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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

Movie Night

February 12, 2014

Judges selected 25 films to be screened at the 11th annual Harvard-Westlake Film Festival March 14 at the Arclight Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. Tickets will be free and will be available at the door of...

Slam group to perform for new Poetry Week

Morganne Ramsey February 12, 2014

The Get Lit Players, a performance poetry group of Los Angeles high school students is performing this week at sophomore and junior class meetings as part of Poetry Week, hosted by the English and Visual...

Middle School requires seventh graders to sign Anti-Bullying Pledge

Lauren Sonnenberg February 12, 2014

As a result of an internal audit focusing on bullying last year, middle school students were introduced to an anti-bullying pledge, and deans attended a meeting on "Myth-Busting Research on Adolescent...

An eye-opening experience

Lauren Rothman February 12, 2014

At Harvard-Westlake, students get upset when they don’t get the Mercedes Benz convertible they asked for.  In Rwanda, giving a student an empty water bottle can bring them happiness for the next year.  We...

Fencers to compete in Junior Olympics

Justine Chen February 12, 2014

Seven students will be participating in the upcoming Fencing Junior Olympics. Anne Kim ‘15, Enya Huang ’15, Jessie Pfeiffer ‘16, Justin Yoo ‘15, Jack Graham ‘15, Jake Raynis ‘14 and Sophie...

Honor Board introduces class meeting discussions, eliminates email case reports

Julia Aizuss February 12, 2014

In an effort to make the Honor Board more transparent and centralize its place in the community, all Honor Board cases will continue to be presented and discussed during class meetings, as they were in...

Madrigals to sing at convention

Sharon Chow February 12, 2014

The middle school Madrigals will be singing at the American Choral Directors Association Western Division Convention in Santa Barbara Feb. 22 as one of two middle school choir groups invited to perform...

Students participate in math competition

Pim Otero February 12, 2014

A total of 98 upper school students participated in the American Math Competition  Feb. 2. Two tests were administered, the AMC 10 and AMC 12. Students are given 25 multiple choice questions to complete...

Collins ’97 attends State of the Union

Lizzy Thomas February 12, 2014

Jason Collins ’97 attended the State of the Union Address as a guest of first lady Michelle Obama Jan. 28. The first lady has, in recent years, invited guests relevant to policy issues emphasized in...

Race to the top

Zoe Dutton February 12, 2014

The first thing Avery* ’13 did after finding out that she had been accepted to college was buy a school sweatshirt. A week later, it was buried under a pile of laundry and dirty socks in her closet. “I...

Sophomore interns at Google headquarters

Henry Vogel February 12, 2014

Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson arrived at the large, black-glass building in northern California that housed Google headquarters. In this scene in the movie "The Internship," a fictional comedy, Vaughn and...

Geology students visit Death Valley

Jonathan Seymour February 12, 2014

All students enrolled in the Geology and Geology Honors courses have already or will be traveling to Death Valley to get hands-on experience with geology. “I have seen real changes in my students after...

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