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Harker Aquila

The student news site of The Harker School.

Harker Aquila

The student news site of The Harker School.

Harker Aquila

GEO Multicultural Fair lures students

GEO Multicultural Fair lures students

by Jonathan Dai March 26, 2014

Strange notes, foreign sights, and unfamiliar aromas filled the Nichols Atrium as the Multicultural Fair kicked off. Global Empowerment and Outreach (GEO) held their annual event during long lunch today. Ten...

Russia and Ukraine Conflict

by Riya Chandra, Alexis Gauba, and Meilan Steimle March 15, 2014

Crimea's parliament voted for a referendum to join Russia on Thursday. Crimea, where Russian troops have been stationed for over a week, is currently an autonomous region of Ukraine, but 59 percent of...

Around the World in a Day

Around the World in a Day

by Priscilla Pan March 12, 2014

The sun beats down on students living in the Southern Hemisphere, many of whom flock indoors for an “icy-pole” to escape the humidity or outside to bask in the summer sun. Meanwhile, those living up...

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Sindhuniverse: the international plague of child sex trafficking

by Sindhu Ravuri, Winged Post Global Editor March 12, 2014

 Nisha was born in the Nat community of Bihar, where intergenerational prostitution is an entrenched practice. The girls of the village are taught as children that they are indebted to their families....

Alumnus Surbhi Sarna (class of 03) is the founder of nVision Medical, a medical company targeting ovarian cancer. The 28-year-old took a computer science course at the Upper School.

Women in Computer Science

by Sindhu Ravuri, Winged Post Global Editor March 12, 2014

A recent CollegeBoard survey revealed a public static void of females in three different states among the 30,000 students worldwide who took the AP Computer Science exam. The trend doesn’t stop there,...

Students and faculty share their Olympic aspirations

by Riya Godbole, Aquila Entertainment Editor February 25, 2014

An attempted hijacking of a Turkish flight to Sochi occurred today. This is just after the ban of all liquids on flights to Russia was enforced.

Attempted hijacking of Turkish flight to Sochi foiled

by Shay Lari-Hosain and Vivian Isenberg February 7, 2014

There was an attempted hijacking today by a passenger aboard a Pegasus Airlines flight en route to Istanbul from Kharkov, Ukraine. According to the New York Times, the alleged passenger attempted to divert...

Technology at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Technology at the 2014 Winter Olympics

by Vivek Bharadwaj and Vedant Thyagaraj February 7, 2014

Several technology companies are partnering to modernize the 2014 Winter Olympic Games and increase security surrounding the event. ATOS Origin states that Sochi games will be the most “digitally enabled”...

Chicago Tribune reporter Stacy St. Clair voices her concerns about unfiltered water. Other common problems visitors of Sochi face include broken fixtures and lack of internet.

Alleged Corruption in the Olympics

by Kevin Kai Huang, Maya Jeyendran, Vineet Kosaraju, Stephanie Chen, and Vasudha Rengarajan February 7, 2014

The Olympics are supposed to be a spectacle of athleticism: a show of international cooperation and national pride that lifts up the host city for years to come. This year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi,...

A Sochi journalists complains about his hotel wi-fi. Hotels have been reported to have poor living conditions.

Sochi conditions disappoint Olympics-goers

by Tiara Bhatacharya February 7, 2014

Thousands of athletes and attendees arrived in Sochi anticipating the 2014 Winter Olympics, only to be greeted by shambling hotel accommodations. Despite the enormous, unprecedented budget surrounding...

The writer behind @SochiProblems ridicules the presence of only four Olympic rings as opposed to the traditional five. Technical difficulties are one of numerous problems faced by people visiting Sochi.

SochiProblems Twitter Created

by Maya Jeyendran February 7, 2014

An anonymous twitter account called @SochiProblems has been created to mock the unsatisfactory accommodations of the Sochi Olympics. The account was created on February 4th, and has since gathered over...

Social media in Sochi

Social media in Sochi

by Shannon Su, Mariam Sulakian, Anokhi Saklecha, and Trisha Dwivedi February 7, 2014

Social media has dominated the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. In attempts to regulate media, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has set guidelines on the official website of the Olympics Movement,...

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