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The Comprehensive College Guide to Secret Societies
The Comprehensive College Guide to Secret Societies
Anna Luchsinger, Alessandra Scrofani, and Jack Wallin March 24, 2025

When you're a high school senior or junior looking for your dream college, there are a few things that you take into consideration: campus dining, location and academics. And, of course, nobody goes to a college without considering the iconic secret societies....

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Bridging the Past and Present: WHS Alumni Turned Educators
Bridging the Past and Present: WHS Alumni Turned Educators
Ben Dickerson, Alessandra Scrofani, and Julie Snyder January 6, 2025

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One Step Forward, Several Steps Back: The Truth About the Societal Regression in America
One Step Forward, Several Steps Back: The Truth About the Societal Regression in America
Maddy Coen, Anna Luchsinger, and Jack Wallin January 6, 2025

Glossy blue windows tower overhead as millions of people swarm through the bright lights of the city. On one corner sits a newspaper stand, the vendor hollering about the newest miracle cure to a deadly disease. Thousands of busy fingers tap, tap, tap...

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From the Editor: Fall 2024
Libby Verga, Entertainment Editor (Hi's Eye) Editor-in-Chief (Optic) • January 6, 2025

The most elementary understanding of time is measured in the seconds, minutes and hours that dictate our lives. It's the elusive framework that keeps the world continuously moving. The clock will forever be ticking, so how do we accept  the fact that...

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Turning the Pages on Decades of Reporting
Turning the Pages on Decades of Reporting
Katie Makely, Julie Snyder, and Emma Sullivan November 4, 2024

After weeks of searching through Hi’s Eye archives, rummaging through several yearbooks, and joining Facebook reunion groups, we have cultivated a scrapbook of what came out to be some of the notable events during WHS’ journalism history. Through...

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Editor’s Letter
Tage Mehta, Editor-in-Chief and Section Editor • April 22, 2024

Dear Readers, It is generally understood that we are constantly changing—our brain building and destroying neural pathways, cells dividing and dying every second. So I begin to wonder at a fundamental level, if the self is always changing, how do we...

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The Psychology of Birth Order: Unraveling the Stereotypes
Nicole Braterman, Ava DeSena, and Charlie Jeckell April 22, 2024

If you have a sibling, you have probably heard of the stereotypes surrounding birth order. Maybe as the oldest, you feel that your parents are the hardest on you, and your younger siblings can get away with everything. If you’re the youngest, maybe...

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Nuclear norms to diverse households: The evolution of family structures
Amelia Katz, Tage Mehta, and Annie Reilly April 22, 2024

Since the beginning of the 20th and 21st centuries, the idea of what a family should look like has drastically changed. Families are no longer structured like carbon-copy versions of each other; a white family consisting of a mom, dad, biological son...

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