November 11, 2009
Designed for students who are interested in composing, a new electronic music station is now installed in the upper school music department.
October 16, 2009
Construction has begun on a $750,000 renovation of Franklin Field in Encino, where the school has a long-term lease to play its baseball games.
September 8, 2009
Joey Katona ’06 is currently raising money for the Omar Dreidi Scholarship Fund,
which he founded in 2006 to help his Palestinian friend Omar Dreidi pay for college.
To date, Katona has raised about $60,000 for the fund.
May 27, 2009
Paulina Shahery ’09 participated in March of the Living, the largest Jewish educational program for teens in the world, from April 19 to May 3.
November 12, 2008
The Rocketry Club received a $3,700 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to build a rocket which can carry a scientific payload a mile into the air.
October 1, 2008
The man who created the prize that inspired private space travel urged students Monday to make a career of doing what they love.
September 3, 2008
May 28, 2008
Two student vehicles, one parked on campus and one parked on Coldwater Canyon, were broken into this month.
April 23, 2008
When Jason Segel ’97 stood completely nude in front of audiences across America, he got just the reaction he expected.
February 27, 2008
The permanent expulsion of six sophomores and the temporary suspension or detention of more than a dozen more for cheating on the Spanish III and World and Europe II midterms elicited an all-school assembly Feb. 26 and national media attention on Feb. 27.
February 13, 2008
Lauren Maldonado ’08 walked into the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, passed the Takashi Murakami exhibit and quickly rushed into the exhibit room where the drawings, paintings and photos of 18 Harvard-Westlake students were being exhibited as part of MOCA’s annual Teen Night on Feb. 2.
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.
November 7, 2007
Max Ritvo ’09 plans to return to school as a senior next year, as he keeps up with his studies while undergoing cancer treatment in New York City.
October 3, 2007
4 students take the initiative to organize drives, fundraisers and fashion shows for charity
September 6, 2007
Many students spend their summers working as counselors at camps that help homeless and disabled children.
May 30, 2007
COLLEGE BOUND: Kate Mangels '07 meets with Dean Vanna Cairns. Mangels will attend Princeton this fall after getting off the wait list.
A senior got off of Princeton’s wait list, but most are still hoping for an acceptance letter.
March 14, 2007
Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas denounced the war in Iraq as a mission to spread democracy “with the barrel of a gun."