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May 20, 2013
THE ONLINE STUDENT NEWSPAPER
OF HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL
BY Kyla Rhynes
Monday
Warner Bros. hosted a free screening of “The Great Gatsby” for members of the junior and senior class.
BY Rebecca Katz
Thursday
A bake sale May 15 raised $500 to buy hygiene kits for homeless youth in Los Angeles.
sports
May 11
The Jazz Explorers and Studio Jazz Band played their third gig at Vibrato Grill this year, featuring guest appearances from Chris Freedman ’12, “Conan” keyboardist Scott Healy (Nick ’13) and a jazz student from California State University, Northridge.
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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‘Napalm Girl’ speaks about the horrors of her childhood and the importance of peace
By Sydney Foreman
May 11
Kim Phuc, the little girl set afire by napalm bombs during the Vietnam War, described to students, parents and teachers May 10 in Ahmanson Lecture Hall the horrors of being a nine-year-old engulfed by four napalm bombs.
By Lauren Sonnenberg
May 8
Juniors and sophomores have until May 5 to vote for one of nine seniors in the running for the George Coleman Edwards award.
By Elana Zeltser
May 8
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.”
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 Lucy Putnam
Wednesday
The boys’ tennis team was defeated by Corona Del Mar 12-6 today in the CIF semifinal match
By Lizzy Thomas
May 10
With a decisive 14-0 Friday night victory over St. Francis, the varsity baseball team secured its third straight Mission League championship.
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 Alex McNab
School Year Abroad China, the high school foreign exchange program I am in, took me 16,000 miles away from my home and didn’t give me a place that I could call mine.
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 Rebecca Katz
Together, who knows? Maybe we really can achieve Justin’s dream of world peace.
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.
