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The football team moved from the Del Rey League to the Mission League for the 2010-2011 season, amassing a 1-9 league record during its !rst two years in the league.

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ON THE RETURN: Despite losing to Notre Dame, the girls’ varsity volleyball team still has a chance to win the league title if they beat the Knights at Homecoming.

The past two editions of the Wolverine football squad have not had a winning league record. After beating St. Paul, the team !nds themselves in good standing in the Mission League.

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PUT A RING ON IT: Senior Ceremony included handing out of class rings — a Westlake tradition.

FEATURES B12 SPORTS C1TAKE TWO: Due to a corrupted memory chip,

Nathanson’s Photography takes make-up yearbook pics.

MAKEUP ARTIST: Cafeteria cashier Phairot

Janthep also works as a makeup artist and hairstylist.

JAZZ IN THE QUAD: Nick Healy ’13, Martin Riu ’13, Robert Lee ’14, Daniel Sunshine ‘13, Nick Lee’15 and Andy Arditi ‘14 jam near the cafeteria at Back-to-School Day.

FIRST GAME: Sean Fisher ’13 prepares to shoot

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PUPPY LOVE: Michele Spears receives kisses from one of her newborn dogs. She

adopted a small, white, spotted dog, “Lulu” who gave birth to a litter of 10 puppies.

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By Jessica Lee

Ten squirming balls of fur, distin-guishable only by their coloring, cud-GOHG�FORVH�WRJHWKHU�RQ�WKH�SDGGHG�pRRU�of Performing Arts teacher Michele Spears’s apartment.

Towards the end of April, Spears’s boyfriend Dave Bushnell, long interest-ed in “bringing home a special buddy,” was heading towards a pet adoption event when he spotted a small, white dog making its way across a parking lot by a busy intersection.

Bushnell parked on a side street and carefully approached the female stray. Only minutes later, the dog was settled comfortably in the backseat of Bushnell’s car.

After a week of posting signs and notices with no call-backs or purport-ed ownership, Bushnell decided to keep the well-trained dog and named her “Lulu.”

Spears went out of town, but when she returned home, she noticed that Lulu seemed unnaturally round. A

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With her knowledgeable aunt set on speed dial, Spears began gathering information on raising newborn pups.

Spears and Bushnell rotated feed-ing sessions with Lulu and giving sup-plementary bottle feedings.

“It was constant work, and our summer was devoted to puppy care,” Spears said.

After two weeks, when the pups had opened their eyes and started ex-ploring their cardboard, makeshift homes, “Dave turned our dining room into puppy land,” Spears said. “He built a pen, where the pups could sleep and play, and Lulu could also get in and out when she needed to feed them.”

Spears gave the puppies temporary names in order keep track of their ZHLJKWV� DQG� GHYHORSPHQW�� 7KH� oUVW�six were named based on fur color and

the remaining four had names ranging from “Travel Blogger” to “I Ching.”

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she curled up on my lap and fell asleep,” Peters said, who named her adopted pup “Ginger.”

“We’re hoping for constant updates and reunions,” Spears said. “We have become incredibly attached to all of them and the different personalities they developed. There has been noth-LQJ�EHWWHU�WKDQ�JHWWLQJ�RQ�WKH�pRRU�IRU�a 10-puppy pile-up.”

Spears adopts stray dog, puppies ensue

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PERMISSION FROM MICHELE SPEARS

By Jack Goldfisher

Brendan Kutler’s ’10 family dedicated The Kutler Center for Interdisciplinary Studies by cutting the building’s rib-bon in a ceremony featuring speeches from top administra-tors Sept. 28.

More than 100 alumni and faculty as well as the Kutler Center’s architect Lester To-bias and friends of the Kutler family attended the dedication and ribbon-cutting celebra-tion.

Head of School Jeanne Huybrechts opened the cere-mony highlighting the history RI� WKH� EXLOGLQJ�� IURP� LWV� oUVW�conception as “both an entity and a program, classrooms and a curriculum,” after Kutler’s death, to its present state as a

class space for more than 200 students currently enrolled in interdisciplinary courses.

“[The Kutler Center] is a great start on what will be an ever-evolving program,” she said.

Huybrechts quoted Em-ily Dickinson’s poem “I Dwell In Possibility,” and said, “I can never resist and opportunity to speak a few phrases of po-etry.”

“To be standing here now, in this beautiful space, our new academic hub, is to dwell in possibility,” Huybrechts said.

In Head of Upper School Audrius Barzdukas’s speech, he emphasized that “the well-lived life is the interdisciplin-ary life,” which Kutler embod-ied.

He said that to fully live a

true interdisciplinary life, one must embrace both happiness and sadness, and expressed hope that the Kutler Center would serve as a reminder of this lesson to all members of the Harvard-Westlake com-munity.

In the ceremony’s closing speech, President Tom Hud-nut said that the building, “conceived out of tragedy and now risen in triumph,” is Kut-ler’s special gift to generations of students.

“[The many interdisciplin-ary classes offered] here now are likely among the tool kit VWXGHQWV�ZLOO�oQG�QHFHVVDU\�DV�they move through college and into the workplace,” Hudnut said. “Every student at this school, for today and years to come, will be one of Brendan’s

legatees.”Hudnut expressed his dis-

may upon discovering there was a typo on the plaque in the Kutler Center, which he found out from a student who had sent him an email.

“The more I thought about [the email and the young woman that sent it],” Hudnut said, “the more I thought that this is likely what Brendan would’ve done.”

“He would have spotted the error and he would have done something about it,” Hudnut said.

At the end of the presen-tations, Jon and Sara Kutler, Brendan’s parents, and his sister Caroline Kutler, cut the ribbon and led the guests up to WKH�VHFRQG�pRRU�RI�WKH�EXLOGLQJ�for a reception.

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Ribbon-cutting opens Kutler Center

GRAND OPENING: More than 100 guests cel-

ebrated the opening of the Kutler Center, named

for Brendan Kutler ’10. At the event, Head of

Upper School Audrius Barzdukas, top left, spoke

about Kutler’s academically diverse spirit. Kutler’s

mother, Sara Kutler, cut the ceremonial ribbon,

above. Hudnut, left, emphasized Kutler’s lasting

legacy at Harvard-Westlake and his continuing

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School transitions to Google Drive online storage systemBy rachel schwartz

Thanks to Ethan Madison’s ’15 initiative, Harvard-West-lake has adopted Google Drive as a media platform and cre-ated accounts for all students and faculty.

Students do not sign into their drives direct-ly through Google. They go through the same au-thentication server that signs them into The Hub. Each student’s us-er-name and password is the same as for his or her Har-vard-Westlake email address.

The new accounts are in-tended to allow for, “seamless collaboration among teachers

and students,” according to Jeffrey Snapp, math teacher and tech committee member.

Snapp was responsible for explaining via all-school email how to log on and merge the students’ new accounts with

their old ones.

“The best part of this story was that one of my students, Ethan Madi-son, came up to me one day af-ter class and asked why [we weren’t] using Google

Education Apps,” Upper School Technology Integra-tion Specialist Jennifer Lam-kins said. “I told him it had been discussed but if he and his friends felt strongly about

it, then he should present to the Educational Technology Committee. He did. It was an excellent, comprehensive pre-sentation. I credit him with making it a serious consider-ation and eventually leading to its implementation here at Harvard-Westlake. Student voices matter.”

“If you forget a document on your computer at home or \RXU�pDVK�GULYH�FRQWDLQLQJ�WKH�document, you’re out of luck,” Lamkins said. “With Google docs, you can access anytime, anywhere, with few if any compatibility issues.”

Snapp said the best part of the system is that multiple people can edit a document si-multaneously, allowing for bet-ter group collaboration.

“We can move towards a more cloud-based, globally-friendly community that re-pHFWV� JURZLQJ� WUHQGV�y� /DP-kins said.

Loungeto feature computers, printers

By lauren sonnenberG

Two desktop computers and two printers will be in-stalled in the student lounge to compensate for the loss of computers in Chalmers when last year’s temporary “Mini Mudd” library was dismantled. Prefect Council suggested the addition to make computers more accessible to students.

The computers and print-ers will be ordered sometime soon, Director of Campus Op-erations J.D. De Matte said. De Matte will also set the computers and printers up when they arrive.

Head Prefect Michael Wagmeister ’13 said the initia-tive will allow students easier computer access throughout the school day.

Upper School Dean Sha-ron Cuseo brought the Prefect Council’s proposal to a dean meeting and, with approval from the other deans, Prefect Council began implementing the plan.

Wagmeister said students have gotten used to having computers in Chalmers. Be-cause students generally spend most of their time in the lower part of campus, computers there are a convenience, he said.

Upper School Dean Co-ordinators Camille da Santos and Ryan Wilson will super-vise the computer operations in the case of a malfunction or in case supplies need to be replaced.

National Merit Semi!nalists

25 seniors quali!ed to be National Merit Semi!nalists based on their 2011 PSAT/NMSQT scores

Charlie Andrews-Jubelt

Wendy Chen

Madeleine Friendly

Samantha Frischling

Ben Gail

Brendan Gallagher

Rhett Gentile

Clinton Hooks

Martine Johannessen

Brian Jun

Harrison Kalt

Kenneth Kim

Maya Landau

Joshua Lappen

David Lim

Elana Meer

Yasmin Moreno

Michael Rothberg

Chris Sebastian

Demren Sinik

Ben Vigman

Jack Wilding

Liza Wohlberg

Sam Wolk

Ashley Wu

SOURCE: NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATIONGRAPHIC BY ENYA HUANG AND SCOTT NUSSBAUM

“We can move towards a more cloud-based, globally-friendly community.”

! Jennifer LamkinsTechnology Integration

Specialist

Prefect Council and the deans have enacted a plan to

make computers and printers available for

use in the lounge.

By Noa Yadidi

A new Didax feature allows teachers to record attendance from any device with internet capabilities through the school website.

Before this year, teach-ers were required to use their school laptops to connect to the Didax program to record attendance.

The new feature allows teachers to use devices like smartphones, iPads and other computers to record atten-dance for their classes, at-tendance coordinator Gabriel Preciado said.

k,WV� GHoQLWHO\� PRUH� FRQ-venient,” science teacher Wendy van Norden said. “I use it much more often than I use the Didax connection. If I want to, I can bring my iPad to class and take attendance on that. It sounds so silly to admit that having one or two fewer clicks and passwords to type in makes my life easier, but it does.”

Preciado said the new ca-pabilities improve attendance accuracy because teachers are able to quickly submit their attendance through an iPad or smartphone with their stu-dents in front of them, rather than waiting until after class.

“It is very convenient and has taken care of a lot of at-tendance errors,” Assistant to the Head of Upper School

Michelle Bracken said. “When I wait to get to my desk after class to report attendance, I often forget who was absent.”

All teachers were given iPads this school year, which adds mobility and speed to the attendance process, Preciado explained.

“We’re trying to collect in-formation a lot quicker, and it’s coming to us a lot faster,” he said. “If [teachers] have their iPads in front of them, they can send it right away, if not, we have to rely on them JRLQJ�EDFN�WR�WKHLU�RIoFHV�DQG�remembering to do it.”

“I use it for my 11th grade class each day,” history teacher John Johnson said. “The prob-lem I was having since I teach on both campuses was that I would do my ninth grade classes on the computer each morning, but, after my 11th grade class, I had to vacate the room right away. I would for-get to do the 11th grade atten-

dance until the next morning. It has been very convenient for me to do attendance on my phone.”

Software Development Manager Alan Homan and Web Manager Lillian Contre-ras brought the idea to Precia-do during the summer, and the new component of the website has been up and running since the beginning of the school year.

“When the decision to pur-chase iPads for all faculty and staff was made, we determined that making attendance avail-able on any internet-connect-HG�GHYLFH�ZRXOG�EH�EHQHoFLDO�y�Homan said. “This is a new feature that is very similar to the existing Didax attendance system, and faculty can use ei-ther.”

“I’m using it every day now because it simply loads and functions much faster than Didax,” math teacher Jacob Hazard said.

Oct. 10, 2012A4 News the chrONicle

Clubs advertiseat Activities FairBy allY White

Prefect Council’s annu-al activities fair on Sept. 24 showcased a record number of clubs.

Tables for each club were set up on the quad, and dur-ing break students signed up for those that i n t e r e s t e d them.

C l u b s ranged from the Robotics Club to the D u n g e o n s and Drag-ons Club, to Girls Learn Internation-al and the H a p p i n e s s Club, many of which gave out free baked goods and candy to entice stu-dents to join.

“On the whole, Activities Fair is an example of the ex-treme diversity of interests that Harvard-Westlake stu-dents have and a great time for all the grade levels to come together as a community,” Se-nior Prefect Morgan Hallock ’13 said.

Maps of the quad were posted in order for students to locate clubs more easily.

In order to avoid large crowds of people in a single area, the tables of popular clubs such as the Fanatics and Peer Support were set up in open spaces.

KHWS also played music throughout the event, and the

Fanatics quickly sold out of red T-shirts that featured a drawing of President Thomas Hudnut.

7KLV� \HDU�� IRU� WKH� oUVW�time, Prefect Council man-dated that club charters be approved by a deadline.

The new deadline may have contributed to the in-creased num-ber of clubs this year, Head Pre-fect Michael Wagmeister ’13 said.

N e w clubs were required to email their c h a r t e r to Prefect Council in order to se-cure a table at Activities Fair. Previ-

ously approved clubs, however, merely needed to resubmit their charter from last year to be reapproved.

“Because Prefect Council knew that we wanted to set a harder deadline for charter submissions, we were better about publicizing the event and disseminating important information to the student body via email,” Wagmeister said.

“Ultimately, though, the sheer amount of charter sub-missions must also be attrib-uted to the genuine enthusi-asm of the individuals within the student body, who were eager to share their interests with others,” he said.

Teachers use iPads to take roll

Corrupted camera chip requires photo retakesBy Claire Goldsmith

A camera chip containing yearbook photos was corrupt-ed last week, forcing yearbook staff to arrange two make-up days last Monday Oct. 1 and Friday Oct. 5 so stu-dents could retake their pictures.

The make-up days were also open to stu-dents who missed the original picture days due to confusion or absence.

Yearbook editors-in-chief Emily Persky ’13 and Alex Ravan ’13 plas-tered signs around campus and members of the yearbook staff announced via Face-book posts that the annual picture days would be Sept. 19 and 20.

Students could have their pictures taken in Chalmers Hall from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day.

The dates were also marked in student planners.

In a change from previous years’ procedure, the yearbook staff said there would be no make-up day for students who did not take their photo on ei-ther of the appointed picture days.

After both picture days, Nathanson’s, the photography company that took the year-

book photos, told the yearbook staff that one of the memory cards had been corrupted, rendering all the pictures on it unsuable and forcing many

students to retake their photos.

Nathanson’s was “very apologetic,” ac-cording to Persky, and the company set up two make-up days for stu-dents whose photos had been lost on the cor-rupted card.

“We decided to in-vite people who had not

taken their photos to partake in this makeup day because Nathanson’s would be at school any-ways,” Persky said.

Each member of the yearbook staff is re-sponsible for collecting the photos of a certain number of students, she said.

“If a member of someone’s group was on the list of students who

ZHUH� RQ� WKH� FRUUXSWHG� oOH�y�said Persky, “our staff mem-bers emailed them notifying them of the days to retake their photos and apologizing for the inconvenience.”

Courtney O’Brien ’15 had to retake her yearbook picture because the original was lost on the corrupted card.

“It was a little bit inconve-nient but luckily it didn’t take up much time to get it retak-en,” she said.

“Activities Fair is an example of the extreme diversity of interests that Harvard-Westlake students have and a great time for all the grade levels to come together.”

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Taiwanese educatorsobservecurriculumBy Michael RothBeRg

Administrators from the Taipei American School visit-ed Harvard-Westlake in Sep-tember to study its curriculum and teaching styles on their way to an educational confer-ence in San Diego.

The visitors from Tai-wan sat in on classes on both the upper school and middle school campuses.

“The woman who runs Tai-pei American School wants it to be less like an American public school and more like a top American independent day school,” President Thomas Hudnut said.

Hudnut chaired an ac-creditation of TAS and vis-ited their campus as part of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges program.

“It’s a very good school,” he said. “It’s quite similar to Harvard-Westlake in many respects but she wants to take it to the next step to be more like Harvard-Westlake.”

The head of the elemen-tary division Catriona Mora of TAS visited classes at the middle school, including his-tory classes taught by Stephen Chan, John Corsello and Tim Newhart.

Karen Moreau, curriculum director at TAS met with Di-rector of Studies Liz Resnick and also observed Larry We-ber’s AP English class.

“They were particularly in-terested in the depth of ques-tions that our teachers were posing, the expansiveness of the answers that our students were giving and the vocabu-lary that our students were employing,” Hudnut said.

Harvard-Westlake has received many requests for visitations lately, particularly from schools in China, Hudnut said.

“[For] those that have some reason—those that are involved with us through the worlds leading schools associa-tion, those who are involved in a G20 group—we will extend ourselves.”

Deans re-emphasize dress codeBy elana ZeltseR

Dean Beth Slattery warned girls during sophomore, junior and senior class meetings that they would be forced to wear a sweat suit or go home to change if they continued com-ing to school wearing scant clothing.

The Student/Parent Hand-book lays out a dress code to “create an environment in which all students, teachers and staff feel comfortable.” However, Slattery said that teachers began calling her asking whether or not a dress code was actually enforced.

“As a dean, I became a lit-tle oblivious to these things,” Slattery said. “Once I started paying attention, I realized that there were a lot of things that weren’t appropriate for school. We were getting ready to walk into junior assembly

and there were two students wearing entirely see-through shirts.”

Another concern is what the dress code refers to as “ex-cessively revealing” shorts.

“The other issue that I have noticed is walking up the Chalmers staircase. When you are behind someone and their behind is at face level it’s re-ally noticeable,” Slattery said.

Slattery said that as years go on, fashion-related issues come and go.

A few years ago, she said, the main problem was that boys would sag their pants.

An announcement was not made because it was easier to tell a boy to pull up his pants, she said.

“There is nothing a girl can do if she has on shorts that are too short,” she said.

Slattery decided to make this a dean-enforced initia-

tive, fearing that it could taint student-teacher relationships.

“It should come from the deans because we have a dif-ferent relationship with stu-dents,” she said. “It would be kind of awkward if a kid knew that their teacher thought they weren’t dressed well.”

Despite concerns, Presi-dent Thomas C. Hudnut said that there was never a dis-cussion of adopting a stricter dress code.

“We never talked about having a particularly restric-tive dress code and certainly not a uniform because I’m not interested in hiring teachers that are interested in enforc-ing a dress or uniform code,” Hudnut said.

Slattery said she hopes her announcement served as a re-minder to students to consider the environment of the school while making style choices.

By Jack goldfisheR

Students can no longer turn left onto Hacienda Drive from Coldwater Canyon due to construction, but two entranc-es have been opened to ease WKH�pRZ�RI�WUDIoF�

The main gate at Harvard-Westlake Driveway is open to both northbound and south-ERXQG� WUDIoF�� DQG� VWXGHQWV�can still turn right or left from Hacienda onto Coldwater.

This change has helped HDVH�WUDIoF� LQ�WKH�DUHD�VRPH-what, Director of Campus Op-erations J.D. De Matte said.

The Coldwater pipeline project, which has now been going on for more than two years, is scheduled to be com-pleted during the upcoming year.

“They’re telling me Febru-ary or March of 2013 they’ll be 100% off of Coldwater Can-yon. There are other phases of

the project, but Coldwater will look like Coldwater Canyon again, and you can take that almost to the bank,” De Matte said. “If I had to guess I’d say we’d be looking more at June or July, if I had to bet my own money on it.

“With the DWP, no mat-ter what they tell you, they’re going to be four to six months, if not longer, delayed. It’s just the way the bureaucracy works, and it’s a shame,” he said.

De Matte also said that the effect the construction has had on campus has been less than expected.

“For what we’ve been thrown at with DWP, I think we did an amazing job of get-ting people in and out for day-to-day operations, special events, and athletic events,” he said. “I really have to give it to my security boys for working their tails off out there.”

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By Carrie DaviDson anD MiChael sugerMan

The Student Athletic Ad-visory Council’s apparel re-FHLYHG�1LNHV�oUVW��VSRQVRUVKLS�of a high school organization.

Natalie Florescu ’13 cre-ated the shirt on CustomInk.com.

After other SAAC mem-bers approved the design, SAAC adviser and Athletics Director Darlene Bible sub-mitted the shirt to Nike, who agreed to print the shirt as part of their “My School” ap-parel.

Florescu came up with the

idea while shopping for bas-ketball shoes on Nike’s web-site.

“I saw a University of Vir-ginia shirt that had this ‘We are VA design,’” she said. “I thought it would be really cool if we did the same for Har-vard-Westlake.”

6$$&�oUVW� VROG� WKH� VKLUWV�at Activities Fair two weeks ago to the rest of the stu-dent body for wear at athletic events.

“I ended up really liking the design,” Florescu said.

SAAC plans to print more shirts, adding a tank top op-tion and even a black design at

the request of the varsity girls oHOG�KRFNH\�WHDP�

“We thought that they would be a great thing for ev-eryone to wear to show school spirit and support for SAAC,” varsity squad member Kacey Wilson ’13 said.

SAAC will sell shirts next at homecoming Oct. 27 and throughout the school year.

“It’s a really amazing feel-ing to see people wearing the shirts because they genuinely like the design,” Florescu said. “I don’t know if I’ll design any-thing else. Maybe I’ll submit an idea for our senior sweat-shirts.”

By sara evall

Upper School science teacher Dr. Antonio Nassar SXEOLVKHG� KLV� oIW\�oIWK� UH-search paper on quantum me-chanics in the International Journal of Physics.

His paper is about dissipa-tion in quantum mechanics, or friction at the microscopic level.

Nassar’s paper, “Time-Dependent Gaussian Solu-tion for the Kostin Equation Around Classical Trajecto-ries,” went through a review process in which an editor and two to three physi-cists edited his work and decided that his work was both ac-curate and meaning-ful prior to being submitted. Physicists replicate an author’s experiments and compare the results to ensure its accuracy.

“You have several models and out of these models peo-ple will do experiments,” Nas-sar said. “They test for which theory makes more sense. It’s sort of something that moti-vates further discussions, it motivates experimenters like physicists to carry out the ex-periments guided by some as-

sumptions.”A few of Nassar’s papers

have been published with his former Harvard-Westlake students.

“School is a great place to inspire, and the course I teach, 665�� VWXGLHV� LQ� VFLHQWLoF� UH-search, is a great environment just to keep me thinking about new ideas,” Nassar said. “It just makes me very happy to

have a chance to wit-ness and to see stu-dents thinking and coming up with an idea.”

Nassar does most of his work on papers at UCLA during ev-ery summer.

He has worked both independently and collaboratively with students, as well as with colleagues and

friends on his physics papers. Nassar said that to him,

enthusiasm and passion are especially important in his classes and his own work.

k,Q�P\�YLHZ��,�oQG�WKDW�RQH�of the most important things in teaching is inspiring your students to do things,” he said. “I don’t think anyone will question that motivation and inspiration are essential in the academic world, especially teaching.”

‘WE ARE H-W’: Nicole Gould ’13, a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Council, sells Nike sponsored shirts during Activities Fair

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By lauren sonnenberg

Prefect Council earned URXJKO\� �� LQ� LWV� oUVW�“Monthly Meals” event Oct. 1. The money, raised by sell-ing cheese rolls, apple strudel and chicken empanadas from Porto’s Bakery, will be used to oQDQFH� PRUH� VFKRRO�ZLGH� DF-tivities throughout the year, including additional Monthly Meals days.

In past years, food from nearby restaurants has been sold only on special occa-sions. With the institution of Monthly Meals, the Council aims to make off-campus food options a regular occurrence.

Head Prefect Katie Lim ’13 said students have always lob-bied for an event like this one, but that Monthly Meals was fellow Head Prefect Michael Wagmeister’s ’13 “brainchild.”

“Not only has the student body asked for something like

this, but, I mean, who doesn’t love food?” Lim said.

Wagmeister encouraged the plan so underclassmen, who are not permitted to leave campus during school hours, could get off campus food.

“We were able to bring off-campus food to those who might otherwise not be able to go out and buy it during the VFKRRO�GD\�DQG�UDLVHG�D�VLJQLo-cant amount of money which will directly be used to ben-HoW�WKRVH�YHU\�VDPH�VWXGHQWV�y�Wagmeister said.

Food was sold from break to the end of the day on Mon-day. Students had to pay in cash: one food item was $3, and two items sold for $5.

“Hopefully though, this was just a taste of what stu-dents might expect in the fu-WXUH�� DV�ZH� ORRN� WR� oQG�ZD\V�to expand upon this idea and enhance this monthly event,” Wagmeister said.

Prefects sell Porto’s pastries MONTHLY MEALS: Erin Sugarman ’13 pays Head Prefect

Michael Wagmeister ’13 for a pastry during Monthly Meals.

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The Harvard-Westlake African-American Alumni 1HWZRUN�KRVWHG�LWV�oUVW�1LJKW�of Speed Networking event on Thursday, Sept. 27.

Alumni spoke “about their career, their career path and what struggles or accomplish-ments they encountered along the way,” Alumni Administra-tor Janiece Richard said.

Students in attendance were taught about the Har-vard-Westlake Job Board, ZKLFK�DOORZV�DOXPQL�WR�oQG�RU�offer jobs within the Harvard-Westlake network.

—Jensen Pak

Track resurfacing to begin next year

The track at Ted Slavin oHOG�ZLOO�EH�FRPSOHWHO\�UHVXU-faced this summer, Director of Campus Operations JD De Matte said.

The track was scheduled to be redone last summer but was postponed due to other construction on campus.

“The track was put in nine years ago, so it’s due,” De Matte said. “The track was damaged during construction this past summer, so sections of it had to be patched and repainted, “but that was just to get through this year,” De Matte said.

He estimates that the proj-ect will cost nearly $25,000, and will take around a month to complete.

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Cafeteria to sell protein smoothies

The cafeteria will offer protein boosts to their fruit smoothies in an effort to bring a healthier option for athletic students, cafeteria manager Nipa Boonyamas said.

Students can supplement their smoothies with Cyto-6SRUWV� YDQLOOD� pDYRUHG� ��percent whey protein starting Oct. 9.

“Once in a while, I like to experiment with new cafete-ria options,” she said. “I don’t want the kids to get bored. I have the same customers ev-ery day.”

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Nike sponsors SAAC shirts

KHWS, Harvard-West-lake’s student-run online radio station, will hit the air waves IRU� WKH� oUVW� WLPH� WKLV� VFKRRO�year on Oct. 22.

Created in April 2011, KHWS is made up of student DJs who broadcast music to comedy shows to poetry read-ings

“The freedom with which KHWS allows students to ex-press themselves through an outlet that isn’t traditionally DYDLODEOH� WR� WKHP� LV�GHoQLWHO\�why I love it so much,” station co-founder Sam Wolk ’13 said.

Fifty DJs will broadcast this year which is more than KHWS has ever had in previ-ous years.

People can tune at khws.blogspot.com.

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Highest number of students to DJ


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new SAAC designed shirts say

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Go to hwchronicle.com/news/nassarpaper for an in-depth interview with Dr. Antonio Nassar about his research on quantum physics.

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By Jensen Pak

Game designer Anthony Newman ’01 told students en-rolled in the new video game design class about his career as a video game designer at Naughty Dog, Inc., known for the “Crash Bandicoot” and “Uncharted” franchises.

Newman talked to the class for 40 minutes about the process and technology used to make video games, in a large company. He spent the last oYH�PLQXWHV� RI� FODVV� GLVFXVV-LQJ� WKH� oQHU� DVSHFWV� RI� JDPH�design, including the relation between game mechanics, aes-thetic, and the background story.

“Since it was a computer science class, a lot of what I

covered was pretty technical,” Newman said. “This included the challenges of console game development and the method-ologies we use to get around those challenges. I also showed a lot of under-the-hood foot-age of what the games look like when we’re working on them.”

At Homecoming last year, Performing Arts teacher Ted Walch, who taught Newman in tenth grade English, ran into Newman. Video game de-sign teacher Jacob Hazard and math teacher Kevin Weis did too.

The reunion led Newman to invite Hazard, Walch and Weis to visit the Naughty Dog studio. He gave Walch an overview of video games, tech-

nically and creatively. “[Newman] is very smart,

very quick, loves Harvard-Westlake and is eager to help,” Walch said. “I think part of him wants to make up for the times he drove me just a bit crazy when he was in 10th grade. He was a naughty dog then and he’s a Naughty Dog now.”

Shortly after their meet-ing, Newman talked to Hazard about the possibility of a guest lecture.

“Understanding what is involved will allow us to bet-ter align our goals with our resources and potential,” Haz-ard said. “It is intrinsically interesting to learn about the complexity involved in such ambitious endeavors as mak-

ing video games.”Hazard said that the pre-

sentation was effective, as stu-dents could learn from some-one they could identify with — a young alum working at a distinguished video game com-pany. He said it also allowed them to learn more about “what is actually involved in making industry-grade video games.”

As a game designer, New-man is currently working on WKH� oJKWLQJ� PHFKDQLFV� IRU�Naughty Dog’s upcoming game “The Last of Us.”

“If you’re a student at Harvard-Westlake, you’re in a really special place,” Newman said. “Enjoy your time there, and don’t sweat the small stuff.”


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GSA attends clergyman’s speech

The Gay-Straight Alliance plans to expand its relation-ships with other schools and begin hosting its own events, GSA leader Patric Verrone ’13 said. Members attended the Oct. 7 screening of the docu-mentary “Love Free or Die” at Crossroads School and heard a speech from Gene Robin-VRQ��WKH�oUVW�JD\�ELVKRS�RI�WKH�Episcopal Church.

“It’s important for us to support the GSA community,” Verrone said.

—Kenneth Schrupp

Science teachers to face Scibowl

Bose-Pyne case reaches conclusion

The parents of Ishan Bose-Pyne ’12 will not appeal the verdict from a jury that found no legal liability in his death, according to a statement from their lawyers.

On Aug. 31, a federal jury ruled that the Wahl Clipper Corporation was not guilty of a manufacturing defect or negligence in design of an elec-tric razor that was alledgedly responsible for Bose-Pyne’s death two years ago.

“Although we are disap-pointed that the jury did not oQG�IDXOW�LQ�WKH�FOLSSHU�DV�WKH�cause of Ishan Bose-Pyne’s death, we are grateful that we were chosen to be counsel for Ishan’s parents,” attorney Ar-nold Peter said in a statement.

—Sarah Novicoff

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Database publishes students’ research on rock!shBy ana scuric

The National Center for Biotechnology database pub-lished research compiled by last year’s Genetics and Bio-technology students, with WKHLU�QDPHV�OLVWHG�DV�oUVW�DX-thors.

“It was a really big honor to see my name alongside peo-ple that have way more expe-ULHQFH� LQ� WKH�oHOG� WKDQ� ,�GR�y�David Manahan ’14 said.

This class was the third to participate in a DNA barcod-ing project with Coastal Ma-rine Biolabs.

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samples from the organisms and then had to isolate and WKHQ�DPSOLI\�VSHFLoF�'1$�VH-quence.

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“It astounds me that we can do this in a high school

class,” genetics teacher David Hinden said. “It’s a chance to bring real science to the class-room.”

The Science Bowl team will hold a student-teacher compe-tition on Oct. 15 in Ahmanson Lecture Hall during activities period.

&KLHI� )LQDQFLDO� 2IoFHU�Rob Levin and Head of Up-per School Audrius Barzdukas placed a bet on the outcome of the competition, Science Bowl president Kenneth Kim ’13 said. If the students win, Levin will throw a pie in Barzdu-kas’ face, and vice versa if the teachers win.

“I thought that kids might enjoy watching their teach-ers play and possibly fumble around for answers in their area of specialty,” Kim said.

—Julia Aizuss

BACK IN THE CLASSROOM: Video game designer Anthony Newman ’01 poses with Performing Arts teacher Ted Walch, left, and

video game design teacher Jacob Hazard, right. Newman spoke about his experiences working at video game company Naughty Dog Inc.

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—Elijah Akhtarzad

By Jessica Lee

On the login page of The Hub a bold red sign warns against bookmarking the au-thentication page.

The sign was put up by Network Administrator David Hartmann and Web Manager Lillian Contreras after a glitch was discovered.

The Hub is designed for a one-time login only — the au-

thentication page where stu-dents are asked to input their login information has a URL that is unique for that one ses-sion.

After the student has logged in, the URL and infor-mation about the authentica-tion page will disappear. Thus, if students or faculty book-mark the login page, the web browser will save and try to access a web address that no

longer exists. Educational Technol-

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Instead of bookmarking the authentication page, stu-dents and faculty can save the URL of the home website that appears after logging in.

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In addition to this year’s character theme “Do Well and Do Good,” President Thomas Hudnut is known for other maxims. Head of School Jeanne Huybrechts shared a few favorite “Hudnut-isms” at the Parents’ Association meeting Sept. 19.

“If you want to learn to swim fast, go where people swim fast.”

“The only constant is change.”

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>> Hudnut said this to remind faculty of the need for a !exible mindset and regular experimentation.

INFOGRAPHIC BY JULIA AIZUSS

SURPRISE AWARD: Jordan Elist ‘13 learned that he was one of 80 students in the coun-try who had won $10,000 in college scholarships from the Nordstrom Scholarship Program. Elist was recognized for “exceptional scholastic achievement and involvement in the com-PXQLW\�y�DFFRUGLQJ�WR�WKH�1RUGVWURPV�6FKRODUVKLS�3URJUDP�ZHEVLWH��+H�ZDV�QRWLoHG�RQ�Oct. 3 and received his check in the lounge, with Community Council present. Elist started “Save a Bottle, Save a Life,” which donates money collected from recycled bottles to charity.

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Junior showcases heart failure researchat Seattle conferenceBy Michael RothbeRg

Lizzy Thomas ’14 present-ed the results of her medical research at the Heart Failure Society of America Confer-ence in Seattle.

Thomas researched the correlation between obesity, muscle mass and heart disease this summer during an intern-ship with Dr. Tamara Hor-wich, an assistant professor in residence in the Medical Car-diology department at UCLA.

In the Seattle Convention Center on Sept. 11, Thomas and her mentor explained their research and answered the questions of cardiologists and medical researchers.

“I had such a good time,” Thomas said. “It was really fun to do the presentation and have the poster. That was re-ally cool for me. Also, poster sessions are a really good way to make connections because

you can meet people that you can collaborate with on jour-nal articles in the future.”

Thomas’s research inves-tigated the “Obesity Paradox,” a phenomenon that describes the tendency of overweight people with heart failure to live longer than thinner pa-tients with heart failure.

“Our goal was to determine whether the ‘Obesity Paradox’ existed because the heart fail-ure patients had increased fat mass or increased muscle mass,” Thomas said.

Thomas conducted her research using an “InBody,” a body composition analyzer, which measures weight, body fat, muscle mass, and total body water volume.

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measurements to tell you how healthy a person is, such as blood pressure, heart rate, heart volume, heart size and waist circumference.”

Thomas compiled the bank of medical data and analyzed the results that she presented at the conference.

“We got a result that we weren’t expecting,” Thomas said. “It turns out that the people who fared the best with heart disease were people with higher fat mass as well as higher lean muscle mass.”

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“In the long term we want to look at how people’s body compositions affect their long term survival with heart fail-ure,” Thomas said.

Four students explore LA cultureBy cheRish Molezion

Four juniors and two teachers immersed themselves in the culture of Los Angeles through the Los Angeles Ser-vice Academy, which began in August.

Kennedy Green ’14, Hen-ry Hahn ’14, Grace Levin ’14 and Tom Thorne’ 14 traveled around the city with LASA to better understand the life, planning and politics of Los Angeles.

Executive Director of LASA Doug Smith contacted upper school Dean Jim Pat-terson, who put LASA in con-tact with upper school history teachers Katherine Holmes-Chuba and Francine Werner, who both became chaperones of the program.

The program consists of around 25 students from Los Angeles and Montebello, in-cluding Harvard-Westlake and Polytechnic School in Pas-adena.

LASA provides transpor-

tation to the Huntington Li-brary, the program’s monthly Saturday meeting place, where they occasionally host guest speakers.

“When we are at the Huntington, we get to see manuscripts from the library linked to the topic of the day,” Holmes-Chuba said. “Last month, we saw engineer re-ports, water reports, drawings, proposals for various dams and water projects.”

In addition, the group goes RQ�oHOG�WULSV�DURXQG�/RV�$Q-geles. They have visited the Metropolitan Water Treat-ment facility, Warner Bros. Studios, the Los Angeles Pub-lic Library Central Branch and City Hall, and they plan to visit a manufacturing site for the space shuttle.

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Levin said that LASA has allowed her to learn how di-verse and complicated the city is.

“Los Angeles is such a unique place to live in with so much diversity and so much to learn about,” she said.

Thorne believes the leaders of the program have given the students a great opportunity.

“My favorite part of the organization is the knowledge and expertise of its leaders,” Thorne said. “They are histo-rians of the American West, and they bring a vast wealth of information to the program.”

LASA has enabled its members to become more aware of the importance of the city’s functions.

“It was 105 degrees in Azusa and we were look-ing at water plants,” Holmes-Chuba said. “With that kind of heat, you are more aware of how important water is.”

Faculty to select15 for Africa tripBy scott nussbauM

Faculty leaders of the summer Africa trip, taking place from June 10 to July 13, will select 15 students from a pool of 20 applicants to embark on the trip.

This group will visit several countries, including South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The group will stop at national parks, historical sites and villages.

Participants on the trip will observe the science, ecology, photography, history, culture and art of Africa. Students will perform community service in several underprivileged areas.

Students will spend nights both camping outdoors and sleeping in hotels.

Assistant Director of Admissions Melanie Leon, upper school science teacher Dietrich Schuhl and Senior $OXPQL� 2IoFHU� +DUU\�Salamandra will be chaperones on the trip.

Middle school science teacher Florence Pi initiated the whole trip, which costs between $10,000 and $12,000, and will be leading the expedition.

“I am looking forward most to sharing a place that I love so much with the students and chaperones,” Pi said. “It makes it so special and even more amazing to see Africa through their eyes as they’re H[SHULHQFLQJ�LW�DOO�IRU�WKH�oUVW�time.”

The chaperones will post a list of the accepted students within two weeks and will notify them by delivering letters printed on safari-themed stationary.

“[This trip] sounds like a great opportunity for me to learn more about a country that I am unfamiliar with,” applicant Emily Maynes ’15 said. “I would love to interact with other people through community service and experience the beauty of Africa’s landscape.”

HEART HEALTHY: Lizzy Thomas ’14 stands with UCLA mentor Dr. Tamara Horwich in front of

the poster she made depicting her research on heart failure. Thomas presented her poster in Seattle.

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CITYGOERS: Kennedy Green ’14, Henry Hahn ’14, Tom Thorne

’14 and Grace Levin ’14 (from left) explore Los Angeles culture.

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If the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPA-CA), better known as “Obam-acare,” is allowed to continue to full effect by whoever wins the presidential election, more companies may institute self-funded employee health insur-ance plans similar to the one that governs Harvard-West-lake faculty and staff.

Unlike many other schools, the Harvard-Westlake faculty healthcare plan, which cov-ers all full-time em-ployees for no cost, is self-funded.

This means that the school doesn’t pay premiums to a health insurance company to take on the risk of faculty’s medical claims, and it can de-sign its own plan.

“ S e l f - f u n d i n g is going to be the way to save mon-ey for health insurance,” +HDOWK� %HQHoWV� $GPLQLV-trator Nicole Ryan said. “Harvard-Westlake has been increasing [healthcare spend-ing] one percent per year for the last ten years. Fully in-sured companies are going to EH� VHHLQJ� oYH�DQG�D�KDOI� WR�seven-and-a-half percent per year. So more companies are going to become self-insured in the next couple years.”

Due to this self-insured set up, the plan does not need to

follow numerous PPACA pro-visions that apply to fully in-sured plans, Ryan said.

However, some new rules still do apply. The school began making changes to the health-care plan in 2010, when the oUVW� 33$&$� SURYLVLRQV� ZHUH�enacted, Ryan said. By 2014, there will be no preexisting condition waiting period for all individuals, Ryan said.

“This may increase the number of people on the plan, which is obviously going to increase the costs of medical

care,” Ryan said. “I think we have some uncovered dependents that may not be cov-ered under a health insurance plan right now because their parents want to save money.”

“In 2014 uncov-ered individuals will have to pay a hefty tax penalty if they’re not covered,” she said.

“That’s part of the ACA. So everybody has to have health insurance.”

As of 2010, the plan also no longer has lifetime limits on medical care, Ryan said.

Lastly, 2010 marked the re-moval of the cost for covered preventive care like mammo-grams and colonoscopies.

Ryan thinks that PPACA’s biggest and only negative change for Harvard-Westlake HPSOR\HHV� UHJDUGV� WKH� pH[-ible spending plan, or the Sec-

tion 125 cafeteria plan, which changes in 2014.

Flex is a plan employees can use to tax shelter some of their money for medical expenses, which is a way to reduce payments made to tax-collectors like the government.

While the tax shelter limit is currently $5,000, in 2014 that limit will be cut in half to $2,500.

Despite these new PPACA mandates that will increase healthcare plan costs, Chief )LQDQFLDO� 2IoFHU� 5RE� /HYLQ�does not think the increases ZLOO� EH� VLJQLoFDQW�� HVSHFLDOO\�in relation to the healthcare plan budget of $2.7 million.

Although being exempt from several new PPACA pro-visions is a plus, the school ad-ministers a self-funded plan for multiple other rea-sons.

“We have the money,” Levin said.

He com-pared the chances of a certain num-ber of people getting sick and over-w h e l m i n g the budget to the chances of a certain number of people getting in a car accident.

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same year? It becomes real predictable, like a thou-sand coin pLSV�� 6R� ZH�have 500 peo-ple involved in our plan.”

“They ’ re not all going to get sick the same year,” he said. “They’re not all going to be healthy the same

year. You’re going to have some heads and some tails. So we know that it’s pretty predict-able, and we’ll have good years

and bad years, but we can af-ford the bad year. So why pay DQ�LQVXUDQFH�FRPSDQ\�D�SURoW�to take on that risk?”

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Besides saving money, Levin said the healthcare plan is not worse but “as good or better.”

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“You’re going to have some heads and some tails. So why pay an insurance company a pro!t to take on that risk?

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Material luxuries aside, Harvard-Westlake gives us the friends, teachers and opportuni-ties that make it a place we can call home.

With these things in mind, it’s pretty VKRFNLQJ�WKDW�DQ�XQLGHQWLoHG�VWXGHQW�YDQ-dalized the bronze cougar statue sunbathing near the fountain in Feldman-Horn Plaza. When Feldman-Horn Gallery was construct-ed and dedicated, the donor family held an exhibit of their own art pieces. Their bronze cougar, a work by renowned artist Gwynn 0XUULOO��ORRNHG�VR�oWWLQJ�LQ�WKH�SODFH�LW�OD\V�now that they had it recast and presented the copy to the school.

Obviously, whoever defaced the cougar is but one among us, but this is not the only example of vandalism. This year the admin-istration planted signs all over the quad that read, “Most people clean up after them-selves.” Some students have made a mockery of these signs, crossing out “up after” with markers, or simply throwing them on the ground. Some dislodged the placards on the “senior tables,” writing that “most people use better adhesive.” Laugh all you want, but

there is validity in the somewhat passive-aggressive reproach. After all, “most people clean up after themselves” can mean a vari-ety of things.

The words serve as a reminder to pick up \RXU�WUDVK�RQFH�\RX�oQLVK�\RXU�PHDO��7KH�signs are a mandate not to vandalize school property, something especially pertinent fol-lowing last year’s table drawings in response to the “make your mark” motto. Believe it or not, doing so is a crime. The signs are a plea to respect your environment and, in doing so, respect those who must tend to it.

Overall, the directive is to leave your environment as pristine as you found it if not more so. It’s a fair request. After all, would you scribble on the walls and furni-WXUH�RI�\RXU�KRXVH"�:RXOG�\RX�oQLVK�D�PHDO�and throw the wrappers on your living room pRRU"

Most people clean up after themselves. Most people don’t draw on the generously donated sculpture. Most people appreci-ate their surroundings rather than defacing them. Don’t think you are an exception.

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At Harvard-Westlake, we are given a lot. A $5 million pool here, a multi-million dollar library there. In spite of the things that are given to us, however, students have mistreated our campus to the point of administrational intervention. Where is the respect?

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In 2008, my preteen mind was consumed with hopes of getting my braces off rather than the beginning of the recession. I never thought about how fortunate I was to have health care because P\�SHGLDWULFLDQV�RIoFH�ZDV�VLPSO\�D�URRP�RYHUpRZLQJ�with Sesame Street merchan-dise that my mother dragged me to once a year. 9/11 was a tragedy that marked my oUVW�GD\�RI�NLQGHUJDUWHQ��EXW�I was oblivious to its political VLJQLoFDQFH��

I am more informed now, EXW�ZKHQ�OLVWHQLQJ�WR�WKH�oUVW�Presidential debate, I realized how much I still don’t know. All of my history courses have increased my knowledge of eras past, but I’d never been regularly questioned about current issues until I encoun-WHUHG�P\�oUVW�QHZV�TXL]�LQ�my tenth grade history class. Tested on content from the Los Angeles Times, I did not have a problem remembering the week’s news, but I lacked a deeper understanding of it.

I still don’t fully under-stand how the economy works or what causes it to collapse. I still do not entirely compre-hend the arguments against universal healthcare. Reciting

facts from a newspaper will not further my ability to be a well-informed citizen.

It makes more sense for students to self-educate. Though I know it is very hard, even nearly impossibly, WR�oW�PRUH�ZRUN�LQWR�WKH�$3�history curriculum, students could be assigned a politi-cal issue to read up on each month and instead of tak-ing a quiz they could write a short paragraph analyzing their topic. Students would be well versed in political issues, rather than simply memoriz-ing them.

I am not the only student who seems to be lacking in-formation. In my eighth grade history course, the student sitting next to me exclaimed “America is the best. Why should I learn about anywhere else?” Our British teacher Matthew Cutler responded with a pop geography quiz the following day on every coun-try in the world.

“Afghanistan,” Cutler said, “You should know where it is, considering your country is oJKWLQJ�D�ZDU�ZLWK�LW�y

A chorus of sighs burst out as most of the students failed to correctly label the country. Hustling out of the classroom,

I heard a classmate saying she NQHZ�ZH�ZHUH�oJKWLQJ�D�ZDU�there, but had no idea why. Learning Afghanistan’s loca-tion is a simple task, yet we were not truly aware of major foreign affairs. If we are not up-to-date on these matters it is impossible to formulate opinions.

As I approach voting age ,�oQG�LW�FUXFLDO�WR�EH��informed about political is-sues. In the upcoming election many Harvard-Westlake stu-dents will be eligible to vote. It is important that they are not solely replicating the ideas of parents or friends, but are using their own knowledge to cultivate ideas.

Just because some stu-dents cannot vote does not mean they shouldn’t be informed. Educated minds are not only useful when it comes to voting, but also in day-to-day conversation. I constantly hear people on campus con-versing passionately about their opinions, yet rarely feel FRQoGHQW�HQRXJK�LQ�P\�SROLWL-cal awareness to engage.

When 2016 comes around and I, as well as my class-mates, am able to vote in the election, I hope that we will be as informed as possible.

During this election season, there’s been a lot of discussion about Obamacare, Romneycare, the Affordable Care Act, healthcare and Medicare. And at this point, it is likely you don’t care.

Why should you? Maybe you think Medicare is for old people so it doesn’t matter. Maybe you don’t know the difference between Medicare, Medicaid, and Medical.

But here’s the thing: you have to care. Healthcare reform doesn’t just affect the elderly and the uninsured. Provisions in the Patient Pro-tection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which aims to reduce the number of Ameri-cans without healthcare and lessen health insurance costs, have already changed your health insurance policies.

Right now, you are likely covered under your parents’ health insurance. They might have insurance with a pri-vate company or through

their workplace. Often, your parents will have to pay a certain amount of money per year, a “deductible,” before the insurer will cover the remain-ing costs. When you get a prescription, you pay a small percentage of the cost, a “co-payment,” and the insurance company will pay the rest.

Some of these policies will change. I’m by no means an expert on healthcare, but I’ve read the bill, and this is stuff you need to know. These are details of the healthcare re-form plan taken directly from the PPACA bill that affect you right now and provisions that will change your ability to get health insurance in the future. �z�Since Sept. 23, 2010,

children have been allowed to remain under their par-ents’ insurance coverage until they turn 26, even if they don’t live with them. Insurance companies can no longer drop people if

they become ill. �z�Starting Aug. 1, 2012, all

plans have to cover pre-ventative care, including check-ups and contracep-tion, without charging a deductible.

�z�To pay for the healthcare expansion, the income tax of those in the highest tax bracket will be increased by 3.8 percent starting Jan. 1, 2013.

�z�By Jan. 1, 2014, insurance companies will no longer be able to deny coverage based on sex or pre-exist-ing conditions. This means you are

covered under your parents’ insurance plan until your 26th birthday, so you’ll have dependable healthcare dur-ing college, graduate school, and even an unpaid intern-ship. If you suddenly become sick, your insurance company can’t decide to stop covering you because it costs them. If you, like nearly 50 percent

of non-elderly Americans, according to a 2011 Human Health Services study, have a pre-existing condition (including diabetes, auto-immune illnesses and can-cer), an insurance company cannot refuse to cover you. It also means that the wealthy will pay more taxes to cover the health insurance costs of those who can’t afford to.

Providing comprehensive health insurance for a nation of 315 million people is not an easy task, and I don’t claim this bill solves every problem in the healthcare system, EXW�LQ�P\�PLQG��WKH�EHQHoWV�outweigh the drawbacks. It’s extremely important that in the future, I will be able to get health insurance regardless of my sex or a pre-existing condition. I am glad that I have the option to use my parents’ insurance until I’m 26, because I don’t know if I ZLOO�EH�DEOH�WR�oQG�D�MRE�ZLWK�health insurance immediately

out of college. According to the Cen-

ter for Disease Control and Prevention, 75 percent of our healthcare costs stem from treatment of preventable ill-nesses. I believe access to pre-ventative care will help both individuals’ health and, the overall physical and economic health of the country.

If you don’t know where you stand, think about it. Are we as a nation obligated to help those who can’t provide for themselves? Is access to healthcare a right? Should insurance companies have the right to decline coverage to people with pre-existing conditions because it will cost more to insure them?

This issue should be im-portant too. You don’t have to agree with me, support the PPACA, or even be eligible to vote in November, but you do need to have an opinion. This is an issue that affects you every day of your life.

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I am voting against our current president.

In Iran, I would not be surprised if the government executed me for writing this in a newspaper. In Syria, may-be the punishment would be less severe for openly oppos-ing the President’s reelection bid, like a life imprisonment for myself and my family.

But in the United States, a country that is based on freedom, I can use the 600 words allotted in this column to say whatever I want about how President Barack Obama has not led the country in the direction I think he should have in the last four years. I’m free to say that unemploy-ment and the national debt have all gotten worse under his tenure, while Mitt Rom-QH\V�UHFRUG�RI�o[LQJ�HFRQRP-ic problems at every business he’s worked at is stronger than any other candidate in the history of the Grand Old Party.

But I’m not spending more words going into further de-tail about my faith in Rom-ney’s ability to stimulate job growth better than Obama KDV�KLV�oUVW�WHUP��7KDWV�QRW�why I’m not voting for the President this upcoming elec-tion.

I’m fully aware that my ballot will make zero differ-ence in our country’s future. California will be bright blue this November, whether or not I vote.

The point of voting is not VROHO\�WR�LQpXHQFH�WKH�RXW-come of elections. It’s to cel-ebrate the freedom and rights we all have as Americans and show appreciation for those who gave them to us.

Millions of Americans have been killed throughout history so that citizens like those students over the age of 18 can vote in elections on Nov. 6. Today, thousands of American troops are still deployed around the world

to protect us and our way of life from the radical religious fanatics in the Middle East.

Even if you don’t support the fact that our government has continued to keep a mili-tary presence in parts of the world, that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t appreciate the fact that the people called to duty by our government are out there trying to protect you. Just because you don’t think the effort the military puts towards protecting us is effective or worth the cost does not mean that we should forget the freedom that all of those men and women are risking their lives to protect.

So, on Nov. 6 don’t forget to show the world that you appreciate being an Ameri-can. We’re far from a perfect country, with our economy struggling, our education system below international averages and discrimination still present in some areas of the country.

But we still provide more opportunity than any other country on this planet–that’s something to be proud of. The standard of living we have in the United States should not be taken for granted.

If the ideas of liberty, fair-ness and opportunity mean anything to you, then show it by voting. It takes less time to register online as a Califor-nian voter at registertovote.ca.gov than it did to read this entire column.

So why am I not voting for our President this upcom-ing election? I’m not voting for him because I can act on my beliefs. If you’re a student that turns 18 before election day, then you should make sure you register. Wear an “I Voted!” sticker with pride all day Tuesday. Maybe you’ll cross paths with a veteran later that day, and that stick-er will show him or her that WKH�VDFULoFHV�KH�RU�VKH�PDGH�to our country were worth it.

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Su!ering senioritisdi!erently

Oct. 10, 2012A14 OpiniOn the chrOnicle

I may have an acute case of senioritis. My symptoms, however, vary from the stereo-type of apathy. I’m not kicking back and skipping class. It’s a new strain of the disease. I’m plagued by:

Nostalgia: continual discus-sion of the old middle school campus. Jovial reminiscing about my kvetchy Spectrum column, “What Grinds my Gears.” I marvel at Facebook pictures of eighth grade me, remembering my high voice; I was really a little kid.

Aging: every time I hop in my car to drive off campus for lunch, the freedom shocks me. It’s something of a phenom-enon. I feel older, almost like an adult. And yes, I can see over the steering wheel.

Fraternity: I’ve made an effort not to just hang with my usual entourage. I’ve spoken to people with whom I rarely made eye contact in years past, and the connections are surprisingly strong. You don’t spend six years with a person without at least inadvertently learning about them.

School spirit: I probably won’t say “Go Big Red” if asked “Do you like it?” But I’ve gone to more games this year than the combined total of the last two years. Even though I’ll wear the shirt, I wouldn’t necessarily classify myself as a Fanatic. However I’m more likely to be at a home game than sitting in front of the TV.

Enthusiasm: senior year is UHDOO\�WKH�oUVW�WLPH�ZKHQ�\RX�can choose every aspect of your schedule. I feel truly passionate about each of my classes. That’s unique and always encourag-LQJ�GXULQJ�WKLV�VWUHVVIXO�oUVW�semester of senior year.

So yeah, I do have seniori-tis. But it’s not a bad thing.

When I was 5 years old, I practiced writing the alphabet or sounding out sentences at school, while my brother was already using the sharp scis-sors. I quickly found myself becoming tired of drawing while watching my brother bring home 20 addition and subtraction problems each QLJKW��,P�QRW�VXUH�ZKDW�o-nally spurred me to do what I did next, but it is a decision I would later question for years: I asked my teacher to give me homework.

Actually, begged is proba-bly more accurate. The home-work I was given was simple: draw a stovepipe hat on an ink thumbprint and write a few sentences about our 16th president. I really loved that assignment. I felt like a grown up. I looked around, or rather down, at my classmates, wal-lowing in intellectual medioc-rity as I had just conquered the most arduous assignment

ever. Of course, it was a 4” x 6” piece of paper with just 14 out of 23 words spelled cor-rectly, but looking back on it I oQG�PRUH�PHDQLQJ�WKDQ�WKHUH�may have been originally.

Back then, I was never VDWLVoHG�ZLWK�KRZ�PXFK�,�knew or the boundaries of what I understood. I’m sure if I said any of this to my 5-year-old self even he would call me pretentious, but then again, he had endless free time to think and write down his nonsensical musings; I just get one column each month.

I’ve never exactly lost my LQTXLVLWLYH�QDWXUH��EXW�,�oQG�I have had to exert far more force to stretch my knowl-edge the same amount. I don’t read as much as I used to, I don’t write as much either. It’s understandable that this is a part of growing up, that not every discovery I make at age 16 will wow me like it did when I was 5, and that as I

take on more responsibilities it will be harder to encounter new academic challenges.

I’m also aware, however, that this capacity for discov-ery will only keep decreasing with time, and that I have to take action to enrich my mind as much as I can now. There DUH�D�oQLWH�QXPEHU�RI�\HDUV�that we can learn on our parents’ dime and take classes in topics so supremely inap-plicable to our future careers that we will perhaps never talk about again. To me, these are the topics that make for the fullest education.

This isn’t to say that I don’t believe in traditional classes, but I do believe that even if something won’t be applicable in daily life, there UHPDLQV�D�GHoQLWH�SXUSRVH�LQ�education for education’s sake.

This is why I feel the Kut-ler Center classes are the best things to happen to our school in a long time. Some students

in these classes will apply skills learned here to future endeavors, but the classes also draw students who simply love to learn and want to push the limits of what an already tremendous Harvard-West-lake education can offer.

The new curricula also made me realize the wide breadth of already existing academic electives for willing students to explore fascinat-ing topics most high-schoolers wouldn’t dream of taking.

I don’t plan on being an avant-garde chef, but I plan on taking molecular gas-tronomy nex year. I watch my fair share of Top Chef and wouldn’t mind learning a bit more about making a raspberry gelee. I implore you to indulge in the stimulat-ing classes taught by some of the most interesting people you will know. Take classes that you’ll love instead of for their appearance on your col-

lege app. While I’m certainly guilty of doing the latter, I’m trying hard to tap back into my 5-year-old self and ask him what he wants to learn.

According to scientists, our brain stops developing when we’re 25. I used to be scared of this number, think-ing I could never truly learn anything new after Oct. 21, 2021. Now I see it as a chal-lenge, a race against time to load my brain with knowledge of all subjects I’m passion-ate about. It’s an impossibly daunting task, and one that I will inevitably fail at, but to me this is part of the fun of intellectual pursuit. So to you, universe, I say challenge accepted. To other chasers of LQWHOOHFWXDO�VXSHUpXLW\��,�ZLVK�you good luck. And to you, the Kutler family and everyone else who has facilitated the beginning of a new era of aca-demic exploration at Harvard-Westlake, I say thank you.

“Join this club! It’ll look good on your college appli-cation, and you don’t even need to do anything!” one club president shouted from behind their club table during Activities Fair, the volume of their voice competing with the clamor, candy and chaos of all the other clubs lined up through the quad.

Of everything vying for my attention at the Ac-WLYLWLHV�)DLU�pDVK\�SRVWHUV��baked goods, even Jensen Pak ’14 dressed up as a bowl of noodles for Junior Classical League—this declaration was what ensnared me, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since.

The gimmick worked. The club’s signup sheet ran several pages, and though I’m sure some of those students were truly interested in what that club had to offer, there’s no denying that most of the signups were due to the club president’s college-friendly

advertising. Again, we had fallen into

the trap of examining our lives through the lens of a col-lege application, of participat-ing in extracurricular activi-ties simply because we think they will look good on our apps. I say “we” because I too signed up for this club, though I’ve been a member since last year. I thought I’d broken free of such a prescription.

I’ve learned that dropping extracurriculars I don’t truly enjoy always ends up being a good choice, and often points me towards activities I do care about. When I decided to quit clarinet the day before ninth grade began, dropping any instrumental interest from my college app three years down the road, the space in my schedule allowed me to become a staff member of the Spectrum, which led me to the Chronicle.

Even though I now en-joy what I do outside of my

academic curriculum, I’m still tempted to sign up for clubs OLNH�WKH�XQLGHQWLoHG�RQH�DERYH�and include them in a col-lege application as if that will increase their value—even if they don’t belong there.

Just a few days before the Activities Fair, I had remarked, only semi-jokingly, “Long-distance relationships should count as an extracur-ricular.” My girlfriend prob-ably didn’t appreciate her reduction to another mean-ingless detail on my future college app, but I couldn’t take the remark back.

Once again I was look-ing through that lens, think-ing about my life not on its own terms but on how every last piece of it could be taken apart to prove my character and desirability to a college.

Leading our lives and plot-ting our extracurriculars for maximum appeal to colleges isn’t what they want from us. More importantly, it’s not

what we should want from ourselves.

Quit the club that looks good on a college application still two years away. Take off the college app glasses that distort your vision. Consider stopping by the club that intrigued you but seemed to have no cachet whatsoever. If it truly interests you, that is cachet. Or, let’s go back to that club, the one from the beginning, the one that was advertised to you as looking great on your college applica-tion. So maybe you signed up for it for that reason, and maybe it really will raise the eyebrows of an admissions RIoFHU�RU�WZR��7KDWV�QRW�WKH�right reason to attend the FOXEV�oUVW�PHHWLQJ��EXW�WU\�LW�out anyway. Maybe you’ll end up liking it not for its col-lege value but for its intrinsic value. And when you list it on your college application, how good it looks there won’t even cross your mind.

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letter

Editors:

Upper School Back-to-School Day was costly for me this year.

I arrived about 8 a.m. and parked my car in my assigned faculty spot between Chalmers and Weiler. Nobody was parked on either side of me yet.

When I left, shortly after noon, most people had left, and there was nobody parked on either side of me.

%XW�WKHUH�ZDV�D�VLJQLoFDQW�dent on the fender of my car, on the driver’s side, between the door and the front. Really no way I could have caused that dent myself, unless I could drive sideways.

It is going to cost $580 to repair, and I will need to rent a car for three or four days to get back and forth to school.

What probably happened was that someone drove past that empty space, went back to the faculty lot, circled, and then tried to get into the rather nar-row empty slot, and accidentally bumped my fender. Or maybe they came straight from Coldwater and tried to back in and accidentally hit my

fender.It probably didn’t make a

big crunching noise. Perhaps the driver didn’t even know that they had damaged my car. At least, that’s what I’d like to hope. Because it is dis-maying to think that someone in our community would hit another car, and not even leave a note.

Kathy NeumeyerHead of Upper School

Communications

Kathy Neumeyernathanson’s

Take ownershipquadtalk

“Why do the signs say most instead of all people? If you use all, then more people will actually respect it.”

—Jack Flaherty ’14

“They are not e!ective. I actually "nd the urge to leave my trash just because of that sign.”

—Alan Yousefzadeh ’15

“I feel like the signs have no reaction at all from anyone.”

—Jessica Johnston ’14

!e Chronicle asked:“Do you think the new ‘Most people clean up after themselves, ’ signs are e!ective?“

330 students weighed in on the Chronicle poll

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“It is actually extremely ine!ective. I just notice that there is more trash now that these signs have been put up.”

—Arielle Win"eld ’13

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Have you ever felt guilty for eating a submarine sand-wich? I have.

It happened in Beijing, where I am spending my junior year of high school at School Year Abroad, at a Subway in between a café and a McDonalds. If only the café was a Starbucks and the Subway sold its sandwiches for $5 instead of 30 yuan, I would have practically been in America.

The sandwich had mayo, bacon, pickles and American cheese–toasted, and it was the longest footlong I’ve ever eaten.

It was 12 inches of wheat bread with an additional three feet of shame, or four feet counting the added em-barrassment from the sound of Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” playing in the background.

I came to China to stop being an American for a ZKLOH�DQG�LQVWHDG�oQG�RXW�how people in other parts of the world live, and yet here I was with two other S.Y.A. students, one from Texas and the other from Montana, sit-ting in a Connecticut-based

fast food restaurant with sepia maps of New York City plastered all over the walls. This was not the kind of cul-tural exchange I expected.

Things only got more western from there when a man walked in and, in stereotypical, the-louder-and-slower-I-repeat-myself-the-more-you-will-understand-me American tourist English, said “I’ll have the sub of the day,” to the young Chinese woman behind the counter, who clearly didn’t understand a word he was saying.

The man was getting on my nerves, so I decided to step in and try to say “sub of the day” in Chinese. It didn’t work, but, eventually the man’s sandwich conundrum was resolved, but my issues ZHUH�RQO\�DPSOLoHG�

The man decided that because I was an American, and I tried to help him speak to the sandwich artists who, he told me, usually speak English, we were now friends, and so he decided to get to know me better.

I found out that he was from Los Angeles and that he

was in Beijing as an English tutor, which didn’t make any sense to me since he couldn’t speak a lick of Chinese.

I told him that I was also from Los Angeles and that I went to Harvard-Westlake. He looked confused and told me he’d never heard of the school although he lived in the Van Nuys area.

After that, I dismissed him as an idiot as he had probably done a long time ago to the poor Chinese women who he most likely thought were too dumb to understand his order.

When the man left, I didn’t sigh, but I felt relieved. Not just the man but the entire Subway experience was too much of a culture shock. I TXLFNO\�oQLVKHG�P\�VDQGZLFK��it wasn’t that good, and I left.

At home, I told my host mother that my friends and I had only gotten a snack, and, the three of us, baba, mama, and I took out our chopsticks and noisily slurped up our homemade noodles, and I was happy because I knew that was the way it was supposed to be.

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Bennett Victor ’14 had a similar expe-rience this summer, as he sat sweating in an un-airconditioned cockpit with the swel-tering June sun beat-ing down on his skin. The only relief came as he pushed his throttle down and the wind whistled through WKH�ZLQGRZ�RI�KLV�oYH�passenger aircraft. On that day, Victor was the only RFFXSDQW�IRU�WKH�oUVW�WLPH�

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k6RPHWLPHV�ZH�GR�SUDFWLFH�more mundane maneuvers such as landings, touch and goes, [and] slips,” Victor said.

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Juniors take !rst solo "ights at 10,000 feet

By MaGGie Bunzel

Tate Castro ’13 sat at her kitchen table one summer afternoon, pen in hand, pad of paper at the ready. She was brainstorming, admittedly a little early, for a very big gift that she’d been waiting for a long time – her gradua-tion present.

k:RXOG� \RX� OLNH� WR� JR� WR�Europe?” her mom asked her, k2U�PD\EH�\RX�ZDQW�WR�WDNH�D�cruise somewhere?”

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mother eventually agreed and Castro couldn’t have been hap-pier.

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Sitting in an airplane cock-pit with his hands gripping the controllers, Ross O’Shea ’14 opens the throttle as he races GRZQ� WKH� &DPDULOOR� $LUSRUW�runway and lifts into the air.

O’Shea has repeated this scene time after time in his more than 90 hours behind the controls of an aircraft over the past two years. O’Shea has EHHQ� GUDZQ� WR� p\LQJ� VLQFH� D�young age. His grandfather, who worked in the aviation industry, recounted tales of KLV� p\LQJ� H[SHULHQFHV� WR� D�young O’Shea, and he has been KRRNHG�RQ�p\LQJ�HYHU�VLQFH��

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k,WV� WKH� JUHDWHVW�feeling in the world to look around the plane and look outside the window and realize that I am in control,” O’Shea said.

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air, you will never want to come down.” O’Shea said those words have resonated with him, and he does not plan to come down any time soon.

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By Rachel SchwaRtz

Waiting alone in a local Starbucks, Andrew Meepos ’13 sips a coffee as he waits to meet a complete stranger. Strewn across the table in front of him are concert tick-ets that he has sold over the internet. Meepos uses Craig-slist or Stubhub to re-sell tickets to concerts. He spends a couple of hours each day switching between music sites on his laptop and researching what events are going on in Los Angeles.

He gets update emails from every major concert venue in the area and from promoters such as Golden Boy Promo-tions and Insomniac Promo-tions, which sometimes even gives him access to presales.

He has to be constantly aware because concerts sell out quickly and the ones that sell out are also the ones that DOORZ�KLP�WR�PDNH�D�SURoW��

“Nobody really likes the word scalping,” Meepos said. “It has a bit of a negative con-notation. I prefer ticket re-selling.”

According to seatgeek.com, “It is illegal to sell tickets that were bought for the purpose of resale for more than face val-ue on the grounds of the event venue without the written permission of the event spon-sor,” but other than that, re-selling tickets at an elevated price is completely legal.

Meepos began his business in July 2011 when he saw some tickets to the Lollapalooza mu-sic festival up for giveaway in a trivia competition. Once he

oJXUHG�RXW�WKDW�WKH�TXHVWLRQV�were the same every time and just rearranged themselves, he took the quiz again and again, made sure he was the highest scorer in the world and subse-quently won the competition two days in a row. He won four free tickets that he sold for $1,200.

“Andrew has always liked money and what money can do for you so he was brainstorm-ing a way to make money in an area he loves,” his un-cle, Accoun-tant Robert Meepos said. “He realized that he had to be able to predict the market. He’s been right about 95 percent of the time. He’s using his acumen and his understand-ing of the music business and the ticket business to make money. He’s already paid back what he borrowed from his dad to get started. He makes SURoW�y

Meepos has never had to sell for less than face value after what he described as “a bit of a disaster,” buying Snoop Dogg tickets when ev-ery rap fan in LA was at the Staples Center seeing Jay-Z and Kanye West.

Meepos prefers to use Craigslist rather than Stub-hub because Stubhub has a 15 percent transaction fee.

“All Craigslist does is let people communicate with each other,” Meepos said. “It lets me meet the person locally and get cash for it. It lets them get the ticket at a lower price and lets me make more money so it’s kind of a win-win.”

With an iPhone at his ear and his hands on a keyboard, Meepos tries to buy tickets as soon as they are available. If

they are sell-ing out he will buy a pair both digitally and over the phone.

He imme-diately posts the tickets on Stubhub and on Craigslist, the loweston Stubhub.

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said his parents were nervous he might meet a “Craigslist killer,” rather than a person trying to buy some tickets, he said they don’t worry any-more.

“I found a good system which is basically meeting someone inside a Starbucks,” Meepos said. “There’s safety since there are lots of people and my car is parked nearby so I never need to walk through dark alleys.”

Previous client Nancy Mares said that she has main-tained a client relationship with Meepos and would prob-ably purchase directly from him in the future.

“Upon meeting Andrew at

work, I was shocked at how young he is,” Mares said. “The transaction was smooth and simple. We exchanged my cash for his print out tickets and about an hour later he sent me an email as promised.”

Meepos often buys tickets for himself as well as for re-sale and admits that for the most part his musical taste dictates the concerts he buys for. He attended around 23 concerts this summer and said that when he buys tickets for KLV�IULHQGV�LWV�QRW�IRU�SURoW��

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He mostly sells for indie-rock concerts saying it is a good market because demand is high and prices are relative-ly low depending, on the venue and the band.

He has been branching out to more expensive tickets for mainstream bands such as Coldplay and Red Hot Chili Peppers, which reap a greater SURoW�EXW�DUH�D�ULVNLHU�LQYHVW-ment.

He made around $400 on recent Coldplay sales.

Meepos has a personal checking account where he SXWV�DOO�RI�KLV�SURoWV�DOWKRXJK�most of it is tied up in buying more tickets. He has made over $5,000., he has decided to look into stocks since interest rates are so low right now.

“It is very possible to come up with an idea when you are young and then make it into a multi-million dollar company,” Robert Meepos said.

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By Lauren SiegeL

Examining and analyzing the popular drama, the Break-ing Down “Breaking Bad” club is among the new clubs on campus this year.

Oliver Goodman-Waters ’14 founded the club with Al-exander Thal ’14 and Jack *ROGoVKHU� �� DV� IHOORZ� FOXE�presidents and English Teach-er Isaac Laskin as their fac-

ulty sponsor.The club is based on the

television show “Break-ing Bad” about a high school chemistry teacher who turns to producing crystal meth in order to provide for his fam-ily after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Goodman-Waters and the rest of the club welcome both KDUGFRUH� IDQV� DQG� oUVW� WLPH�viewers alike. Twenty Five

VWXGHQWV� DWWHQGHG� WKHLU� oUVW�meeting.

The club will generally meet on Mondays during break, but the leaders plan on inviting members to occa-sionally meet on weekends to watch marathons of certain episodes at school.

%HFDXVH� WKH� VKRZV� oQDO�season will not air until sum-mer 2013, the club will watch all previous seasons of the

show on DVD and complete the series thus far.

Members will be assigned to watch an episode weekly, which they will then discuss and analyze when they con-vene at school on Mondays.

Goodman-Waters, Thal, DQG� *ROGoVKHU� DOO� EHJDQ�watching the show last spring.

“I’m completely obsessed with it,” Thal said. “How could I not be [part of the club]?”

By enya Huang

The Country Gentlefolk Club, reestablished this year, will bring nature walks to Harvard-Westlake.

For those who love the out-doors or just want to relax, the Country Gentlefolk Club is planning a hike in Will Rogers 3DUN� LQ� WKH� 3DFLoF� 3DOLVDGHV��club adviser and math teacher Catherine Campbell said.

With the slogan “Grillin’ and Chillin,’” the group made its comeback this year with more than 150 students who signed up, she said.

The club was started in 2010 by Patrick Edwards ’11, Mitchell Oei ’11 and Brandon Zeiden ‘11, who enjoyed going out in nature to have fun and relieve stress.

After the initial leaders graduated, the club experi-enced a lull in 2011 before being revived by club leader Matthew Zeiden ’13, who wanted to continue the tradi-tion, Campbell said. Zeiden’s brother was an original found-er of the newly revived club.

The group “aims to recon-nect the Harvard-Westlake community with nature, both on and off campus,” Zeiden said.

The club meets in Rugby on Mondays.

By Carrie DaviDSon

The Harvard Westlake Outreach Performance Club, started by Tigist Menkir ’14, will put on plays for the Chil-dren’s Hospital and a nursing home this year.

HWOP (prou-nounced “hope”), currently plans on performing a short-er version of “Ara-bian Nights” as one of their two per-formances, as well as a stage reading of “A Happy Journey” by Thornton Wilder.

Menkir said that the plays “will mostly be happy, uplifting ones so that we can lift their spirits.”

“I thought of the idea in the middle of last year but it was too late [to start a new club] so I talk-ed to [performing arts teacher Chris Moore] and he said that he would help me start the club,” Menkir said.

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In addition to the play that the club will perform for the Children’s Hospital and a nursing home, “we will also

have individual per-formers from the Harvard-Westlake community, such as singers or musi-cians,” Menkir said.

Sanah Ebrahim ’14 is one of the mem-bers of the new club, who says she was ini-tially drawn to their table at activities fair because her friends

were running the club.“When I heard what they

were doing I thought it was re-ally cool so I decided to join,” Ebrahim said. “I want to sing

at their perfor-mances since I don’t really act.”

Ebrahim said that she is excited about their per-formances because “the idea of being able to sing for the kids or seniors and make them smile is really nice because it will hopefully give

them something to look for-ward to.”

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Don’t worry, be happy, wear stickersBy Lauren SiegeL

Maddie Lear ’13 and Mari-el Brunman ’13 started the Happiness Club to brighten students’ days through fun and unique events.

“Our purpose is to do ran-dom, awesome things that make people around campus happy,” Lear said.

Lear came up with the idea during a college tour last spring, where she was inspired by Northwestern University’s happiness club.

“The original happiness club comes from Northwest-ern, but Maddie and I are put-ting our own spin on things,” Brunman said.

Lear and Brunman are already planning a wide ar-ray of events, such as Bubble Day, where students can blow bubbles in the quad, and Mus-tache Mondays, where they will pass out fake mustaches to the entire campus.

“Everyone is so stressed out all the time,” Lear said. “Why not have a good time while we can?”

The club has around 100 members and counting, how-ever they hope to include the entire student body and fac-ulty.

“[Our events] are for the entire community,” Brunman said. “In some ways, anyone that chooses to partake in

Happiness Club shenanigans will be a member.”

Lear and Brunman aim to “make everyone smile just a bit, so hopefully they can pro-ceed with their day in higher spirits,” Brunman said.

With math teacher Kan-waljit Kochar as their faculty sponsor and Dean Peter Sil-berman as their team cap-tain, the club will meet during break a few times throughout the year to brainstorm events.

Brunman said their mis-sion is “to increase the happi-ness and decrease the tension around school.”

“We can all feel like kids for a while and just have a good time,” Lear said.

‘Crank’ up the volume

A record number of clubs have submitted charters this year. Catching up on television series, planning nature walks, doing good works or just being happy are possible respites from homework during activities periods.

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By Noa Yadidi

Self-described best friends since seventh grade, Conor Cook ’13 and Maddie Lear ’13 were separated for a full school year when Cook at-tended School Year Abroad in Spain last year.

Upon reuniting in June, they decided to start a project together.

Cook was the editor-in-chief of the literary magazine at his school in Spain, while Lear was on Harvard-West-lake’s art and literary maga-zine, “Stonecutters.”

Lear said she found it odd that Stonecutters didn’t have an online version.

The two created a website called “Before the Letter,” an art and literary website by which high school and col-lege students can display their RZQ�SKRWRJUDSK\��PXVLF��oOP��painting, drawing and writing.

“The idea is that kids are creating art all the time and we wanted to make something that could showcase art as of-ten as it’s created,” Lear said.

The two enlisted Josh Sha-piro ’14 to code the website.

“We reached out to anyone who could help us make our vi-sion into a reality,” Cook said.

The three worked through-out the summer to launch the website on Sept. 4.

“[Shapiro] is the best,” Lear said. “We were just try-LQJ�WR�oJXUH�LW�DOO�RXW�EHFDXVH�we knew nothing about web-sites.”

Lear emphasized that posts are coming directly from the artists themselves, without any reblogging or reposting.

“Everything is with the artist’s permission and gener-ally if you click on the name of the artists, you can be for-warded to their contact in-formation in case you want to commission them, or work with them, or write them a letter to tell them you like their stuff,” Lear said.

So far, Lear and Cook have received submissions for “Be-fore the Letter” from Har-vard-Westlake students, as well as students who live or attend college in New York,

Texas, Michigan and Canada. Artists submit their work

through the website, or can send an email to [email protected]

Lear and Cook read through the submissions and decide when to post each piece to vary the content on the website.

“I think we’re both really committed to it and inspired by a lot of the pieces,” Cook said. “We’re both really enjoy-ing the process.”

Lear and Cook publicized their website through Face-book and word of mouth, with the help of friends they have made at summer camps and school.

Both photographers them-selves, Lear and Cook are each currently doing independent studies revolving around pho-tography this year.

Lear’s independent study is DERXW� GDQFH� LQ� oOP�DQG�SKR-tography while Cook’s is on SODWLQXP� DQG� SDOODGLXP� oOP�printing.

“Cook emailed me and told me about the new website,” Rebecca Moretti ’13 said. “I think that in this increasingly digitalized world it is impor-tant for people to still have a means of sharing their art, DQG�WKH�,QWHUQHW�LV�DQ�HIoFLHQW�way to do that.”

Their goal for the website is to act as a middleman for an artist to have his or her own work expanded, Lear said.

Sarah Shelby ’13, another Before the Letter contribu-tor, said, “I think Before the Letter is a fantastic idea. It is not only inspiring because it was created by high school students, but also because it showcases the talent of young artists that can make amazing and unbelievable works of cre-ativity.”

Lear and Cook plan to con-tinue the site, even as they go off to college next year.

“It’s nice because I think as we both go off to college, and we might not be at the same school,” Cook said. “It would be a nice way for us to keep in touch and work on something that we’re both really, really passionate about.”

By LucY PutNam

+LV� oQJHUV� p\� DFURVV� WKH�keyboard. With each click a character appears on the screen. Josh Shapiro ’14 is in his own world, creating a new website.

Shapiro started coding this past summer when interning for his brother-in-law’s web design and development com-pany, Spiegel Design Group.

“I am so privileged to have learned from some of the best,” Shapiro said. “SDG does big websites for companies and people like Brandy Melville, Drybar and Frank Ocean.”

While working at SDG, Shapiro taught himself how to

code. His brother in law and boss

at SDG, Ariel Spiegel said, “Josh worked hard and learned a lot very quickly. It was a different learning experience because I pushed him to solve prob-lems on his own and this turned out to be the best learning technique for him.”

After Shapiro became familiar with how to code, he and his older sister Julia Spiegel came up the idea of creating a website WR�KHOS�SUHJQDQW�ZRPHQ�oJXUH�out what to eat. Spiegel, who

had been pregnant the year before, had struggled with deciphering between which food she should and shouldn’t

have been eating. After four weeks of hard work, the two created “Can Mommy Eat,” a search bar for pregnant women to explore the risks and EHQHoWV� RI� FHUWDLQ�foods.

After “Can Mom-my Eat,” Shapiro started coding on his own time. He was

hired by Maddie Lear ’13 and Conor Cook ’13 to design a website for their new online art and literary magazine,

“Before the Letter.” Over the course of three

meetings, Lear and Cook re-layed their vision of their website while Shapiro, using what he learned earlier in the summer, provided insight as to what was actually possible.

“The hardest part of the process was transforming the many ideas in their heads into a practical, interactive, aesthetically pleasing website that everyone loved,” Shapiro said.

$IWHU�oQDOL]LQJ�WKH�GHVLJQ��it took a week to code. “Coding LV�GLIoFXOW�EHFDXVH�HYHU\�OLWWOH�mistake counts, and you have WR� JR� EDFN� ODWHU� WR� o[� LW�y�Shapiro said.

The website was up and ready for use the night before school began on Sept. 3.

“The website turned out better than we had imagined,” Cook said. “Josh was so helpful and resourceful. Web design is very complicated, but Josh helped us understand each step of the process. I don’t know what we would have done without him.”

Shapiro said, “I plan on coding as a hobby and hope-fully will be able to do more websites during the year in computer programming.”

“The best part about cod-LQJ�LV�WKH�oQDO�SURGXFW�EHFDXVH�its always worth the effort,” Shapiro said.

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SNAPSHOTS: Students’ original work that has been submitted to the online literary and arts magazine, beforetheletter.com, includes these photographs by, clockwise from the top, Ashley Volpert ’14, Xenia von Viragh ’15, Kallista Kusumanegara ’13, Conor Cook ’13 and Maddie Lear ’13.

Web designer Josh Shapiro ’14 has coded multiple websites for fellow students and as part of a summer internship.

Maddie Lear ’13, Conor Cook ’13 and Josh Shapiro ’14 teamed up this summer to create a website for artists to showcase their work without booking a gallery. Bloggers

242 students and 48 faculty weighed in on the Chronicle poll over Survey Monkey this past weekend, expressing their preferences for the Nov. 6 election.

By Rachel SchwaRtz

On Nov. 6, many seniors will face a blank ballot alone IRU� WKH�oUVW� WLPH��7KH�FKRLFH�between presidential candi-dates is not the only decision. Students will face a variety of California propositions. Should they listen to their SDUHQWV"� 7KH� QHZV"� &DP-SDLJQ�DGV"�'HEDWHV"�7KH�pRRG�of sources, some more biased than others, can seem over-whelming rather than useful.

American history teacher Drew Maddock has advice for making decisions with the complicating proliferation of opinionated and impartial sources from the internet.

“Read, think and pay at-tention,” Maddock advises. “I think you just have to avoid campaign ads.”

He suggests reading local newspaper articles editori-als and considering multiple sources and points of view. He also pointed to an “easy way out,” saying that students could lay out the voting rec-ommendations from a party pamphlet of their choice and those made by the Los Ange-OHV�7LPHV�� DQG� WKHQ� FRPSDUH�and sweep across to pick out what aligns with their views.

Although he knows how he ZLOO�FDVW�KLV�oUVW�YRWH�IRU�SUHV-ident, Raymond Schorr ’13 ad-mits he is not very informed about all the propositions on the Californian ballot.

He plans a different ap-proach than Maddock sug-gests, saying: “I’m going to talk to someone who is re-ally knowledgeable and shares the same beliefs as me,” said Schorr. “I’m too lazy to actu-ally read through all of it.”

Kacey Wilson ’13 shared similar sentiments.

“Obviously I’m going to vote for Obama,” Wilson said. “I don’t know if it’s just be-cause I’m African-American, but Obama is just a lot more relatable, I never feel like ‘good point, Mitt.’ I just agree more with Obama’s policies and how he has run the country so far.”

While she seemed sure about her views on who should oOO�WKH�RYDO�RIoFH��VKH�SODQV�RQ�following her mother’s advice about propositions.

“I trust her because — I don’t know — she’s my moth-er,” Wilson said. “I’m going to do my own research as well.”

For some, however, the question is not how to stay informed. Rather, it’s how to stay calm.

Josh Lappen ’12 turns 18 the day after the election, on Nov. 7, a disappointing coin-cidence considering Lappen’s avid interest in politics.

“It’s a frustrating circum-stance but they have to have a cutoff,” Lappen said.

Maddock, who has always voted, follows in a similar vein, as he still regrets turning 18 before 1971 when the 26th Amendment was passed and

the voting age was lowered to 18.

“I lost out on at least one presidential election and it would have made a difference,” Maddock said. “I’m sure of it!”

Seana Moon-White ’12 may look back with the same sort of regret as she will likely not be able to vote for many years. She is ineligible to vote because she is not a citizen.However, she still feels that voting is not the only driving factor to stay informed.

“I’d like to have a say in the country I’m living in. Hopeful-ly one day I’ll be able to vote,” Moon-White said.

Not everyone feels this same sense of responsibility. Nicole Green ’12 also will miss WKH�FXWRII�EXW�oQGV�KHU�LQDELO-ity to act discouraging.

“I am interested in poli-tics but since I cannot vote it seems like kind of a waste of time to follow all of the politics and speeches and de-bates.” Green said.

Still, there are those who, despite missing the date by a large margin, seek to stay informed, in both scope and depth.

7R�FRPSHQVDWH�IRU�QRW�EH-ing able to vote, Sammy Ly-ons ’12 is trying to combat the apathy he senses among the student body.

“Most people that aren’t informed only care about the presidential election and since we are in California it can feel like your role doesn’t re-DOO\�PDWWHU�y�/\RQV�VDLG��k7KLV�is still an important election. 7KHUH�DUH�RWKHU�LVVXHV�RQ�WKH�ballot. “

American history teacher David Waterhouse said that Proposition 30 is the one to watch out for in the upcoming election.

“Californians voted for Prop 13 back in the ‘70s and didn’t think of the repercus-sions,” Waterhouse said.

7KH� �� SURSRVLWLRQ� IUR]H�property taxes but resulted in the decline of California’s once-thriving public school system. Now, Waterhouse said, passing Proposition 30 is vital. It raises sales tax and income tax for high-income brackets and will use these revenues to prevent $6 billion in cuts to public schools.

Waterhouse warns, though, to be careful not to skip 30 in favor of Proposition 38, which also proposes tax increases and aid to public schools with a more VSHFLoF� GLVWULEXWLRQ� SODQ�� 3URS�30 is Governor Jerry Brown’s bill and if constituents vote yes on only one of the measures the vote could split and neither would succeed and cause irrepa-rable damage to public schools, Waterhouse said.

When he can vote, Lappen intends to follow the news and research the necessary and rel-evant issues in order to make an informed vote.

“Whether I can vote or not, I still have a responsibility to re-main informed about the future and society and to remain a part of civic culture,” Lappen said.

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THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE

75% of respondents said they watched the debate

89% of respondents said the debate did not change their opinion

15% of respondents said they thought it was a tie

12% of respondents said they thought Obama won

73% of respondents said they thought Romney won

242 students and 48 faculty weighed in on the Chronicle poll over Survey Monkey this past weekend, expressing their preferences for the Nov. 6 election.

242 students voted for their three most importent issues. Here are the results:

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Students sign up for AP U.S. Government because they want to learn how America’s democracy works. 7KH�FODVV�LV�IRU�WKRVH�ZKR�DUH�interested in the formation of our constitution, separation of powers, civil rights, feder-alism and the foundation of American government. Ju-niors taking the U.S. history course are introduced to these topics that they will later cov-er in depth.

Students in both classes, however, share a common fo-FXV�� 7KLV� \HDUV� SUHVLGHQWLDO�election. Both classes have been assigned a project in which they track the election WKURXJK�WKH�H\HV�RI�D�VSHFLoF�swing state such as Florida, Ohio or Michigan.

Although the details of each project differ slightly, both revolve around research-ing a swing state and making a prediction about whether it will go red or blue on Election Day.

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presidential election, students ZLOO� IROORZ� D� VSHFLoF� VWDWHV�current events relating to the election and formulate a reasoned prediction about whether their state will vote for President Barak Obama or Governor Mitt Romney, turn-ing in a paper in November.

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7KH� (OHFWRUDO� &ROOHJH�was actually part of the inspiration for starting the election project in the regular U.S. history classes.

In 2000, when President George Bush won the elec-toral vote but lost the popu-lar vote to Democrat Al Gore, “we realized that we should do something to illustrate the importance of the electoral vote,” U.S. history teacher Nini Halkett said.

Starting in 2004, U.S. his-tory classes began assigning projects to focus on whichever election was taking place that year.

“We wanted to not only stimulate students’ interest in elections but also familiar-

ize them with issues that have divided Americans in the past and why Americans chose different political parties,” Halkett said.

Students in the U.S. histo-ry course are assigned a swing state that they research, fol-low and make a prediction about, just like in the AP U.S. Government class.

Each week, they turn in links to articles about current events in their state regard-ing the election along with a couple sentences summariz-ing the main points of the ar-ticle.

On Election Day, each student will present their re-search and explain why they believe their state will vote one way or another.

“I had one student say to me, ‘I don’t know anything about politics!’” Halkett said. “But that’s the point: to learn about politics and encourage you to take an active role in politics and American gov-ernment.”

“Eventually you guys are all going to be voters, and it’s important to be informed about what each party stands for so that when you go to vote, you know what you’re voting for,” Halkett said.

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34%

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18.9% of student respondents feel informed

PROPOSITIONS ON THE CALIFORNIA BALLOT

81.1% of students respondents don’t feel informed

THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE

75% of respondents said they watched the debate

89% of respondents said the debate did not change their opinion

Prop 30: Raises California’s sales tax 3.45% over current law and increases income taxes for higher income families.Prop 31: Establishes a new two-year budget system that places emphasis on performance goals and reviews of all state programs.Prop 32: Bans both corporate and union contributions to state and local candidates, and would ban contribu-tions by government contractors to the politicians who can award them contracts.Prop 33: Allows insurers to o!er discounts, known as “persistency discounts,” to new customers who can prove they are not liabilities. Prop 34: Repeals the death penalty as a possible punishment and grants a sizeable amount of money to law enforcement agencies.Prop 35: Increase punishment for human tra"ckers, sex o!enders, and increases law enforcement budget for these areas.Prop 36: Revises the “Three Strikes Law” to make it slightly more lenient and impose a life sentence only when the felony is “violent.”Prop 37: Imposes more stringent laws on natural foods and raises health standards, requiring genetically altered food to be labeled as such.Prop 38: Increases state income tax rates for most Californians, resulting in increased revenues to the state of about $10 billion a yearProp 39: Applies more strict taxation guidelines to out-of state businesses, making them base taxes o! of California sales.Prop 40: Permits a recent California state senate redistricting measure. If rejected, California Supreme Court will redistrict.

INFOGRAPHIC BY JACK GOLDFISHERSOURCE: VOTER-GUIDE.SOS.CA.GOV/PROPOSITIONS

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highstakes Oct. 10, 2012B8 Features the chrOnicle

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Courtney* commits to Williams Caitie Bennell ’13 has committed to Williams College. The Chronicle will follow another athlete through his college recruitment process.

Specialized education at universities in the United Kingdom draws applications.

Caitie Bennell ’13

nathanson’s

Jonathan Loewenberg ’13

nathanson’s

Carla Sneider ’13

nathanson’s

“The idea of being somewhere other than the U.S. for three years is appealing. I would get the opportunity to experience a di!erent culture and political environment”

"Jonathan Loewenberg ’13

Photo III explores rock n’ roll through art

By ReBecca Katz

From new sophomores un-familiar with improvisation, to experienced seniors, 50 people danced, yelled, and acted at the Scene Mon-keys worksop Oct. 5. Two more work-shops were sched-uled for Oct. 9 and today.

Performing arts teacher Michelle Spears led the Scene Monkeys’ workshop along with experienced improv i sat i ona l actors and comedians.

The workshops teach actors how to portray and harness their improvisational skills. By observing current Scene Monkeys, new-comers learn how to play improvisational games and be a team player.

“You have to make it a group effort,” Scene Monkey Nick Healy said. “You have to listen to what the other per-

son is saying, and you have to be with them at all times. You can’t be in your own mind doing your own thing. It’s so much fun, and it’s always hi-larious. There’s very little

pressure. It’s not like a cutthroat musical audition. It’s very laid back.”

The workshops are from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Spears warmed the students up with games, and then they went into role-playing and character enact-ment.

Alan Yousefzadeh ’15, who had never

tried improvisation before, had an interest in Scene Monkeys and attended the workshop.

“It was a lot of fun. There’s really nothing to be nervous about,” Yousefzadeh said.

Yousefzadeh aims to audition for Scene Monkeys for this school year. Auditions for the Scene Monkeys troupe will take place at the end of the month.

By MoRganne RaMsey

Students in Sculpture II and their instructor, art teacher Dylan Palmer, were scheduled to view the limited-time exhibition “Ken Price Sculpture: a Retrospective,” on Oct. 9.

The exhibition includes some of contemporary LA art-ist Ken Price’s sculptures such as “L. Red” and “Zizi.”

“The simple-looking forms that he creates are very unique and I’m excited to see it up close and in person,” Sculpture II student Liza Woythaler ’14

said. The exhibition was de-

signed by the world renowned architect Frank Gehry, who also designed the Walt Dis-ney Concert Hall in Down-town Los Angeles. In addition to Ken Price’s work, the stu-dents explore the rest of the LACMA’s contemporary art collection, seeing the work of artists such as Richard Serra and Chris Burden.

“The LACMA has a great collection of contemporary art,” Palmer said.

The exhibit runs from Sept. 16 through Jan. 6.

By eojin choi

As visual arts teacher Kevin O’Malley slowly walked through the “Who Shot Rock and Roll” photography exhibit at the Annen-berg Space for Photography, one image immediately captured his attent ion . I t was Pennie Smith’s black and white photograph of bass guitarist Paul Simonon smashing his Fender Pre-cision Bass against the stage dur-ing the “Clash Take the Fifth” US tour on Sept. 21, 1979, shot on O’Malley’s birthday when he had just started teaching at the West-lake School for Girls.

Q Magazine named O’Malley’s favorite photograph the best rock and roll photo of all time.

“As a 20th century student, it was like a walk down mem-ory lane for me,” O’Malley

said. “Or as the Rolling Stones would say, ‘It’s been a lonely night at the Memo-ry Motel.’”

O’Malley and his seven students from Photography III visited the exhibit dur-ing their class trip on Oct. 3. O’Malley noticed that the crowd was mainly stu-dents or baby

boomers.“I had a lot of fun at the

trip and I thought it was a nice break from school,” Mad-die Lear ’13 said. “ I especially

ORYHG�D�oOP�WKDW�WKH\�VKRZHG�about a musician, because I thought it was put together really well.”

The trip was organized to help the students connect as a class and to help them get inspiration for their new proj-ect, taking photos of student musicians on stage and in the studio. These photographs will be displayed in the upcoming exhibition, “Musicians in per-formance.”

O’Malley said that they are trying to arrange for the mu-sicians in the photographs to perform during the opening.

k7KLV�WULS�GHoQLWHO\�KHOSHG�me realize that there is so much to do with our project,” Seana Moon-White ’13 said. “There are so many moments when an artist is on stage that a photographer can capture.”

The trip ended after the class went to Century City to see ceramics teacher John Luebtow’s fountain “Venus Vitae,” featured in O’Malley’s documentary.

By taRa stone

7KH�oUVW�VKRZ�LQ�WKH�)HOG-man-Horn Gallery featured a “mixed bag” of photogra-phy and paintings, many cre-ated during the summer. The show opened on Sept. 14 and was the backdrop for the Alumni R e c e p t i o n , Faculty Ap-p r e c i a t i o n L u n c h e o n , a few pre-s e n t a t i o n s and classes for Back-to-School Day, a l l o w i n g parents and teachers to see student artwork, as well.

“It’s a real mixed bag with this show,” photography teach-er Kevin O’Malley said.

The artworks on display are the creations of senior students under teachers Mari-anne Hall, Arthur Tobias and Kevin O’Malley.

Hall’s students’ art is work WKDW�ZDV�oQLVKHG�DW�WKH�HQG�RI�last year but never received an

opportunity to be shown. The art being displayed by Tobias’ senior students were recently oQLVKHG�LQ�WKH�oUVW�WZR�ZHHNV�of school, and the photo-graphs from O’Malley’s Photo III students were taken over

the summer break.

Added to the mix was work cre-ated over the summer from Katie Ehrlich ’14, an inde-pendent pho-t o g r a p h e r, and a video from video arts teacher Cheri Gaulke.

T h o u g h Hall orga-nizes the actual gal-

lery schedule, the placement RI� WKH� DUWZRUN� LV� oUVW�FRPH�oUVW�VHUYHG�� FUHDWLQJ� D� UDFH�for each class to get the best showing space. The back wall is a favorite, O’Malley said.

“This is the show that I really like the best,” O’Malley said. “Every year, they bring in completely original artwork.”

For O’Malley’s students, at least, this improvement in

detail is partially due to the reviewing exercise practiced at the end of the students’ junior year. Since so many seniors will be sending their artwork to colleges as supple-ments with their applications, it is useful for them to review holes and strengths within their bodies of work with a class and teacher there to ad-vise them. Four out of seven of O’Malley’s students traveled overseas, photographing plac-es such as Italy and Morocco during the summer, bringing a foreign twist to the already diverse show. It is really up to the students at this point what they are choosing to shoot. His instructions are simple and straightforward, “Okay, you’ve got three months. Get to work.”

“It’s refreshing to be given full responsibility and freedom in the amazingly individual art called photography. I love it because I can expressive my-self fully in this medium,”said photography student Maria Gonzalez ‘13.

“The reason I like it so much is it’s a complete sur-prise. When they come in with their work, their pictures don’t look anything like their previous art,” O’Malley said.

Directed studies, Sculpture II classes to visit LACMA exhibit

Senior, alumni independent art displayed in Feldman-Horan gallery’s !rst show of the year

Scene Monkeys hold open improv workshops

Smile for the camera: Photography teacher Kevin O’Malley poses with students Emily Plotkin ’13 (left), Maria Gonzalez ‘13 (left), and Maddie Lear ‘13 (right) outside the museum.

Jamie chang /CHRONICLE Nick Healy ’13nathanson’s

“As a 20th century student, it was like a walk down memory lane for me. Or as the Rolling Stones would say, ‘It’s been a lonely night at the Memory Motel’. ” !Kevin O’Malley

“It’s refreshing to be given full responsibility and freedom in the amazingly individual art called photography. I love it because I can fully expressive myself .”

!Maria Gonzalez ‘13

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Winner of national music competitionperforms at New York’s Lincoln CenterBy Jessica Lee

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PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT: Chelsea Pan ‘14 practices

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Orchestra to perform at winter concert

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ily friend. The video, which has over 2,400 views and counting on YouTube as of Oct. 7, features McRae singing and playing the piano.

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Jazz Combo, Explorers to performat Vibrato Grill

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inbrief

By Sydney Foreman

Two years after Molly Cin-namon ’14 worked on Public Service Announcement “See,” it has been selected for The Chicago International Chil-dren’s Film Festival.

The festival is scheduled for Oct. 26 through Nov. 4. It will be viewed along with 245 RWKHU� VWXGHQW� oOPV� DQG� ZDV�chosen from 900 entries.

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1HLWKHU� VKH� QRU� .DVKHU�KDG� H[SHUL-ence with animating, so they sought a s s i s t a n c e from Visual Arts Teacher Cheri Gaulke and animat-ing consul-tant Rachel Johnson. Us-ing only a camera, the Dragon )UDPH� 6WRS�0RWLRQ� SURJUDP�and Final Cut Pro, Cinna-mon brought her vision to the screen. Within a little over a

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Westlake 2011 Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Fes-tival, all of which Cinnamon attended.

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By Zoe dutton

)LYH� VWXGHQW�PDGH� oOPV�were screened in the Youth 5HHO�SURJUDP�DW�WKH�0LOO�9DO-ley Film Festival in San Rafael on Oct. 6.

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In the Spotlight

GOOD SHOT: Molly Cinamon ’14 poses in front of the North Hol-

lywood El Portal Theater for the Los Angeles Media Festival 2012.

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By nikta manSouri

Six Harvard-Westlake stu-GHQW�SURGXFHG�VKRUW�oOPV�ZLOO�EH�SUHVHQWHG�LQ�WKLV�\HDUV�LQ-WHUQDWLRQDO� &LWL]HQ� -DQH� )LOP�Festival in Columbia, Missouri from Oct. 19 to Oct. 21.

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PSA is Gay” by Patric Verrone �� *HRUJH�.KDEED]� DQG�0L-UDQGD� .DVKHU�� k8QFRPSRVHGy�by Molly Cinnamon ’14, and k(PSW\�+RXVHy�E\�;RFKL�0D-berry-Gaulke ’12 and Jamie Feiler ’12.

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Female Ensemble

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7KLV� SOD\�ZLOO� EH� SHU-formed in a “ m i n i m a l -ist” style, in which char-acters only WDNH� SURSV�that they would logically be carrying on stage. According to Walch, KRZHYHU�� WKH� SURGXFWLRQ� ZLOO�EH� QRW� VDFULoFH� DQ\� pDPER\-ancy.

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the stage,” Walch said.

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‘Oklahoma!’ will play next month

12 student produced !lms have been chosen to be screened in various !lm festivals.

“Editing is when you truly see every little shot and every little detail !ow together.”

"Molly Cinnamon ’14

“Alex Kolmanovsky, who designed the set, wants to give the feeling that the state of Oklahoma was ripped out of the earth and implanted on the stage.”

"Ted Walch

OKLAHOMA!RUGBY THEATER

CASTCurly

LaureyAunt Eller

JudAdo AnnieWill ParkerAli Hakim

CarnesGertie

Dream Laurey

Ben GailMegan Ward

Arden WilliamsNick Healy

Jaslin MarineWill HaritonLucas Foster

Cory Batchler Arianna Lanz

Anna Wittenberg

Claire NordstromSophia Oman

Emma PasarowJulia Sa!r

Abby SandlerCamelia SomersSophia SunkinAndrea Torre

Marianne VerroneAiyana WhiteAutumn Witz

Noah BennettDonhem Brown

Justin CarrLandon Fadel

Jacob GoodmanJosh Lappen

Teddy LeinbachAlex MusicantAngus O’BrienPatric Verrone

Michael Wagmeister

Male EnsembleSabrina Batchler

Katherine CalvertMolly Chapman

Mazelle EtessamiSolange Etessami

Lexi FadelSamantha Frischling

Kennedy GreenGrace Levin

Mikaila MitchellDelilah Napier

By Sydney Foreman

He dabs powder onto the newscaster’s face, add-ing bronzer and blush to bring her skin to life under the stu-dio lights. Three hours later, Phairot Janthep sits in the the Harvard-Westlake cafeteria, swiping ID cards through the scanner at his day job.

Janthep’s makeup career took off in 2007 when he won oUVW�SODFH�LQ�D�FRVPHWLF�FRPSH-tition at the Long Beach Cali-fornia Convention Center.

“My name goes everywhere now,” he said.

In 2010, Janthep faced his oUVW�HYHU� FOLHQW�� D� EULGH�� 7KH�focus of her makeup was light smokey eyes as described by Janthep.

“I think I did it very well,” Janthep said.

This task ignited his passion for “painting on the human face and body.”

Since then, he has done countless weddings. In addi-tion to brides, Janthep has also worked as a personal makeup artist for KNBC morning news anchor Alycia Lane. When he has the opportunity, Janthep does both her makeup and hair for special events.

Makeup by Janthep has ap-peared in runway shows for MAC Cosmetics. He prefers the art of runway makeup to that of everyday makeup.

“It is heavier and it has to be done in a shorter time,” Jan-thep said. “It sometimes has to be more colorful than normal makeup.”

Janthep’s knowledge of vari-ous types of makeup comes from his training at the Joe Blasco Makeup School. Since 2009, he has been a part-time student, learning special effects makeup and hairstyling. His favorite as-signment at the school was to transform a human into a zom-bie with makeup techniques.

Although he spends much of his time making up clients, Jan-thep has remained a staff mem-ber at Harvard-Westlake for the past 20 years.

Janthep was born in Bang-kok, Thailand on Aug. 18, 1969. He graduated from Bangkok University in 1991. The following year he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his education.

His stepfather Thiak Lor, former owner of the cafeteria, who died in 2008, is honored by a plaque and bamboo stem me-morial in a back corner of the cafeteria.

While he thoroughly enjoys both jobs, Janthep feels particu-larly at home in the Harvard-Westlake community.

“I think everyone here is my best friend,” Janthep said.

Between constant makeup jobs and working at Harvard-Westlake, Janthep is always on the go.

“I am a very busy person,” Janthep said. “In my free time I don’t really do anything but spend time at home with my puppies.”

He owns a small Yorkie named Bagel and a mixed breed named Mochi.

“I love them like my babies,” Janthep added.


EASY, BREEZY, BEAUTIFUL: Cafeteria worker Phairot

Janthep applies dark red lipstick to the face of Tara Stone ‘14.


PHAIROT’S PORTFOLIO: Cafeteria worker Phairot Janthep at-

tends the Joe Blasco Cosmetics & Makeup School part time. He did the

hair and makeup on these mannequins for various school projects.

Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s makeup tips from Phairot.

For everyday makeup, keep it light. Wear a little powder foundation or none at all and just a little bit of mascara and eyeliner.

Apply foundation and blend at the hairline and jawline before applying eye makeup.

Never apply lipstick directly from the tube. Always use a lip brush for application.

Make eyelashes appear longer with false lashes and one coat of volumizing mascara to blend the false lashes with natural lashes.

Apply bronzer to either side of nose to contour, sharpen and make it appear slimmer.

When he’s not working in the cafeteria, Phairot Janthep has a second job as a makeup artist.

GRAPHIC BY SYDNEY FOREMAN, PHOTOS BY SYDNEY FORMAN AND STOCK EXCHANGE

PHOTOS COURTESY OF PHAIROT JANTHEP

ON THEIR OWN: Four Wolverines achieved national recognition in solo sports without putting on a Wolverine uniform.

Flaherty commits to UNC

By Sam SachS

Jack Flaherty ’14 had never thought about playing baseball at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill until he visited the campus last spring for the USA Baseball National High School Invitational tour-nament in Cary, N.C..

“Once I stepped on cam-pus, it felt like the right place,” Flaherty said.

Flaherty verbally commit-ted to play for the Tar Heels on Sept. 26. He will join team-mate Arden Pabst ’13, a Geor-gia Tech commit, in the Atlan-tic Coast Conference.

Flaherty was also interest-ed in UCLA, UCSB, USC and Vanderbilt to play college ball.

“Committing is a huge weight off my shoulders,” Fla-herty said. “Not having all the eyes watching me, and having a great plan I can rely on is very comforting.”

Flaherty, who was a start-ing pitcher in his freshman and sophomore years, moved up to the No. 2 spot in the Wolverines’ rotation last sea-son after former ace and cur-rent Washington Nationals prospect Lucas Giolito ’12 suf-fered a season-ending injury.

Flaherty went 6-1 on the mound with a 1.77 ERA in 51.1 innings, the second highest to-tal on the team. He also batted .397 last season with two home runs and 13 RBIs.

Flaherty may have to make another decision come MLB draft time if he has to decide whether to follow the career path of Max Fried ’12 and Giolito to the MLB, or that of Austin Wilson ’10, who passed on the MLB to play baseball at Stanford.

“Hopefully, things will progress and I’ll be able to put myself in the position to make another tough decision,” Fla-herty said.

SportSthe ChroniCle ��oCt. 10, 2012

INSIDE

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MISSION LEAGUE WORTHY: Sports columnist Luke Holthouse weighs in on the football team’s recent Mission League victory over St. Paul.

Games of the Trimester showcase fall teams to prospective students

ROBBIE LOEB/CHRONICLE

By Lizzy ThomaS

Five of the lesser-watched fall sports teams put on a show in front of faculty, stu-dents and prospective stu-dents as part of the Games of the Trimester on Oct. 4.

$OO� oYH� WHDPV� ZRQ� WKHLU�JDPHV�� DV� oHOG� KRFNH\� GH-feated Glendora, the varsity, junior varsity and freshmen girls’ volleyball teams each beat their respective Chami-nade opponents and varsity boys’ water polo beat Damien.

7KH� oUVW� *DPHV� RI� WKH�Trimester took place last spring, with a faculty Game of the Trimester.

The second installment of the program saw 58 faculty members in attendance at the games, enticed in part by free tacos.

The event grew to add an admissions component, as ap-

plicants and their families were invited to attend.

More than 240 students and their family members attended the games, Head of Athletics Terry Barnum said.

“We are strongly consid-ering making the admissions component an annual event,” Barnum said.

By at least one athlete’s estimation, the larger crowds helped the teams’ perfor-mances.

k7KH� IDFW� WKDW� ZH� oQDOO\�had fans, not just parents, GHoQLWHO\�SOD\HG�D�KXJH�UROH�LQ�WKH�JDPH�y�oHOG�KRFNH\�SOD\HU�Annie Wasserman ’13 said. “We were all excited to have a pretty good turn out, so we put in 100 percent of our ef-fort in the game to represent our school and beat our big-gest rival in the league.”

The Student-Athlete Ad-visory Council helped orga-

nize the event, handing out T-shirts as well as putting together a competition during KDOIWLPH� RI� WKH� oHOG� KRFNH\�game that included current and prospective students.

“We got four contestants OLQHG� XS� RQ� WKH� oHOG� DW� WKH�50-yard line,” SAAC mem-ber Natalie Florescu ’13 said. k7KH�VWXGHQWV�KDG�WR�UXQ�oYH�\DUGV� IRUZDUG��SXW�RQ�D�oHOG�KRFNH\� VNLUW�� WKHQ� UXQ� oYH�more yards and put on gog-JOHV�� UXQ� oYH� PRUH� \DUGV� WR�SLFN� XS� D� oHOG� KRFNH\� VWLFN�and then get a ball and hit it into the goal.”

A student applying for a spot in next year’s seventh grade class won the compe-tition, earning a SAAC “We Are H-W” shirt as a prize. Both the winter and spring athletic trimesters will fea-ture their own Games of the Trimester.

Camera readyBy PaTrick ryan

Loyola and Harvard-Westlake have been bitter league rivals for decades. The two schools more often than QRW� oQLVK� DWRS� WKH� 0LVVLRQ�League standings in every sport, making each Cubs-Wolverines matchup all the more critical. The last league title for the boys’ water polo team came in 2007 and Loyola has brought home all four titles since.

This year, the lone match-up between the schools will take on a whole new feel on Oct. 17, as Time Warner Ca-ble will broadcast the bout as part of its Game of the Week segment for Southern Cali-fornia high school sports.

Players said the much-anticipated game will be cru-cial to the Wolverines’ stand-

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“That’s the game we have been preparing for the past couple weeks,” Andrew Mill-er ’13 said. “We are just look-ing forward to Oct. 17. That’s the date that is in everyone’s mind right now.”

The Cubs are ranked second in the CIF Division I coaches poll, behind Mater Dei, a team the Wolverines have lost twice to this season.

“[The broadcast is] a great opportunity for the program to gain a lot of ex-posure with the local com-munity,” Head Coach Brian Flacks ’06 said. “It should be a great game like it was last year, and if we can do the small things right, I think we

have a great shot.”The Wolverines lost 12-9

in their only matchup against Loyola last year. The boys’ ranking in the CIF polls de-pends on the outcome of the Loyola game, along with other upcoming matchups against Long Beach Wilson and Agoura.

“This is one of our biggest games this year,” Warren Snyder ’14 said. “Everybody really wants to win Mission League and we are going to need to beat Loyola for that.”

The team has only four seniors, relying on young players such as Anthony Ridgley ’15, who was named Most Outstanding Goal-keeper at America’s Finest Tournament last month, and Snyder, who received All-Tournament honors.

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The boys had an early lead against Miramonte but fell 11-8. The team was then placed in the bottom half of the bracket but won its next three games, bringing its overall record to 14-6 on the season.

They play Long Beach Wilson this Friday before taking on Loyola the follow-ing Wednesday in the tele-vised matchup.

“We want to win [the Loyola] game so badly,” John-ny Hooper ’15 said. “They have won Mission League, they have taken away that championship from us for years and it is our time to take it from them.”

Pitcher and third baseman Jack Flaherty ’14 verbally

committed to play baseball for the Tar Heels.

For the !rst time ever, a Wolverine boys’ water polo game will be televised. Time Warner Cable will cover the game against Loyola,the team’s main rival.

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The Wolverines will face the Ca-thedral Phantoms in a Mission League matchup at Homecom-ing. Cathedral !nished its non-league schedule undefeated before starting Mission League play. Cathedral is seeking re-venge after losing to the Wol-verines last year 34-26. Cathe-dral has won its !rst six games by an average of 27 points.

Rettig recently committed to play quarterback at LSU, the eighth best team in the nation according to the most recent USA Today poll. Eleven other schools made o"ers to the Phantoms’ quarterback, including Auburn, Arizona and UCLA. He missed most of last season with a knee injury.

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A !rst for Wolverine footballBy LUKE HOLTHOUSE

By Eric LoEB

The atmosphere in the Sept. 27 varsity girls’ volleyball game was different than most, in part be-cause of the scream-ing Notre Dame fans crammed into the Notre Dame gym to watch their team play.

“Both teams and fans came out with a lot of energy,” Nicole Gould ’13 said.

The Wolverines fell to the Knights in three games, mean-ing that in order to have a chance to win league, Harvard- Westlake will need to win all of its remain-ing games, including a Homecoming re-match against Notre Dame.

“We’ll get another good opportunity to beat them at Homecoming,” Caitie Benell ’13 said. “They’re a good team, they have solid players, but I think we could still win league.”

Prior to the Notre Dame JDPH�� WKH� WHDP� ZRQ� LWV� oUVW�league match against Alemany and had winning records at tournaments in Las Vegas and Orange County.

“We started off strong with some good tournaments and went into league winning RXU� oUVW� IHZ� JDPHV�y� $ULHOOH�Strom ’14 said.

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ines are 2-1 overall, and 2-0 in league play, with wins against Chaminade and Flin-tridge Sacred Heart and a loss to Lake-wood. This gives the team an opportunity WR� oQLVK� ZLWK� D� EHW-ter record than last year’s team, which oQLVKHG��LQ�OHDJXH��

“Our ultimate goal for the season has been and still is to win league,” out-side hitter Josephine Kremer ’14 said. “I think we’ve made great strides on our other goals – to play as a team and to work on not letting down through the whole match – but we’re still working on im-proving.”

Despite the early league loss, Head Coach Adam Black said not much has changed since preseason.

“No surprises,” he said. “The girls are working hard and improving. We have all been doing some good things in practice and in games. It isn’t the efforts of one person but of many that make our program move forward.”

No information was avail-able about the team’s Tuesday game against league opponent Louisville as of press time, but the team will play in the Cali-fornia Challenge Friday and Saturday and will return to play Flintridge Sacred Heart on Thursday, Oct. 18.

Former Israeli Olympic swimmer Max Jaben will join the varsity swimming coach-ing staff next month as an as-sistant.

,Q��-DEHQ�FRPSHWHG�LQ�the Maccabiah Games in Ne-tanya, Israel, where he won oYH�PHGDOV��IRXU�JROGV�DQG�RQH�bronze, and set two individual Maccabiah Game records.

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-DEHQ�ZLOO�RIoFLDOO\�MRLQ�WKH�swimming program in Novem-ber, serving as an assistant to Head of Swimming and Diving Jonathan Carroll and Head Coach Cheyne Bloch.

“I am very excited to be part of the Harvard-Westlake community,” Jaben said. “I have heard nothing but won-derful things about it, and it’s just an honor to be part of such a tradition as they have at Harvard-Westlake.”

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The middle school foot-ball program is off to its best start in its six-year history, with both teams undefeated through four games this sea-son.

“This has been a very en-joyable year, and the team is extremely talented,” Coach Jim O’Leary said.

Varsity Head Coach Scot Ruggles is pleased with the teams’ performance.

“The middle school pro-gram is very important to me and to the success of our pro-gram,” Ruggles said. “We’re starting off on the right foot by working from the bottom up.”

Mirroring the varsity pro-gram in games and practices has been a priority at the Mid-dle School this season.

“We have a similar play-book to varsity and we’re pleasantly surprised to have gone so far,” O’Leary said.

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Preps Sports named Der-LFN�1HZWRQ� �� RQH� RI� WKH� ��must-watch players in high school basketball this year.

ESPN ranks Newton as the 26th best player in Califor-nia for the class of 2014, and as the 43rd best small forward in his class.

Newton led the team in scoring last year with 17.1 points per game.

Newton also averaged 6.9 rebounds per game last sea-son, second on the team be-hind Zena Edosomwan ’12.

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Athletic department to induct 6 to Hall of Fame By Sam SachS

Five former Wolverine athletes and coaches will be inducted into the Harvard-Westlake Athletic Hall of Fame during halftime of the Homecoming football game Oct. 27.

Bridget Ballard ’06, Mer-edith Butte ’06, Brian Flacks ’06 and the late volleyball coach Jesse Quiroz will be in-ducted this year, along with basketball player Ed White ��D�KROGRYHU�IURP�ODVW�\HDU��Soccer player Ali Riley ’06 and basketball player Alex Stephe-son ’06 were also both elected as members of this year’s class but will not be in attendance at the ceremony, so they will not be inducted this year.

Flacks, the head coach for both the boys’ and girls’ water polo teams, was a four-year varsity water polo player and swimmer. Flacks also earned oUVW� WHDP� DOO�&,)� KRQRUV� LQ�his sophomore, junior and senior years for his perfor-mance on the polo team. His sophomore and senior season

he was named a third-team All-American and went on to play collegiately for the UCLA Bruins.

“This school and the wa-ter polo program have done so much for me that it’s a great honor,” Flacks said.

Ballard, a four-sport ath-lete who was a member of the swim, cross coun-try, track and soccer teams, went on to play soccer and swim for Brown Uni-versity.

A senior captain for the Wolver-ine soccer team, Ballard won a CIF c h a m p i o n -ship in one of her four varsity sports all four years of high school.

Another multi-sport ath-lete as a Wolverine, Butte was a two-time all-CIF and all-league selection as a wa-

ter polo player. Butte was also a varsity swimmer and water polo player at UC Berkeley.

White won four straight CIF Southern Section cham-pionships with the Wolverines’ basketball team and was also a three-time all-league selection during his career. In his last season as a Wolverine, White

won the John R. Wooden Award for CIF Division III player of the year. White con-tinued his b a s k e t b a l l career at Yale University.

Q u i r o z , who died in March 2011, won three state titles as

a Wolverine volleyball coach. He added seven Southern Section championships and founded the Santa Monica Beach Club for boys and girls club volleyball. Quiroz spent almost 20 years as a Wolverine

coach before moving to Camp-bell Hall. His daughter, Kim-berly Quiroz ’00, will accept the honor for her father.

Riley, who competed at the London Olympics for New Zea-land, was a two-sport athlete for the Wolverines. Riley went on to play soccer for Stanford after leading the Wolverine soccer team to the 2006 South-HUQ�6HFWLRQ�'LYLVLRQ�,�oQDO��,Q�2006, Riley was awarded a spot on the all-CIF Southern Sec-WLRQ�'LYLVLRQ� ,�oUVW� WHDP�DQG�OHWWHUHG� LQ�WUDFN�DQG�oHOG� IRU�her second season.

Stepheson, who played col-lege basketball for the Univer-sity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and for USC, now plays professionally in Athens. The 6-foot-10 former Wolverine joins Riley as an elected mem-ber who won’t be inducted this year. Stepheson set the school records for rebounds in a game and for a season and was a fourth team Parade All-American.

“It’s a great list,” Head of Athletics Terry Barnum said. “I know we’re excited about it.”

BLOCKED OUT: Molly Harrower ’13, top, spikes in the girls’ vol-

leyball team’s loss to Notre Dame in three straight sets. Nicole Gould

’13 and Mia Natsis ’14, bottom, stretch for a block in the same game.

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By Jeremy Tepper

At age 14, Oliver Fried-man ’17 has already traveled all across the globe in pursuit of becoming an Olympic table tennis player. Friedman, who has played in Vienna, New York, Las Vegas and Balti-more, has won tournaments throughout the nation and ultimately plans to make the U.S. table tennis team for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Ja-neiro.

Friedman, who practic-es two hours a day, three times a week, placed second at the U.S. Open tourna-ment for his rating group.

He was a VHPLoQDOLVW� LQ�a Los Ange-les Table Ten-nis Federation t ournament , competing in the A-division, which consists of the most highly ranked players in the area. He was moved up to the A-division after winning the B-division seven times.

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player, that improvement has taken place and I am getting better.”

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Friedman in a minute and he returns them all. The drill aims to improve reac-tion time, en-durance and technique.

“I am a very offensive player,” Fried-man said. “I have two kinds of shots, a setup and an attack shot. My setups can be uncomfort-

able chops to my opponent’s weaknesses, or spin shots that force my opponent to block back slowly. My attack shots put pressure on my opponent, or they can even put the ball away. My backhand and fore-hand perform both of these shots.”

Friedman has been play-ing table tennis for six years. +LV�LQWHUHVW�ZDV�oUVW�VSDUNHG�during a boring experience at

summer camp when he turned to the sport for fun.

Upon returning from camp, he began working with D�FRDFK�IRU�WKH�oUVW�WLPH�

In a sport dominated in large part by Chinese and Japanese players, Friedman is most inspired by top-10 worldwide player Timo Boll, a three-time European Cham-pionship winner. In table ten-nis, players are rated on a scale of 0-2800, with a rating of 2500-2600 being the typical Olympic threshold.

Friedman is currently rat-ed at 1650, but hasn’t played in many major tournaments lately, so he considers himself to be in the 1800-1900 range at this point in his career.

Ratings do not restrict matchups between players, however.

After playing for two-and-a-half years with a rating of 850, Friedman defeated a player with a rating of 1500 in the second round of the Cali-fornia State Open.

“[The victory] was com-

pletely unprecedented and unexpected,” Friedman said. k,W�ERRVWHG�P\�FRQoGHQFH�DQG�ability in the coming months.

“Next summer I plan to train with the Filipino nation-al team in Mandaluyong City. I plan to make the junior na-tional team within two years, and after that, hopefully qual-ify for Rio 2016.”

He will also play in this year’s U.S. national tourna-ment, and has already quali-oHG� IRU� WKH� �� 0DFFDELDK�Games in Israel.

A select few Wolverines deviate from typical sports to compete in equestrian, table tennis, rock climbing and shooting.

Table tennis player competes internationally

By Sarah Novicoff

At 6 months old, Sydney Cheong ’14 was carried by her parents into a stable and lift-ed into the saddle on a horse. This marked the beginning of a 16-year passion.

“Near where we have our horses, there was a jump-ing barn and I thought it’d be really fun to take lessons,” Cheong said. “It just seemed very natural. I never remem-ber making a conscious deci-sion to start competing.”

Initial curiosity has since grown into competitive suc-cess, as Cheong defended her titles this summer by winning the Open Hunter Pleasure Championship, the 17-and-under Hunter Pleasure Championship and the Hunter 3OHDVXUH� 4XDOLoHU� DW� WKH� 3D-FLoF�1RUWKZHVW�0RUJDQ�+RUVH�Show.

She won despite breaking her ankle in March playing softball and not having been cleared to ride again until the PLGGOH�RI�$XJXVW��+HU�oUVW�DQG�only tournament of the season

took place in Spanaway, Wash. from Aug. 24 through Aug. 26 just a few days after her medi-cal clearance.

“I love being around [the horses] and riding them,” Cheong said. “Most of all, I love building relationships with them. The most satisfying feeling is going into a horse’s stall and feeling as if you’ve really bonded. Each horse has his or her own personality, so it’s always like making a new friend.”

Cheong began compet-ing at age six and joined the Morgan circuit at 10. Her god-mother breeds Morgan horses, a type of horse used commonly in shows, and introduced her to the breed, causing a tran-sition from other breeds to mostly Morgans.

Cheong and her family own four horses, but Cheong only shows one of them, a Morgan named Treble’s Evening Star and nicknamed Brian. Brian is kept at a stable in Walla Walla, Wash. and is shown in compe-tition across the country from May to October. During those

months, Cheong visits Walla Walla almost once a week to practice with Brian and train for her upcoming competi-tions.

For the remainder of the year, Cheong competes as a member of the school eques-trian team with her three oth-er horses.

“[Cheong] always wants to make her second attempt at something better than the oUVW�y� HTXHVWULDQ�+HDG�&RDFK�Christa Choe ’94 said. “She has a combination of athleticism and dedication that makes her great.”

The Wolverine equestrian team competes in the Los An-geles Interscholastic League, which hosts one competition show each month of the sea-son. Each rider must own or lease their own horse for the competition.

“It’s not all about you be-cause it’s the horse too,” Cheong said. “It’s a sport where how well you do is re-ally dependent on the horse that you ride. I really like my horse.”

Horse rider returns to competition

O! the beaten path

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“Next summer, I plan to train with the Filipino national team in Mandaluyong City. I plan to make the junior national team within two years, and after that, hopefully qualify for Rio 2016.”

!Oliver Friedman ’17

By Ally White

Competing in the Youth National Championships, win-ning the Young Gun Award for climbing and climbing in two World championships, Charlie Andrews-Jubelt’s ’13 life these past few months was dominated by rock climb-ing.

From July 5 through July 8, Andrews-Jubelt competed in the U-17 nationals, placing 10th in sport climbing.

Sport climbers complete ORQJ�� GLIoFXOW� URXWHV� DQG� WKH�winner is determined by who-ever climbs the highest. He DOVR�ZRQ�oIWK�LQ�WKH�VSHHG�GLV-cipline.

“Charlie’s edge has always been his desire to learn and get better, his attention to detail, his motivation and his discipline,” Andrews-Jubelt’s former private coach Taylor Reed said. “If I asked him to GR� oYH� SXVK�XSV�� KHG� GR� ��And if I asked him to improve some part to his form, which was rare, he’d perfect it until

the lights went out.”At youth nationals, An-

drews-Jubelt joined the ranks of some of the most talented young climbers of the decade, winning the most prestigious award any youth climber can win, The North Face Young Gun Award.

This award is given only twice each year, once in the summer and once in the winter, for leadership in the climbing community, commit-ment to the sport, long-term competitive achievement and dedication to service.

“Charlie is a ‘Young Gun’ in the truest sense of the DZDUGV� GHoQLWLRQ�y� 86$�teammate Alex Fritz said. “He is an incredibly hard worker in climbing, school and all as-pects of life.”

3ODFLQJ� LQ� WKH� WRS� oYH�at Nationals allowed him to qualify for the Youth World Championships in Singapore, where he placed 18th in the speed climbing event for the Male Juniors category.

“Our collective focus on

speed training was unprece-dented for American athletes, and even though we didn’t win any medals, I think our group was a historic one,” Andrews-Jubelt said.

On Sept. 14, Andrews--XEHOW� FRPSHWHG� LQ� KLV� oUVW�Adult World Championship.

Andrews-Jubelt had com-peted in four youth World Championships before.

In the adult category, Andrews-Jubelt competed against professional speed climbers in front of hundreds of spectators. He placed 38th, FRPLQJ�ZLWKLQ��RI�KLV�SHU-sonal best time.

“It’s dizzying to consider how far I’ve come over the last nine years, from starting as a little kid too young to qualify for Worlds, looking up to the giants who made Young Gun DQG� 86� 7HDP�� WR� oQDOO\� OLY-ing that reality,” he said. “I’m blessed to have parents, spon-sors, and friends that have given me the constant support I needed to make that hap-pen.”

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David Lee ’14 approached the target. He lifted his Mori-ni air pistol and focused on KLV� WULJJHU� oQJHU�� KLV� KDQGV�unusually shaky. One look at anything else or one twitch could change his aim drasti-cally.

Lee racked up a bronze medal in the marksman FRPSHWLWLRQ� DW� KLV� oUVW� -X-nior Olympics in Colorado Springs, Colo. this past April, scoring two points lower than his opponent.

He said he was very ner-vous and distracted by his op-ponent’s numerous bull-eyes.

“I thought that I had lost the match since the begin-ning,” Lee said. “Had I stayed positive, I would have brought home the gold.”

Before focusing on shoot-ing, Lee searched for a new,

unique interest by trying a variety of sports including VXUoQJ��ERZOLQJ�DQG�MXGR��EXW�QRQH�RI�WKHP�VDWLVoHG�KLP�

Shooting caught Lee’s at-tention when he watched the marksman competition of the �� %HLMLQJ� 6XPPHU�2O\P-pics.

Lee started taking les-sons at the beginning of ninth grade and continues to learn from his coach In Kim.

“He is like a second father to me, showing continuous care and support,” Lee said.

His training sessions oc-casionally incorporate hikes, saunas and trampolines. Be-cause holding a 3.5 lb gun can EHFRPH� GLIoFXOW� GXULQJ� ORQJ�periods of time, Lee’s coach takes Lee on hikes to practice holding the gun while walk-ing uphill. Training in saunas asimilates hot temperatures in which shooting can be dif-

oFXOW�� /HH� VDLG�� 7UDPSROLQH�training improves steadi-ness and aim. Once balance on a trampoline is achieved, steadiness becomes easier in a marskman competition un-der pressure, Lee said.

He usually practices at the public shooting ranges in La Puenta and Diamond Bar.

Lee said his role model is marksman Ruby Fox, a sil-ver medalist in the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games.

Her determination de-spite her lack of shooting equipment has inspired Lee and helped him to develop his skill.

He also had the opportu-nity to be coached by Fox.

Lee describes the process of shooting as focus-oriented and challenging.

k:KHQ� SHRSOH� oQG� RXW�that I shoot guns, they think

that I can jump around and VKRRW� WKLQJV� ZKLOH� ,� p\� RU�something,” Lee said. “In re-ality, I am completely still and focused on the front sight of my gun.”

Focusing on the tar-get does not produce better scores, Lee said, but rather IRFXVLQJ�RQ�WKH�WULJJHU�oQJHU�increases perfection.

He said that releasing ox-ygen and focusing completely RQ�KLV�WULJJHU�oQJHU�KHOS�KLP�eradicate even the slightest movement. One twitch can FKDQJH� WKH� DLP� VLJQLoFDQWO\�from a perfect shot into a pLHU��

Lee is interested in be-coming a professional shoot-er and participating in the Olympics.

In the meantime, he looks to the bronze medal hang-ing in his room as a constant source of inspiration.

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After runners from both the girls’ and boys’ programs won individual races this season, the cross country WHDPV�DUH�FRQoGHQW�WKDW�WKH\�are ready for League Finals on Oct. 19, where the girls’ squad will try to defend their league title and the boys’ will begin their quest for State Finals.

/L]]\�7KRPDV� C�� oQLVKHG�oUVW�LQ�KHU�UDFH�LQ�WKH�RSHQLQJ�league meet on Sept. 6, and the girls took second overall at both league cluster meets at Balboa Park.

Thomas, Trishta Dordi ’15, and Audrey Wilson ’15 placed second, fourth, and sixth respectively at the most recent cluster meet on Oct. 4.

The girls’ team has been the Mission League titleholder for the past four years. While they’ll be running with a target on their backs as the champions, the Wolverines nevertheless feel ready and able to defend their title.

“Since the summer, I think our work is paying off,” girls’ co-captain Yasmin Moreno ’13 said. “A lot of the pressure to defend the title comes from ourselves. This year a lot of the teams have been looking to beat us, and one of our main goals is to show everyone how hard we’ve worked.”

Ben Weissenbach ’15 has won two races over the course of the season and leads the ER\V�WHDP�LQ�WRS�oYH�oQLVKHV�

While Weissenbach placed second in his race in the most recent league meet, the boys oQLVKHG� WKLUG� RYHUDOO� LQ� ERWK�league cluster meets.

Although he has enjoyed his regular season victories, :HLVVHQEDFK� oQGV� SUHSDULQJ�for the postseason to be the highest priority.

“The races that really matter are at the end of the season, so the races that we have right now are very good indicators of what kind of shape we’re in,” Weissenbach said. “Success is fun, but the goal is success at the end of the season. We’d all really like to qualify for the State Meet as a team, so the main goal is to get to Fresno.”

As League Finals mark the start of the postseason, WKH�ER\V�DUH�FRQoGHQW�LQ�WKHLU�ability to advance past League

Finals to CIF and potentially State competition.

Boys’ co-captain David Manahan ’14 also has one oUVW� q� SODFH�oQLVK� RQ� WKH�season and placed ninth in his race on Oct. 4. He a t t r i b u t e s the team’s FRQoGHQFH� WR�their depth.

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two minutes DSDUW� q� DQG�that means that our scoring is going to be very good, which will help us in the postseason,” M a n a h a n said. “We’ve been doing really well in league this year. We set

our goals high, and we don’t see any reason why we can’t do better.”

The cross country teams will run in their last competition before League Finals at the annual Mt. San Antonio College Invitational on Friday, Oct. 19.

On Wednesday, Oct. 31, the Wolverines will return to Balboa Park for League Finals, where the girls’ Mission League title will be up for grabs again.

Runners will then head back to Mt. SAC for CIF preliminaries on Nov. 10 and, if they qualify, CIF Finals on Nov. 17.

If they advance from CIF, the runners will travel to Woodward Park in Fresno for State Finals on Nov. 24.

Runners achieve individual feats

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Despite a dispute regarding a lost ball allegedly hit by an opponent, the girls’ golf team remains undefeated in the Mission League.

In golf, a sport where individuals, on the honor system, keep track of their own scores rules disputes are not uncommon.

“I think we have all been in a situation where we need the rules to clarify something,” Jessica Wibawa ’13 said.

Kushi hit her fourth shot into the trees and dropped before she could see where it went.

Then, Kushi’s Chaminade opponent apparently hit Kushi’s ball laying on the ground under the trees.

The Chaminade golfer claimed that she instead was QRW� DEOH� WR� oQG� KHU� EDOO� DQG�just took another one out of her bag and dropped it for a one-stroke penalty.

When Kushi reached the brush she thought her ball ZDV� LQ�� VKH� FRXOG� QRW� oQG� LW��Kushi felt she was unable to locate the ball because he

opponent had hit it.Kushi confronted

the girl, telling her that she had hit her ball, but the girl again said that she had dropped a ball instead of hitting Kushi’s.

Kushi said she found a DMX ball, the brand her opponent was using, near the bushes but the ball her opponent hit onto the green was a Titleist, the brand Kushi used.

Both team’s coaches consulted the rulebook and decided Kushi and her opponent had to re-drop and take penalties because neither of them properly marked their balls.

Despite the fact that they were using different brands, players must mark their ball with some sort of a permanent marker.

Without a way to differentiate one ball from another, there was no way of proving the ball hit was Kushi’s.

Kushi ended up shooting a worse score than usual, and the team’s 9-stroke margin

of victory was their closest of the season.

Unlike other disputes the fact that Kushi’s match against Chaminade on Sept. 11 was not easily resolved was unusual.

Never the l e s s , the team moved

passed the controversy and won their next three matches by a combined margin of 112 strokes.

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The team stands at 4-0 in head-to-head competitions after beating Louisville, Marymount, Alemany and Chaminade. The Wolverines beat Chaminade 238-249, but potentially could have won by a larger margin if the dispute was ruled in Kate Kushi’s ’14 favor.


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A lot can change in a month. For the girls’ tennis team, it is equally important that in the month that stands between them and CIF playoffs, some things change while some stay the same. The team, currently ranked seventh in the CIF Division I standings, needs to move up in standings, in order to have an easier time in the postseason, Head Coach Chris Simpson said.

“Ideally, you want to be the four or oYH� VHHG� WR� VWD\� DZD\� IURP� WKH� RQH��WZR�RU�WKUHH�WHDPV�LQ�WKH�TXDUWHUoQDOV�because those are very deep programs and we wouldn’t be able to trouble them,” Simpson said.

The team will achieve that by playing the same as they have been. The Wolverines are 9-1 as of press time, and have won seven straight matches, including a nailbiter against Santa Barbara on Oct. 3. The score against the Dons was 9-9 in matches, but 81-75 in games. This six game lead was the deciding factor for the overall match. The Santa Barbara victory takes on added importance as Santa Barbara is FXUUHQWO\��oIWK�LQ�&,)��

k,�FDQ�GHoQLWHO\�VHH�WKH�WHDP�JRLQJ�DW� OHDVW� WR� >&,)@� TXDUWHUoQDOV�y� WHDP�co-captain Kristina Park ’13 said. “After the Santa Barbara win, we have a lot of momentum, and I think we’ll make it really far.”

To secure that all-important no. 5 ranking, the team needs to win in its Oct. 17 and Oct. 22 matches against Palos Verdes and Thousand Oaks, according to, Simpson.

“Palos Verdes has always been a tough match for us, but what I told the girls is even if you don’t win your

match just focus on every single game because that’s what it came down to in the Santa Barbara match,” co-captain Savannah de Montesquiou ’13 said. “I think just focusing on one point at a time instead of winning or losing an entire match is what’s really going to make the difference.”

The team’s lone loss came Sept. 12 against No. 4 Peninsula.

“We’ll be much improved by the end of the season where they’ll be the same as always,” Simpson said of the Peninsula team. “By the end of October, we’ll be a good team.”

The Wolverines have struggled with injuries recently, both large and small.

Star freshman Julianna Simon ’16 will miss the rest of the season due to a stress fracture in one of her lumbar vertebrae.

Three other freshman have stepped XS�oOO�WKH�JDS�OHIW�E\�6LPRQ��ZKR�ZRXOG�have played singles.

Julia Goldberg ’16 now plays at the team’s No. 1 two singles spot, behind de Montesquiou ’13 at No 1.

“It’s very different from middle school tennis,” Goldberg said. “You get to interact a lot more with your team, and the matches are a lot longer.”

Freshmen are also playing prominent roles in doubles. Joelle Choi ’16 is one half of the No. 1 doubles team along with Park.

“We play really well together because I’m more aggressive at the net and she sets up plays and shots for me,” Park said. “Even though there’s a big age gap, it’s not a big deal. We’ll do well in playoffs.”

The team will play Notre Dame and Flintridge Sacred Heart tomorrow and next Tuesday, respectively.

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Football wins league opener

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seven guys every time,” Hartmeier said. “So the secondary was pretty much always open.”

Despite the addition of running back Kurt Scoby, who transferred to St. Paul at the end of last season after averaging over 8 yards a carry with Charter Oaks, the Wolverine defense surrendered 30 fewer points than in last year’s matchup. Scoby, a junior with scholarship offers from the University of Miami and Oregon State, was held to one touchdown. Defensive lineman Henry Schlossberg ’13 said that the Wolverines had spent their bye week VWXG\LQJ�oOP�RQ�6FRE\�WR�SUHSDUH�IRU�the game.

“Our main focus was stopping the run,” defensive lineman Henry Schlossberg ’13 said. “We knew they ZHUH�JRLQJ�WR�UXQ�WKH�EDOO�IRUW\�WR�oIW\�WLPHV��:H�KDG�EHHQ�EUHDNLQJ�GRZQ�oOP�on them for two weeks, so we knew everything they were going to do the second they came out.”

The Wolverines have already matched their total of league wins in the past two seasons with the win. The Wolverines went 0-5 in 2010, the year they joined the Mission League, then went 1-4 last season.

The top three of the six teams in the Mission League automatically qualify for playoff. Non-league performance plays no factor and just the record in league play determines the end of the year standings.

Ruggles said that the team can almost guarantee a spot if they win at least two more games.

“The top two teams I’m sure will be undefeated [or with] one loss and the third team I’m sure will have two [losses],” Ruggles said. “I think if you win three games, you’re in the playoffs.”

The Wolverines stand at 5-1 overall after coming into the game with non-league wins over Granada Hills, Sylmar and El Camino Real. They beat their last three league opponents by a combine score of 144-27. Due to the LQVLJQLoFDQFH�RI�QRQ�OHDJXH�SOD\�ZLWK�

regards to playoffs, the football team schedules relatively weaker opponents before league play to ensure that players are not too physically drained for the playoff push. The Wolverines host league opponent St. Francis on Friday, Oct. 12. Defensive lineman Chase Klein ’13 said that if the team plays as well as it did last week, it should stay undefeated in league.

“No, [not] if we play like we did tonight,” Klein said when asked if WKHUH� ZDV� D� VSHFLoF� DUHD� WKH� WHDP�needed to improve for St. Francis. “I think they throw the ball a little more, but our defense is looking [very] good. Whatever we face, we’ll scheme it up pretty good.”

Beyond the St. Francis game, the Wolverines will face three opponents that may give the Wolverines more trouble.

They host Chaminade on Oct. 19 then Cathedral on Oct. 27 before ending the regular season at Serra. Chaminade and Serra both defeated the Wolverines by over 40 points last year. Cathedral was the only team Harvard-Westlake beat last season. However, quarterback Hayyden Rettig, who missed all of last season with an injury, is back this year to lead the team.

He committed to play college football at Louisiana State, who was the runner-up National Champion in the Div. I-A last year. Defensive lineman Matt Edelstein ’13 said that although next week’s St. Francis matchup was a must-win game, the team always puts everything it has into preparing for each game every week.

k)LUVW�VWHS�LV�GHoQLWHO\�6W��)UDQFLV�y�Edelstein said. “We have got to take it week-by-week and keep playing like this. This was a great showing by the team tonight.”

Ruggles concurred. “It’s a step in the right direction

for our playoff hopes. One at a time, though. That’s what we tell our kids every week. Our goal is to be 1-0 at the end of the week and we did that today. We’ll enjoy this one, but get to work tomorrow.”


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O!ensive & Defensive Linemen

RIP AND SWIM: Thomas Oser ’13, top, blocks an El Camino defensive lineman. Henry Schlossberg ’13, bottom, pepares to tackle St. Paul running back Kurt Scoby.

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Henry Schlossberg’s ’13 and Thomas Oser’s ’13 work on both the o!ensive and defensive lines has helped the football team start the season 5-1 and put the team in a position to make the playo!s for the "rst time since 2009.

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AQWhat roles do you play on the team?

I’m predominantly an offensive player. I play offensive line and I’m the center but I really can play anywhere they need me to move. I play a little bit of D-line but that’s in cases where they really need me.

Oser:

I’m more of the defensive specialist, but I also play offensive line. We sort of complement each other in that way, one on the defen-sive line one on the offensive line.

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AQHow has the change in coaching staff affected the team?

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Schlossberg:

Do you think you will continue to face more rushing based offenses in league?

AQHow do the offensive lines you’ve faced so far compare to the league teams’ lines you’ll face later this year?

We’ve faced some good lines with good players, but in league it kind of kicks into a new gear. We are in for a challenge and we are ready for it.

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Do you think the passing attack will be as effective in league as it was before league?

Do you think you are legitimate playoff contenders this year?

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Watch a full video interview with Thomas Oser ‘13 and Henry Schlossberg ‘13 online at hwchronicle.com/sports/oct12QandA


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October 2012 Issue