By Lyla Kavanagh 12-year-old Sharon Legesse (Lydia ’26) sits nervously at the kitchen table, her mother sitting across from her with her hands folded in her lap. The night before, Legesse overheard...

It is the summer of 1998. The hot valley sun beat down on Serena Gupta Gandhi’s ’99 face as she sipped her drink, dancing and talking with her friends at a birthday party, while she tried to enjoy...

It is eerily quiet in the Pacific Palisades. Soft rays of light filter through cracked walls and rubble as the ashes of Palisades Elementary Charter School blow away in the wind. Meanwhile, five miles...

It’s February, and you know what that means — love is in the air! Or at least an excess of bland couples’ Instagram posts captioned “so easy to love you”. This Valentine’s Day, if you’re...

Girls basketball forward Valentina Guerrero ’26 sat nervously, staring at the Zoom waiting room in August. The email announcing the meeting was vague, but when she saw Head of Athletics Terry Barnum...

Mary* stared uncomfortably at her phone on her bed, quickly scrolling through notifications from friends and acquaintances asking her what happened at a party the night before. Staring at the ceiling,...

The varsity boys basketball team defeated Temecula Valley High School 96-53 in their first game of the season, in a non-league game Nov. 19. Guard Joe Sterling '26, a new transfer to the school as a starter...

Picking up a discarded T-shirt, Dean Kim ’26 stretches his aching back, legs sore after a long shift. Stomach grumbling, he wonders how much longer he has to wait until his ten-minute break. After a...

17 years ago, Dwana Willis (Gian ’26) tapped her foot impatiently as a three-minute timer ticked down beside her. She held her breath as she squinted at the pregnancy test in her hands. After seeing...

A group of students hosted a voter registration and pre-registration booth on the Quad during conference time Oct. 4. This was the second student-run voter registration event of the 2024-2025 school year. Students...

Studio City residents experienced a magnitude 4.7 earthquake at 7:28 am Thursday morning. The earthquake was centered in Malibu, but shakes were felt up to 60 miles away from the epicenter, according to...

The National Cum Laude Society inducted 58 seniors in the annual ceremony May 20. These students made up the top 20% of their class based on evaluation of their unweighted and weighted GPAs during their...

The Upper School Ethics Bowl team placed second in the 2024 National Ethics Bowl competition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on April 14. The team qualified for nationals following their...

A group of students hosted a bake sale to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) as part of their Student Visionaries of the Year (SVOY) Program on the Quad on March 14. The team, WCKD...

Prefect Council partnered with Chess Club to organize a chess tournament during lunch Jan. 29 through Feb. 2. Students will compete for a chance to win a new chess board. Sophomore Prefect Robby Louie...

Animal Rights Club hosted a bake sale Jan. 10 to raise money for the World Wildlife Fund. Students raised money by selling homemade baked goods, which went directly towards helping endangered species around...

Jazz Club hosted four professional jazz musicians from the Los Angeles (LA) area for their fourth Lunch Concert on Dec. 14. Attendees listened to the jazz quartet while complementary hot chocolate and...

Community Council partnered with New Directions for Youth (NDY) to host a toy drive on the Quad from Nov. 30 to Dec. 7. Students were encouraged to donate new, unwrapped toys for low-income families for...

Students Against Sexual Violence (SASV), run by Olivia Suddleson ’24, Ellie Whang ’24 and Illi Kreiz ’24, has offered sophomore students the opportunity to become SafeBAE (Safe Before Anything Else)...

The school’s épée and saber fencing teams competed at Brentwood School in a Southern California Fencing League Tournament on Oct. 22. The team competed against schools from the Southern California...

The Environmental Club participated in International Coastal Cleanup Day on Sept. 23 by volunteering for a beach cleanup at Will Rogers State Beach. The cleanup, hosted by environmental organization “Heal...

During the 2021-22 school year, girls' field hockey forward Valentina Ganocy ’27 broke her arm twice, requiring multiple surgeries in the span of only six months. Two years later, at only fourteen-years-old,...