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The voice of the student body

The Dial
The voice of the student body

The Dial
Akshi Khowala

Akshi Khowala, Features Editor

Senior Akshi Khowala has been a staff writer in the Dial for the past three years. Outside of the Dial, she enjoys science research and playing sports such as tennis, squash, and badminton.

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Legacy in College Admissions

Legacy in College Admissions

By Akshi Khowala, Features Editor
March 19, 2023

How Does Legacy Affect A Student’s Chances of Admission?

By Akshi Khowala, Features Editor
March 17, 2023
This image shows the Girls Who Code club that meets regularly to discuss topics of computer science while empowering women in STEM.

Is it too easy to create new clubs?

By Akshi Khowala, Features Editor
January 5, 2023
As the sun set, the scholars lit candles to illuminate their designs from the pumpkin carving activity.

Fun-filled Saturday Reunion

By Akshi Khowala, Feature Editor
November 3, 2022
Mr. Knopf teaches his students using a powerpoint presentation on the Clear boards, while the class takes notes on paper.

Pulling the Plug

By Akshi Khowala, Feature Editor
October 20, 2022
Upper School Class President Steven Li presenting his speech to the Hackley community.

Community Council Update

By Akshi Khowala, Newsletter Editor
September 28, 2022
Maxwel Lee participated in the Westchester Science and Engineering Fair on the 19th of March. At WESEF he presented his work on the ability of barley straw extract to prevent algae growth.

Making a Change One Sample at a Time

By Akshi Khowala, Assistant Opinion Editor
April 19, 2022
This graph shows the results of pool testing throughout this (2021-2022) academic school year. Hackley's positive cases have remained low with the exception of a few weeks.

Mask Update

By Akshi Khowala, Opinion Editor
April 3, 2022
Students Celebrate Lunar New Year

Students Celebrate Lunar New Year

By Akshi Khowala, Assistant Opinion Editor
February 24, 2022
This is one of Daniel's slides for his JSHS presentation about creating a machine learning framework to identify candidate drug targets for Alzheimer’s. This specific slide deals with the protein-protein interaction network of the top ten ranked AD-associated genes, found by his computation framework digID.

IRP Students Present Resarch at the JSHS Competition

By Akshi Khowala, Opinion Editor
February 22, 2022
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[Photo] Inaccessibility on the Hilltop

By Dionne Chen, Guest Writer
January 19, 2022
A student studies trigonometry in preparation for their exam. On average students spend about 1-2 hours preparing for individual subject tests. When studying for cumulative exams, students can spend 6+ hours.

New format for midterms

By Akshi Khowala, Opinion Editor
January 6, 2022
This is an image of one of Sophie's larger pieces from the past year.

AP Art Student Sophie Miller Profile

By Akshi Khowala, Staff Writer
October 8, 2021
This is a graph demonstrating the number of people who have received at least their first dose in India. As of May 22, approximately 12% of the population has been vaccinated.

Covid-19 continues to be a crisis in India

By Akshi Khowala, Staff Writer
June 3, 2021
Photo credits: Rolling Stone. This image shows Texans walking through frigid weather to get their groceries.

Changing Environment

By Akshi Khowala, Staff Writer
March 19, 2021

Winter Break Remote Week

By Akshi Khowala and Gabriella Parasnis
January 21, 2021

What the Post-Thanksgiving Remote Week Will Look Like

By Akshi Khowala and Gabriella Parasnis
November 18, 2020
Dionne shares an image of her online History class.

Perspective of a hybrid student

By Akshi Khowala, Staff Writer
October 8, 2020
Sophomore Fritz Lauerwald views the virtual club fair remotely on his personal device.

Virtual Club Fair

By Bella Wasserman and Akshi Khowala
September 29, 2020
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