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![Fallen electrical lines outside of the music resource room caused the power outage. Notices informing students of the cancellation went out throughout the following hour.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_7476-1200x900.jpg)
by Suhani Gupta, Co-A&E/Lifestyle Editor
May 22, 2024
![Junior Shreyas Chakravarty opens the event by introducing the six participants and the resolution of the debate. Debaters argued on the resolution “The United States should ban single-use plastics.”](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/DSC_3315-e1715278325617-1200x826.jpg)
by Lily Shi, Co-News Editor
May 11, 2024
![Downbeat members Isabella Ribeiro (12), Shayla He (12), Varun Bhupathi (11), Simon Kirjner (10), Ian Ogden (12) and Ethan Liu (12) perform Levitating by Dua Lipa during the school meeting. The performance served as a goodbye for Downbeats seniors.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/DSC_8250-2-1200x720.jpg)
by Jessica Hu, Co-News Editor
May 5, 2024
![Volunteering impact also does not need to be confined to a set amount of time or awards. If we encourage students to approach their nonprofit work with longevity in mind, they are more likely to carry on their work, furthering acts of volunteerism in their community.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/nonprofits-1-1200x854.jpg)
Scrolling through Instagram, numerous abandoned nonprofit accounts emerge. Initiatives that were once active during a student’s time in high...
![Friday Five: Childhood cartoons](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-11-at-1.32.05 PM-1200x736.png)
A little girl sits on the sofa, eyes glued to the screen. The hero, clad in bright orange clothes, jumps up and defeats the scowling villain....
![This I Believe: Measured in moments](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-04-at-5.25.34 PM.png)
Beads of sweat dot our brows as my grandmother and I labor over a pot of tabikh, a classic Egyptian stew made primarily from meat, tomatoes...
![A former English teacher, Vaughan treasures the impact of teachers inside and outside the classroom, citing it as “real magic going on.” She values them as the communitys foundation, facilitating student learning and growth.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/DSC_5831-3-e1717748016650-1200x763.jpg)
Students flock to classrooms all across campus. But unlike every other school day, they are not stressing about their looming deadlines full...
![Departing staff reflect on their years of service](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Untitled-design-1-1200x800.png)
This year, Harker bids farewell to four staff members: Library Director Lauri Vaughan, Speech and Debate teacher Scott Odekirk, Computer Science...
![Talk Around Campus: Mothers Day](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-12-at-9.28.01 PM-1200x609.png)
Cameron Jones (9): Every Mother's Day, me and my sister and my dad make breakfast in bed for my mother, and we give it to her. And we make French...
![Benjamin Xia (10) savors his ice cream with his friends after watching the classs hydrogen rockets. The ice cream lab reinforced concepts of thermodynamics and energy transfer.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/rocketsandyogurt_KS_052024-4-1200x832.jpg)
Students from Honors and AP Chemistry classes closed out the year with a hands-on hydrogen rocket lab on Davis Field on Monday and Tuesday. Some...
![Green Team co-president Kinnera Mulam draws raffle winners. Prizes included vegan baked goods from Bradley Stoll, vegan chapsticks and succulents.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Andrew-Irvine-Kinnera-Mulam-12-1-1200x1052.jpg)
![As the Bay Area has largely returned to in-person pre-pandemic norms, corporations now grapple with the employment of more workers than they can provide for. Reductions in the tech workforce pose a significant challenge for both current engineers and recent college graduates looking to enter the field.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_9532-2-1200x846.jpg)
Since the start of the year, tech companies across the globe have extinguished approximately 75,000 jobs according to layoffs tracker layoffs.fyi....
![After focusing much of her career on creating chart-topping pop singles, Swift now embraces synth-pop styles. It’s difficult to pigeonhole TTPD into a singular category, and Swift, who has tackled almost every genre throughout her career, would probably uphold that sense of ambiguity.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Untitled_Artwork-2-1200x772.jpg)
31 tracks, two hours — the longest album singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has ever released. Swift dropped “The Tortured Poet’s Department”...
![Maggie Rogers new album “Don’t Forget Me” largely hinges on experiencing a complicated relationship with love itself. Outside of her lyrics, Rogers unites diverse instruments under a cohesive sound in her newest work. S](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Untitled_Artwork-1200x1200.jpeg)
“Everybody’s going crazy / See them walking down the street” croons Maggie Rogers as she opens her new album “Don’t Forget Me” with...
![Poetry offers students a place to express themselves, whether through writing, reading or reciting it. You can just use words and use the feelings of those words to create a painting, Eric Zhang (11) said.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/DSC4620-1200x798.jpg)
Adolescence often feels like a struggle. In these turbulent years, teenagers may feel the need to express themselves, to make their voices heard....
![Music Monday is a new installation featuring a different category of songs on a weekly basis.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/music-1-900x675.png)
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