Dear all, Upon inheriting the Looking Glass from our predecessors, we identified a number of key issues. Firstly, there were simply not enough articles being published, due both to a lack of submissions from the school community and limited responsiveness from the previous Academic Team. Secondly, the Looking Glass had not been advertised or explained effectively enough to the wider school community. As a result, we plan to implement a more consistent and engaging stream of articles on the Looking Glass. As part of this initiative, we are looking to recruit a select group of keen writers from across the lower school who would be willing to produce one high-quality piece of writing, discussion, or media each month for publication on the Looking Glass. We believe this will be hugely beneficial both to the school community, which will gain access to a wider range of opinions and viewpoints, and to prospective writers, who will be able to reference their experience contributing to the Look...
RAHUL MEHAN Doping by athletes is pretty scandalous. Doping is defined as ‘administering drugs to an athlete in order to inhibit or enhance sporting performance’. At times it's difficult to believe that some athletes, including many of our idols, make the decision to use performance-enhancing drugs. Athletes dope for a number of reasons such as wanting to win badly for money or for their country. Nonetheless it is still cheating and it creates an unfair advantage. It also creates a bad reputation for the sport and can tarnish the name of the athlete for decades to come. Shane Warne, Lance Armstrong, Ben Johnson, Diego Maradona, Maria Sharapova. Recognise the names? They are all champions, leaders, legends - and cheaters! These athletes, who have been caught by doping officials, have won many prestigious awards. For example Maria Sharapova has won an incredible 5 Grand Slam titles, one at Wimbledon in 2004, one at the US Open in 2006, one in 2008 at the Australian Open and two at t...