Articles from
November 2006
November 8, 2006
Every year, I attend the Admissions Family Visiting Days where student ambassadors meet applicants, give tours and sit on panels. Parents and applicants spend their morning amazed by all of the facilities offered by Harvard-Westlake, and more often than not they ask me, “Okay, what’s the truth? What’s the worst thing about Harvard Westlake?”
November 8, 2006
There is a horrible scent in the quad. It makes puppies cry, babies scream and apple pies burn. It smells like an abandoned seafood market next to a burning pig farm. It is the stench of decomposition, of rotting and of a tyranny that threatens our sovereignty.
November 8, 2006
Students should not apply early to any college unless they are sure that school is their first choice. If they are not sure, they may take a precious spot at a school they don’t love from someone who does. Students who apply early to a college, get in and continue to apply to more schools under regular decision programs hurt other, qualified applicants.
November 8, 2006
They got it right. Past spirit weeks have often lacked the central ingredient—spirit—and have on the whole been more ludicrous and embarrassing than anything else. Won-G’s name has resurfaced regularly not as an example of a good spirit assembly but with laughs and cackles at its inanity.
November 8, 2006
Don’t bring drugs to school.
Forget the Honor Code; forget criminal law. When you enter 3700 Coldwater Canyon with drugs, whether they’re in your bloodstream or your backpack, you violate the sanctity of our school.
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