Vol. CXXXII · July 10, 2026
This Monday, former Head Monitors Pati Pogorzelska ‘26 and Nehemiah Sanon ‘26 announced the new Self-Governing Association (SGA). During the election process that began around three weeks ago, Day Monitor elections and Class I Representative elections each saw only one male candidate, while the Boarding Monitor election saw two. In contrast, two female candidates ran for Class I Representative, four for Day Monitor, and five for Boarding Monitor.
On March 30, The Milton Paper launched their “Wall of Rejection,” an annual tradition which aims to demonstrate our solidarity in the face of the obscure college process. One reason people attend a school like Milton is its elite college matriculations. Yet, every year, dozens of seniors are inevitably disappointed with their results. However, as of the writing of this editorial on Monday, April 13, only nine seniors had put their acceptances on the TMP’s Wall, and all except for three of them are planning to attend or have been accepted to one of the top fifteen colleges in the nation, as ranked by US News and World Report. We, the Senior Editorial Board, also acknowledge that our own participation, or perhaps lack thereof, mirrors the senior class. Out of ten seniors on this board, only two have added their rejections, five have chosen not to participate and the rest have none. Why, then, has this tradition seen such limited participation this year and become tied instead to so-called college success?