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Articles from February 2008

Long live Little League

February 13, 2008

We have never been great at sports. Decent perhaps, at one point in our Little League lives, but never once did we consider taking our tee-ball skills and proudly putting them on our applications to Harvard-Westlake.

Technology bytes

February 13, 2008

What do we take away from the assignment, as we peruse the answer on Wikipedia? The work is merely a screen. It’s abstract, immaterial.

We broke it, so let's fix it

February 13, 2008

To any outsider it would seem to suggest that the Harvard-Westlake community is one founded on the premise of trust.  But not to me.

Pex and the city

February 13, 2008

Tomorrow, when geysers of Sweethearts will explode out of the earth and Facebook albums entitled “Us!” and “Best Boyfriend Ever” will litter our newsfeeds, I will actually be leaving school around noon to go downtown for a date. A date on Valentine’s Day! Leaving school early! It’s so romantic…
It’s for a college interview.

Free the fans

February 13, 2008

If we’re expected to act like college students in the classroom why aren’t we allowed to act like college students at sports events?

Weed out the drugs

February 13, 2008

The administration’s decisive expulsion of six middle school students who broke school drug use policies was the proper and necessary course of action. Any weaker punishment would have converted the school drug prohibitions into mere symbols.

Take tech talks up a notch

February 13, 2008

Because students are typically more technology-savvy than teachers, it seems logical that how technology is used in and out of the classroom should be a decision made jointly by teachers and their students.

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