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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

Stone-cutters magazine distributes new issue

Kelly Loeb May 28, 2014

Stone-cutters, the upper school art and literary magazine, was distributed May 23 and features students’ artwork and writing from the 2013-2014 school year. Students were emailed in October with submission...

Artist creates giant bear for class

Jake Saferstein May 28, 2014

Grizzly bears can grow up to nearly 10 feet tall and five feet wide, and can weigh up to 1,500 pounds. Darby Caso’s ’14 bear is nearly as big, but weighs almost nothing and is made out of plastic. The...

World Language Department inducts students into Honor Society

Scott Nussbaum May 28, 2014

Sinclair Cook ’14, Claire Goldsmith ’14, Julia Aizuss ’14 and Kennedy Green ’14 received Outstanding Senior Awards in Chinese, French, Latin, and Spanish respectively at the World Language Department...

Sophomore fires final shot in Assassin

Sacha Lin May 28, 2014

Tommy Tilton ’16 took the final shot in the school-wide game of Assassin in front of Taper Gymnasium May 12 to kill Rosie Rubenstein ’15 and win the game. Tilton was on his way to his locker coming...

School to host StartUp Scramble

Jessica Spitz May 28, 2014

There are 36 spots available to all ninth through 12th graders for the Harvard-Westlake StartUp Scramble, an entrepreneurial workshop that will take place at the Upper School June 20-22. Middle school...

Council to develop new system for sign-ins

Nikta Mansouri May 28, 2014

The Technology Council has begun working on an electronic sign-in and sign-out system for attendance. The program will be installed on an iPad at the security kiosk and students will be able to scan their...

Students make signs for Carr foundation

Jacob Goodman May 28, 2014

Students had a second opportunity Tuesday to take pictures with personal message boards for the Justin Carr Wants World Peace Foundation for the foundation’s website. The messages will be used as print...

Silberman to depart, move to Tennessee

Sarah Novicoff May 28, 2014

After three years at the school as a dean, chair of the character education committee and teacher of a class he helped to create, Dean Pete Silberman will leave Harvard-Westlake and move to Tennessee. "I...

School bans Yik Yak due to bullying reports

Scott Nussbaum May 28, 2014

In response to complaints of bullying, the administration placed a ban on the use of the social networking application Yik Yak by blocking the application when a phone connected to the school Wi-Fi attempts...

Senior to teach English in Asia

Pim Otero May 28, 2014

Alex McNab ’14, one of this year’s Brownstein Fellows, plans to travel to Nepal and Vietnam before starting college in the fall of 2015. He was first inspired to apply for the fellowship during a class...

Students win awards for computer science

Patrick Ryan May 28, 2014

The National Center for Women and Information Technology honored seven Harvard-Westlake students with the Aspirations in Computing Award during a ceremony in Newport Beach May 20. The ceremony was part...

Sophomores to explore local historic, urban sites

Benjamin Most May 28, 2014

Five sophomores will be among 20 Los Angeles high school students given the opportunity to experience culturally diverse aspects of Los Angeles during a summer program and eight Saturdays next year through...

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