The Green New Deal
by Arya Maheshwari, Varsha Rammohan, Lucy Ge, and Michael Eng
April 27, 2019
The icecaps are melting. Wildfires and polar vortices are breaking out. The ocean is acidifying. Category 5 hurricanes are ripping through the U.S. seemingly every year. In the face of looming disaster, the Green New Deal (GND) attempts to address the increasingly detrimental effects of climate change. ...
Language clubs honor international cultures
by Alysa Su, Jessie Wang, and Irene Yuan
April 26, 2019
Ni hao. Konnichiwa. Salve. Bonjour. Hola. You’ve heard of them before: Junior Classical League and the four Language National Honor Societies. Each of these organizations are extremely populated in our school, but how many people really know what their purpose is? Currently, Harker’s upper scho...
Bringing Capoeira to Life
by Mark Hu and Muthu Panchanatham
April 25, 2019
Intense music plays in the background as two students bend down to touch their teacher’s feet, surrounded by their peers. They then proceed to shake hands, acknowledging each other with respect as they were taught. Suddenly, the two cartwheel into the center of the “roda” or circle of people and engage ...
Greetings from California
by Arely Sun, Catherine Feng, and Helen Yang
April 25, 2019
Avi Gulati (11) Family Homeland: India Avi Gulati (11) is a second generation Indian-American. He has visited India at least once every year except for in 2008. Avi is obsessed with Alia Bhatt, a famous Bollywood actress. Two years ago, when he was in India, he decided to try to meet Bhatt. He and...
Heart of Harker: Being LGBTQ+ at prom
by Emmy Huchley and Raphael Sanche
April 25, 2019
Prom season is upon us, and we’re all expecting the cute asks, matching outfits and cheesy slow songs. But for Harker’s LGBTQ+ students, prom isn’t just a time of fun traditions. With every promposal or slow dance, we wonder how the people around us are going to react. More often than not, the...
Heart of Harker: Lessons in stress and pressure
by Joanna Lin, Alumna Guest Writer
April 25, 2019
You’ll never get there. Right now, all that matters is college. Once you get in (and you WILL get in), it’s internships, grad school, med school. And afterwards, your own lab, your own practice, your own Silicon Valley startup. And suddenly you’ll find yourself signing your kids up for Suzuki violin ...
Editorial: Scandal reveals flaws in admissions process
April 25, 2019
Last month, federal prosecutors charged over fifty people for their involvement in a college admissions scandal in which, among other illegal practices, parents of college applicants allegedly paid large sums of money to falsify standardized test results or have their children recruited for sports t...
A Day in the Life of: Facilities
by Gloria Zhang, Sara Yen, Erica Cai, Esha Goyal, Irina Malyugina, and Catherine Feng
April 23, 2019
This piece was originally published in the pages of The Winged Post on April 17, 2019. ...
“This is Urinetown”: Spring musical “Urinetown” delves into a drenched world
by Erica Cai, Esha Gohil, Sara Yen, and Gloria Zhang
April 11, 2019
With the house lights in the Patil Theater dimmed, Performing Arts Director Laura Lang-Ree exclaims from the back row of the orchestra seats, “Alright, take it to the top of the show!” Hearing these words, the cast, scattered around the stage, transforms from relaxed high school students to actors ...
The apex of high school research: upper school seniors win accolades as Regeneron STS scholars and finalists
by Aditya Singhvi, Sports Editor
February 28, 2019
Using deep learning to improve therapy for arrhythmia. Finding a target treatment for a high-risk form of childhood cancer. Analyzing genomic data to help diagnose food allergies. These projects landed seniors Ruhi Sayana, Natasha Maniar and Ayush Alag, respectively, spots in the list of 40 Regeneron Sci...
Team 1072: Build Season
by Sriya Batchu and Vishnu Kannan
February 27, 2019
This piece was originally published in the pages of The Winged Post on February 20, 2019. ...
So you want to be a librarian?
by Nina Gee and Irina Malyugina
February 27, 2019
If you've been at Harker for more than a year, chances are you've probably had contact with one or more of the campus librarians. Their skill sets seem endless, from evaluating your interpretation of a literary theory to finding obscure primary documents for that history research essay. They are a sign...