The Record is a student-run bi-weekly print newspaper with daily digital presence on pressing issues and events inside the Hotchkiss community and around the globe.

The Hotchkiss Record

The Record is a student-run bi-weekly print newspaper with daily digital presence on pressing issues and events inside the Hotchkiss community and around the globe.

The Hotchkiss Record

The Record is a student-run bi-weekly print newspaper with daily digital presence on pressing issues and events inside the Hotchkiss community and around the globe.

The Hotchkiss Record

New Editors-in-Chief Anthony Hu 25, Ethan Shin 25, and Julian Brown 25.

Announcing the 126th Editorial Board

March 7, 2024

We are excited to announce the 126th Editorial Board, led by Editors-in-Chief Julian Brown ’25, Anthony Hu ’25, and Ethan Shin ’25.  To the members of the 126th Editorial Board—we are grateful...

Goodbye From the 125th Editorial Board

Goodbye From the 125th Editorial Board

February 22, 2024

On one of the first days of 7th grade, a teacher herded 30 of us into a classroom for an odd presentation—campaign videos of Moscow’s pro-Putin Mayor, Sergey Sobyanin, for forty-five minutes. At the...

Holidays: A Privilege, Not a Right

Holidays: A Privilege, Not a Right

November 16, 2023

You’re not entitled to a holiday. While we did get to it in the end, on the way, we lost sight of what the tradition is actually about. Those three days—once per athletic season—should be a time...

Hate Can Have No Home on High School And College Campuses

September 28, 2023

Last week, the University of Pennsylvania, a school, which unlike many of its Ivy League colleagues never imposed a quota on Jewish admission, erupted into controversy over the “Palestine Writes” literature...

A Reflection on Hotchkiss

A Reflection on Hotchkiss

September 7, 2023

The first editorials of the last few school years tackled ominous topics, including recovery from Covid and lack of engagement with school programming. And that made sense, because we were responding to...

Reviving School Spirit: A Roadmap

June 2, 2023

Throughout more than a century of our school’s existence, we’ve developed our own culture as a community. Hotchkiss students are devoted, kind, and create an environment conducive to academic success...

Panelists speak during all-school presentation.

What About Mental Health?

April 28, 2022

At the school, poor mental health has become the norm. Most students — even faculty — describe life at the school as a constant race. Work never stops, and neither does time. Students are forced to...

Happy Assessment Period!

Editors-in-Chief December 10, 2021

Feeling stressed? Anxious? Overwhelmed? Overworked? Nauseous? Exhausted? Are your symptoms severe enough to require a well-deserved Health Center visit? You may be suffering from assessment period-itis....

Let’s Earn our Traditions

November 12, 2021

How do we know what we know? This question is discussed around every Harkness table, investigated by each proof of a mathematical theorem, and evaluated in conclusions written for labs. It is one of the...

A Crisis of Disrespect

The Executive Board November 4, 2021

As members of this community, we place a significant amount of implicit trust upon each other. We leave our bags sitting unattended in Main Building, we wear pajamas to the Dining Hall without fear of...

Editorial: A Call for Understanding

The Executive Board October 2, 2021

We at The Record are extremely excited for our return to print after a year-and-a-half-long hiatus. Our last print issue, on March 5, 2020, included the article “Seasonal Flu Hits Campus Hard”, in...

Editorial: Donate to India

The Executive Board May 14, 2021

The Executive Board encourages students who have the financial ability to donate to some of these fundraisers and charities, included below, to support India through its COVID crisis. This list was compiled...

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