A few days ago, I emptied my backpack for the first time in three years. A bit too excited I completed my academic obligations, I opened the zipper and allowed everything to crash down from four feet above...
Max Cho ’15, Danielle Stolz ’15 and Marianne Verrone ’15 will serve as the student directors of the Harvard-Westlake Film Festival next year, visual arts department head Cheri Gaulke announced in...
Aiyana White ’14 was announced as the winner of The Blank Theatre Company’s Young Playwrights Festival, which received over 250 nationwide submissions this year.
White’s play “Barophobia,” will...
All of Me at Once
by Jensen McRae ’15
"The basic premise is that it is set in the mind of a 16-year-old girl named Faith; most of the characters are physical manifestations of thought, be it Emotion,...
Small groups of two to four students from Symphony, Wind Ensemble and Concert Strings will perform in the Winter Concert Feb. 23 at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica.
Unlike most other concerts,...
Most students probably know the school’s campus like the backs of their hands. They know the shorter alternative routes to get to class as well as which stairs are less arduous to climb. Yet, there...
Leaning back in his chair, Varun Gadh ’14 hums his newly composed melody as he taps his Ticonderoga pencil on the table.
For the next six hours, Gadh writes, records and edits before he is ready to...
Although auditions begin this week for the fall musical, “Hairspray,” upper school performing arts productions do not begin until November. This year’s productions include choral, jazz and orchestra...
In the final orchestra concert of the year, a combined wind ensemble played an original piece by Anderson Alden ’09 at the First Presbyterian Church on May 3.
"It was exciting to write for the ensemble...
In the final orchestra concert of the year, a combined wind ensemble played an original piece by Anderson Alden ’09 at the First Presbyterian Church on May 3.
“It was exciting to write for the ensemble...
In the final orchestra concert of the year May 3 at the First Presbyterian Church, a combined wind ensemble played an original piece written by Anderson Alden '09.
“It was exciting to write for the...
The upper school orchestra will perform a piece by Anderson Alden ’09 for its concert on Friday, May 3 at the First Presbyterian Church, from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
The Symphony Orchestra will perform...
Four students recorded the instrumental soundtrack to “Tutor,” a short film.
Paul Suh ’14, Heather Wattles ’15, Enya Huang ’15 and Matthew Lucas ’14 were asked to play an original score by...
Four students recorded the instrumental soundtrack to "Tutor," a short film.
Paul Suh ’14, Heather Wattles ’15, Enya Huang ’15 and Matthew Lucas ’14 were asked to play an original score by Oliver...
Enya Huang '15 will perform in the Claremont Young Musician Orchestra's concert next sunday Jan. 20. The concert, which will be held at the Bridges Hall of Music, will begin at 7 PM.
Huang, who auditioned...
Deans warn seniors against sharing college acceptances at school. Facebook posts are taboo. College sweatshirts are out of the question. It is true that this time of year many seniors are understandably...
Every student should feel safe coming to school. Last Friday, that sense of security was shaken for everyone in the nation.
At Harvard-Westlake, we are lucky enough to have procedures in place to prevent...
At the end of an emailed Honor Board Recommendation, students were invited to an “informal meeting” in the Deans’ Conference Room the next day. According to a Chronicle poll, 70 percent of the 423...
Every student should feel safe coming to school. Last Friday, that sense of security was shaken for everyone in the nation.
At Harvard-Westlake, we are lucky enough to have procedures in place to prevent...
A good friend of mine who takes computer programming once took a few minutes to explain to me the nature of a computer. What he told me was pretty simple, and at the same time infinitely complex. A computer,...
So much depends on my computer. All my English essays, study guides, music, pictures, and college applications live within that four-year-old laptop. For a few hours, all this was gone.
A few weeks ago,...
I am starting to become the stereotypical, American teenager. The weird part is that I’m in China.
I have been a teenager for four years, and I have been living in Beijing, China with the high school...
“In Section 6b, enter our school name and address,” said the proctor for the P.S.A.T. With my yellow, #2 Dixon Ticonderoga pencil I wrote School Year Abroad China, 12 Xin Jie Kou Wai, Beijing, and,...
It seems to me that very few things appear in real life exactly as they do in pictures. Pictures, often, are touched up and taken on just the perfect day, but, when I got to the Great Wall of China, I...
During this election season, there’s been a lot of discussion about Obamacare, Romneycare, the Affordable Care Act, healthcare and Medicare. And at this point, it is likely you don’t care.
Why should...
I am voting against our current president.
In Iran, I would not be surprised if the government executed me for writing this in a newspaper. In Syria, maybe the punishment would be less severe for openly...
I may have an acute case of senioritis. My symptoms, however, vary from the stereotype of apathy. I’m not kicking back and skipping class. It’s a new strain of the disease. I’m plagued by:
Nostalgia:...
Editors:
Upper School Back-to-School Day was costly for me this year.
I arrived about 8 a.m. and parked my car in my assigned faculty spot between Chalmers and Weiler. Nobody was parked on either side...
Have you ever felt guilty for eating a submarine sandwich? I have.
It happened in Beijing, where I am spending my junior year of high school with the foreign exchange program School Year Abroad, at a...
The character theme or motto we introduce each school year usually focuses our attention on a narrow range of behaviors or outcomes. Several years ago the focus was on thoughtful and ethical decision making...
Halfway through a summer Netflix marathon, I thought I really should be tackling that list of books my dean gave me instead. Rather than lying there and letting my brain cells rot, I should be doing something...
Cultural immersion, the anthem of the year, played itself boldly across glossy welcome packets and brochures: School Year Abroad, Spain. "Become part of the warm, rich Spanish culture." Terms like "global...
