In 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in Regents of University of California v. Bakke that using race as a part of the admission decisions was conditional but that strict racial quotas violated the 14th Amendment. In 1997, Proposition 209 barred public California institutions from discriminating on the basis of race, sex or ethnicity. In 2018, […]
Former Chronicle News Associate gives her take on current pop culture and politics in a recurring satire column. In this issue, she shares the supplementary college essay she sumbitted to Harvard College. Indu Pandey, designated Indian applicant #35387, said she grew tired of highlighting the words in her essays every four seconds to check […]
Three months ago, Paige Howard ’17 committed to University of Pennsylvania for soccer, essentially finishing her college process months before juniors had even started to put together a preliminary list. “It feels good to have a sense of knowing kind of what’s in the future, but I’m still stressed because I need to make sure […]
Professor and author Richard Weissbourd will address the Parents’ Association Wednesday evening at the Middle School to discuss parenting and developing children’s moral compasses. Weissbourd works as a psychologist at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and Graduate School of Education, where he studies. In addition to his research at Harvard University, he wrote the book […]
Three years after winning CIF as a junior on the boys’ basketball team, Zena Edosomwan ’12 is preparing for the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball tournament as a freshman forward on the Harvard University basketball team. In his first season at Harvard, Edosomwan averaged 5.7 minutes per game and score in double figures in one […]
Middle school chaplain Rabbi Emily Feigenson has revitalized the “Big Sibs” program by creating advisory boards made up of freshman who will help the ninth graders bond with their “little sibs” more effectively. These advisory boards will create activities such as a planned Dance Dance Revolution game and a field day, where the pairs of […]
By Arielle Maxner Scott Becker ’05 spoke in Rugby Theater during Activities period about entrepreneurship. Becker sold his startup company, Invite Media, to Google for $70 million in June 2010. Becker spoke about creating his company and how Harvard Westlake prepared him for becoming an entrepreneur, aided by a slideshow. Stressing that everything today is […]
By Saj Sri-Kumar A new student e-mail system to be introduced next school year will address privacy concerns and include updated technology, said Director of Computer Services Dave Ruben. Due to privacy concerns, accounts will use the domain name “hwemail.com” instead of the current “hwstudents.com.” The change was implemented so that it is not obvious […]
By Austin Block It seems like it all comes down to friends and family. Without a friend to suggest that Michael Raynis â10 give fencing a try, he might never have become the highest ranked high school senior fencer in the nation. If he didnât have family in Korea to visit during the summer after […]
By Seth Goldman Science teacher Kathleen Moran, who has taught at the Upper School for three years, will move to Santa Cruz to live with her husband, leaving her position at the school. She and her husband are expecting their first child in September. Although Moran is confident she is making the right decision, she […]