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Eden Conner

Eden Conner, Editor-in-Chief

Eden Conner ’25 is an Editor-in-Chief and is in her third year working for The Chronicle. Eden is a Peer Support Coordinator and Editor-in-Chief of Stone-Cutters, and in her free time loves hiking and going to Dodger games.

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Letter from the Editors: Setting Journalistic Foundations

Letter from the Editors: Setting Journalistic Foundations

Connor Tang and Eden Conner
September 10, 2024

In America, newspapers have always been an essential aspect of our society. During the age of typewriters and early computers, the objective of news corporations was clear: report the news accurately and...

From left to right: Mason Wetzstein '25, Ethan Seung '25, Ryder Katz '25, Michael Barr '25 and John Xu '25 stand together with their faculty advisor Andy Stout.

Five students win first at international data science competition hosted by Wharton School

Eden Conner, Assistant Opinion Editor
May 29, 2024

Michael Barr ’25, Ryder Katz ’25, Mason Wetzstein ’25, Ethan Seung ’25 and John Xu ’25 won the annual Wharton High School Data Competition. The team competed against over 300 teams from 37 countries...

Impending dorm

Impending dorm

Eden Conner, Assistant Opinion Editor
May 29, 2024

Levi Schwartz ‘26 sits in his messy room at 11:30 p.m on a Wednesday. There are clothes everywhere but the hamper, a stacked plates of food on his desk and too much homework in his backpack to worry...

Varsity baseball athletes pay attention to a pregame speech from coaches before their matchup with Corona High School in the CIF-SS Open Division baseball championship May 18.

Baseball ends successful season with loss to No. 1 Corona in CIF-SS championship game

Eden Conner, Assistant Opinion Editor
May 29, 2024

The baseball team finished their season 27-5-1 overall and 15-1-1 in the Mission League after a 5-0 loss to Corona High School in the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section (CIF-SS) Championship...

River Park construction set to begin in April, seven years after purchase

Eden Conner, Assistant Opinion Editor
March 22, 2024

Following its 2017 purchase, River Park is currently slated to begin construction April 4. Los Angeles (LA) City Council approved the project Nov. 14, issuing a conditional use permit for the school. As...

Senior pitcher Duncan Marsten '24 celebrates as he walks off the field into the dugout.

Baseball starts off the season with big Mission League wins

Eden Conner, Assistant Opinion Editor
March 20, 2024

The baseball team started mission league play Feb. 27 and are 6-0-1 as of March 14. The squad swept Notre Dame High School in a two game series the week of March 11, a team that they did not win a game...

School closed due to flooding

School closed due to flooding

Eden Conner
February 5, 2024

  The school announced Feb. 4 that all Monday instruction would be remote due to storms in Los Angeles County. Independent schools Marlborough School and Brentwood Schoolwill also be closed for...

The AI music issue

Eden Conner, Assistant Opinion Editor
February 5, 2024

In the 1988 case Midler v. Ford Motor Co., actress Bette Midler sued Ford for impersonating her voice in a commercial and won the appeal. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals claimed that because a voice...

Outfielder James Tronstein '26 looks to make a headfirst slide in a preseason game.

Baseball prepares for new season

Eden Conner
February 1, 2024

It is 6:45 a.m. as pitcher Tommy Bridges ’24 wakes up to the sound of his alarm and looks at his phone. The words ‘win the day’ stare back at him as he turns off the ringing sound. Reading the phrase,...

College isn't the end goal

College isn’t the end goal

Eden Conner, Assistant Opinion Editor
December 20, 2023

It’s a Friday night, and the stands around Ted Slavin Field are empty. It's Wednesday, and the dinner table has an open spot as a computer keyboard clicks upstairs. It’s winter of senior year, and...

New to Zillow: HW Edition

Eden Conner, Assistant Opinion Editor
December 13, 2023

RUGBY HALL: Price: $3,000,000 (the amount of money it will take to make students read "Maurice" again) Features: 11 Rooms (technically not bedrooms, but sleeping during Shakespeare units might suggest...

Gisele Thompson '24 poses for a photo shoot with her new jersey following a historic three-year contract with Angel City FC, a Los-Angeles-based soccer club, joining her sister Alyssa Thompson '23.

Gisele Thompson ’24 signs deal with Angel City FC

Eden Conner and Alex Dinh
December 13, 2023

Angel City Football Club (FC), Los Angeles’s National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) team, signed soccer player Gisele Thompson ’24 to a three year contract Nov. 28. The deal was signed days before...

IN THE AIR: Theo Ottosson ’25 jumps above a Palos Verdes defender in a game against the Sea Kings Dec. 5. The Wolverines won the game 2-0.

Boys’ soccer looks to succeed following injuries

Eden Conner, Assistant Opinion Editor
December 13, 2023

The boys' soccer team started their season 2-1 with wins against Cathedral High School on Dec. 2 and Palos Verdes High School on Dec. 5. Last season, the team won the Mission League Championship and made...

Fight antisemitism amid Hamas war

Fight antisemitism amid Hamas war

Eden Conner, Assistant Opinion Editor
November 15, 2023

It was a Saturday morning in Venice Beach. I sat in a chair at the front of Scissors hair salon. Across the street, two women stood below a sign picturing a young girl kidnapped by Hamas in Israel. She...

Students line up outside their school after a shooting has just occurred.

Generation Under Fire

Students and faculty discuss the rising issue of gun violence and how it affects their lives at school and in the world.
Georgia Grad and Eden Conner
November 15, 2023

Everyone is in Taper Gymnasium. It’s an all-school assembly, and students are packed on the bleachers: sophomores and juniors on one side of the gym, and seniors on the other. Head of Upper School Beth...

Striker Vicky Pugh '25, who is committed to play Division 1 Women's soccer at Vanderbilt University, looks to make a pass during a game against Chaminade High School on Jan. 18.

Girls’ soccer prepares for new season

Eden Conner and Hana Mehdi Williams
November 14, 2023

It was hailing in Marietta during the 2023 Girls’ Soccer Mission League playoffs. Despite the freezing temperatures, Head Coach Richard Simms said he was confident of his team’s ability to win. “The...

Recognize social media's role in politics

Recognize social media’s role in politics

Eden Conner, Assistant Opinions Editor
September 21, 2023

On Nov 4, 2008, the Americans who signed up for former President Barack Obama’s text updates received a final message: “All of this happened because of you. Thanks, Barack.” Obama was the first...

DOUBLE TROUBLE: Keisari Penman ’27 and Mimi Rhee ’25 discuss strategy in between sets against Westlake High School on Sept. 13.

Girls’ tennis gears up for start of league play

Eden Conner, Assistant Opinion Editor
September 21, 2023

Last season, the girls’ tennis team went 15-3 overall and 7-1 in the Mission League with a trip to the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) semifinal. They started their 2023-2024 season 2-2 with...

LA City Planning to determine future of River Park

LA City Planning to determine future of River Park

Eden Conner and Davis Marks
August 29, 2023

The River Park project is in the final stages of approval after a Los Angeles City Council hearing July 12 and a Los Angeles City Planning Commission (CPC) approval hearing Aug. 24.   During...

Field hockey welcomes four new freshmen prior to season opener

Field hockey welcomes four new freshmen prior to season opener

Eden Conner
August 29, 2023

The field hockey team started their 2023-2024 fall season with a 7-0 win against Great Oak with six different scorers in the game. Following the loss of multiple Division 1 players in the last few years,...

Girls’ golf player competes in national age group tournament

Girls’ golf player competes in national age group tournament

Eden Conner
August 29, 2023

Ellie Koo ’24 stood on a practice green next to her dad at Tregnan golf course in Griffith park when she was seven years old and swung her putter for the first time. Ten years later, Koo walked across...

Mudd Library will be closed off until the renovation is completed in November. In the meantime, a temporary library has been created.

Mudd Library to remain closed until November amid renovation

Eden Conner and Colin Ho
August 27, 2023

Construction on Mudd Library began in June following graduation and is on schedule to be completed after Thanksgiving break in November. The renovated space will house the school’s relocated Learning...

Money vs. athletes

Money vs. athletes

Eden Conner
August 26, 2023

The Pacific-12 (Pac-12) Conference holds the most national championships of any conference in the country and is referred to as the “Conference of Champions” by announcers and fans alike. But in the...

TAKE A SWING: Colin Kennedy ’24 prepares to hit the ball during a match against St. Francis on April 18. Kennedy has since won the first three rounds of the CIF individuals tournament alongside Andrew Kurgan ’24. Printed with permission of Darlene Bible.

Doubles team advances to fourth round

Eden Conner
May 25, 2023

nnedy ’24 won three rounds in the CIF individuals tournament to make it to the round of 32.  The duo rallied to win 6-4 and 6-3 in the third round, guaranteeing them a spot in the second week of the...

A schedule and checklist of items are being filled out.

Debating the new block schedule

Eden Conner, Layout Assistant and Staff Writer
May 24, 2023

In sophomore year, students are asked to build a three-year plan for the classes they will take during their time at the school. Faced with a spreadsheet and suggestions from too many people about what...

Studio City Ice Cream Shops

  McConnell's Fine Ice Cream By Sabrina Hamideh McConnell’s is the best ice cream parlor in all of Studio City. From the variety of tasty flavors to the ambiance of the shop and even...

Teachers’ Spring Break

Watch to learn about how some teachers spend their spring break!

FisHW organizes lobster fishing trip

Eden Conner
March 22, 2023

FisHW led a lobster fishing trip on the Huntington Beach Pier on March 17. Participants dropped lobster traps and ate a group dinner before fishing off the dock and ending the night by pulling up the traps. The...

Prince Harry to Replace Commons as Head of School

Eden Conner, Staff Writer
February 10, 2023

Prince Harry will replace President Richard B. Commons effective immediately, according to an all-school email sent Jan. 23. The ginger, who made millions streaming his move out of his parents basement,...

Annual Tapout Begins

Eden Conner
February 8, 2023

Prefect Council announced the beginning of Tapout on Jan. 23. Tapout is an annual all-school competition in which students eliminate their intended targets by tapping them on the back. The Tapout Constitution,...

Guard Trent Perry '24 is announced as a member of the starting lineup and makes his way through his teammates. The squad continued their undefeated Mission League campaign with a 73-50 victory against Chaminade High School on senior night.

Boys basketball wins Mission League Title, included in CIF-SS Open Division Playoffs

Eden Conner
February 8, 2023

The boys basketball team heads into California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section (CIF-SS) open division playoffs with an overall record of 28-1 and undefeated league record of 8-0 after beating...

Chronicle Newscast: For the Holidays

Chronicle Newscast: For the Holidays

Zoe Goor, Eden Conner, and Alden Detmer
December 27, 2022

Click below to watch the first newscast.

Many members of the Studio City community choose to decorate the fronts of their homes with bright and colorful lights throughout the holiday season.

‘Tis the season: The Chronicle’s holiday activity favorites

Eden Conner
December 15, 2022

It is the most wonderful time of the year, Wolverines, so if your eyes are currently staring at a textbook instead of the giant blow-up snowman in your neighbor’s front yard, here is a list of fun holiday...

Illustration by Sophia Evans

What’s New: Fall Reviews: “Smile”

Eden Conner
November 17, 2022

"Smile" is one of 2022's most popular horror film's whose successful blending of genres has allowed the movie to reach wider audiences. The film, released Sept. 30, was incredibly successful at the box...

CHECK UP: Trent Perry ’24, Brady Dunlap ’23 and Jacob Huggins ’23 of Harvard Westlake pose alongside Dusty Stromer, Mercy Miller and Caleb Foster of Notre Dame High School for picture day.

Boys basketball tops national and local high school rankings

Eden Conner
November 16, 2022

It’s still dark outside when small forward Nik Khamenia’s ’25 morning alarm goes off. He rolls over, groaning before grabbing his phone to turn off the alarm. The screen flashes, and he’s faced...

While scrolling for Halloween costumes, the category of "Sexy" can seem like the only one for  girls.

From Candy Bars to Eye Candy

Eden Conner
November 7, 2022

“In girl world, Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress up like a total sl*t and no other girls can say anything about it,” Regina George explained, twirling in her playboy bunny halloween...

New Clubs at the Activities Fair

The Human Rights Watch Student Task Force By Eden Conner The Human Rights Watch Student Task Force (HRWSTF), founded by Nilufer Mistry Sheasby ’24, plans to raise awareness in the community about...

Dani Lynch ’23 commits to Clemson for D1 soccer

Eden Conner
September 29, 2022

Defensive midfielder Dani Lynch ’23 announced her commitment to attend and play Division 1 soccer at Clemson University on Aug 23. Lynch said she is looking forward to her continued time as a student-athlete. “I’m...

Julia Im '23 poses in front of the Hacienda Hotel in San Diego. Im traveled back and forth between  Korea and the U.S. for her fellowship.

Junior Fellowship: Julia Im

Eden Conner
September 5, 2022

Julia Im ’23 traveled back and forth between Korea and the U.S. for her Junior Fellowship to study Hwabyeong, a syndrome found in Korean women that is caused by culture-bound anger. Im said Hwabyeong...

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