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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

Students, faculty compete in third annual Spring Festival

Ruoshan Dong March 22, 2019

Students participated in activities and ate In-N-Out Burger as part of the third annual Spring Festival on March 22. The purpose of the festival, hosted by Character Committee and Community Council, was...

Alumni encourage students to pursue social entrepreneurship at HW Venture Impact event

Hannah Han March 22, 2019

In an effort to teach students about social entrepreneurship, HW Venture Impact hosted its kickoff event March 4 in Chalmers East and West. HW Impact Co-Founders Amaan Irfan ’21 and Alec Katz ’19...

Babel invites students to submit language pieces

Tammer Bagdasarian March 22, 2019

Babel, the Upper School’s foreign language publication, received a record number of Spanish submissions for its annual issue coming out in early May. The magazine publishes essays, recipes, poems,...

Alumna speaks to history, journalism classes about political crises

Spencer Klink March 21, 2019

Juliette Kayyem, Belfer Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School and Former Assistant Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, spoke to history and journalism classes about the nature of contemporary...

Commons addresses college cheating scandal

Casey Kim March 18, 2019

No parent of a student or graduate has been charged in the recent college admission cheating scandal, President Rick Commons announced in an email sent to the school community March 18. “The LA...

School subpoenaed amid college cheating scandal

Lindsay Wu March 15, 2019

Amid the college admissions cheating scandal, the school received subpoenas to provide prosecutors with records of two alumni March 14, Head of Communications Ari Engelberg ’89 said. The scandal...

The power of pi: prefects serve pie to celebrate Pi Day

Emma Limor March 14, 2019

Prefect Council served free pie on the quad in celebration of Pi Day. Pi Day is a national holiday celebrating the mathematical constant pi, its first digits being 3.14. Prefects served a variety...

Students, alumni convene at HW Venture Impact event

Hannah Han March 5, 2019

In an effort to teach students about social entrepreneurship, HW Venture Impact hosted its kickoff event March 4 in Chalmers East and West. HW Venture Impact Co-Founders Amaan Furniturewala ’21 and...

Stone-Cutters staff recite poetry, display artwork

Austin Lee March 4, 2019

Staff members of the upper school literary magazine Stone-Cutters recited poetry and featured artwork in Chalmers East during their first display of the year. “It's been a year where we've gone through...

Storm systems cause heavy rains, snow

Lindsay Wu March 4, 2019

Drenched from the pounding rain, Daniel Arriaza ’19 stood on the corner of Halkirk and Coldwater Canyon, staring in disbelief at the flood of water rushing down the street before him. With only five...

Model UN students honored at conference

Frank Jiang March 4, 2019

Thirteen students represented the countries of Lithuania, United Arab Emirates, South Africa and Mongolia, as well as prominent people from Ireland, Great Britain, Korea and the U.S., in a Model UN Conference...

School to implement new gender policies

Lindsay Wu March 3, 2019

Following over a year of research on how students are gendered within the school, an ad-hoc committee, including middle and upper school deans, teachers and faculty, created a list of 16 to 18 recommendations...

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