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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

Administration prohibits Peer Support sleepovers

Sharon Chow May 25, 2016

Peer Support sleepovers have been prohibited by the administration due to one sleepover last month being “run inappropriately,” counselor and humanities teacher Luba Bek said. While Bek said she would...

Photo by Sacha Lin/Chronicle

Students Who Observe Lent

Sharon Chow March 9, 2016

Every year when Ash Wednesday comes around, people emerge from St. Saviour’s Chapel after a service with the ashes of palm leaves on their foreheads, marking the start of the Lent. There are both religious...

Graphic by Jean Sanders.

Effects of Adderall on academics

Sharon Chow February 11, 2016

Facing the pressure of schoolwork and outside obligations, Mary* ’17 turns to medication such at Ritalin, Vyvanse and Adderall to keep her focused and awake. She started taking them regularly this year...

Illustration by Vivian Lin/Chronicle

High Stakes: The First Reveal

Sharon Chow January 28, 2016

The All-Around: When Virginia* ’16 was deferred from Princeton, she was really disappointed since it was her dream school. However, she used this deferral as a motivation to regain her focus in school...

Illustration by Anna Gong/Chronicle

High Stakes: Placing their early bets

Sharon Chow December 1, 2015

The Brain: Although Austin* ’16 planned to apply Early Decision to the Brown-RISD Dual Degree Program, he decided against it because it seemed "very limiting and [he] wasn’t sure it was [his] first...

Teachers introduce new classes

Sharon Chow November 24, 2015

Three new courses will be offered next year at the Upper School: Broadcast Journalism, Analysis of Interactive Media and Advanced Placement Computer Science Principals. Because Harvard-Westlake has been...

New policy to combat truancy

Sharon Chow October 7, 2015

A new policy that holds students accountable if they miss more than 20 periods of any single class will take effect this year. Twenty periods is equivalent to about 15 percent of a class that meets four...

A Wider Scope of the World

A Wider Scope of the World

Sharon Chow October 5, 2015

Two summers ago, I went to my mother’s home country, Cambodia. To be honest, I didn’t really have any expectations going into the country. Everything I knew about Cambodia was either history relayed...

Quad construction underway to fix broken underground pipeline

Sharon Chow May 14, 2015

Construction in the quad to fix a broken underground water pipeline, which has blocked the pathway leading from Seaver to Munger,  is expected to be finished on Saturday, Chief of Campus Operations Jim...

Students on college tour protest Indiana law

Sharon Chow April 29, 2015

The Bison college tour was scheduled to visit the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, April 1 in the midst of a national controversy over Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The...

(bottom left) Tiana Coles ’16 is the youngest of five siblings, some of whom already have children.
(bottom, right) Jenna Thompson ’16 is younger than her two sisters, both of whom live in other cities.
(top right) Siblings of Henry Platt ’17 returned to Harvard-Westlake to watch Platt’s performance in the upper school musical “Company” last fall.
(top, left) Jona Yadidi ’16 and Noa Yadidi ’14, right, sightsee in Jerusalem with their baby brother Seth Yadidi. Printed with permission of Jenna Thompson, Jona Yadidi, Henry Platt and Tiana Coles

Bridging the Gap

Sharon Chow March 18, 2015

As the youngest of three children, Jenna Thompson ’16 first noticed the age gap between herself and her sisters when she was six years old. She and her middle sister stopped playing together because...

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