Scene Monkey, actor and lacrosse player Joey Lieberman ’14 will deliver this year’s salutatory address, typically a funny and light-hearted speech, at graduation June 6.
"In the letter I wrote to myself...
A record seven members of the class of 2014 will attend college abroad next year, five in the United Kingdom and two in Canada.
The previous record occurred in 2004 and 2005 when five students each year...
I've been thinking about my column for weeks, and every time I had yet another panic attack about what to say, I reached out to someone I trust and love to guide me. After compiling their advice, I decided...
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...
Dean Pete Silberman will leave Harvard-Westlake and will be replaced next year by Co-Director of College Counseling at Marymount High School Kyle Graham, Head of Upper School Audrius Barzdukas announced...
Juniors and sophomores will have the opportunity to hear from 33 alumni and two current parents during third, fourth and fifth periods at the Upper School May 13 in a major revamp of Career Day.
In the...
We believe in democracy. We’re both in AP Government and Politics and believe in the importance of our civic duties. We believe that our school has a duty to educate us not only in academics, but in...
The theme for the second annual World Leading Schools Association Student Conference, hosted by Harvard-Westlake this July, will be "Learning Outside the Curriculum." The conference will be preceded by...
Rotating in the air, straining to turn a third time, Katie Sing ’16 cheats the jump, her foot stopping in the ice, her body continuing to rotate. Limping off the rink, Sing learns her ankle is sprained,...
Rotating in the air, straining to turn a third time, Katie Sing ’16 cheats the jump, her foot stopping in the ice, her body continuing to rotate. Limping off the rink, Sing learns her ankle is sprained,...
In what may be the highest percentage yet, 93.4 percent of the senior class applied to colleges early decision, early action or both this year, upper school dean Beth Slattery said. That number is a five...
Working on her college applications, Aiyana White ’14 stands in a recording studio, crooning “Almost Like Being in Love,” “On My Own” and “It’s Only a Paper Moon” into a microphone. White...
Students plan to visit colleges, work on college applications and relax during this week’s changed mid-semester break. Seniors will have Wednesday off while juniors and sophomores take the PSAT. The...
“So let go, go, go of the past now. Say hello to the light in your eyes. Yes, I know that the world’s spinning fast now, but you gotta run the race to win the prize.”
Daniel Dávila ’14 sang those...
Technological problems with the new Common Application, released online Aug. 1, are beginning to affect students and deans as early application deadlines approach.
"We are pretty frustrated with its functionality,"...
Flipping through a 2013-2014 curriculum guide, Laura Campbell ’16 landed on AP Computer Science A, a college-level programming course that teaches object-oriented software design as well as Java. Campbell...
A record 54 students, almost 20 percent of the senior class, were named National Merit Semifinalists this year, the highest number in school history. Those students represent almost 2.7 percent of California’s...
Spencer Rascoff ’93, CEO of online real estate database Zillow, conducted a Q&A session with President Barack Obama Aug. 7 regarding the housing market and its rebound from the 2008 collapse.
The...
Sinclair Cook ’14 studied the simplification of the Chinese language during his six-week trip to China as the recipient of the Gunter-Gross Asia Initiative Summer Fellowship. He focused on examining...
Katie Ehrlich ’14 and Jacob Pardo ’14 will serve as editors-in-chief of the 2013-2014 edition of Vox Populi.
“I'm very honored to be an editor-in-chief for the upcoming year,” Pardo said. “As...
The Upper School Theater Department announced “Hairspray” as the fall musical, “The Matchmaker” as the winter play and the annual Playwrights Festival as the spring production.
“Hairspray,”...
When I received my personal essay assignment three weeks ago in English III Honors, I was terrified. The idea of writing a five or six-page essay in which I must define myself seemed like walking into...
Eleven students performed at a benefit concert May 19 to raise money for the Los Angeles Youth Network.
The network is a non-profit organization to support runaway and homeless adolescents in the Los...
The Advanced Jazz Combo, Jazz Explorers and two Studio Jazz Combos performed at the Catalina Bar and Grill on March 19 as a part of the Young Artist Jazz Series.
The four jazz groups were invited to perform,...
The Foreign Language Department will begin offering a yearlong Directed Study in German next year.
The class will be taught by Technology Center Director and math teacher Chris Gragg, who holds a master’s...
Hunched over her sewing machine downstairs, Elle Wilson ’13 pushes the white muslin fabric under the needle and observes the line of its seam. The white muslin will soon become a dress, a mock-up of...
Students will no longer be required to complete community service with at least three other Harvard-Westlake students, but the service requirement has been doubled to 12 hours. These changes are due to...
The library has recently experienced a surge in the popularity of checking out iPods filled with audiobooks for the majority of the upper school English curriculum rather than with music.
“The audiobooks...
Whisky A Go Go, the Sunset Strip nightclub which has hosted Janis Joplin and Led Zeppelin and launched the careers of many artists and bands such as the Doors, hosted Molly Chapman ’14 on Feb. 3. The...
To fight littering on the quad, new signs have been installed with the slogan "A clean school is a happy school." The new slogan replaced the previous phrasing "Most people clean up after themselves."
The...
The library has begun checking out Apple computer chargers to students in addition to their previous supply of phone chargers.
The chargers may be carried out of the library and used anywhere on campus,...
A member of the college jazz group Pacific Standard Time taught the Jazz Singers class Dec. 11 about vocal techniques.
Rachel St. Marseille, a senior at the Bob Hope Conservatory at California State University...
A member of the college jazz group Pacific Standard Time taught the Jazz Singers class Dec. 11 about vocal techniques.
Rachel St. Marseille, a senior at the Bob Hope Conservatory at California State University...
The Advanced Topics in Computer Science class visited the headquarters of the business incubator Launchpad LA Dec. 5.
The field-trip was part of an ongoing effort by Theo Davis ’13 to explore the other...
The library has reinstituted the “Take a book, leave a book” shelf where students may leave a used book and/or take a book another student has left. The program was popular two years ago but stopped...
The smell of onion wafts out of the classroom as Zachary Getelman ’13, surrounded by soy lecithin and lime, chops ingredients. He then adds them to a blender and prepares a salsa verde foam, with a texture...
At 6 months old, Sydney Cheong ’14 was carried by her parents into a stable and lifted into the saddle on a horse. This marked the beginning of a 16-year passion.
"Near where we have our horses, there...
Upper School Back-to-School Day was moved to Sept. 22 due to the second installment of "Carmageddon" 405 freeway closures between the 10 and 101 freeways.
The 405 will be closed on Sept. 29 and 30 in order...
A new library catalog search engine called Destiny will replace the previous system, Infocentre, for the upcoming school year.
"[Destiny is] faster, slicker, and easier," head librarian Shannon Acedo said....
