Jewish students protest War on Hanukkah
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Jewish students protest the school’s War on Hanukkah. ‘Tis the season to be jolly, indeed.
Students claim that the school is placating snowflakes by including...
I’ll start this off with a disclaimer; I’m only writing this because the Chronicle’s Opinion section needed to fill space, and I happened to be visiting the staff’s layout session this weekend....
I’ll start this off with a disclaimer; I’m only writing this because the Chronicle’s Opinion section needed to fill space, and I happened to be visiting the staff’s layout session this weekend....
I still remember watching my first high school basketball game at Harvard-Westlake like it was yesterday. To add to the hype, the game was against Loyola, and I was as excited and pumped up as ever. I...
The closure of the Seaver bathroom is definitely a hot-button topic on campus right now. It stirred conversations concerning the classification of graffiti and vandalism.
Personally, we believe that the...
Do you know where you want to go?"
Every high school senior knows that this question means one thing and one thing only.
We’ve heard it more times than you can imagine. It’s common dinner party etiquette...
We’ve just finished the 2013-2014 workload process, something we do every six years at the midpoint of the school’s accreditation cycle. The process begins with an exhaustive survey that looks at pretty...
The imbalance between the varied list of math and science classes and meager amount of English or language courses is disappointing, to say the least. As I thumb through my curriculum guide, STEM courses...
I wait in my driveway, annoyed, for my sophomore sister to run out of the house clutching two smoothies and poorly buttered toast. I demand she "DJ," God forbid I waste my own phone battery, and once again...
A Los Angeles Times headline recently proclaimed that "At Harvard-Westlake School, Some Wonder if Standards Are Too High." I, for one, believe that as a community, we would be much better off wondering...
One question I often get these days with regard to books is, "Isn’t it all online?" I’ll usually respond with, "Well, we’re not quite at that stage yet." When someone asks "Isn’t everything online?",...
The first graded essay that I ever handed in at Harvard-Westlake got a B-. My short, awkward seventh-grade self quietly stared at what I thought was a definite sign of my failure as I began to lose any...
