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Four Upper School students named Scholastic Art & Writing national winners

Four Upper School students named Scholastic Art & Writing national winners

by Shay Lari-Hosain, Winged Post Design Editor March 26, 2015

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards named four Upper School students national winners.  Junior Kaity Gee’s flash fiction work “If I Have a Daughter” and senior Suzy Luo’s poem “Searching...

College counselor Andrew Quinn goes over important reminders for seniors. Reminders included letting the college counselors know about final college choices.

College counseling holds last session for seniors

by Cindy Liu, TALON Academics Editor March 24, 2015

Seniors gathered in their respective college counseling locations during extra help on Tuesday for their last college counseling session. During the session, the counselors talked about spring college...

Senior Andrew Jin thanks the Upper School community for their support throughout his high school career. Andrew, along with partner Steven Wang (12) also won the team portion of the Siemens National Finals last year.

School meeting recap 3/16

by Arden Hu, TALON Copy Editor March 17, 2015

French National Honor Society announced the beginning of its club week with a video on the organization Doctors Without Borders. Throughout the week, the society will be selling food such as macarons and...

TEDx: Speaker series links notables and students

by Meena Gudapati and Kavya Ramakrishnan March 16, 2015

Harker’s annual TEDx event, a speaker series for high school and college students, will take place in Nichols Hall on March 21, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Speakers for this year’s event will include...

The freshmen class listen to Janda talk about the importance of one’s identity, and privileges and opportunities. The LIFE assembly was held for the freshmen today during the assembly meeting period.

Janda and Muldrew hold LIFE assembly for freshmen

by Ashley Jiang, Reporter March 15, 2015

LIFE took place yesterday for the freshmen class during the assembly period. Teachers Mark Janda and Lola Muldrew led the assembly, talking to the students on the topics of privilege, opportunity and identity. Students...

MC Smitherman (11) practices his monologue with his Shakespeare in Performance teacher, Jeffrey Draper. MC performed a monologue and sonnet the Regional Shakespeare Competition in Archbishop Riordan High School last Saturday.

Student performs at regional Shakespeare competition

by Priscilla Pan, Winged Post Features Editor March 15, 2015

Maxwell (MC) Smitherman (11) performed his own interpretation of Shakespeare’s Berowne’s monologue and Sonnet 65 at the Regional Shakespeare Competition in Archbishop Riordan High School last Saturday. After...

Teachers attend CAIS conference

Teachers attend CAIS conference

by Tara Parimi, Aquila Copy Editor March 15, 2015

California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) held its biennial teacher in-service day on March 9 at the Head-Royce school in Oakland, California, with an approximate participation of 2,500 educators. CAIS...

Second round of parent-teacher conferences added

by Justin Su, Reporter March 14, 2015

A second round of parent-teacher conferences is scheduled to take place at the Upper School on March 26. This is the first year that there are two instead of one parent-teacher conferences, as there...

University of Oklahoma students rally outside the closed Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house during a rally in Norman, Okla. The two fraternity members accused of leading the singing of a racist chant were expelled from the university.

Racist incidents reported in Oklahoma, Ferguson

by Elisabeth Siegel and Kavya Ramakrishnan March 14, 2015

The University of Oklahoma expelled two students Tuesday morning for apparently leading a racist chant on a bus full of fraternity men two days after a video of the act surfaced. The nine-second...

Students cross the street after school to buy snacks and drinks.

Open campus for seniors

by Sahana Srinivasan, Reporter March 14, 2015

The Class of 2015 has earned its senior privileges, which will come into effect on Monday, March 16. After returning a permission slip signed by their parents, seniors will be able to leave campus during...

Senior Maya Nandakumar examines a piece of artwork from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. The AP Art History class visited the museum yesterday to prepare for a class project.

AP Art History students visit Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

by Megy Appalaraju, Aquila Sports Editor March 11, 2015

Nine AP Art History students visited the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco today to view contemporary and ancient works and to select two pieces of art to compare for a course project. The museum, which...

Freshman class sells milk tea to raise money

Freshman class sells milk tea to raise money

by Maya Kumar and Meena Gudapati March 11, 2015

The freshman student council sold drinks from Tpumps, a Bay Area based milk tea store, during extra help outside Manzanita and at the front loading zone on Tuesday to raise money for the freshman class. Freshman...

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