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PRINT EDITION April
May 23, 2013
THE ONLINE STUDENT NEWSPAPER
OF HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL
BY David Lim
Wednesday
City Councilman Eric Garcetti ’88 took 54 percent of the vote Tuesday to defeat City Controller Wendy Greuel in a hotly contested mayor’s race that drew only a 19 percent turnout of voters.
BY Nikta Mansouri
Monday
The quad and Chalmers were packed with students going table to table learning about different projects worked on by other students, playing games and often eating prize cupcakes.
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Gustavo Dudamel, the conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted a combined orchestra and answered audience questions as this year’s Brown Family Speaker all-school assembly May 23.
Gustavo Dudamel, the conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, will be featured as this year’s Brown Family Speaker in an all-school assembly on Thursday, May 23.
Students headed to Boston area colleges for admitted student days found themselves stranded or under lockdown as law enforcement led a manhunt for those behind the Boston Marathon bombings.
Kim Phuc, the “Napalm Girl,” will speak to parents and students May 10 following the screening of a documentary about her life entitled “The Power of a Picture.”
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Spoken word poets encourage “greatness”
By Morganne Ramsey
Wednesday
National Poetry Slam champions Sekou Andrews (also known as Sekou tha misfit) and Steve Connell performed a free show for students today at 1 p.m. in Rugby Auditorium.
By Jensen Pak
Tuesday
Members of the foreign language faculty inducted students, who had completed the Advanced Placement course in their language, into honor societies for Chinese, French, Latin and Spanish. Four seniors also received awards for their long-term excellence in each of the language programs.
By Kyla Rhynes
May 13
Warner Bros. hosted a free screening of “The Great Gatsby” for members of the junior and senior class.
Q&A with Jason Collins Preview
By Grant Nussbaum
May 5
Current NBA and former Wolverine basketball player Jason Collins ’97 became the first active openly gay male athlete in a major sport after announcing his homosexuality in the May issue of Sports Illustrated. Collins also talked with Sports Section Head Grant Nussbaum.
By Lizzy Thomas
Wednesday
In spite of its high playoff seed, the varsity boys’ baseball team found themselves trekking out to Orange County Tuesday for a second round playoff game against El Dorado.
By Grant Nussbaum
Monday
At CIF Finals on May 18, the girls’ track and field team took third in its division, and four track and field athletes placed high enough to take part in CIF Masters.
Editorial
April issue
Recently some senior English classes were handed an assignment sheet for their last essay. The last guideline read “culminate don’t dissipate.” Fourth quarter of senior year has arrived, and many of us have let out our parachutes. Gliding through the last few weeks before graduation, we have the luxury of attending our classes without stressing about our grades.
By Rachel Schwartz
When my moms and I landed in Tel Aviv last year over winter break I met an old man in traditional Orthodox Jewish garb in line at the airport cafe.
By Jack Goldfisher
I Googled myself today. I guess I did it more out of curiosity than anything else; it almost seems like a normal thing to do in times where one’s primary outward identity is that which is presented, or rather manufactured, online.
I don’t understand, and maybe I never will
By Claire Goldsmith
On Thursday night, I texted my friends for the second time in a week to ask if their relatives in Boston were okay. “I can’t believe I have to ask this again,” I said. And it’s true. I can’t believe it.
Families carry on their heritage by maintaining cultural and holiday traditions from around the world.
By Sydney Foreman
Seniors in studio art created family portraits, brass sculptures and paintings as part of their required concentrations. Their work went on display April 22 in Feldman-Horn Gallery.
In the final orchestra concert of the year May 3 at the First Presbyterian Church, a combined wind ensemble played an original piece written by Anderson Alden ’09.
