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- The Record Editorial Board

Community Continues Despite COVID-19 Crisis

Lauren McLane ’23

While the COVID-19 pandemic has physically separated the community, the school has continued to find ways to come together virtually.

Sharon Field Hospital Provides Extra COVID-19 Relief

Isabel Su ’22 and Kiki Henry ’22

With COVID-19 still spreading rapidly worldwide, hospitals have been looking for innovative ways to find room for infected patients to recover. On April 10, members of the Connecticut militia came to Sharon Hospital, owned by Health Quest/Nuvance Health, in Sharon, Connecticut to set up a temporary field hospital in the parking lot for recovering COVID-19 patients. The field hospital is equipped with 25 beds and has running electricity, heat, and hot and cold running water.

Impacts of Epidemics and Wars on Hotchkiss

Vivian Shi ’23 and Amelie Zhang ’23

Zoom classes did not seem like the future of the fourth marking period when students packed their belongings in early March. However, it is not the first time the school has had to change its style of learning.

Behind the Scenes of the Front Gates

Anika Balwada ’23

As we begin our third week of online learning, The Record is honored to interview Mr. Craig Bradley, head of school, for insight on the administration’s decisions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Opinion: How We Kneel Down to Fast Fashion

Jessica Kim ’21

It’s not an exaggeration to say that one of the busiest places in our campus is the mail room. Whether it’s a week before the Halloween dance, Homecoming, Blue and White, Senior dance, or the numerous events that require special costumes or a dress code, the package room fills with boxes from clothing orders. Technology has enabled quicker, more efficient ways for consumers to shop online. This developed technology has benefited society in various ways. For instance, just like food delivery apps now help millions of people in self-quarantine, online shopping websites are frequented far more often than conventional stores. However, the culture of fast fashion is severely damaging the environment by creating and entrenching wasteful habits in consumers.

Opinion: Equal Access, Not Equal Attitude

Eve Kantaros '21

Title IX, implemented in 1972, forbids educational systems from discriminating on the basis of sex. Since its implementation, according to Women’s Sports Foundation, the percentage of women playing college sports has increased by 545%, and the percentage of women playing high school sports has increased by 990%. Unfortunately, equal access to sports did not result in equal attitudes toward female athletes. Different forms of discrimination still exist toward female athletes amongst peers, coaches, parents, trainers, doctors, and physical therapists. The biases are often so subtle that both the offender and the athlete may not even recognize them. These discriminatory attitudes impact the lessons of teamwork, grit, and leadership young girls and women should be learning from sports and can carry with them throughout their lives.

Artist of the Issue: Shine Lee ’20

Jiahua Chen ’20

Shine Lee ’20 is a four-year senior, an avid cook, a member of the orchestra, and a poet. Angela Choi ’21, the orchestra’s concertmaster, says that “Shine’s laugh and smile lights up the orchestra rehearsal, and I’d hate to imagine first period Monday [rehearsal] without him.” In this issue, Arts & Leisure highlights the multiple forms of art in which Shine has been involved over his high school career.

Personal History Column: (Just) 3 Historical Instances of Impossible Stupidity

Cooper Roh ’22

Of the thousands upon thousands of lessons history has given us, undoubtedly the most important are as follows: Never get involved in a land war in Asia, and never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line. However, were we to add a third to that illustrious list, it would be the following: Never underestimate mankind’s capacity for unfathomable, almost inspiring stupidity. In that vein, here are just three hilariously painful and painfully hilarious examples of humanity’s unadulterated idiocy.

Athlete of the Issue: Dillon Cleary ’20

Carrie Cao '23

Dillon Cleary ’20 is a four-year senior and four-year member of the Boy’s Varsity Baseball team. Cleary is also on the JV Cross Country team in the fall. Teammate Carlos Martinez ’22 said, “[Dillon is] one of the hardest workers on the team. He puts in a lot of work and pushes us all until we have nothing left. He’s also super passionate and it shows in games when he speaks and plays. He’s also good company, we all love to be around Dillon. He’s a funny guy who’s kind and relatable.”

Vlog: A Day in the Life of Brian Haywood ’21

Brian Haywood ’21 & Doug Wang ’23

Brian Haywood ’21 teamed up with Doug Wang ’23, photo editor, to produce a vlog about the day in the life of a quarantined student.

Editorial: The Power of Narrative

The CXXII Executive Board

“What is the purpose of your paper?” The four of us on the Executive Board sat in the lounge, meeting the gazes of each other, unsure of how to answer the Yale Daily News (YDN) staff member who asked this question. We had traveled to the YDN High School Journalism Symposium in search of techniques to improve our newspaper, but instead found ourselves struggling with a more fundamental question: what is our purpose?