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Welcome to Spectrum’s 2020 Election Watch! Check in for regular updates on caucuses, primaries, and events leading up to the presidential election in November. Keeping up with elections can be difficult (especially during the busy 3rd semester!) but Spectrum is simplifying the web of results, predictions and stories related to the election so you can

The Harvard Westlake choral concert was a wonderful way to enter into winter break and a good ending to the stressful few weeks beforehand. The different choral groups performed a teaser in front of the whole school during assembly which was a good way to get students interested into going to see the concert. The

“Knives Out” is a thrilling mystery film filled with deception, compelling characters, and intriguing motives. The story centers around the Thromby family, a wealthy East Coast family that garnered its fortune through writing. Harlam Thromby, the head of the family, was a successful crime novelist and started his own publishing company. Although the family comes

While scanning the syllabi for their new courses on the first day of school, Harvard-Westlake (HW) Middle School students learned of a new assessment postponement rule. Students can now postpone one assessment in each class per semester. This amounts to five assessments postponed per semester – one for each academic class. This rule is a

With the upcoming presidential election off to a dramatic start, many students are tuning in. “It’s going to be very interesting seeing the race play out and finding out who the candidates are. I think democrats are focusing on who they think could beat Trump a little too much, as most all of the democratic

In its second season, Netflix’s “You” expands on its story in a pretty big way, managing to be wildly entertaining but at the expense of its high quality. Though not at all bad, the second season of “You” becomes extremely soapy at times, while seeming totally oblivious of its unbelievable state. This new storyline follows

Harvard-Westlake (HW) welcomed educators from the organization Freedom from Chemical Dependency (FCD) during the week of November 11-15. All ninth-grade students were required to participate in FCD for the four days the educators are on campus. FCD teachers engage with students during their English or Biology class periods, sharing statistics, slideshows, and data relating to

The word concept of being perfect is being implemented more and more in society without being labelled as such. While most of the human population is aware that being ‘perfect’ is an unattainable and, therefore, painful goal, we still find ourselves trapped in a bubble of wanting and expecting more and more in our lives.

Harvard-Westlake (HW) combines multiple strategies such as health classes, advisory, and FCD (Freedom from Chemical Dependency) to combat student drug use, some of which other Los Angeles private schools also utilize. In seventh grade, students have advisory once per cycle during their lunch period where they learn about different issues that affect their life, sometimes

Katherine Luna ‘01, a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple, spoke to the HW Venture Club about her life experiences at break on Tuesday, Nov. 26. Luna spoke about her experience at HW, her time abroad, her PhD years and her career choice. While at HW, some of Luna’s hobbies included painting, varsity cross country