We can see why "The Laramie Project" nearly sold out on Friday and Saturday night. It’s a shocking story sprinkled with humor and acted with sincerity and candor. Last week the cast performed...

By Rebecca Nussbaum Quarantine is a practice used by doctors in the Middle Ages and by Harvard-Westlake teachers. Let me elaborate. Both my biology and physics midterms were morning exams, so to avoid...

By Allana Rivera   These are the times I wish I were Ernest Hemingway. The times where I am feeling the grooves of the cobblestone beneath my feet as if the stones were braille and the streets...

  By Alex McNab Fifty years ago, black people fighting to be equal to their white counterparts were sprayed by police with fire hoses. One month ago, Occupy Wall Street protesters fighting for equality...

By Michael Rothberg Anyone who has ever been sick knows that it’s not easy. Even the common cold has the ability to make one’s daily routine into a miserable fight. The near constant...

By Allison Hamburger A few weeks ago, I lost my pencil case. (Fascinating, I know. Bear with me.) After searching places I had potentially left it, it occurred to me to check Lost and Found, but I had...

Christopher Robinson came to Harvard-Westlake as a ninth grader and became ill just a few months later. He knew some of his junior classmates but not all. Yet students who had never met or interacted...

By Arielle Maxner Tests for all of my academic subjects are inevitable. I understand why we have them and their importance in evaluating how much we learn, pushing us to fully comprehend the material....

By Camille Shooshani My first thought after ramming the hood of my car into an Audi S5 at 30 mph was "I’m going to be late for school." A few seconds later, after I felt the the full impact...

By Rachel Schwartz The first night I had my iPhone 4S, I asked Siri, the new program that responds to vocal commands, what the weather for the next day would be. "What did you say?" my mother called to...

I am terribly disappointed that the students of Harvard-Westlake chose to bring back single-use water bottles.  Perhaps a single-use bottle of water is better than a single-use bottle of Gatorade, but...

By Abbie Neufeld Last weekend, when Al Gore called the recent "Occupy X" protests a "primal scream of democracy," I couldn’t help but recall something I heard last Monday night at school. As...