Humans of Harker: All fun and games
by Jin Tuan and Aditya Singhvi
July 1, 2020
As music blares in the parking lot after school, a flurry of cards sprays into the air and scatters all over the shining roof of the jet black Mazda6 as Montek Kalsi ('20) — clad in an olive sweatshirt and gold-rimmed glasses — poses through the sunroof for his Humans of Harker portrait, a smile on ...
Humans of Harker: Leadership and love
![“I'm not nearly there yet, but [my confidence has] definitely been getting better since I was pretty shy and timid coming into Harker my freshman year. I know that there's a lot of people that are really confident in what they do, and I really admire them. Everyone's so driven and that has really pushed me to kind of try to find my own place in high school and be more confident,” Alyssa Huang (’20) said.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/AlyssaHuang_EmilyChen_HoHPhoto-475x395.jpeg)
by Emily Chen, TALON Co-Editor-in-Chief
June 30, 2020
Even at a small school like Harker, it’s tough to remember everyone’s names, especially if they’re in a different grade. But there’s one person everyone knows—Alyssa Huang ('20). Whether she's announcing the sale of Valentine’s Grams or hanging up appreciation posters for the school’s staf...
Town hall discussion explores solutions for racism at Harker
by Lucy Ge, Winged Post News Editor
June 23, 2020
Why are there so few African American and Latinx students at Harker? What should the school do to be more inclusive? Is there a way for the school to be more transparent with consequences for racial incidents on campus? Over 170 Harker faculty, staff and students from sixth to 12th grade gather...
Humans of Harker: Grit and grind
by Nina Gee and Sydney Takemoto
June 19, 2020
This is the fourth installment of the Humans of Harker 2020 video series. Through this project, the Harker journalism program aims to tell the story of the senior class, one profile at a time. ...
Humans of Harker: Artistic nonconformity
by Michael Eng and Nina Gee
June 17, 2020
This is the third installment of the Humans of Harker 2020 video series. Through this project, the Harker journalism program aims to tell the story of the senior class, one profile at a time. ...
Humans of Harker: Make the most out of every moment
by Jessie Wang, Senior Copy Editor
June 17, 2020
“Keep putting out good. It will return to you tenfold in unexpected ways.” That’s the piece of wisdom found at the bottom of every email sent by Nerine Uyanik ('20). A variation on a quote by Farrah Gray, the adage found its way into the bottom of Nerine’s email signature in early 2018, b...
Humans of Harker: Maintaining equilibrium
by Arushi Saxena, Co-Managing Editor
June 17, 2020
Sitting cross-legged in Dobbins Hall, Srivani Vegesna ('20) balances herself evenly on one of the concrete benches, gently setting her phone down beside her. The sun reflects off of her sleek black hair, and she holds her short frame tall. She sits calmly with a light smile on her face, her cool pre...
Editorial: Say their names — and listen
June 14, 2020
Say their names. Tony McDade. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Eric Garner. Rodney King. Tamir Rice. And so many more African American men and women — most unpublicized, many minors — have been killed by the police in this country. Black lives matter. Yet this country continues to sys...
Humans of Harker: Story of a STEMinist
by Kathy Fang, Editor-in-Chief
June 9, 2020
Aarzu Gupta’s (‘20) journey into the world of coding began on the other side of the fence: in art. Specifically, with a digital turtle who could draw upon command. In elementary school, Aarzu, who attended Challenger School at the time, was introduced to computer science through the program Te...
Humans of Harker: Someone to talk to
by Esha Gohil, Humans of Harker Managing Editor
June 8, 2020
A quiet excitement fills the crowd as the curtains open and the lights begin to shift from black to a blue-violet hue, illuminating the silhouettes of the dancers ready to perform in the Harker’s annual dance show. As Usher’s uptempo song “DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love” fills the theatre of th...
Harker community holds vigil to discuss racism and current Black Lives Matter protests
by Lucy Ge and Isha Moorjani
June 7, 2020
Over 250 Harker students, faculty, staff and alumni attended the virtual Solidarity and Fellowship Vigil event on Thursday evening to speak about issues of racial inequality and community exclusion in an hour of open discussion. The Harker Diversity Committee organized the vigil in light of the recent ...
Inside the Dash: Growing gratitude
by Helen Zhu, TALON Managing Editor
June 4, 2020
When you visit someone’s cemetery, you see the dates they were born and the dates they passed. But when you wonder about their lives, they aren’t represented by those two dates; their life is the times between the dates. Between the two dates on the tombstone, there’s a small dash to sepa...
How are you spending your time in quarantine?
- Watching Netflix (42%, 15 Votes)
- Cooking and baking (25%, 9 Votes)
- Hiking and going on walks (17%, 6 Votes)
- Other (14%, 5 Votes)
- Learning to play an instrument (3%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 36
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