To continue the tradition established last year, the Class of 2020 elected English teacher Sara Cohen as their faculty speaker. Cohen will deliver the closing speech at this year's Senior Ceremony on...
After realizing that the guy she had just had sex with didn’t use a condom, Piper* ’20 had to take Plan B One-Step. The emergency contraception kept Piper from facing an unwanted pregnancy, but under...
Kristina Riordan ’19 could feel everyone’s eyes on her. Surrounded by 17-year-olds speaking rapidly in an Italian dialect she couldn’t understand, Riordan was briefly overwhelmed with terror. The...
There is nothing wrong with reading an online summary for a chapter of a book that there was no time to read the night before. Given the intense daily workload many students face from both academics and...
Sophia Nuñez ’20 frantically grabbed the costume box as she got ready to run onto the stage, excited for her upcoming dance. As the lights came up, she began her Lady Gaga dance, trying to mimic the...
For over 30 days, Tailor Gutierrez, a contact representative for the International Revenue Service, worked without pay, struggling to support herself financially without her daily income.
Gutierrez...
As she skimmed the list of ruined areas from the Woolsey fire, Rebecca Sugerman ’19 felt a wave of devastation when she found out that her longtime summer camp, Camp Hess Kramer, had been part of the...
When Francine Werner ‘68 thinks back to her years at the then-Westlake School for Girls, she said she recalls the cultural phenomenon of the Beatles and the British Invasion, the counterculture movement...
Jessica Workman joined the Business Department as the newly appointed Human Resources Generalist.
She will deal with the training and support of personnel as part of Human Resources. Additionally, Workman...
"Babel," the Upper School’s foreign language magazine, is open to submissions for this year’s publication.
The magazine is accepting all types of works in foreign languages, including essays, poems,...
Nia Kilgore landed the position of Upper School Dean after years of experience as a college counselor at various independent schools in the Los Angeles area.
Kilgore worked as the Interim Director of College...
