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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

Committee to evaluate Civitalks, make changes

Claire Goldsmith April 30, 2014

The Character Education Committee will present its preliminary evaluation of Civitalks to faculty and administrators in order to decide what form, if any, the program will take for next year. The final...

Students elect Prefect Council members

Sophie Kupiec-Weglinski April 30, 2014

Juniors and sophomores elected prefects on April 23 and April 25 respectively. Sophomores elected Hunter Brookman ’16, Grace Pan ’16, Jordan Strom ’16 and Nina Woythaler ’16 to serve as junior...

Justin Carr benefit concert raises funds for charity, outreach programs

Eugenia Ko April 30, 2014

A number of students performed at the "Justin Wants World Peace Concert" at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills Monday. Darrell and Susan Carr (Justin ’14) hosted the event in partnership...

Lowest attendance occurs before break

Enya Huang April 29, 2014

Friday, March 21 was the second worst attendance day in school history. On the day before spring break, 20 percent of the student body was absent from school. The worst attendance day was April 2005 on...

Publications receive NSPA finalist status

Kelly Loeb March 19, 2014

The online Chronicle and Vox Populi yearbook are both finalists for the Pacemaker, the highest award given by the National Scholastic Press Association. Both of these awards will be presented in San Diego...

Robot to predict March Madness results

Scott Nussbaum March 19, 2014

Students who wish to compete against the NCAA Basketball Predictor Bot can turn in their brackets online at ESPN’s NCAA” Bracketology” site by going on tinyurl.com/beatthebot and using the link to...

School to bring back gender, sexuality class

Eugenia Ko March 19, 2014

The Interdisciplinary Studies and Independent Research course “Gender and Sexuality” will return next year after being canceled this year due to low enrollment. The class, taught by English teacher...

Department to host ‘Moby Dick’ reading

Morganne Ramsey March 19, 2014

The second overnight read-aloud of “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville hosted by the English department is set for April 17. Instead of spanning a weekend as it did last year, the reading will begin Thursday...

Debate team sweeps awards

Jessica Spitz March 19, 2014

The debate team won several awards at a tournament at the University of Southern California March 1-3. Cameron Cohen ’16 cleared the varsity preliminary rounds undefeated, as did Chasia Jeffries ’17...

Choral concert ends early due to illness

Lauren Sonnenberg March 19, 2014

Choir students unanimously voted to end the annual spring choral concert early March 15 after a senior fainted on stage during the performance. Jazz Singers, Wolverine Chorus, Chamber Singers and Bel Canto...

Juniors debate for U.S. in Slovenia, win international debate tournament

Cole Feldman March 19, 2014

Sara Evall ’15 and Amelia Miller ’15 won the Ljutomer International World Schools Debate Tournament March 6-9 in Slovenia for the United States Debate team. More than 40 teams participated. Evall...

Alumnus raises money for HIV vaccine research

Claire Goldsmith February 12, 2014

As Director of Strategy at the Immunity Project, Ian Cinnamon ’10 raises money to fund research leading to a free preventative vaccine for HIV. Cinnamon graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of...

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