Seven Darien High School seniors presidential scholar candidates
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Seven Darien High School seniors have been selected as candidates for the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. These students have been identified based on broad academic achievement, and having scored exceptionally well on the SAT, or ACT standardized college admissions tests. Top row left to right are: Nicholas Liu, Eleanor Chase, Alexander DelVecchio, and Christina Pizzani. Bottom row left to right are: Ethan Zhang, Vincent Xu and Alexander Oh.Contributed photo
Seven Darien High School seniors, Eleanor Chase, Alexander DelVecchio, Nicholas Liu, Alexander Oh, Christina Pizzani, Vincent Xu and Ethan Zhang have been selected as candidates for the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. These students have been identified based on broad academic achievement, and having scored exceptionally well on the SAT, or ACT standardized college admissions tests.
January 28, 2021 at 9:00 am by Nicholas Liu
Among the figures of the 20th century, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi are both revered in their home countries and acclaimed worldwide as nonviolent revolutionaries par excellence. As issues of racial injustice came to the fore of national discourse throughout the summer and autumn of 2020, it seems that MLK and Gandhi have become especially vogue among a circle of commentators wishing to offer Black Lives Matter protesters their sage and learned advice.
The gist of their argument is this: People like MLK and Gandhi are ideal role models for the Black Lives Matter movement because they advanced political change through nonviolent protest. The main problem with this line of thinking is that it is joined to the hip with prevailing, cult-like narratives that distort the real history.Â