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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

Students win awards for Latin exam scores

Jesse Nadel May 27, 2015

Four students received awards for their scores on the National Latin Exam. Alexandra Liao ’15 and Howard Deshong ’17 were awarded certificates for their perfect scores on the March exam. Additionally,...

Library coloring books help to relieve stress

Benjamin Most May 27, 2015

Coloring books will be provided in the library through the end of the year to help students relieve stress. The librarians purchased the coloring books for the April 24 overnight reading of "Moby Dick"...

Alumnus speaks to cinema studies classes

Jacob Goodman May 17, 2015

Max Baril '06 spoke to two cinema studies classes Friday about the ways villains have been portrayed in superhero movies after the attacks on 9/11. Baril has a bachelors degree in Film Critical Studies...

Students encourage teachers to conserve

Bryant Wu April 29, 2015

AP Environmental Science students encouraged teachers to turn off classroom lights and not use technology April 22 to celebrate Earth Day. "This reinforces a purpose beyond ourselves as taking care of...

Velvet Daisies creates Mother’s Day project

Claudia Wong April 29, 2015

The Velvet Daisies club is working on its mason jar project to get ready for Mother’s Day May 10. Members have been hand-crafting paper flowers to fill painted mason jars with since February, when they...

Society of Global Affairs hosts speakers

Connor Reese April 29, 2015

The Walt Disney Co. COO Tom (Cole ’16), Activision CEO Bobby Kotick (Grace ’15, Audrey ’17) and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Eliseo ’16), Academy-Award winning director of "Birdman," are some of...

Baseball loses for first time this season

Mila Barzdukas March 23, 2015

The baseball team split their first Mission League series with Notre Dame last week, beating the Knights 7-1 March 17 but losing to them 3-4 March 20. Behind a strong complete game pitching performance...

AP Chemistry students take National Chemistry Olympiad qualifier exam

Jonathan Seymour March 19, 2015

Students enrolled in Advanced Placement Chemistry as well as past AP Chemistry students took the 2015 Local Chemistry Olympiad Exam both yesterday and today after school. The test, which includes 60 multiple...

CNPA announces Chronicle finalists

Scott Nussbaum March 18, 2015

The 2014-2015 Chronicle is a finalist for best high school newspaper in California in the Better Newspaper Contest sponsored by the California Newspaper Publishers Association the CNPA announced Friday....

Human Rights expert to speak to classes

Danielle Kaye March 18, 2015

Human Rights Watch Emergencies Director Peter Bouckaert will be a scholar in residence sponsored by the Kutler Center April 14, 15 and 16. He will discuss his job with journalism, AP Human Geography, French...

Middle school P.E. now gender-separated

Sammi Handler March 18, 2015

Seventh and ninth grade physical education classes are now separated by gender in order "to enhance the experience of girls at Harvard-Westlake," Kimberley Hieatt, head of the middle school physical education...

Seventh grade history class to visit D.C.

Joe Levin March 18, 2015

A group of seventh graders taking the American History and Government class will visit Washington, D.C. the first week of Spring Break. Students will tour the capitol building, the East Wing of the White...

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