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Sports
First SEM Indoor Track Team: Personal Bests, School Record Breakers, Top 16 Times
January 14, 2019
Steve Mikos, Cross Country & Indoor Track Coach
January 12, 2019 This is SEM's first season with an Indoor Track Team. Every girl stepped out of their comfort zones this week by either trying new events or running events they did not plan to run. It really made this one of the best meets of the season so far. Angelina Myles nearly missed...
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A&E
August Wilson Monologue Competition In-House Qualifying Round
January 14, 2019
Erin Kelly, Managing Editor
The August Wilson Monologue In-House Competition was held Friday, Jan. 11, after weeks of preparation that began before winter break. August Wilson died in 2005. The 10 plays...
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Sports
Cross Country Speeding Through the 2018 Season
October 1, 2018
Steve Mikos, Cross Country Coach
SEM Varsity picked-up its first win of the season versus Cardinal O'Hara in League Meet # 1 (the East Aurora Invitational) on Sept. 22. What a race. With the temperature near 75 degrees and the humidity near 100% our SEM girls were excellent again. We faced Mt. St. Mary Academy and Cardinal...
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Cross Country Constantly Improves Takes 5th at Allegany Invitational

Steve Mikos, Cross Country Coach

October 9, 2018 • No Comments

OK, this team is really good and getting better each race! On Saturday, October 6, in a race with both large and small schools combined, our SEM girls came home 5th out of 14 teams. For the 4th time this season we faced...

Athletes of the Week Erin Griffis & Zoe Knauss

October 1, 2018

We announced two Athletes of the Week on Sept. 24: Erin Griffis '19 and Zoë Knauss '19 covering the weeks of Sept. 17 and Sept. 24. SOCCER:...

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Residential Life

Exciting Beginning for 2018-2019 Res Life

Jocelyn Yang, Contributor

October 1, 2018 • No Comments

The SEM residential program drove headlong into a new year with excitement and new faces this September. Leading up a kick-off campfire party in the Magavern-Sutton Courtyard,...

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A&E

Artie Award Nominations for SEM’s Theater Director

Erin Kelly, Managing Editor

May 21, 2018 • No Comments

May 21, 2018 The Artie Award nominations for Buffalo theater were announced today. SEM theatre instructor and director Susan Drozd has been nominated for a number of awards personally on a number...

This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing Plays to Full Houses

March 19, 2018

Buffalo Seminary Theatre presented the 2018 spring play, This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing this past weekend. After a month...

New Blue of Yale Visits SEM

March 12, 2018

Yale's New Blue all-woman a cappella group shared a bill with the Semachords at SEM on Saturday night in the chapel singing to a packed house....

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Opinion

On the Eve of our Midterm Election

Helen L. Marlette, Head of School

November 6, 2018 • No Comments

November 5, 2018 On the eve of our midterm elections and in the aftermath of too many alarming acts of violence, I write to encourage the entire SEM community to resist...

We’re in this Together

Welcome to the 2018/19 school year. Each year at this time I articulate my goals and general themes for the coming year and this year is no different...

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Student Life

State of Service at SEM

Adapted from Kyle Hopkins's Community Service Awards address in Morning Meeting on May 30. The...

We Liked It, and Put a Ring on It!

Class rings are one of the most traditional and iconic aspects of someone's high school experience. Whether...

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News

SEM Hosts Jesuit College Excellence Tour

Jocelyn Yang, Contributor

March 18, 2019 • No Comments

Current sophomores and juniors who have just begun the college process got the opportunity to face-to-face talk to admissions representatives from several Jesuit schools at the second annual Jesuit College Excellence Tour...

Actor, Director, Writer Addison Henderson Visits SEM

Jocelyn Yang, Contributor

March 11, 2019 • No Comments

Actor, director and writer Addison Henderson came to Buffalo Seminary to discuss his documentary film "The Forgotten City" on the afternoon of Tuesday, February 1. Students viewed his film in English and History faculty Carey...

SEM Marks Black History Month

Jocelyn Yang, Contributor

March 11, 2019 • No Comments

Celebrating Black History Month at SEM allows us to pause, remember and reflect. We engaged with black history on a daily basis while looking forward to the future with the hope of unity and harmony among people of all races. ...

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Features

State of Service at SEM

Kyle Hopkins, Community Service Board Faculty Advisor
June 4, 2018

Adapted from Kyle Hopkins's Community Service Awards address in Morning Meeting on May 30. The state of Community Service @ SEM is good! And, there were a lot of new things happening! This year, with Katie Gibbons at the helm, the Community Service Board launched a new initiative - Service Tuesdays. For several months of the year, every Tuesday, SEM students would go to an organization...

SEM Squared: Sister-Sisters

Grace Heidinger, Contributor
June 4, 2018

What would it be like going to high school with your sister or even sisters? For the 2017-2018 school year, there are 12 sets of sisters who go to SEM together. Some who see each other all the time and some who only see each other when they pass each other in the hallway. They're sisters literally and they're sisters figuratively, as are all who have attended SEM. While seniors Brooke Pohlman...

When in Pittsburgh… And You’re Not on a College Tour

Grace Heidinger, Contributor
April 23, 2018

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, also known as "The Steel City" and more recently "The City of Champions" is filled with everything from unique neighborhoods to tasty restaurants. As for the geographic aspect, three rivers flow through the city: the Ohio, the Alleghany, and the Monongahela. Where there are rivers, there are bridges and there are over 400 throughout the city - the most in one city throughout the...

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