The SPECTRUM

Volume 31

The SPECTRUM

The SPECTRUM

OPINION

Opinion on the Death Penalty and its Recent Developments in California

Jenna Lewis | May 3, 2019

One action by Governor Gavin Newsom protected the lives of 737 people on California's death row, designating they stay in prison rather than be executed. Newsom halted any further actions of capital punishment,...

An open letter to the English department

Konnie Duan | May 3, 2019

Students at Harvard-Westlake (HW) are fortunate enough to have a library full of books highlighting different minority groups and a very talented group of English teachers, but these values are not reflected...

Why ‘Operation Varsity Blues’ is about more than the unfair advantages in the college application system

Katharine Steers | March 31, 2019

Immediately after the news of ‘Operation Varsity Blues’ broke, article after article cast the parents as victims of a messed up college application system or that the parents acted out of a...

Free the Nipple

Amelia Scharff | March 22, 2019

Adam Levine, The Super Bowl LIII halftime performer, took off his shirt exposing his nipples during his halftime performance. This act raised anger amongst many viewers, because Janet Jackson’s...

Goodbye, Fortnite

Harry Tarses | March 22, 2019

Fortnite, a Battle Royale video game has been sweeping the nation and gaining extreme relevance for the last year and a half, but finally, after 19 months of insane success, Fortnite is declining. The...

Sushi Note Review

Quincey Dern | March 22, 2019

Sushi Note was considered the No. 1 Los Angeles restaurant to eat at by Eater Los Angeles for six months, from the time it opened its doors in July of 2018 and still remains one of the 21 Essential Los...

An Open Letter to the Math Department

Konnie Duan | March 22, 2019

Dear Math Department,Harvard-Westlake (HW) students complain about the curriculum introduced to them in math. Burdened with stress from other classes, students are required to memorize various formulas....

Harvard-Westlake Should not have Removed the Extra GPA Point for AP and Honors Classes

Karen Wu | March 22, 2019

Harvard-Westlake (HW) removed the extra GPA point for AP and honors classes at the middle school in order to take pressure off students. The removal was a mistake because it is ineffective, hypocritical...

Political Personalism: How it Illuminates the Failures of Campaigning

Jason Morganbesser | March 22, 2019

Political campaigning is often galvanized around not parties or ideas but individual candidates. The popularity of personalization as a campaigning strategy is not surprising, as most people are more easily...

Liberal Arts and Pop Tarts

Grace Belgrader | March 22, 2019

If, at a young age, you discovered that you had a particular knack for toasting pop tarts, would you declare that for the rest of your life you will only ever toast pop tarts? Me neither. So why do we...

We need to change the American political system

Jason Morganbesser | December 21, 2018

The American political system is one of the most unrepresentative in the democratic world; in the latest Presidential election, despite how incredibly contentious it was, only 55 percent of the population...

Senate vote will determine future US-Saudi relations

Andy Seol | December 21, 2018

The world was appalled when the Saudi Arabian government admitted that political dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi had been killed in Saudi consulate in Istanbul Oct. 20. Khashoggi, who had entered...

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