April 30, 2008
A heat wave plagued the Drama Lab venue last weekend while nine plays and the Scene Monkeys’ improvisation acts were performed a total of five times in the annual Playwright’s Festival.
April 29, 2008
Austin Sherman ’12 and Evan Stanley ’12 performed with their band Jupiter’s Ring at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival April 26.
April 25, 2008
Upper school Latin students earned top honors in the National Latin Examination.
April 24, 2008
AP French Literature, AP Latin Literature and AP Computer Science AB will be discontinued as AP courses after the May 2009 exams, leaving teachers concerned about the futures of the programs.
April 24, 2008
French students earned top scores in this year’s national French exam.
April 23, 2008
Senior girls in sundresses mingled with their mothers among the works of Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons while fathers and sons heard former Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda speak at the separate Mother-Daughter and Father-Son events on Sunday, April 13.
April 23, 2008
When Jason Segel ’97 stood completely nude in front of audiences across America, he got just the reaction he expected.
April 23, 2008
Student newspapers at Crossroads School, Campbell Hall and Marlborough School covered the drug and cheating expulsions at Harvard-Westlake in recent issues.
April 23, 2008
An additional 30-minute break has been proposed by the Prefect Council to be integrated into the daily schedule next year.
April 23, 2008
Nature photographer Art Wolfe urged students to travel the world during the Brown speaker assembly last Thursday.
April 23, 2008
Daniel Lee’s ’08 AP United States History term paper was selected by the Concord Review for its spring 2008 issue.
April 23, 2008
Plans to start school 45 minutes late next Friday as the culmination of Sleep Week have been cancelled.
April 23, 2008
Inspired by the altruistic actions of a Tanzanian school headmistress, Sanjay Patel ’95 has founded Epic Change, an organization that aims to provide modest loans for improvement efforts in impoverished communities worldwide.
April 23, 2008
Elisa Albert ’96 spoke of her adolescent years at Harvard-Westlake and the travails of a fiction writer last Friday while addressing the Chronicle staff. Albert, a former features editor of the Chronicle staff who joked about her column entitled “Phat Albert,” recently published her first novel “The Book of Dahlia.” She published a book of short stories in 2006 called “How This Night is Different.”
April 23, 2008
Next year the current math Directed Study: Number Theory course will be replaced with new Directed Study: Abstract Algebra course. Four students, Ben Barad ’09, Rebecca Jacobs ’09, Biswaroop Mukherjee ’09 and Josh Oreman ’09 are enrolled in the course.
April 23, 2008
President Thomas C. Hudnut travelled to Jordan over spring break to attend the annual conference of the G20, a highly selective group of independent secondary schools in the English speaking world.
April 23, 2008
Parents of graduating seniors took college rejection in stride this year, upper school deans said.
April 23, 2008
Shelby Layne ’09, founder of the Darfur Awareness and Activism Training Club, hosted a charity screening of “The Devil Came on Horseback,” a documentary on the genocide in Darfur, at Universal Studios last Saturday.
April 23, 2008
Latin teacher Kathryn Price plans on retiring and devoting more time to her passions.
April 23, 2008
Sophomores will receive teacher comments with their report cards in the fall in addition to spring comments at the beginning of next year.
April 23, 2008
Elisa Albert ’96 spoke of her adolescent years at Harvard-Westlake and the travails of a fiction writer last Friday while addressing the Chronicle staff. Albert, a former features editor of the Chronicle staff who joked about her column entitled “Phat Albert,” recently published her first novel “The Book of Dahlia.” She published a book of short stories in 2006 called “How This Night is Different.”
April 23, 2008
The school’s resident feline and miscreant known only as TDC (That Darn Cat) was caught two weeks ago by performing arts department technical director Josh Levy ’99. TDC was taken to a Van Nuys animal shelter, where it was given shots and put up for adoption, Head of Performing Arts Rees Pugh said, though the cat is feral and over 7 years old. He notes the cat was clearly ill and had lost weight.
April 23, 2008
Come October, sophomores are still adjusting to the new atmosphere of the Upper School, juniors are stressing out under more rigorous schedules and seniors are missing classes to visit colleges. The deans have begun brainstorming a solution to these problems: a four-day weekend in October.
April 23, 2008
Los Angeles Times reporter Carla Rivera, who wrote about the Harvard-Westlake cheating scandal, shared her professional experiences as a journalist and talked about the job’s vulnerabilities with the Chronicle staff last Monday.
April 22, 2008
Tessa Wick '09 and Brandon Levin '09, both current prefects, have been elected to serve as next year's Head Prefects.
April 19, 2008
For 100 years, the Cum Laude Society has honored students in secondary schools across the country who have achieved GPA’s in the top 20 percent of their class.
April 17, 2008
Nature photographer Art Wolfe narrated a slideshow depicting images from his travels to India, South America and the Arctic for students as part of the Brown family speaker series April 17. Hear an excerpt from his speech and a podcast with Chronicle reporter Esther Zuckerman.
April 12, 2008
The Jazz Explorers and top jazz combos from other local high schools opened for acclaimed jazz trumpeter Wayne Bergeron at the third annual Harvard-Westlake Concord Jazz Festival April 12.
April 11, 2008
Fashion for Action, a student organized fashion show, featured student models, music by the band The Transfer, celebrity host Lauren Conrad and a boutique April 11 in Taper Gymnasium.
April 8, 2008
Sophomores, juniors and faculty members can nominate juniors to run for the position of Head Prefect by filling out a form at the table outside of Chalmers all day this Tuesday and Wednesday.