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List of 20 news stories.

  • Bagnall enjoys a game day.

    BID FAREWELL TO BAGNALL

    Eli Ratner '24 Lead News Editor
    This June, Don Bagnall, Director of Medical Services and Head Athletic Training, will  retire after 41 years.
  • DuBois enjoys a day of gardening in a field  of wild violets.

    DuBois Departs After 23 Years

    Shriya Sakalkale '24 Lead Arts Editor
    After 23 years on the Hill, Librarian Debbie DuBois bids farewell to Hopkins as she prepares to retire. 
     
  • Student required? ChatGPT awaits a human.

    Not a (Turing) Test: Hopkins Responds to AI

    Abigail Rakotomavo ’26 News Editor
    With ChatGPT’s release in November and rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), educators and students around the country have had little choice but to confront the fact of AI in academics head-on. On the Hill, the a multi-pronged approach response to AI continues to evolve.
     
  • Hopkins Student Council poses for a photo.

    Presenting Prez Pres: Hopkins Elects New StuCo President

    Sophie Denny ’24 Lead News Editor
    In April, Preston Parker ’24 was elected Student Council President for the 2023-24 school year, defeating opposing candidate Axel Fine ’24. 
     
  • Young Democrats and Young Republicans Seek Middle Ground

    Claire Billings ’25 Assistant News Editor Rose Robertson ’24 Editor-in-Chief
    “There are no teams, no winners, no losers.” And with that statement, co-head of the Young Democrats Club, Kian Ahmadi ’24, opened the floor to this spring’s Middle Ground Conversation. Co-hosted by the Young Democrats and Young Republicans clubs, the Middle Ground conversations offer a space for Hopkins students to have safe, productive dialogue over various political issues. 
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    From the 2023-2024 Razor Staff
  • Hopkins students gather with their Italian pen pals in Amalfi.

    Hopkins Connects With European Sister Schools

    Claire Billings ’25 Assistant News Editor
    This year, Hopkins introduced the spring break trips to Italy for the first time in over three years. In addition to visiting important historical landmarks, students also had the opportunity to connect with French and Italian students at Hopkins’ sister schools. 
     
  • Volunteers read to young students at the Davis Academy in New Haven.

    Hopkins Springs into Action for Service Week

    Abigail Rakotomavo ’26 Assistant News Editor
    Hopkins’ second annual Spring Service Week, led by The Maroon Key Board, took place from April 3-6. 
  • Ratner and Congresswoman DeLauro pose for a picture

    DeLauro Combats Climbing College Costs

    Abby Rakotomavo ‘26 Campus Correspondent
    On March 30, 2022 U.S. Rep Rosa DeLauro introduced the Affordable Loans for Any Student Act to the Senate. This proposed piece of legislation is one of DeLauro’s efforts to make a college education more affordable to students throughout America.
     
  • Students participate in the dodgeball fundraiser

    Hopkins Responds to Earthquake Disaster

    Anya Mahajan ’25 Assistant News Editor
    The countries of Turkey and Syria remain in peril after Feb. 6, when a magnitude 7.8 earthquake devastated the two areas, rallying the support of students at Hopkins.
  • DeLauro Combats Climbing College Costs

    Abby Rakotomavo ‘26 Campus Correspondent
    On March 30, 2022 U.S. Rep Rosa DeLauro introduced the Affordable Loans for Any Student Act to the Senate. This proposed piece of legislation is one of DeLauro’s efforts to make a college education more affordable to students throughout America.
  • Elon Musk Tweets After His Acquisition of Twitter

    Elon Musk's Twitter Reign: Dictatorship or Democracy?

    Sophie Denny ’24 Assistant News Editor
    Elon Musk first began the process of purchasing Twitter in the spring of 2022 by offering to buy the platform for around $44 billion. Musk told NBC News  that “the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company…Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it.” 
     
  • Glendinning Speaks to Hopkins Parents. Photo: Zach Pelletier

    Glendinning Listens: Head of School Introduces Listening by Design Program

    Anya Mahajan ’25 Assistant News Editor
    On December 14, a focus group of Hopkins parents gathered over Zoom to converse with the new Head of School, Matt Glendinning, about the school’s future.
  • Zelinsky speaks to members of the Hopkins community following his speech at Assembly.

    Alumni Fellow: Aaron Zelinsky '02

    Another of Hopkins' alums, Aaron Zelinsky '02 visited Hopkins Assembly on December 2.
  • Students at the Davis Academy share the rocket they  built.

    Hopkins Continues Partnership with Davis Academy

    Evie Doolittle ’23 Lead News Editor
    After a three-year hiatus due to Covid, this year, students returned to tutoring at the Davis Academy. 
     
  • Students pose for a photo before the Walkathon begins.

    StuCo Organizes Hopkins’ First Walkathon

    Sam Cherry ’23 News Editor
    On November 9, the Student Council (StuCo) organized a walkathon as part of the ongoing Connecticut Food Bank Fundraiser (CFBF), the annual, joint project run by StuCo and Maroon Key. 
     
  • Hopkins students campaign outside of polls.

    Students Assist Midterm Election Polls

    Sophie Denny ’24 News Editor
    This year, Hopkins students became involved in local midterm elections through one of Hopkins’ History electives, 21st Century Democracy.
  • The bronze goat stands sentinel outside of the WCAC

    Fear the Goat: Hopkins Mascot Joins Campus

    Anya Mahajan ’25 Assistant News Editor
    In addition to a new head of school, new faculty, and a new Class of 2028, Hopkins School welcomed a new, four-legged member to the community: a bronze goat, located outside of the lower entrance to the Athletic Center.
  • This year's edition of Teacher Band rocks the Big H

    StuCo Spearheads Annual Fall Festivities

    Aanya Panyadahundi ’23 Co-Lead News Editor, Sam Cherry ’23 News Editor
    With the arrival of fall, Hopkins’s Student Council (StuCo) continues to bring to campus annual traditions with a spin, maintaining a warm and welcoming energy for students and faculty alike. 
     
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Editor in Chief 
Rose Robertson

Managing Editor 
Hanna Jennings

News
Sophie Denny
Eli Ratner
Anya Mahajan
Claire Billings
Abigail Rakotomavo
Features
Anika Madan
Mira Krichavsky
Sarvin Bhagwagar
Rania Das
Eric Roberts
 
Arts
Shriya Sakalkale
Grace Laliberte
Jo Reymond
Ilana Lewitton
Anvi Pathak
Op/Ed
Teddy Witt
Asher Joseph
Rain Zeng
Miri Levin
Edel Lee

Sports
Amir McFerren
Maggie Russell
Samantha Bernstein
Hana Beauregard
Karun Srihari
Editors-at-Large
Connor Tomasulo
Bar Avraham
Alex Lopez
Chloe Wang

Cartoonists
Hailey Willey
Web Editors
Brayden Gray
Amelia Hudonogov

Faculty Advisers
Stephen May
Elizabeth Gleason
Shanti Madison
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