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Pursuing Excellence: Cum Laude inductee and Presentations Managing Editor Nathan Wang ’25 shakes President Rick Commons’ hand.
Students receive Cum Laude title
Senior Takeover: Seniors traveled to the middle school campus after their last class to engage with middle schoolers for the annual senior prank, gathering to watch their peers dive in and play games by the Marshall Center swimming pool and basketball court May 21.
Class of 2025 visits Middle School campus as a part of annual senior prank day tradition
ASiA club hosts screening of movie “Dìdi,” discussion panel with lead actor Izaac Wang
ASiA club hosts screening of movie “Dìdi,” discussion panel with lead actor Izaac Wang
Valedictorian and Salutatorian selected
Valedictorian and Salutatorian selected
Antisemitic markings on Ventura Boulevard
Coast-to-Coast offers summer opportunities at fair
Coast-to-Coast offers summer opportunities at fair
Restaurant Lemonade closes Studio City location
Restaurant Lemonade closes Studio City location
A structure fire broke out internally at 4132 Vanetta Place and spread up the Sunswept hillside to a neighboring four-story building.
What happened at the Sunswept Fire?
Holiday shopping in Sportsmen’s Lodge offers an opportunity to browse stores, buy gifts, and enjoy the wintertime ambience.
Holiday Guide in Los Angeles
Coldwater Canyon Ave. is undergoing maintenance again and is set to finish by November 2025. The street's last roadwork project was in 2023 after a water breakage. Just like with the construction in 2023, the increased traffic and congestion has hindered students' and faculty's commute despite them taking alternate routes.
Roadwork on Coldwater Canyon to finish by 2025
Legacy Redefined
Legacy Redefined
Journey Beyond a Road
Journey Beyond a Road
Too Corepower(ful)
Too Corepower(ful)
Contain the "Crash Out"
Contain the “Crash Out”
Seperate American politics from the Vatican
Seperate American politics from the Vatican
What your university decision says about you
The Unofficial Curriculum Guide 4: A New Hope
Chron-Clave: Selecting New Editors
Chron-Clave: Selecting New Editors
Guest speakers we actually want to see
Guest speakers we actually want to see
Asking for Letters of Recommendation: Your Foolproof Template
Senior Send-Offs
Senior Send-Offs
Naked Truths: Intimacy and Relationships
Naked Truths: Intimacy and Relationships
Illustrated by CJ Phelan
Joining the jam
Catch Me if You Can: Behind the Shoplifting Trend
Catch Me if You Can: Behind the Shoplifting Trend
Academic Pivot: Responses to AP Curriculum Changes
Academic Pivot: Responses to AP Curriculum Changes
Students Present Acting Showcase
Upper School choirs to travel to New York for summer tour
Choral program hosts lunch chapel concert
How students spend summer break
How students spend summer break
Bucket list for seniors
Bucket list for seniors
Printed with Permission of Nic Monroe
Softball sees success in new league
Printed with Permission of Nic Monroe
Wolverines Only: Franklin Wimbish
Printed with Permission of Savvy Mahoney
Wolverines Only: Savvy Mahoney
Seniors Lead Championships Follow
Striker Cole Grossman '25 fights over a ball with a Jurupa Hills defender.
Photo Gallery: Boys soccer brings home first CIF-SS championship in school history
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It is time to reform the Electoral College

Holden Kim, Layout Assistant and Staff Writer
November 5, 2024

Over the last century, Americans have largely faced a binary choice in politics: Democrat or Republican. The choice is not just a product of modern politics; the Electoral College has long necessitated...

AP Gov. Class hosts speakers

Jack Fener, Layout Assistant and Staff Writer
October 31, 2024

Students in AP (Advanced Placement) U.S. Government and Politics classes and the Directed Study, “The Election” listened to polling experts and a political consultant ahead of the presidential election...

An elephant and donkey, representing the republican and democratic parties, face off under an “I Voted” sticker.

Backing the Ballot

Students and faculty discuss the importance of youth being involved in politics and how those eligible should inform themselves before voting.
Kayla Graff and Colin Ho
September 4, 2024

In less than three months, Avery Kim ’25 will look down to see his 2024 presidential ballot. After completing the registration process and reading the news daily for campaign updates, the moment will...

Juniors elect Senior Prefects for 2023-2024 school year

Alden Detmer
May 11, 2023

Ryan Cheng ’24, Glory Ho ’24, Elizabeth Johnstone ’24 and Nyla Shelton ’24 were elected as Senior Prefects for the 2023-2024 school year. Johnstone was elected after the first round of elections,...

Bari LeBari elected Head Prefect, runoff for second Head Prefect

Alexander Dinh
March 26, 2023

Prefect Council announced that Bari LeBari ’24 will serve as a Head Prefect for the 2023-2024 school year. A runoff election will take place between Glory Ho ’24, Elizabeth Johnstone ’24 and Assistant...

Congresswoman Karen Bass and businessman Rick Caruso '76 campaign to be elected as mayor of Los Angeles.

Mayoral Election: Down to the Wire

Davis Marks
November 16, 2022

The 2022 LA mayoral election between Congresswoman Karen Bass and businessman Rick Caruso ’76 is too close to call at the time of writing. As of Nov. 11, Bass leads Caruso by 4,484 votes with 62% of...

Make Election Day a Flex Day

We should lead the charge in making voting accessible.
Lucas Cohen-D’Arbeloff, Print Managing Editor
August 25, 2022

On Sept. 9, 2020, Head of Upper School Beth Slattery sent an email to families announcing that there would be no school on Election Day — Nov. 3, 2020. This change, she said, would “allow students...

Elections, Claire-ified

Claire Conner
August 26, 2021

When students submit their ballots for prefect elections in the spring, they will make two reasonable assumptions: their votes will be counted, and the candidates with the highest number of votes will...

MSNBC correspondent speaks to students in Directed Study: The Election

Quincey Dern and Claire Conner
November 3, 2020

MSNBC correspondent and best-selling author Jacob Soboroff ’01 visited a class of Directed Study: The Election to speak with students about his profession and new book Separated: Inside an American...

Students participate in election projects, discussions in history classes

Amelia Scharff
November 3, 2020

With the upcoming 2020 election looming, students are learning about the electoral process in their history classes. Whether it’s in the form of projects, lessons or in-class discussions, the majority...

Illustration by Alexa Druyanoff

Feature: Politics On The Brain

Quincey Dern and Alec Rosenthal
October 14, 2020

When Head Prefect Jonathan Cosgrove ’21, who had been pre-registered to vote for months, turned 18, he frantically reloaded his web browser to confirm his registration. Cosgrove had one thing on his...

Tick Tock, Trump’s on the Clock

Sarah Mittleman
August 27, 2020

Days before President Trump’s Tulsa Rally, millions of users on TikTok banded together to troll the event by registering for it and not showing up. Just a month after photos of the humiliatingly sparse...

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