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Great Expectations: What’s In a Theme, Anyway?
Reading Time: 5 minutes

By Tan Jun Xiang (14S06C) and Bryan Chua (14A01A)

It is everywhere we look: from the massive banners festooned on the parade square to the promotional booklets handed out during Open House. Yet to what extent do we really understand and appreciate the theme that supposedly charts the very direction of our school for the year ahead? In spite of the great meaning and value such themes hold for the school, they have hitherto been little more than decorations on our parade square, left in plain sight but going largely unnoticed and unappreciated.

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Of Blood, Sweat and Tears
Reading Time: 4 minutes

By Lee Chin Wee (14A01B) 

Cover photo taken by Chung Kityin of the Photographic Society

Sometimes it seems rather pointless to take part in sport. Why cheer when a ball dotted with hexagonal patterns trickles over a white line painted hastily on grass? Why celebrate when the thin strip of fibreglass you threw happened to fly the furthest? Why indulge, anyway, in an entirely arbitrary activity where arbitrary actions garner absolutely arbitrary reward? To some, that encapsulates the entirety of what school sports are – events which may be nice to have, but really have no relevance to their student lives altogether. Sport, as it seems from the limp and half-hearted cheers from legions of students conscripted down for match support, is “someone else’s game”.

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Farewell Editorial: Why Raffles Press Matters
Reading Time: 4 minutes

by Chua Jun Yan

From then...
From then…
...to now
…to now

Over 200 articles and 300,000 hits later, I think it’s important to take a stand back and ask the big question – why does the Rafflesian journalist matter? In a turf where there are no medals to be won, only stories to be told, what is the existential justification for Raffles Press?

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