With 30 students crowded into an English classroom, I felt like everyone was looking over my shoulder. In each of our dean meetings, we were completing a personality test, trying to identify our traits...

By Maddy Baxter The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History granted upper school history teachers Celia Goedde and Ken Neisser fellowships to study American history this summer. Goedde will attend...

By Maddy Baxter and Gabrielle Franchina In Upper School English teacher Isaac Laskin’s ’98 sophomore year, performing arts teacher Ted Walch cast him as Big Julie, a husky character,...

By Maddy Baxter History teacher Ken Neisser accompanied his wife, a member of the Angel City Chorale, to South Africa to help raise money for the Amy Biehl Foundation this summer. The 15-day-long trip...

By Maddy Baxter and Eli Haims Seventy-one upper school students who failed to complete their community service by the May 2 deadline still hadn’t fulfilled the requirement by May 18, Head of...

By Maddy Baxter Aside from the physical strains that dancing can have on one’s body, the emotional pressures can take an equally effective toll. Such pressures include competition, stress, weight...

By Maddy Baxter In order to protect the privacy of students and update the school’s software, a new e-mail system has been implemented, Director of Computer Services Dave Ruben said. All student...

By Maddy Baxter and Cami de Ry Justin Bretter ’11 took a win on failblog.org for sticking with CoCo. Bretter humiliated rival talk show host Jay Leno to support talk show host Conan O’Brien,...

By Maddy Baxter Harvard-Westlake sent out student schedules and conflict cards online this year. In past years, the school printed roughly 950 schedules, conflict cards, labels, and stuffed envelopes....

By Alexia Boyarsky Plays selected to be performed in the Playwrights Festival this May were announced by Performing Arts teacher Christopher Moore on Saturday. These were the plays selected:   “A...