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  • Junior mental health alliance leaders Dennett Stibel 25, Rachel Reiff 25, Sunny Lu 25 and Micah Parr 25 pose together.

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    Student mental health alliance formed

  • Head Prefect Bari LeBari 24 poses with Head of School Laura Ross for a picture after receiving his senior class ring during the annual Senior Ceremony.

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    Seniors gather for 90th annual ring ceremony

  • Administrators speak about student wellbeing at State of School Address

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    Administrators speak about student wellbeing at State of School Address

  • A student pushes a recycling bin onto campus.

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    Policy Against Pollution

  • Ian Mitchell King (center, partially obscured), registered sex offender, joined the Studio City Neighborhood Council on Aug. 16.

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    Studio City Neighborhood Council members resign

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    College representatives visit campus

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    Sophomore advisory established

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    Peer Support attends retreat at Camp Ramah

  • Harvard School cadets pose with rifles during the 1923-1924 school year.

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    War Games: New Marching Orders

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    Rising River Park dissent as approval approaches

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High school graduates from diverse backgrounds stand side by side. Illustration by Ava Hakakha.

A socioeconomic lens to reintroduce equitable admissions

William Liu and Olivia Phillips August 28, 2023

For more than half a century, affirmative action spurred intense debate over whether it unfairly benefitted minority students or was a crucial check against structural inequities. On June 29, the Supreme...

Locking in on Affirmative Action: Focusing on the recent Department of Justice investigation.

Locking in on Affirmative Action: Focusing on the recent Department of Justice investigation.

Saba Nia October 4, 2018

In 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in Regents of University of California v. Bakke that using race as a part of the admission decisions was conditional but that strict racial quotas violated the 14th Amendment. In...

Illustration by Anna Gong

Positive Affirmation: Affirmative Action in College Admissions

Nicole Kim March 30, 2017

After her PSAT, Nicole Bahar ’18 marched directly to her dean’s office and burst through the door, not stopping to talk to friends or send a brief text to her parents letting them know she had finished....

Race to the top

Zoe Dutton February 12, 2014

The first thing Avery* ’13 did after finding out that she had been accepted to college was buy a school sweatshirt. A week later, it was buried under a pile of laundry and dirty socks in her closet. “I...

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