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20 students, faculty to hear Tesla CEO speak

Lizzy Thomas November 14, 2013

A group of 20 students and teachers will have the opportunity to hear billionaire business magnate Elon Musk speak Monday, Nov. 18. The SpaceX and Tesla Motors CEO and PayPal co-founder is slated to...

English department offers new essay options

Carly Berger November 13, 2013

For the first time, students in both junior English courses and Advanced Placement English Literature have the option to write essays based on an alternative prompt.  As a response to the English Department’s...

New detention to include table cleaning

Jake Saferstein November 13, 2013

Students serving detention will now serve their detention cleaning tables and picking up trash in the quad. Students who receive detention must help the maintenance crew for 15 to 20 minutes for five days...

Alumni Association holds Phone-a-thon

Siddarth Kucheria November 13, 2013

The Student Alumni Association hosted a parent phone-a-thon Oct. 28 and 29 at the Oppenheiemer building in Westwood. Meanwhile, Director for Alumni Giving Greg O’Leary hosted the Alumni Phone-a-thon...

SAAC initiates community service

Sophie Kupiec-Weglinski November 13, 2013

The Student-Athlete Advisory Council has started a one-to-one community service initiative for all athletic teams. The council is trying to get all teams to participate in hands-on community service projects,...

Debate team hosts tournament

Aaron Lyons November 13, 2013

The debate team hosted a tournament at the Upper School Nov. 2-3. The tournament was comprised of schools mainly from California with a select few schools from other states. Harvard-Westlake debaters did...

Deans open signups for spring college tours

Jake Saferstein November 13, 2013

Juniors must turn in their tour preference form and a signed set of the college tour rules by Dec. 10 if they chose sign up for the east coast college tours. Both tours will take place over the first week...

Parking Improvement Plan faces opposition from neighbors

Julia Aizuss November 13, 2013

Studio City residents already aggrieved by construction on Coldwater Canyon Avenue for the past two years expressed frustration with the Harvard-Westlake administration for ignoring the opinions of the...

Student, alumna help overturn conviction with Project for the Innocent

Sophie Kupiec-Weglinski November 13, 2013

"We won!" read an email from  Loyola Law School Professor Laurie Levenson (Solly Mirell ’06, Havi Mirell ’08, Daniela Mirell ’17)  to Monica Nimmagadda ’14. Nimmagadda had just finished cross...

Peer Tutoring program to change, 6 head coordinators announced

Julia Aizuss November 13, 2013

Garrett Cayton ’14, Eugenie Lund-Simon ’14, Sarah Novicoff  ’14, Chelsea Pan ’14, Rayne Peerenboom ’14 and Josh Shapiro ’14  will serve as Peer Tutoring Coordinators for this year, Head of...

Robotics club starts offseason project, plans to join competitions

Angela Chon November 13, 2013

The robotics club has started its offseason project and decided to enter one more tournament in addition to competing in the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology Robotics Competition...

Latino Club helps students apply to private high schools

Su Jin Nam November 13, 2013

The Latino Club is collaborating with an organization called Hype to connect with aspiring middle school students and get underexposed but high-achieving public school students into private high schools....

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