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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

A model walks a runway under bright lights, representing how thinness is emphasized and evaluated in fashion culture.

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Members of the school community discuss the pressures of body standards in athletics and social media, and their effects on students’ mental health.
Mila Detmer, Features Reporter
December 11, 2025

In the middle of ballet class, Summer Park ’27 and a few of her fellow dancers were suddenly yanked out of line and removed from their four-hour rehearsal while the rest of the young ballerinas continued...

/Siobhan Harms

Double Tap

Siobhan Harms
December 11, 2019

  Emma Topp, an Instagram influencer with over fifty thousand followers, scrolled through her morning feed to discover Instagram will be hiding likes from other users. Topp began to wonder how her career...

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