.

By Xanni Brown, ’10, Lighter Fare Section Editor. After an intense round of discussions, the rankings are in. THE SCROLL’s editorial staff has compiled a list of the top 15 magazines and newspapers published in the greater Cincinnati area.

By Joey Fritz, ‘10. Trying to decide where to send your high school age children? Here are 10 reasons why your child should become an Indian.

By Xanni Brown, ‘10, Lighter Fare Editor. Last week, while all the students were off enjoying their Thanksgivings, Cincinnati Country Day was overrun by aliens. They must have been observing us for some time, because their takeover commenced almost as soon as the last person left the building on Tuesday night.

By Xanni Brown, ‘10, and Allison Lazarus, ‘10, Section Editors. What to tell your teachers when you forget an assignment.

The number of missing children in Cincinnati has risen dramatically in the past few weeks. The focal point of these numerous disappearances seems to be at CCDS in Indian Hill, and particularly, the Upper School. Upwards of 20 students have been reported as missing or kidnapped from this small independent school and the Indian Hill Rangers cannot seem to figure out why this is happening.

By Jayne Caron, ‘10, The Lens Section Editor

Mr. Howard Brownstein,  cookie monster and basketball coach extraordinaire, has a booming, distinctive voice that can be heard throughout the hallways as he cracks jokes, extols  the virtues of mathematics and basketball, and describes the physical similarity between Mrs. Dunn and senior Nick Bender to all [...]

If you were not blessed to have the chance to hang out with junior Jules Cantor this summer, you missed out on a spectacle rivaling the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Kings Island is an amusement park; it is supposed to be fun. But, for those of us who have worked there, the words “Kings Island” can inspire a quite different reaction.

This past summer I worked at my local McDonald’s. Actually, it was my second summer working there. I ended up there again this summer because my parents said I needed a job, I already knew the ropes, and I was too lazy to find anything else.