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Studio City residents vote in local, primary elections

Studio City residents vote in local, primary elections

Zoe Redlich
March 3, 2020

Today, citizens will vote in the primary elections for both Democratic presidential candidates and numerous local officials, propositions and policies for their district. For the San Fernando Valley,...

Talk It Out

Talk It Out

Zoe Redlich
October 2, 2019

Students have began to proactively start conversations about mental health awareness. As Britney* found herself in yet another lunchtime conversation with a peer about anxiety, she wracked her brain for...

Illustration by Evie de Rubertis

West Nile virus spreads through valley

Zoe Redlich
August 28, 2019

West Nile virus (WNV), which can lead to the potentially fatal West Nile disease, has recently been discovered in four Los Angeles County communities including Reseda, Northridge, Carson and Signal Hill,...

Illustration by Sam Ko '19 and Kyra Hudson '20.

‘Tis the Season: Dating in High School

Zoe Redlich
December 12, 2018

As Noah Aire ’20 scrolled through Amazon to find holiday gifts for his father, he quickly became overwhelmed by the flood of advertisements promoting gifts for significant others. After a few more minutes...

Faculty and staff engage in goat yoga for their annual health and wellness week Oct. 19. Credit: Caitlin Chung/Chronicle

‘Greatest Of All Time’: Faculty, staff participate in goat yoga

Zoe Redlich
October 24, 2018

To better improve their physical and mental health, members of faculty and staff participated in goat yoga outside of Rugby as part of their annual health and wellness week Oct. 19 . According to the...

Based on a Not-So-True Story: A Reaction to High School Movies

Based on a Not-So-True Story: A Reaction to High School Movies

Zoe Redlich
October 4, 2018

Michael Lehrhoff ’20 emerged from the AMC 7 after watching the high school coming-of-age film, “Love, Simon” with an empty popcorn bag and a mind full of ideas ready to be shared. However, when he...

Chenier to depart US, move to MS campus

Zoe Redlich
June 1, 2018

After 11 years on the upper school campus, English teacher Paul Chenier will be returning to the middle school history department next year. When Chenier originally began working at the school in 1999,...

School to host Coro Leadership program

Zoe Redlich
May 31, 2018

Students will gain leadership skills at the first Coro-Harvard-Westlake Civic Leadership Summer Program at the Upper School for three weeks beginning June 11. Coro Southern California works to build up...

Eunice Kiang '20 reads her poem that was featured in StoneCutters magazine in the lounge. Credit: Zoe Redlich/Chronicle

Stone-cutters hosts poetry reading to celebrate magazine release

Zoe Redlich
May 7, 2018

Staff members of the upper school literary magazine Stone-cutters celebrated the print release with a poetry reading, display of artwork and pastries in Chalmers on Monday. “We really wanted to promote...

Communications department recognized for works

Zoe Redlich
April 26, 2018

The Chronicle and HWTV received various awards from multiple national competitions in the past few months.  The Chronicle received the Silver Crown Award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association...

Stressing students’ well-being: Survey measures stress at school, home

Zoe Redlich
March 26, 2018

Upper school students participated in the Challenge Success survey conducted by the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. The survey was part of a national study focusing on the experience...

Spaced out: CS girls visit SpaceX facility

Zoe Redlich
March 22, 2018

Female computer science students from both the upper and middle school campuses visited SpaceX on March 16. Programming and math teacher Jessica Kaufman chaperoned the 20 girls who attended the trip. The...

Devoting summer to sports

Devoting summer to sports

Zoe Redlich
March 17, 2018

It would be a lie to say that being on a sports team is just an extracurricular activity, instead, I would describe it as a lifestyle. Long gone are the days of participating in a sport as a mere hobby....

Pianists and drummer perform for philosophy students

Zoe Redlich
February 13, 2018

Professional pianist Danny Holt visited the Upper School to teach classes and perform for students Feb. 1-9. Holt taught five classes that focused on musical developments during the 20th century to students...

Aloha! Representatives from the Kamehameha Schools visit campus

Zoe Redlich
January 24, 2018

Representatives from the Kamehameha Schools visited the upper school campus to learn about the Kutler Center and Video Art programs on Jan. 22 and 23. The Kamehameha Schools is a private school system...

Foreign exchange students to visit campus from China

Zoe Redlich
January 12, 2018

Five students from Shanghai will stay with families of upper school students Feb. 1-13. This exchange has occurred at this same time for the past three years and will again be organized by the World Leading...

CHLA conducts well-being study

Zoe Redlich
November 22, 2017

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Harvard Westlake’s Institute of Scholastic Sports Science and Medicine began a study last week concerning the health and well-being of the current seventh grade...

UCLA professor speaks to physics students

Zoe Redlich
November 21, 2017

Professor Katsuhi Arisaka from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA came to speak to any interested students or faculty  about the creation of the universe and the scientific connections between...

Technical issues halt Cabaret performance

Zoe Redlich
November 5, 2017

The light board and haze machine froze at the start of the second act of Cabaret, causing the performance to halt Saturday. As the lights flashed and the haze on the stage built, one of the directors...

Staff discusses DEI summer reading

Zoe Redlich
October 13, 2017

Staff and faculty members will attend lunches to discuss the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion summer reading book, “Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do” by Claude Steele...

Cheer and Community Council raise money for hurricane victims

Zoe Redlich
September 21, 2017

Community Council and the varsity cheer team hosted a bake sale Sept. 20 to raise money for Americares, an organization helping to save lives and rebuild communities in areas affected by Hurricanes Maria,...

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