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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...

illustration by Hannah Mittleman

The Right to Kill

By Kyra Hudson
August 28, 2019

When Alex Poe ’20 visited the Santa Monica Promenade, one of her regular hangout spots, last week, her trip quickly went south. As she walked from store to store, Poe began to notice fearful shop attendants...

Taking a stand against gun violence with action

Taking a stand against gun violence with action

Ellis Becker
February 15, 2017

It seems like in our society, the American flag sails at half-mast more often that it does not. The flag is only positioned like this in times of crisis, or more often in our case, to honor the victims...

Concealed Weapons

Julia Aizuss
October 15, 2013

Security guard Mark Geiger was patrolling campus one night about three and a half years ago when he discovered two thieves stealing sound and light equipment from Rugby Theatre. Geiger, who doesn’t leave...

Sophomores see Columbine reenactment at assembly

October 16, 2009

By Julius Pak "What should you do when a school shooting occurs on campus?" That was the question posed to sophomores during their assembly Oct. 2 by the security team about A.L.I.C.E. A.L.I.C.E. is the...

Beirut bombing prevents family reunion in Lebanon

Chronicle Staff
September 4, 2006

By Esther Zuckerman Tarek Tohme’s ’08 family, including brother Ramez ’06, was in for a surprise when they landed at London Heathrow airport on July 14. They were planning on catching a...

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