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Milla Ben-Ezra

Milla Ben-Ezra, Editor-in-Chief

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Editors-in-Chief Tessa Augsberger and Milla Ben-Ezra stand next to each other during the first Chronicle layout.

Letter from the Editors: Encouraging a new mindset

Tessa Augsberger and Milla Ben-Ezra
May 27, 2022

As teenagers living in the world today, we are inundated with pressure to improve ourselves. With social media hounding us about the importance of self-care and our high schools consistently emphasizing...

HW Visions Progress report released Sept. 15 highlights five administration goals set in 2015 and how the school will implement change based on student opinions in the community to better student life, local communities and diversity, equity and inclusion.

Commons develops new Visions

Tessa Augsberger and Milla Ben-Ezra
October 14, 2021

The school published its first Visions progress report and released its broad-based Visions survey for its next report in an all-school email Sept. 15. The report highlights five overarching categories...

Adam Luse '23 prepares to receive a COVID-19 nose swab test from a Mend Urgent Care representative at the school's drive-thru rapid testing facility Friday.

Administration announces COVID-19 safety protocols as both campuses reopen at full capacity

Tessa Augsberger and Milla Ben-Ezra
September 2, 2021

President Rick Commons released COVID-19 protocols and other reopening guidelines for the upcoming year in an all-school email sent Aug. 17. Both campuses will reopen at full capacity, resuming all campus...

QUEENS OF WEILER HALL: Editors-in-Chief Tessa Augsberger ’22 and Milla Ben-Ezra ’22 pose at the first Chronicle layout of the year.

Letter from the Editors: Committing to our community

Tessa Augsberger and Milla Ben-Ezra
August 25, 2021

Peering over the tops of our PC screens in Weiler Hall and seeing the faces of our 76-person staff, we cannot help but remember our view while laying out Issue I of Volume 30 last year: bedroom walls,...

Illustration by Sophia Evans

Character Tropes, Red Velvet Ropes

Milla Ben-Ezra
May 31, 2021

Wrapped in a fuzzy blanket with a bowl of buttered popcorn on his lap, a 10-year-old Tom Baker ’22 snuggled alongside his parents as they shuffled through films on their family movie night. From animated...

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Controversial Contraception

Teenage girls discuss how taking birth control has impacted their personal lives.
Milla Ben-Ezra and Kate Burry
May 30, 2021

5 million women around the U.S. take some form of the birth control pill. Whether it be for contraception, acne prevention or menstrual regulation, "the pill" assists women in having control over their...

Illustration by Alexa Druyanoff

Out with the Old, In with the New: 2020-2021 Year in Review

Milla Ben-Ezra
May 30, 2021

August Head Prefects Cleo Maloney ’21 and Jonathan Cosgrove ’21 kicked off the virtual school year with speeches during the traditional robing ceremony at a Zoom convocation Aug. 23. The first day...

In between online classes on campus, Chloe Fribourg ’23 and Lauren LaPorta '23 catch up as they spin together in the chairs outside the visual arts department March 9.

One year later, students return to campus following drop in COVID-19 case rates

Milla Ben-Ezra
March 25, 2021

Nearly a year after the school's initial closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students and faculty returned to campus March 9, while the school begins to implement the new cohort learning structure and...

Students keep social distance between themselves while standing in line to register for their SAT tests.

School hosts distanced in-person SAT test

Milla Ben-Ezra
March 11, 2021

Students keep social distance between themselves while standing in line to register for their SAT tests.

Day in the Life: Holden McRae '20

Day in the Life: Holden McRae ’20

Milla Ben-Ezra
February 11, 2021

Sitting at his piano, chords humming, beats tapping, Holden McRae ’20 shifts between music production, college work and a self-owned takeout business. Even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, McRae fills his...

Credit: Caroline Jacoby/Chronicle

Same city, completely different worlds

Milla Ben-Ezra
December 10, 2020

Although many perceive Los Angeles as a diverse and culturally welcoming city, we Angelenos face a critical problem: we are segregated into geographically distant communities based on race and socioeconomic...

Printed with permission of Annabel Zimmer

No Planet B

Milla Ben-Ezra
December 9, 2020

Wildfires blazed across California, torching over 2.1 million acres of land in 2020 alone. The year's hurricane season consisted of 30 named hurricanes, greater than any year in history. Global sea levels...

Fitness Fantasy

Fitness Fantasy

Milla Ben-Ezra
October 14, 2020
As the rise in fitness culture floods social media platforms, students reflect on how it negatively affects their eating habits and body image.

Community Council hosts toy drive for New Directions for Youth

Milla Ben-Ezra
December 14, 2019

Community Council hosted a toy drive on campus from Dec. 9 to Dec. 13 in support of New Directions for Youth, an organization that provides many services and programs that support children in need. Founded...

Coolhaus CEO explains her success to HW Venture students

Milla Ben-Ezra
September 10, 2019

Coolhaus CEO Natasha Case ’01 kicked off HW Venture’s Middle School Speaker Series on Wednesday by sharing the secret behind the success of her start-up company, Coolhaus. Case said Coolhaus is an...

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