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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

Tali Gurule, Features Reporter

Tali Gurule ’27 is a Features Reporter for The Chronicle. Outside of Weiler Hall, Tali is an active member of Community Council and the mock trial team, and she serves as a Student Ambassador. In her free time, Tali enjoys reading, visiting museums in Los Angeles and walking her dog, Sunny.

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One girl considers whether to attend a coed school or an all-girls institution.

Coed Confessions

Tali Gurule, Features Reporter
May 27, 2026

It is Aug. 23, 2023. Donning jean shorts, tank tops and gleaming white Nikes, packs of middle school students shuffle into their first period classrooms for the second day of school. In her ninth-grade...

A wolverine mascot sports the school's merchandise, maintaining a connection to the school community throughout its life.

Wolverines for Life

Tali Gurule, Features Reporter
April 29, 2026

Sporting short skirts, pompoms and ponytails, Kate Israel ’26 and her friend race through the upper school campus to Feldman-Horn. It is the school’s annual Homecoming, and the excitement is palpable...

School hosts annual playright festival

Tali Gurule, Features Reporter
April 29, 2026

The school presented its annual New Play Festival in Rugby Theater from April 16-17. The event showcased 10 original plays from student writers who worked to develop their pieces over the first semester...

The number of international adoptions in the United States reached a high in 2004 with 22,988 cases, but has since declined by 94% to 1,275 cases in 2023, according to the Pew Research Center.

Gotcha, Baby!

Adopted students reflect on being born abroad, connecting with the cultures of their birth countries and searching for their biological families.
Tali Gurule, Features Reporter
March 7, 2026

It is the week of Chandler School’s sixth-grade retreat to Big Bear. In front of the lodge dining hall, Parker Plurad ’27 and his friend are playing a game of catch before breakfast. When the friend...

Ethics Bowl team advances

Tali Gurule, Features Reporter
March 6, 2026

The Ethics Bowl team is set to attend the National High School Ethics Bowl tournament at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill from April 10-12. The team advanced to its final round of competition...

A pair of crutches lie at the foot of the staircase behind Rugby Hall.

Assessing Access: Students with physical challenges reflect on campus accessibility

Students with physical challenges reflect on campus accessibility, finding support in the school community and their resulting journeys of personal growth.
Tali Gurule, Features Reporter
February 4, 2026

Teenage girls from around the country flock to Oceanside, California for the start of a weekend-long soccer tournament. It is the day after Thanksgiving, and by 2:00 p.m., the 2025 San Diego Surf College...

Harvard School for Boys students gather for lunch at the Chalmers Hall sandwich bar in the 1970s.

The Times They Are A-Changin’

Harvard School for Boys alumni discuss the school’s departure from tradition and its adoption of a forward-looking perspective in the 1970s.
Tali Gurule, Features Reporter
November 12, 2025

As the 1968-1969 school year comes to a close, the students of Harvard School for Boys descend on their campus off Coldwater Canyon. It is time for the school’s annual Harvard Day festivities, complete...

Weighing Waymo

Weighing Waymo

Tali Gurule, Features Reporter
September 2, 2025

As a cool breeze displaced the warm summer air, Quinn Harris ’27 and his crew savored a lazy afternoon at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). With the brick-inlaid path of the college campus...

Gian Ngo-Willis '26 and Visual Arts Teacher Whitney Lasker host a fundraiser to support the recovery from the Palisades and Eaton fires.

Students support fire recovery

Tali Gurule, Layout Assistant and Staff Writer
May 7, 2025

Gian Ngo-Willis '26 and Visual Arts Teacher Whitney Lasker host a fundraiser to support the recovery from the Palisades and Eaton fires.

Holocaust survivor gives presentation

Holocaust survivor gives presentation

Tali Gurule, Layout Assistant and Staff Writer
May 8, 2025

Louis Corper Fogelman, a Holocaust survivor, spoke to the sophomore class about his experience during World War II in Rugby Hall on April 22. Sarah Anschell ’26 and Sophia Wicyzk ’26 who intern at...

Students form an arch to deliver a farewell to the participants in the Special Olympics games.

Special Olympics hosted on field

Tali Gurule and Chloe Kim
May 8, 2025

Community Council hosted the Unified Games for athletes from The Help Group on Ted Slavin Field April 28. Along with the school’s soccer, football and basketball teams, students volunteered to lead the...

Bear Boxes Club hosts book drive

Tali Gurule, Staff Writer
March 19, 2025

Bear Boxes Club organized a book drive for Children of the Night, a non-profit organization that works to aid children who are sexually exploited, March 4-7. The club, which works to serve underprivileged...

Jewish Club hosts Oct. 7 attacks survivor

Jewish Club hosts Oct. 7 attacks survivor

Tali Gurule, Layout Assistant and Staff Writer
March 19, 2025

Jewish Club hosted Miri Gad Messika, a survivor of the Oct. 7 Hamasterror attacks from Kibbutz Be’eri, in Ahmanson Lecture Hall during lunch March 7. Messika recounted her escape from the kibbutz with...

Bear Boxes Club is hosting the event March 4-7

Bear Boxes Club holds book drive

Tali Gurule, Layout Assistant and Staff Writer
March 5, 2025

Bear Boxes Club is holding a book drive from March 4-7 to support Children of the Night, a non-profit organization that works to aid children who are sexually exploited. The club, whose broad mission is...

Prefect and Community councils held a fundraiser, selling ice cream sandwiches to support the LAFD Wildlife Emergency Fund.

Prefect, Community Council organize LAFD fundraiser

Tali Gurule, Layout Assistant and Staff Writer
February 16, 2025

Community Council collaborated with Prefect Council to sell Diddy Reese ice cream sandwiches during lunch from Jan. 30-31 to support the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation (LAFD) Wildlife Emergency...

Club hosts book drive for local teens

Club hosts book drive for local teens

Tali Gurule, Staff Writer
December 18, 2024

The National English Honors Society (NEHS) is holding a book drive through Dec. 20 to support The Book Truck. The Book Truck is a nonprofit organization that provides books to teens from underserved communities...

Pritzker is studying the affects of diet culture on society.

Senior Independent Study: Daisy Pritzker

Tali Gurule, Layout Assistant and Staff Writer
December 18, 2024

Daisy Pritzker ’25 is researching the impact of diet culture on American society for her Senior Independent Study. In the past, Pritzker  has worked with the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa...

Harper Chihara Bibring '26, Anika Norton '26 and Michaela Williams '26 call voters during the phonathon.

Empower calls voters for Harris

Tali Gurule, Staff Writer
November 1, 2024

Empower hosted a phonathon during lunch on Oct. 29, calling Arizona voters and encouraging them to cast their ballots for Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential election on Nov. 5. Members...

The bookstore was entirely refurbished over the summer. New additions include a new carpet, slat walls and a reconfiguration of the registers with the supplies also being reorganized.

New renovations finished on campus

Tali Gurule, Layout Assistant and Staff Writer
September 4, 2024

The bookstore was entirely refurbished over the summer. New additions include a new carpet, slat walls and a reconfiguration of the registers with the supplies also being reorganized.

Junior Fellowship: Sasha Gadalov

Tali Gurule, Layout Assistant and Staff Writer
September 4, 2024

Sasha Gadalov ’25 visited villages in Alaska  to study a religious group’s assimilation to modern American culture for her Junior Fellowship. The group, called the Old Believers, follows the traditional...

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