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The voice of the student body

The Dial

How Digital Media Plays a Key Role in the Presidential Election

How Digital Media Plays a Key Role in the Presidential Election

By Rebecca Ingles, Editor-in-Chief October 31, 2024

What happens when Gen-Z TikTok users make seemingly silly edits of presidential candidates? Or when presidential campaigns follow social media trends to promote their policies or bash their opponent? Younger...

The Debate on Debates

The Debate on Debates

By Tyler Stern, Staff Writer October 4, 2024

Presidential debates, once a non-partisan platform for candidates to express their campaign platform and personal opinions, have become chaotic events which, in turn, allow candidates to grandstand among...

State of the Race

State of the Race

By Tyler Stern, Staff Writer September 23, 2024

Almost four years following the last presidential election, the 2020 election took six days to determine the winner, with record-breaking turnout at the height of the COVID-19 crisis. This year's election...

Community Council Update: Inside the Work of Our Hilltop Representatives

Community Council Update: Inside the Work of Our Hilltop Representatives

By Sejal Virk, Features Editor January 31, 2024

This year the Community Council has had a lot of success with candy grams and parking raffles to raise the funds to organize our event of the year: Snowball. By a vote from the upper school, this year's...

In the middle of Kyiv, Mr. Klimenko examines a captured Russian tank from the beginning of the conflict.

A Russian victory in Ukraine would destroy democracy

By Charlie Perlman, Features Editor November 28, 2023

If you look closely enough, you can see it. The prevalence of the Russia-Ukraine war is all around us. It is evident in our classrooms, our news, and our daily conversations. As I sat in my 20th Century...

Upper School Class President Steven Li presenting his speech to the Hackley community.

Community Council Update

By Akshi Khowala, Newsletter Editor September 28, 2022

Your voices have been heard… After a long bout of speeches and voting forms, the community council leaders for the 2022-2023 school year are Steven Li ‘23 as President, EJ Regalado ‘24 as Vice President,...

Student Council President, Taylor Robin, addressing the K-12 Hackley Community with her Commencement Day Speech about what her new position means to her.

The rise of female political leaders: Hackley leads the charge

By Sophie Thomas, Senior Staff Writer November 6, 2019

While much of the country seems to need time to adjust to the idea of a woman in a presidential position, Hackley has embraced this concept with open arms. For the last five years, the president of the...

“Because we only have eleven years to stop climate change before its irreversible”
Genevieve, 12

The Dial asks Climate Strike goers: Why are you here?

By Jordan Miller, Editor in Chief October 16, 2019

Chants of “there is no planet B” echoed through lower Manhattan this past Friday, as thousands gathered for the Climate Strike. Amongst the sea of signs, I selected my favorites, and asked those rally-goers,...

2019-2020 Class Officer Candidates

April 29, 2019

Senior Class Officer Candidates Emily Afriyie I think that I would be a good candidate for class representative because I have had experience on Council for the past 2 years. During that time, I have...

Community Council candidate speeches 2019

By Sydney Stoller, Online Editor in Chief April 16, 2019

The student body gathered in the PAC this Monday to watch speeches prepared by the all-school Community Council candidates. The winner of each race (Presidential, Vice Presidential, and Secretary/Treasurer)...

2019-2020 All-school candidates speeches

April 11, 2019

Candidates were asked to answer three questions: 1. Why would you be a good candidate for this position? 2. How have you contributed to the Hackley Community? 3. What are your goals if elected to this...

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