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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

From the Archives: Proctors Leading the Way

From the Archives: Proctors Leading the Way

Chris Messa ’99 September 8, 2025

The Editors-in-Chief selected this article from The Record Vol. CV describing the proctor training in 1997. As new students arrived at Hotchkiss this year, they were eagerly greeted by a battalion of...

Orientation Is Only the Beginning...

Orientation Is Only the Beginning…

Annabelle Chu ’28, Opinions Editor September 8, 2025

September 2024 in Hong Kong was 31 degrees Celsius. On my flight to New York, I created Pinterest boards with Brandy Melville tops and low-rise jeans and imagined how they’d look with Hotchkiss as the...

Moniti Meliora Sequamur

The Executive Board September 8, 2025

Welcome back, Bearcats! We hope you’ve enjoyed the summer months. Perhaps you spent them gallivanting around various tropical destinations and have turned the color of a toasted marshmallow; maybe you...

Don’t Be Afraid To Challenge the Dominant Narrative

Don’t Be Afraid To Challenge the Dominant Narrative

Maadhavan Prasanna ’25 September 8, 2025

Watching the sun set over the lake, feeling the gentle breeze on my skin as I return to Edelman, strolling around campus  surrounded  by  friends, playing tennis with questionable skill but immense...

The class of 2025 preparing to matriculate as Preps in 2021.

The Importance of Being a Senior (and a Prep)

The Executive Board September 8, 2025

In the spirit of journalistic transparency, we feel obligated to share the truth: coming up with this editorial was hard. As current Upper Mids, it felt wrong to write a series of finger-wagging  platitudes ...

Rowing into New Opportunities

Rowing into New Opportunities

Helena Inzerillo ’25 September 4, 2025

I feel very different from the person I was when I stepped onto campus at the start of my Prep year. Though at my core much is the same—my drive, my love of laughter, my commitment to people and the...

Retiring Faculty Reflect on 98 Years of Service

Retiring Faculty Reflect on 98 Years of Service

The Executive Board July 3, 2025

On Thursday, May 15, students gathered at Frank House to celebrate the Spring Head of School holiday, called in honor of six retiring faculty & staff: Ms. Teal Atkinson, science lab technician; Ms....

"From the Archives: On School Spirit"

“From the Archives: On School Spirit”

The Opinion Editors selected this letter to the editor from The Record Vol. LXXXIII to encourage school spirit as finals approach! To the Editor: Last year, as some people may remember, I wrote a letter...

What Society Has Wrong About Success

What Society Has Wrong About Success

Penelope Thornton ’27 May 18, 2025

Every generation inherits  a culture—a  set  of deeply   ingrained beliefs.    These beliefs are not merely incidental   opinions; they  are  the  norms that completely shape our   understanding...

Pope Leo is the Right Choice

Pope Leo is the Right Choice

Anna Ma ’28 May 18, 2025

At 12:08 p.m. ET on May 8, I watched online as white plumes blossomed from the Sistine Chapel, signaling the election of Robert Francis Prevost—now Pope Leo XIV. As the first American and first Peruvian...

Don’t Be Afraid of a Trade War with China

Don’t Be Afraid of a Trade War with China

Khloe Kim ’28 May 18, 2025

From the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 to the ongoing trade war, the U.S. and  China  have  a  long-standing history  of  social,  political,  and economic relations. Although...

It’s Not (Only) My Job to Address Climate Change

It’s Not (Only) My Job to Address Climate Change

Stacey Benn ‘28 May 2, 2025

It’s not my responsibility to fix climate change. Combating climate change is impossible if individuals are the only ones trying, but solutions are almost always directed at ordinary people. Advertisements...

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