Everett Lakey, Assistant News Editor
• March 20, 2024
The school announced that teacher salaries will increase again for the 2024-2025 school year during a faculty meeting. The school introduced variable wage rates six years ago, changing the preceding constant...
Advanced Placement Environmental Science (APES) students visited the Los Angeles River for their fourth environmental service trip of the year March 9. During the trip, students went on a nature walk,...
The school began the process of hiring a new spiritual leader for the 2024-2025 school year, a position that has not been filled since the passing of Rabbi Emily Feigenson in March 2020. For the last four...
Nathan Wang, Assistant News Editor
• March 20, 2024
Marci Reichert will join the school as the new Wellness Director in July. Reichert brings four years of experience as the Health and Wellness Programs Manager at Isidore Newman School in New Orleans and...
Assistant Arts and Entertainment Editor Sasha Aghnatios ’25, Ellie Borris ’25, Gideon Evans ’25
and Victor Suh ’25 will advance to the second round of Head Prefect elections, Head Prefects Bari...
MeJo Liao, Assistant Features Editor
• March 20, 2024
Juniors have been caught violating the off-campus lunch privilege, which is reserved for seniors, according to an Honor Board report issued by Prefect Council on Feb. 20. The report detailed a specific...
Everett Lakey, Assistant News Editor
• March 20, 2024
Hank Schoen ’24 won the Director’s Choice Award at Westflix for his film “Savta” on March 15. Westflix, the student-run film festival facilitated by the school, which selects student films throughout...
Prefect Council will update the language of the current Honor Code to modernize it and lessen ambiguity following preliminary discussions with members of the administration, according to Upper School Dean...
Zoe Goor, Assistant Features Editor
• March 20, 2024
The school received almost 1,300 applications for grades seven through 12 this year. The school is not releasing data on acceptance rates at this point as matriculation has not yet been finalized.
In...
Connor Tang, Assistant News Editor
• March 20, 2024
Student tardiness in recent months has tripled since the fall, according to data obtained from Student Discipline and Attendance Coordinator Gabriel Preciado.
Los Angeles (LA) experienced historic rainfall...
Nathan Wang, Assistant News Editor
• March 14, 2024
High winds caused a neighborhood power outage that affected select buildings at the Upper School on March 14 at around 9 a.m. Power, electricity and Wi-Fi shut off during the outage in Munger Science Center,...
Nathan Wang, Assistant News Editor
• March 2, 2024
The Harvard-Westlake Student Alumni Association (HWSAA) organized a panel consisting of the Director of Baseball Strategy for the Los Angeles (LA) Dodgers Ethan Levitt ’07 and the Director of Basketball...
