December 12, 2007
Costume designer Lisa Peters is always on pins and needles. Well, her mind is at least.
From the moment she receives a script until the actual curtain call, Peters races with the clock to analyze the script, mood and characters of the play, create sketches for costumes and make, rent or purchase the rest of the pieces for the upcoming show. When she finally thinks she might be able to relax, the actors show up.
December 12, 2007
As hundreds of people file into Rugby Auditorium to see this year’s fall musical production of “Les Misérables,” Annie McGrath ’08 is backstage going over notes with the cast.
December 12, 2007
When Daniel Lundberg ’10 was 5 years old, he was not at all interested in singing, but he was nonetheless fascinated by his karaoke machine. For three years he tinkered with the mechanics of it, adding other equipment to it until he could do no more.
December 12, 2007
Andrea Ghez, a professor of astrophysics at UCLA, gave a presentation to students about her research that shows a massive black hole exists in the center of the Milky Way.
December 12, 2007
“I love shopping of course, it’s a hobby of mine,” Gabby Groth ’09 says to filmmaker Lauren Greenfield in the beginning of the short film “Kids + Money.”
December 12, 2007
Seniors who choose to participate in a two week trip to Poland and Israel will be allowed to miss their AP exams this May. The program, sponsored by the Bureau of Jewish Education of the Jewish Federation, is called March of the Living and was approved by the College Board in November.
December 12, 2007
The presidential elections race will be emphasized for students during a series of political awareness days aimed at raising student voter turnout for the primaries on Feb. 5.
December 12, 2007
The Robotics Team won fifth place at the state championships and ninth place at the regional competition at California State University Northridge and L.A. Valley College respectively.
There were a total of about 50 to 60 teams at the regional competition and around 60 teams at the state championships.
December 12, 2007
Four rows of chairs cramp the smoky cafe room in Dutton’s bookstore. A microphone and a stand for resting paper on are set a few feet in front of a retro-styled chandelier that hangs from a cracking mustard-colored ceiling.
December 12, 2007
At 2:45 p.m. last Tuesday afternoon, faculty members began drifting into Chalmers math lab for a crash course in Facebook. Like attentive students on the first day of school, they seated themselves in front of a computer and waited for class to begin.
December 12, 2007
How much should school regulations affect the personal lives of students? Recently, the Educational Technology Committee asked that same question.
December 12, 2007
A water main that broke before 1 a.m. Monday on the 12700 block of Mulholland Drive blocked Coldwater Canyon Avenue, causing the start of school to be pushed back to 8:35 a.m. and activities period to be eliminated.
December 12, 2007
Tardy students park in visitors’ spots in the Seaver parking lot in order to get to class on time, Director of Inter-Campus Security Kevin Giberson said.
December 12, 2007
Newsweek Magazine’s Los Angeles Bureau Chief Andrew Murr (Hank ’09) told parents at the Parents’ Association Lecture Series on Nov. 14 that the public questions the truthfulness and motivations of journalists.
December 12, 2007
Last year’s Chronicle and Vox Populi won local and national awards. Chronicle received a 4000 out of 4000 perfect score in the National Scholastic Press Association critique and was named All-American newspaper.
December 12, 2007
The Faculty Academic Committee approved five new classes for the Upper School and two new classes for the Middle School.
December 12, 2007
Attendance Coordinator J. Gabriel Preciado is on a hunt to capture an elusive joker and possible truant known to him as “The Prince of Persia.”
December 12, 2007
When Ian Cinnamon ’10 isn’t busy studying for one AP and two honors classes, he pursues an unconventional hobby: rocketry. He even started a rocketry club at school. Also, in his spare time, he wrote a book which will be published next spring.
December 2, 2007
After just 59 minutes of play, girls' volleyball captured the CIF Division III State Championship, sweeping Sacred Heart Cathedral of San Francisco in straight sets.