Babel — Brunswick’s multi-lingual e-magazine featuring art, music, poetry, and prose in as many as 10 different languages — secured top honors from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for its 2014–15 publication.
CSPA is an international student press association, founded in 1925, whose goal is to unite student journalists and faculty advisers at schools and colleges through educational conferences, idea exchanges, textbooks, critiques, and award programs.
Babel was the lone high school digital magazine to earn a Crown Award, honoring student publications judged on their excellence in design, photography, concept, coverage, and writing.
The innovative e-magazine also received a Gold Medal and All-Columbian Honors.
In the words of Editor-in-chief Yousef Hindy ’15, now a freshman at Stanford University, “The Tower of Babel stood as the symbol of what man could achieve with a single language. According to the Bible, God scrambled the tongues of man so that we would not be able to communicate with each other.
“After scattering them all over the earth, man never reached the potential they once had. Babel hopes to break down those barriers in search of a greater truth, one that can only be found through the consideration of all languages and cultures.”