The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

Community members vote in the California Primary

Members of the community reflect on the process and results of the state primary this March.

Hannah Shahidi, Assistant News Editor
March 20, 2024

California residents voted in the primary election March 5 to determine who will be on the November ballot for local, state and federal offices. President Joe Biden won the Democratic Party nomination...

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...

Human Rights Watch campaign looks to increase voter registration

Ruoshan Dong and Alice He
November 15, 2018

The Human Rights Watch Student Task Force organized an initiative to increase voter registration and promote political awareness around campus for the midterm elections. The campaign stressed the importance...

Dear Saba: My First Vote

Saba Nia
November 15, 2018

Dear “Naïve” Saba, Today, I voted for the first time. In the rush of finishing (well, let’s be honest, beginning and finishing) my early college applications in the days leading up to end of October,...

Leaders of Today and Tomorrow: Voteless but not voiceless

Jenny Li
March 21, 2018

Luis Rodriguez had never imagined that walking out of his school could change history. Fifty years ago, in March of 1968, 13-year-old Rodriguez led his classmates to walk out of Richard Garvey Intermediate...

New To Voting

Sophie Cohen
May 20, 2016

As the California primary election draws near, many seniors at Harvard-Westlake say they feel prepared to vote knowledgeably for a presidential candidate, but some juniors who will turn 18 before the June...